{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-09", "file": "debates1985-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a5e10bfbf6d9c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will want to be reminded of some remarks by the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-09", "file": "debates1985-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a5e10bfbf6d9c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "British Embassy, Oslo (Union Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " only at 3 o'clock, that I should like to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 10, for the purpose of drawing attention to a matter of urgency which should take precedence over other business, namely, the decision of the British embassy in Oslo to demand information from a Norwegian trade union about the extent of its financial support for the National Union of Mineworkers.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-09", "file": "debates1985-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a5e10bfbf6d9c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "preceding_text": " in the private sector. There may be an opportunity to negotiate compensation; there may be an opportunity for them to join schemes in those companies; there may be an opportunity for new schemes to be negotiated; but there is no statutory right, and there never has been, with this scheme. If it were to apply to the private sector there would have had to be a specific provision in the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-09", "file": "debates1985-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a5e10bfbf6d9c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cowans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cowans", "preceding_text": " the Minister is doing what we ask, there can be no harm in writing such actions into the Bill. It is not too late. The Minister obviously believes that this is the right approach, so why will he not write such action into the Bill? He might not be here next time. Someone quite different might adopt a completely different attitude. It is not too late to do this in order to safeguard the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-09a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-10", "file": "debates1985-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "704bd90645a20578", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.895.7", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "television, and has come to that conclusion. I have no grounds nor standing to second-guess that. The second aspect relates to the control of the use of plastic baton rounds, which I have also examined carefully. The House should know that every incident in which the Royal Ulster Constabulary now has to use those rounds is reported to me, and that the use of each round now has to be accounted for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.895.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-10", "file": "debates1985-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "704bd90645a20578", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "Why, in the answers that she has given about public investment, has the Prime Minister consistently ignored the fact that the NEDC report talks about many million of pounds worth of repairs still to be carried out to roads, sewers and houses in particular?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-10", "file": "debates1985-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "704bd90645a20578", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "tly ignored the fact that the NEDC report talks about many million of pounds worth of repairs still to be carried out to roads, sewers and houses in particular?— [Interruption.] Why has she ignored housing and the fact that many people are living in gross discomfort in damp and dismal homes and that repairs to those dwellings would make their lives far more comfortable and would provide many jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.903.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-10", "file": "debates1985-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "704bd90645a20578", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": "The Minister's tone of argument seems to suggest that the Government want to get rid of small producers and look after the interests of the big ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-10", "file": "debates1985-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "704bd90645a20578", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Given the difficulties of extracting the original £50 million from the Treasury and the problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-10", "file": "debates1985-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "704bd90645a20578", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.993.4", "colnum": "993", "heading": "European Community (Fisheries Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "ned a number of points on the same theme when he expressed the hope that, in particular, the extra herring that we caught would find a ready market among consumers. I am sure that the whole House agrees with that. I just hope that we can perhaps pass on a message to my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Irving) that he should put herring on the menu in the various cafeterias in the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-10a.993.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-11", "file": "debates1985-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "5471bc7549e499b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-11a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": " wit and diplomatic skill of any United Kingdom Government to see that, if we are to invest hugely, to the tune of £1·5 billion to £2 billion, there will be a beneficial spin-off in the sale and development of technology, a point aptly touched on by the hon. Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark). I nearly said \"my hon. Friend\" because we have an agreeable pairing arrangement with each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-11a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-11", "file": "debates1985-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "5471bc7549e499b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-11a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You still don't know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "aspects of risk to human health consequent on acidic rain. There was no attempt to respond to that recommendation. If the matter was not so serious, the Government's responses would be laughable. All that they did was refer to the fact that the smog in London has virtually disappeared. I remember it vividly. I lost my way walking in London in that terrible smog in 1952. I did not know where I was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-11a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I shall be guided by you. One of the problems of the dial-a-ride scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Sterling (Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman that, when the new arrangements for monetary control were published on 5 August 1981 in a Treasury press notice, the relevant section read as follows: The Bank will cease to post a continuous Minimum Lending Rate from 20 August, as this would be inconsistent with the objective of the new arrangements to give the market more influence over the structure of interest rates. The option\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Sterling (Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is right. That is the view not only of him, myself and the Government, but of most European Governments. As my right hon. Friend is aware, I shall be flying to Washington the day after tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.24.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.25.5", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Sterling (Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In theory, yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Sterling (Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "If we are going to talk about quotations, I was interested to read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Banks Bill", "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": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. May I begin by drawing the attention of the House to the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Members will now be prepared to accept that fluoridation represents a safe and effective means of reducing dental decay. There remain, however, the objections—raised by the right hon. Member fix the Western Isles (Mr. Stewart)—of those who believe that, irrespective of the safety of fluoridation and its benefits, it constitutes an infringement of individual liberty and should never be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.82.6", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ther members of the community. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Mrs. Knight) mentioned Birmingham. But the individual freedom of some people in Birmingham to refuse to allow fluoride to be put into the water is probably an infringement of the individual freedom of other inhabitants of Birmingham, who think that it will do them and their families good if fluoride is put into it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.82.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " quoted—fancy having a Scottish judge quoted in support of any constitutional change—let us remember that he said: To use the water supply for mass medication\"— the hon. Member for Oldham, West said that it was not medication; I refer him to page 367 of Lord Jauncey's judgment— is without precedent or legal authority and is illegal. Tonight the Government are seeking to make what is illegal legal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "No; I shall not give way. I was relieved to discover that my hon. Friend was in favour of fluoridation because that confirmed my conviction against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ld choose not to drink tea, but one cannot not drink water because of this legislation. It is important to remember that because fluorine is tasteless, citizens have no way of telling whether it has been added, and the Bill has no method of preventing the dosage ingested from causing fluorosis. I cannot but be amazed that the Government, who are dedicated to freedom and hostile to totalitarianism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman understand what it is all about? Fluoride cannot be administered in the air. It cannot be controlled in the air. It can be controlled in water to the extent of one part per million. Can you get that into your head?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.116.4", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "I know that it was a mistake for me to have interrupted my hon. Friend. I was answering his question about manpower. As to the phrase, so far as is reasonably practicable\", there will be pluses and minuses. Control can be maintained, but there must be a tiny plus or minus on either side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.116.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ide if I wish. Or they can take the tablets which I have here in my hand. My wife and I gave those to our children because we believed that that was the right thing to do although we have stopped doing so because we now have doubts about the matter. But that decision was up to us as parents with an informed view. Incidentally, if a child took all the tablets in one go, serious danger could result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend seriously suggesting that if fluoride is added to water, those poorly off children can forget about dental hygiene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-14", "file": "debates1985-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "308718013670dffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "linterruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "times and on each occasion the safety of fluoride has been advocated by the judges involved. On safety grounds, as on the benefits to dental health, the Government's case is sound and has been carefully composed. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I would be the first to come forward if there were any doubts at all about safety. I had doubts about the safety of fluoride in the 1970s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-14a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.180.9", "colnum": "180", "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 sure whether the right hon. Gentleman means that he would have put interest rates up earlier, not at all, or later. Of course, he will not say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.180.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I recall recently two occasions when Germany intervened. I emphasise that I recall only two occasions. The intervention was not successful, as I indicated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I recall recently two occasions when Germany intervened. I emphasise that I recall only two occasions. The intervention was not successful, as I indicated — [Interruption.] Will the right hon. Gentleman listen, as he might then learn a thing or two —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.181.5", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman's points are not right. After the interest rate increased to 12 per cent. in July output across the economy continued to grow. Construction output was up 3 per cent. in the third quarter over the second, exports were 6·5 per cent. up in volume in the three months to November over the previous three months and the doom and gloom that he predicted did not come to pass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "It does, Mr. Speaker. In answering questions, the Prime Minister spent seven minutes answering two questions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.190.4", "colnum": "190", "heading": "British Aerospace plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Now that the Secretary of State is back, and aided in his recovery by the non-privatised section of the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "British Broadcasting Corporation Advertising", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "ions of the community. Many families in Britain, probably 5 million, never see £65 in a lump sum. It is not that they do not want to pay £65 for a television licence; it is just that they can never afford to pay that. The time has come to re-examine the method of financing the BBC and there is a great public demand for that. Obviously, many of my colleagues are opposed to advertising on principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "British Broadcasting Corporation Advertising", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "ay the most, which is a good principle on which to work. The Bill does not tell the BBC how it has to run its affairs or raise funds. It allows it complete flexibility. It has been worked out by advertising agencies that the BBC would need to take as little as 30 or 40 seconds an hour. I have just returned from making a television programme with Mr. Alasdair Milne, the director-general of the BBC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "British Broadcasting Corporation Advertising", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "ioners free television licences? I agree that paying the licence fee out of the national Exchequer would require institutional and structural changes, but if the hon. Gentleman wishes to know how that could be achieved he need only read the article in New Socialist by Juliet Steyn and myself on future policy for the BBC and the arts. The hon. Gentleman refuses to consider the mischief of his Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that it is my judgment, and the judgment of almost all objective commentators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ent's proposition remains. The right hon. Lady said: Reduction of tax can lead to extra jobs, as it leads to extra demand.\"— [Official Report, 13 December 1984; Vol. 69, c. 1202.] May we be told categorically whether that was one of the Prime Minister's slips or whether, at least at that moment, she meant that an increase in demand was a desirable way of changing the Government's economic posture?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ve not joined the EMS because, on the balance of the advantages and disadvantages—and there are both—we have decided that at present it would not be right to join. So far from not being a member of Europe, the ecu market is more highly developed in London than it is in any other financial centre throughout the European Community. Meanwhile, the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook persists in arguing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No, I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "s will come. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman has no time for these subtleties. To him there is a simple and easy answer. He says that lower unemployment requires higher demand, that demand is unlikely to go fast enough under present policies and, therefore, that the Government should step in and boost demand. I do not think that I am traducing him when I say that that is what he is suggesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"In which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "ot in combining to increase oil prices, and that it was an overall world economic interest to keep oil prices low, so we were not taking part in the cartel, if we were faced with United States' authorities who refused to act responsibly in their world role not just as custodians of the dollar but in terms of their impact across the world economy, we should have to start to intervene in oil prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ntries involved to go in at a rate lower than the current market rate. I know that our European partners will not like that. They would prefer us to go in at a rate even higher than our present one. It is not unreasonable, however, for us to argue that, given the trends and our competitive figures against the deutschmark in comparative industries, we should be a little lower than we are currently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "f the alliance parties. The end of that quotation states: and the Alliance has got to be the party of the future. The complete quotation is: There is nothing right wing about running the country's economy rather better than it has been for the last 20 to 25 years and the Alliance has got to be the party of the future. The quotation does not relate to what the Government have done. I made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I shall look at the question when it arises. I have made my views quite clear. I am not in favour of VAT on food. We shall look at the widening of the application of VAT or at an increase in the level of VAT when the matter arises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "d big firms, since the Conservatives took office? We hear talk of a survey by Lord Young. What is he really doing? I have the documents with me and I gather that he is considering, as a solution to our problems, scrapping the conditions placed on small industries for unfair dismissal, redundancy pay, aspects of race relations, equal opportunities, truck Acts, working environment, maternity leave —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "That letter, if dated 29 March 1984, would have been sent out after these goods had been banned, so it was not a warning. The goods were banned in January 1984, which is why this instrument is before the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Can one really suggest that children become addicted and that the next step is glue sniffing? The nose is a vital organ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-15", "file": "debates1985-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "22a29b42cddf8846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "ese products be singled out from among the millions of pleasurable smells, including scented flowers, that exist? One need only go to a garden designed for the blind to realise the beauty of scented flowers. Perhaps teachers should realise that children are constantly developing their senses. That is part of their education. Having something to hand to smell is a development of the sense of smell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-15a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-16", "file": "debates1985-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "de9029877e1546cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.318.6", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear the hon. Gentleman say critical things today about the damaging of the service, because that seems to be an absolutely deplorable development —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.318.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-16", "file": "debates1985-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "de9029877e1546cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The answer to that question is that it is entirely up to right hon. and hon. Members as to what questions they put down to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.334.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-16", "file": "debates1985-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "de9029877e1546cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "th respect, I do not think that I can go further on target for the following year than what I have already said. I have said in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr. Morrison) and other of my hon. Friends that we intend to continue the process while recognising the position of the very low spenders. I believe that they appreciate that we have done a great deal for them for next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-16", "file": "debates1985-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "de9029877e1546cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "Unlike most speakers, may I begin with a kind word for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-16", "file": "debates1985-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "de9029877e1546cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "t deserves. I notice that the hon. Gentleman has had the good grace to make his speech and leave the Chamber. He seems always to fail to listen to those who speak after him. I always thought that it was a tradition of the House to remain in one's place to listen to succeeding speeches. Of course, the hon. Gentleman is not a traditionalist. Indeed, he seeks to abolish this establishment altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-16a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.506.7", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I say, first, that I was glad to hear that last answer. In view of the extremely cold weather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.506.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.508.9", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uld have thought it strange had we made, or attempted to make, any decisions without fully consulting the people who are most deeply interested in their own future. Of course we have been consulting with them. When we have reached a conclusion, details of it will be placed in the Library for hon. Members. When the new constitution and texts are ready, they will be introduced by Orders in Council.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.508.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.521.5", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. By raising points of order of this type, the hon. Gentleman is merely taking time out of an important debate. Others are likely to suffer as a result. Perhaps other hon. Members will note that, because I do not think that I can help them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.521.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "I speak for the whole House when I ask whether it is not an abuse of the House for Opposition Back Benchers to cover up for their Front Bench's failure to hold a debate on this subject. The shadow Leader of the House is sitting on the Opposition Front Bench saying nothing. He should be the one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman makes a speech tonight I hope that he will make a point about the percentage of Tory-held seats and the percentage of Labour-held seats which are beneficiaries of regional aid. That would dispose of any suggestions of bias —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will want to take up that matter with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, who is responsible for that scheme. I am not responsible for it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.534.9", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ct not just on the firms that receive assistance but on their suppliers and competitors. Of course, new long-term stable jobs do not come into being overnight. I am confident that the new policy will be much more cost-effective than the old. However cost-effective the policy, it will still be a burden on the taxpayer. The new policy is expected to cost nearly £400 million a year in 1987–88.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.534.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.537.4", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman not think that industry will feel that the careful consultation and consideration which has been given to these changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.537.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.538.3", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ficulty reconciling that view with any belief in regional development policy. He went on to say: What I am sure about is that lower public expenditure will help to create jobs. It is not Government spending money but Government not spending that creates jobs. One wonders about the sanity of Ministers capable of uttering statements like that. The Minister of State is a perfectly intelligent person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I was waiting to see whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman would either clean his spectacles or stumble across the truth along the way, but clearly I shall have to help. He seems to have forgotten that the prime justification for the regional spending policy is a social justification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I was waiting to see whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman would either clean his spectacles or stumble across the truth along the way, but clearly I shall have to help. He seems to have forgotten that the prime justification for the regional spending policy is a social justification—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] That is what the White Paper says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that my hon. Friend's objection relates to the travel-to-work area, and I shall be coming to that because he was not the only hon. Member to raise that issue. Some hon. Members—fortunately, not too many— alleged that there had even been some political bias in drawing up the map.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-17", "file": "debates1985-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "3f8c4a5e70f32e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Regional Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "983. We shall continue to spend the same amount on regional development grants as we predicted in 1983 we should spend upon those grants. The right hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Millan) asked, as a result of the overshoot, how much money we were hoping to prevent being part of that overshoot. The answer is £150 million. It is based upon the assumption that the moratorium lasts for 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-17a.594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-18", "file": "debates1985-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "840deb0fff78862a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-18a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Intoxicating Substances (Supply) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "preceding_text": "mething and we have solved the problem.\" This measure will go a considerable way—it will act as a marker—and will be a morale booster for those who have been working very hard in the day-to-day nitty-gritty of trying to deal with the problem. The crux of the matter still lies in the need for health education and efforts on a national rather than a localised basis. That must be given greater oomph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-18a.667.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-18", "file": "debates1985-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "840deb0fff78862a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-18a.705.21", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, at the sitting on Tuesday 22nd January, the Motion relating to Supplementary Estimates 1984–85 may be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours after it has been entered upon and Mr. Speaker shall then put any Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings thereon, if not previously concluded.— [Mr. Archie Hamilton.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-18a.705.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-21", "file": "debates1985-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1f0b006ec4fc113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-21a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hong Kong Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "by many hon. Members. I agree that it is unsatisfactory for a new form of citizenship to be established by Order in Council. The right hon. Gentleman's argument is fair and right. We need an assurance that arrangements will not be rushed. I support the request for assurances that the right hon. Member for Leeds, East made in support of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for South Down —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-21a.773.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-21", "file": "debates1985-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1f0b006ec4fc113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-21a.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (District Electoral Areas)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, at Tomorrow's sitting, the Motion relating to Supplementary Estimates 1984–85 may be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours after it has been entered upon and Mr. Speaker shall then put any questions necessary to dispose of proceedings thereon, if not previously concluded.— [Mr. Lennox-Boyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-21a.835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.843.10", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman aware that teachers should be given an honourable payment, instead of having their wages tied to the question of restructuring, so that, following an honourable payment being given, any educational problems still outstanding can be discussed? Is the Secretary of State further aware that the present situation is bound to cause a prolonged struggle on the part of the teachers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.843.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.850.7", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the cuts in the real value of grants in the past five to six years by the Government of whom he is a member have had an adverse effect on the right of working-class students to enter higher and further education, especially mature students?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.850.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, because I noted what the leader of the NUM said. He said: My aim is what it was at the start of this dispute\"— Mr. Scargill said this on Sunday that this industry does not close pits down on economic considerations. If the right hon. Gentleman means without preconditions, perhaps he would advise the NUM to accept the ACAS agreement. Will the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Spending on heating additions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister now answer the question put to her by the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson): why should additional heating allowances be given to the people of southern Ireland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Surely the Prime Minister should have given me that answer when I asked my question. It is quite wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "It is by no means an unworthy comment from myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "e press room at Downing street—although the Prime Minister has tried to deny those briefings in the Chamber this afternoon—that, indeed, the Prime Minister does not want these meetings to take place. It is no coincidence that most of today's national newspapers carry the same front page story—that Margaret Thatcher is stopping the negotiations that are going on to try to settle the mining dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "of the strike and how it is affecting the country at present. It is a question not just of the economic effect of between £90 million and £100 million per week being used in a crude attempt to defeat the NUM, but of the hardship suffered by communities in my constituency and many others who have been fighting for the past 10 months not out of self-interest, but for their dignity and right to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Could you ask the well-heeled rabble on the Conservative Benches to remain silent while my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) is speaking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There was a certain amount of interruption earlier, but not at this particular moment. I am listening very carefully anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "people that I intended to try to get a question on tie rail strike. When they asked where the question was, I replied, \"Mr. Speaker disallowed it.\" I ask you to consider this very important point, Mr. Speaker. Are you seriously saying that Members of Parliament who try to use that mechanism of the House and fail are not allowed to tell anyone that they even tried? Two further considerations arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It has always been so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.881.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the others?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will have much more to say about the Opposition. However, my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Dr. McDonald) and I, as the official spokesmer. for the Opposition, have heard and will hear every word in the debate. It is our responsibility to speak for the Opposition in this debate, and we will discharge that responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.906.5", "colnum": "906", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": " could not be brought into production, given the will to invest. The investment cannot be carried out in five minutes. We should argue for this investment here and now. If we get the necessary investment in energy it would allow for a period of transition and protection for pits under threat of closure. The social implications and the implications for regional economies must be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.906.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-22", "file": "debates1985-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "49192c179ea81046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lose.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may correct the Minister on two points. There is still a European team, represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) and myself, in the shadow foreign affairs team. Therefore, with no disrespect to my hon. Friend, the team is as strong as ever. Our aim in the next general election is to do what we did in the European election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-22a.947.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "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 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": " have deliberately manipulated the miners strike. It is reported to have cost between £90 million and £100 million a week to try to defeat the miners. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer believes that that is a good investment. The Government never take any notice of the social costs involved. The Government have a responsibility for creating the great distress that exists in the mining industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "There are great hardships, broken marriages, shocking bitterness and business bankruptcies. In my area the local chamber of trade has assessed that 25 per cent. of the businesses will be going out of business—yet we see the grinning and sadistic pleasure of Conservative Members. Let me say to Conservative Members who do not understand the situation that miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.984.6", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Threats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "preceding_text": "ham that when that sort of thing happens it leaves men on the picket line with the feeling that they have no recourse left. If they are to be told that there will not be a negotiated settlement and they are determined not to go back to work, the feeling is that sooner or later—and probably sooner, because every time the Government behave like this it makes it more imminent—disorder will break out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.984.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Progress\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "preceding_text": "nt of order, Mr. Speaker. I do not wish to contest your ruling, but in the recent abortive attempt to resume talks between the National Coal Board and the National Union of Mineworkers—I raise this matter in the presence of the Leader of the House—it appears that there has been indecent haste on the part of the Government through the Secretary of State for Energy and National Coal Board spokesmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "preceding_text": "the National Coal Board and the National Union of Mineworkers—I raise this matter in the presence of the Leader of the House—it appears that there has been indecent haste on the part of the Government through the Secretary of State for Energy and National Coal Board spokesmen—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Progress\".]—to deny that there has been any attempt by the Government to abort the attempt to resume talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not hypocritical and an abuse of this House, to demand today of all days a debate under Standing Order No.10 when the Opposition claim that the closure of post offices is a far more serious matter?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Coal Mining Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "I was referring to an abuse of the House and the hypocrisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "k in the debate, I shall be interested to hear his contribution. The Government in general and the Minister in particular are hiding behind the Post Office. Consultation on post office closures in my area was a complete waste of time because the decision had already been taken, due to Government pressure on the Post Office to close a certain number of offices and to save a certain amount of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I suspect that the UCW is more concerned with its distrust, as a result of the Government's directive to the Post Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "preceding_text": " that accusation. When the Under-Secretary of State was accused of attacking council tenants, he said that that was rubbish. We shall demonstrate that this measure is an attack on council tenants. I object to the Under-Secretary of State saying, \"We shall hear exaggerated claims from the Opposition\". That might be all right for a press note. I have never been guilty of exaggeration in this place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "preceding_text": "sociations, Shelter, and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. The largest delegation of local authority representatives that I have ever seen has come here to lobby Parliament. I hope that no one will be cynical enough to ask why so many people need to come to London at the ratepayers' expense. I see the Minister nodding already. I have the greatest admiration for the Secretary of State —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1079.4", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "preceding_text": "I have been listening to the debate for a substantial amount of time. I feel that had I not removed myself for but a few minutes in order to partake of a meal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": " people. There are far too many top brass and not enough workers doing the job. That is why so many construction workers are unemployed. To Glasgow's credit, during the past two or three years scaffolding has been put up. An excellent job is being done to refurbish many of the tenements. Glasgow is effectively and efficiently using the money the Government have given through housing support grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-23", "file": "debates1985-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "9f95f99d553c0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "ure, if that is lower, was discussed in principle with COSLA, which was unable to suggest an alternative approach. In fairness, I should say that it did not like the outcome of this formula. The fairness of the formula is manifested by the fact that the rent increase assumed within it is on a par with that assumed in this housing support grant order. My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-23a.1090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1118.6", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose that it has gone unnoticed by the man in the Banbury market place that those countries which have thriving economies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1118.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1122.12", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I never said that the mining dispute was a good investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1122.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1125.12", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "preceding_text": " time today publicly to announce changes in the policies of her Government that will offer a ray of hope to the unemployed in the northern region, in particular in Newcastle and Gateshead in my constituency, where there are pockets of unemployment as high as 40 per cent., with the prospect of more to come as the policies of her Government decimate the shipbuilding and heavy engineering industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1125.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle", "preceding_text": "ty, it is also worth reflecting upon the sombre thought that the world does not owe a living to the more than 23·5 million people in this country who are in work? Does my right hon. Friend agree that unless a sense of realism prevails in the 1985 wage round so that pay increases are, at the very least, matched by an improvement in productivity, more of those who are in work will be at risk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1126.5", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I told the right hon. Gentleman, I am anxious for there to be a clear settlement. As we have already been through seven rounds of negotiations, it is very important that we —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1126.5", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I told the right hon. Gentleman, I am anxious for there to be a clear settlement. As we have already been through seven rounds of negotiations, it is very important that we — [HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"] The country has already seen seven rounds of negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. The NUM has not made its position clear. Indeed, the right hon. Gentleman is already arguing about it. The NUM —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. The NUM has not made its position clear. Indeed, the right hon. Gentleman is already arguing about it. The NUM — [Interruption.] —should do what the Coal Board has done. It should put its exact position in writing. Why is the right hon. Gentleman so reluctant —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend agree that none of the friends of the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) should be allowed to deflect or deter the democratic process anywhere? Will he further accept that many of us believe that yesterday's proceedings on television were interesting and successful? Will he guarantee that, when the other place has concluded its experiment, we too can debate this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1140.4", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What has happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I have already undertaken to make representations to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services on this point, and that I undertook again this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1140.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1141.2", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "They are not on 10 per cent. commission in the back pocket, like you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1141.8", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Taking money off charities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1141.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1200.2", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "aintenance. The region apparently has no money for repairs to roads, and the district has no money for the pavements. The region apparently cannot do anything about flooding or any of the other things, because of Government cuts. Central region cannot do anything either about helping teachers where alterations have been made in mid-term. All of those things involve relatively small sums of money —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1200.2", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "some time before we met each other. It took six councillors to come to tell me of the council's views on the Government proposals. As I live in the constituency and am in Stirling virtually all the time when I am up there, that seems astonishing, but it is even more astonishing that I have not seen those councillors in the Gallery listening to the debate, although I arranged two tickets for them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": " councils are not only being extravagant in their expenditure, but are using it for political purposes, and in so doing are going out of their way to undermine the need to obtain value for money for their ratepayers. I have in mind a resolution passed by Stirling district council not to allow to tender firms associated with, or which had as customers, companies which crossed miners' picket lines —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-24", "file": "debates1985-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "809f5d6cf98f615c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Still Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "preceding_text": "are making a big enough mess of national affairs without the hon. Gentleman's ineptitude stretching into the pockets of local authorities. He mentioned that all the problems would be resolved if only the councils could sell more council houses. I have news for the hon. Gentleman. North-east Fife, which the Government for the first time, I believe, have turned into a non-Tory-controlled authority —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-24a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-25", "file": "debates1985-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "98728caa9630852e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-25a.1243.2", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "n their own unless accompanied by a male member of the family. For a time at least, that enterprising gentleman kept a bucket of water at the front door because some prostitutes were, on occasion, not only passing by in order to advertise their wares but were performing the deed in his front garden. It is intolerable in a civilised society that there should be no-go areas for respectable citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-25a.1243.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Further to the last point made by my right hon. Friend, has not one of the saddest features of this whole dispute been the cowardice shown by the Leader of the Opposition, who failed at the beginning of the strike to call for a ballot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "After so much time has elapsed, is it not desirable that at long last we should provide better accommodation for visiting European parliamentarians —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.28.10", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. With respect, when the business statement is made by the Leader of the House, he is questioned on this week's business. It is not for him to determine upon what he will be questioned, nor, with respect, Mr. Speaker, do I believe that there is a precedent for you —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.28.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "It may be that the hon. Gentleman is a better correspondent than I am, but I do not always reply to every letter sent to me. I do my best, but occasionally matters go wrong. The problem is that if a parent does not reply, the assumption is that he or she is in favour of corporal punishment. That is the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.48.8", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "Let me paint a scenario for right hon. and hon. Members. Let us say that there are two pupils who misbehave. For the sake of argument, I shall call them Keith and Giles. Keith's parents do not mind him being beaten, but Giles's parents happen to mind. They have a conviction against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.48.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.50.7", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "e tragedy is that the Secretary of State has not had the courage to take the only feasible and practical course, which is to abolish corporal punishment. It is significant that there is a difference between the response of the Secretary of State for Education and Science and that of the Secretary of State for Scotland. I am not surprised that the Secretary of State for Scotland is not here today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.50.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "Sometimes instruction has to be basic in this place, especially when Conservative Members are listening to me. I warn the Secretary of State that we shall try to amend the Bill to make it an abolition rather than an exemption Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "e suspects that it is a crumb to help assuage the voracious appetites of his hon. Friends who gave him such a hard time when he had to explain his proposals on student grants, and who gave me a hard time because I was in the next Committee Room hoping for a well-attended meeting of the Friends of the British Council. Few turned up for my meeting, because they wanted to hear the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.58.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-28", "file": "debates1985-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b947b44690b3fab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Young", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister name any education authority which supports the educational apartheid proposed in the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-28a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "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 quite sure whether the right hon. Gentleman is objecting to what we have done or saying that we should have done nothing. In fact, the action that my right hon. Friend took was to maintain the financial strategy that has brought inflation lower for a longer period than any other Government have done previously and which, in spite of the effects of a coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "iscipline on all sections of the economy, including the Government. I remind the right hon. Gentleman that gross domestic product is at its highest ever level. I hope that he is pleased about that. Fixed investment across the economy is at its highest ever real level. Retail sales are at their highest ever real level; they have increased by 4 per cent. in volume. Profits increased by 20 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that, of the factors affecting sterling, many — such as the value of the dollar, the price of oil, the world recession and the size of the United States' deficit—are completely outside the Government's control? Does my right hon. Friend accept also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.150.8", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er. If the hon. Gentleman will study the international comparisons he will find that West Germany has run a strict financial policy for many years. Therefore, it has brought its inflation down further than ours. In West Germany it is 2·1 per cent. He will also find that it has kept its public expenditure under control and that it made considerable sacrifices for two years. West Germany has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.150.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.150.11", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " early today we asked for a statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Government's economic policy, and such a statement was refused. In view of that, the Prime Minister's utterly inadequate responses on that matter, which is of central importance today, and because of the Government's bungling economic policy as evidenced by manufactured trade and output figures, unemployment figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.150.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Interest Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I should like to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer the question of which I have given him prior notice. As you know, Mr. Speaker, the Labour party has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Interest Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, the Labour party has illusions of adequacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Interest Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " on the Labour Benches that by a wave of a wand they can abolish free market forces. As I have said on a previous occasion, the decision taken by the Finance Ministers of the five major industrialised countries of the Western world a fortnight ago in Washington was that the time had come when it would be appropriate from time to time to intervene in a concerted way in the foreign exchange markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "it becomes an incredibly peculiar statement, particularly from the Opposition. By taking that line the right hon. Gentleman is saying that only those who pay taxes should have the right to vote. Many people right now vote legally, straightforwardly and regularly, yet may not pay income tax, capital taxation, local taxes or even indirect taxes because of the narrowness of the way that VAT is drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "son of a vote, we have a lesser question as to the place of voting. The Labour party, in this matter as in others, is extremely reluctant to see the franchise enlarged. Indeed, it is putting itself in the rather bizarre position, as has been described by the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith), of arguing in favour of something approaching a property, rate-paying, tax-paying, education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "entleman will hear later. I cannot support the amendment moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Corby (Mr. Powell). That amendment would lead to an infinity. There must be an acid test. The Committee would be shirking its duties and responsibilities if it were to vote for the amendment. My hon. Friend the Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg) is now really my honourable friend, as he is no longer a Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-29", "file": "debates1985-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "82fd379804f4a0dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "y this evening. He stood before us announcing the largest victory in a Division that the Labour party has had to announce in many a long year. Before we got over the shock of that, he was at the Dispatch Box moving an amendment in words that made such compulsive listening that an unseen hand dragged me to my feet straightaway to accept it. I do not know what the hon. Gentleman proposes to do next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-29a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.272.8", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the total?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "same way or governed by the same kind of statute. One must also keep a sense of proportion in these matters. In 1981, for example, in respect of their political funds trade unions spent £4·8 million or 12·8 per cent. of the amount that they spent on benefits to their members. When companies donate money to political parties it is more like 0·02 per cent. of profit or turnover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.272.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.281.8", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "That was not discussed yesterday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.281.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "h Airports Authority. The British Airports Authority is far less than its name implies but has far more influence than its territorial extent merits. That point was well made by my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr. Adley). In the development of airports policy, I cannot help feeling that there has been far too close a relationship between officials of Government Departments and the BAA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Young", "preceding_text": "It depends on the area from which one comes. Judging by the behaviour of some hon. Members, I should not have thought civilisation had even entered the south. It is necessary to recognise that millions of north-west constituents will depend on Manchester airport, including the communications thereby provided. We need the support of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Whitfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Whitfield", "preceding_text": "e airlines themselves are reluctant to go there. Regional airports can and should take up any excess demand. The fact that Mr. Graham Eyre, about whom many kind things have been said today, says in a rather pompous manner that the regional airports should not help out with the problem in the south-east is abominable. It shows the southern bias of the man, and we have heard that he lives in Sussex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "s in a debate should do his best to listen to the speeches that are made from the Government and Opposition Front Benches at the beginning of the debate. I have followed this rule in almost every debate in the House in which I have participated. It so happens that I did not hear the speeches of my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) or the Minister, for which I apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "h to intervene. I am sure that you, Mr. Speaker, would not have called me if I were not entitled to take part. All hon. Members, if they possibly can, should listen to the opening speeches from both sides of the House. I say to Government Members, who apparently are irritated that anyone from the Opposition should speak in such terms, that I have participated in more debates on these matters than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "is of no consequence, they will insult some Conservative Members, infringe the rules of the House and injure our possible ways of proceeding in the future. How can we have Adjournment debates if it is said that it does not matter which way they go? Perhaps the most important parliamentary debate this century—the overthrow of the Chamberlain Government in 1940 — took place on an Adjournment motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " Gentleman that that is not true anywhere else in the world, and there is no reason why it should be true in this country. The hon. Gentleman would leave it to the operators to decide where to fly, but I believe that the prospects of regional airports booming and developing are grim. All around the world it has been necessary for Governments to direct airlines as to which airports they should use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Ian Gow)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Ian Gow)", "preceding_text": "The debate has lasted for nearly eight hours. It will come as no surprise to the House to learn that not a single member of the Social Democratic party has spoken and that only one Liberal Member has made a contribution. Although, excluding the Front Bench spokesman, 11 Labour Members have made speeches, it is the Tory party that has made the most massive contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "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": "has lasted for nearly eight hours. It will come as no surprise to the House to learn that not a single member of the Social Democratic party has spoken and that only one Liberal Member has made a contribution. Although, excluding the Front Bench spokesman, 11 Labour Members have made speeches, it is the Tory party that has made the most massive contribution— [Laughter.] Oh yes. There have been 26—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-30", "file": "debates1985-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "81c48a902e4950d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Airports Inquiries 1981–1983 (Inspector's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ow, the whole House accepts that the decisions that will have to be taken will be of deep relevance to the future of airports policy and to every part of the United Kingdom. My right hon. Friend and I have listened to the debate with the greatest care, but the House will understand that, as my right hon. Friend explained at the beginning, we cannot comment on the arguments that have been deployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-30a.389.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that most people are more anxious about the quality of the service provided by the BBC than about the price, although that is an important consideration? Does he agree that that policy might seriously be undermined if advertising were to be introduced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.410.8", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister again explain to the House why she is opposed to the resumption of negotiations without preconditions between the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board? Is it because she is intent on trying to humiliate the executive of the NUM —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.410.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.412.8", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What soul?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Brown", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister believe that confession is good for the soul?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.412.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.414.9", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": " against the admirable sense that is to be brought into the dispensing of medicines? Some of the letters that I have had from my constituents, as have many hon. Members, show that some of those companies are more interested in their profits than in the people whom they are there to help. Has not the time come for such a debate to be held and for that type of disgraceful campaign to be put to rest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.414.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "g their profession and the Hippocratic oath by terrifying the elderly and infirm with wildly inaccurate stories about the Government's proposals for the listing of medicines? If people have cases to fight, is it not more effective and better for them to fight them themselves rather than to use the elderly, the infirm, the defenceless and all the more vulnerable members of society as their proxies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.415.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " the state where a wobble in international oil prices or the strength of the dollar could knock our economy sprawling, bring a 40 per cent. increase in interest rates in the period of a fortnight and impose massive extra costs on industries and households in Britain? That question must be answered today. In asking that question, we are not talking the pound down, for we could not in a whole week —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " whom the Prime Minister admires for their boldness, adventure, sense of commitment and risk-taking. That is what the Prime Minister repeatedly tells us about the enterprise climate that she wants to create. Indeed, she admires them so much that she wants to run the country for their benefit. She wants a land fit for speculators, and that has been the whole tale of the right hon. Lady's policies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.420.8", "colnum": "420", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ed other members of her Cabinet that she is, in her own words, a \"reluctant butcher.\" So we should ask her to make it easy on herself and on the Chancellor. She need not go through all that brutal old business of sacking. She can call the Chancellor in one fine morning — let us say, tomorrow morning — and simply say, \"Nigel dear, I think the time has come for you to grow a beard.\" The trouble is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.420.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "leman — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The hon. Member for Croydon, South, who intervened previously, is innumerate and the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Ryder), who has just intervened, obviously has a worse affliction. My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) did not say that the pound has reached the right level; he said that it may have reached the right level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ds of those two Governments. Today the right hon. Lady should acknowledge all of that and explain what she and her Chancellors have been doing with those massive oil revenues and that massive borrowing. She should also explain what they will do now. She should explain it here in the House, and not on radio and television chat shows. The Government should be telling us here what their policies are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "s will say, \"All right, but that's not enough. It won't do the trick. It won't go far enough for what we want.\" The Chancellor will say, \"All right, we'll reduce our spending targets.\" \"Ah,\" say the speculators, \"You promised to do that before, but you always overshoot.\" As The Times stated yesterday, that will not convince anyone. Those markets are less interested in targets than in achievements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.424.8", "colnum": "424", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "five years. That is what I meant when I told her at Question Time today, that she had been increasing public expenditure, but only through paying the bills of rising unemployment. The Government have cut public expenditure on everything except nuclear weapons, fortress Falklands and unemployment. They have doubled VAT and increased the level of the tax burden from 31 per cent. to 36 per cent. of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.424.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.424.8", "colnum": "424", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ing public expenditure, but only through paying the bills of rising unemployment. The Government have cut public expenditure on everything except nuclear weapons, fortress Falklands and unemployment. They have doubled VAT and increased the level of the tax burden from 31 per cent. to 36 per cent. of — [Interruption.] — the gross domestic product. They have given us the highest real interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.424.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I repeat to both sides of the House that the more interruptions there are —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sition, the Labour party does its level best to support every one of them. The right hon. Gentleman's speech was empty of any serious analysis of recent events or of any convincing alternative policies which his party would pursue. I shall deal with both analysis and policies. First, I should like to spend a moment looking at the Labour party's credentials for bringing the motion before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Twenty seven per cent. was never the average of European inflation. That was the Socialist record. The hon. Gentleman mentioned unemployment. Unemployment has again doubled in Britain, but, according to the European Commission — I do not use my own figures — unemployment has also doubled in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nreasonable, could not be dispelled by words of reassurance alone. If my right hon. Friend the Chancellor had resisted the upward movement in market interest rates, it would have given a totally wrong signal to the markets and would, indeed, have led them to believe that their fears were justified. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman can tell us, since he has made criticisms, what he would have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can find one prediction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.436.6", "colnum": "436", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "s been maintained by violence and intimidation. Seven rounds of talks have foundered on the same points. Unless the NUM is prepared to discuss the closure of uneconomic pits in accordance with the NACODS agreement, the next round of talks will founder as well. I do not wish the talks to founder. I challenge the Leader of the Opposition. Will he urge the NUM to accept that agreement or will he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.436.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. Over their whole period of office, the Labour Government cut capital investment in the Health Service by 35 per cent. What has the hon. Gentleman got to say to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many shares did you buy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "No company chairman would be able to defend that policy at an annual meeting of his company. On top of the Government's involvement in the principle, we should consider the loss that the Government have sustained. The Prime Minister mentioned how many millions of people have bought British Telecom shares. They would have been fools not to buy them at the price the Government were giving them away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are a fool.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "On top of the Government's involvement in the principle, we should consider the loss that the Government have sustained. The Prime Minister mentioned how many millions of people have bought British Telecom shares. They would have been fools not to buy them at the price the Government were giving them away. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How many shares did you buy?\"] I did not buy any, but that is not the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": " There is now a growing consensus in the country on a range of economic issues, which is absent from the Floor of the House. The Earl of Stockton talked of building a national approach. He is right. That national approach exists in the country; it does not exist in here. There is a consensus in the country that there should, in these internationally depressed times, be a sense of shared sacrifice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "efer to some of his comments when I talk about manufacturing industry. One must admire the audacity of the Leader of the Opposition in introducing a motion such as this against the Government. We should consider the background against which he introduced it, one where the Government of the day have repaid over half the money that the Labour Government borrowed from the International Monetary Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "bout bringing down the democratic system. I am certain that the Government are right to resist. Opposition Members know as well as I do that under no circumstances can any Government give way to such demands by any union because if they did Governments in future would be subjected to the whims of any trade union leader. The strength of the dollar is an enigma and many people do not understand it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "resented his Budget last year, I was certain and I still am certain that it was a major reforming Budget of great help to British industry, and I believe that that will continue to be the case. Conservative Members too easily forget that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet have had to roll back 40 years of Socialism. Some of us have lived in parts of the country dominated by Socialism for 40 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "he dreams of the Opposition who put it forward in earlier debates as part of their recommendations. One would have thought, therefore, that, as a change from a motion of censure, there might have been a motion of congratulation to the Government on having carried out one at least of the elements in the prescription of the Opposition, in bringing down the exchange rate to a competitively low level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.476.5", "colnum": "476", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " can do harm but cannot necessarily do good. Whether wittingly or not, he there placed his finger on the fallacy by which the Labour party is hag-ridden, the notion that because Governments have certain powers and can use them to make mistakes—to do harm, to inflict problems and troubles on their citizens — therefore they also have it in their power to do not just good generally but specific good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.476.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Powell", "preceding_text": "than anything is an end to the system of income tax thresholds and social security benefits that makes it extremely unprofitable for them to work, unless they are to be paid a very large salary. It is an extremely serious problem. It is no good Opposition Members saying that the solution to poverty is substantially to increase social insurance benefits. That would only make the poverty trap worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The conduct of Tory Back Benchers at the beginning of the debate did more to rehabilitate the reputation of football hooligans than anything that has happened for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I did so at the time, but I will gladly do it again. I began by making a crucial moral point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I did so at the time, but I will gladly do it again. I began by making a crucial moral point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] There are 3,700,000 unemployed men and women who may consider that morality is involved in the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "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": "The debate was opened by the Leader of the Opposition with a speech—the only one of its type that I had ever heard from a Leader of the Opposition — which began with a rambling introduction and went straight into an inconsequential peroration with nothing in between.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The only people who are selling the country out are the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "igures are wrong and the vast majority of employees in those companies bought and hold the shares. The link between speculators and British Telecom is clear, at least in the mind of the Leader of the Opposition, because he said that the speculation that had taken place and the turmoil in the foreign exchange markets was all the fault of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ear, at least in the mind of the Leader of the Opposition, because he said that the speculation that had taken place and the turmoil in the foreign exchange markets was all the fault of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone. [Interruption.] That is what the right hon. Gentleman said and he said that the Government had to do something — presumably cut all the telephone wires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " Government had to do something — presumably cut all the telephone wires. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on\".] The Government indeed had to do something, and they did. They acted, raised interest rates, and the market has turned. The right hon. Gentleman and Labour Members are squirming. The Leader of the Opposition said that if the Labour Members were to come to office, they would reimpose exchange control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.2", "colnum": "497", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Even for the Chancellor that is a most corrupt distortion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition had no alternative policy whatever to put forward he suggested that we might follow the advice of the Earl of Stockton, who in turn had suggested that we might follow the advice of the United States. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman does not know what is the policy of the United States. Therefore I shall inform him. The policy of the United States —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the CBI?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "e year stood at much the level that I predicted in the Budget. Growth has been continuing at 3 per cent. a year. The recent increase in interest rates will not knock that growth on the head, any more than the increase in July did, and any more than the interest rate increases in the United States knocked American growth on the head. Profitability in British business has made a remarkable recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-01-31", "file": "debates1985-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "e9bc310445da90f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "g outside the North sea, real pre-tax returns were 7·5 per cent. in 1984, which was the highest for many years. The CBI forecasts 9 per cent. for this year, which, if it is attained, will be the highest since the 1960s. Output is at an all-time high and rising, as are investment and exports. The living standards of those in work are also at an all-time high and rising. Employment is rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-01-31a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-01", "file": "debates1985-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39da016ed4a6766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-01a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Access to Information) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "forced to waste money, thus defeating the Government's attempts to curb local government expenditure. Economic policy could be frustrated in that way. The Convention of Scottish Local Boroughs says: No organisation, whether a public body, Government Department, company or private business, could operate if the burdens associated with clause 4 were placed upon them. I think that I have said enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-01a.562.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is wrong to say that we are cutting down on the numbers. The number of faults found in the case of the Hereford operator to whom she referred is an indication that the system is working effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.613.6", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There has been.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "It is evident that the Government do not want an acceptable settlement negotiated between the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board but that they want victory over the NUM and especially over Mr. Arthur Scargill. The Government engineered the situation hoping that today there would be a massive return to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.613.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "t has got nothing to do with this dispute, it is interesting that an article appeared in the The Times that has behind it the authority and backing that we know it has. Mr. Hart said: Any true negotiation now would represent defeat for the Coal Board and the nation … The time for negotiated settlements is past\". Is that the policy of the Government? Is that the policy of the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The time for negotiated settlements is past\". Is that the policy of the Government? Is that the policy of the Prime Minister? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Is that what the Prime Minister wants — victory? Is this the Falklands factor coming into play? Is that what the Prime Minister wants? The Prime Minister will not answer. This type of action is in direct contrast with the actions of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "This morning, Mr. Spanton was asked a question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.618.5", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "State answers that question. I come to the second round of talks on the agenda. The original talks between Mr. Heathfield and Mr. Ned Smith led to an agenda that was acceptable to both sides and could have led to direct negotiations. It was an agenda and not preconditions for talks or a written undertaking. They both took that agenda back to their respective bodies. Indeed, I have seen the agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "operative clauses of that measure reads: The Secretary of State\"— at the time the right hon. Member for Chesterfield— with the approval of the Treasury may, out of money provided by Parliament, make to the Board such grants as in the opinion of the Secretary of State will further assist in the re-deployment of the manpower resources of the Board and the elimination of uneconomic colliery capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "That is the most total contradiction of the Scargill case that we have ever heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "That is the most total contradiction of the Scargill case that we have ever heard. [Interruption.] At last during this phase, when clearly the majority of miners are going against the strike, we welcome the conversion of the Leader of the Opposition, although it is rather belated. When the history of this matter is written, the lack of leadership by the right hon. Gentleman throughout the dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "In all the wordings that have been used and in all the negotiations on an agenda that have taken place, the NUM has totally refused under any circumstances to consider the closure of uneconomic pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "NACODS was told clearly this morning by Mr. Spanton that the agreement with NACODS applied totally and completely, and Mr. Spanton made it clear at the same meeting that if the NUM wished to accept it, it could have a settlement today or tomorrow —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.5", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am saying that during the course of last week —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.5", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am saying that during the course of last week — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—the NUM was offered an agenda as a result of which that could have been discussed, but it refused it. It was offered that agenda without a written agreement, but it refused to have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.7", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am saying that last week —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.622.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The more that the NUM refuses to accept any such reasonable proposal, the more one can suspect that when it comes to a negotiation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.624.5", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It was certainly received by the TUC because the TUC received an item which, if the NUM agreed to it as the No. 1 item on the agenda —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.624.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "I want to be brief. I hope that the miners will see what is happening to their industry and what is happening in the leadership of their union, and I hope that they will understand that it is not in their interests to continue the dispute on the present terms and under the present circumstances —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "I want to be brief. I hope that the miners will see what is happening to their industry and what is happening in the leadership of their union, and I hope that they will understand that it is not in their interests to continue the dispute on the present terms and under the present circumstances — [Interruption.] The industry has a great future but the miners —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.644.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin M. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " to put their union back together again, in the hope that they will find leadership that will represent their interests and not use them as political cannon fodder. It is surely not in dispute that the strike has been a political strike. The prime aim of the miners' leader has been spelt out time and again. He said in February 1983: Capitalism is an obscence system which deserves to be overthrown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.645.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is no friend of ours either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "me in these last months. Demands have been formulated in terms that could not be fulfilled, but that was no accident. It was not a corner into which circumstances forced an unwilling NUM leadership. That is the Trotskyist style of negotiation: to ensure the maximum damage and frustration among the gullible, en route to insurrection. Mr. Jimmy Reid is not exactly a friend of the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " have no right to vote their colleagues out of work. That now seems to be their argument. Of course, that is why the miners' leaders do not need a ballot any more. If they hold a ballot and obtain the majority they seek, they will be happy, but if they do not obtain that majority, they will argue that the majority has no right to put the minority's views in jeopardy. This is a political showdown —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.647.4", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "s never been allowed to be properly discussed. That question involves the link between this country's economy and coal. I am very proud to have signed the 1977 \"Plan For Coal\". I negotiated it with the NUM. The basis of it was that there would be a joint agreement on the industry's future. Much has been made of pit closures under the Labour Government. I am not saying that all of them were right —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. If the hon. Gentleman had wanted a debate, he could have demanded a debate in Government time. He should listen to the arguments being put forward. Energy imports now cost twice the price. Not for the first time in our history the NUM is defending the national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The CBI?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "ade union. Here is a man who is prepared to defy the law to vindicate his actions. He says, \"To hell with the law of the land.\" No one in the House, from the Conservative party and I dare say from the Opposition, would give credence to those remarks. I have never heard Mr. Scargill say that he condones intimidation or that he is prepared to accept a picket of six or seven, as laid down by the CBI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "throughout almost all his life and who has more knowledge of the industry in his little finger than most Opposition Members have in their bodies. Apparently it is a provocation to refuse to give in to economic madness. If that is provocation, let us have a bit more of it. My constituency includes two minefields—the south Leicester minefield and about 80 per cent. of the south Derbyshire minefield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "ield as Kent. They damage gardens. They urinate in gardens. They make life quite impossible for the people who live in those villages. Shops have been broken into. There has been a general aura of intimidation and violence in the area. The resolve of my constituents who work in the industry has not been broken, and I should tell the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) that Mr. Scargill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "preceding_text": " enforced by intimidation and violence by the leadership of the union. There have been various references to me during the course of the debate. I should like to put on record certain circumstances that were erroneously reported in The Times a couple of weeks ago. I am proud to be the president of the Yorkshire area of the Conservative trade unionist organisation and in that capacity will accept —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.672.4", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "If you will give me extra time, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall have no fear about giving way to the Opposition, but I have promised to be brief. Because so many people may in the future live some distance away from their work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.672.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": ", why was the leadership unable to convince so many of its own active members? We are not talking about individuals who are inactive in the union, but about members who are active. What is wrong? Opposition Members should be considering how the NUM executive has handled the affair. No one can get any pleasure out of watching one of our finest unions destroying itself. I get no pleasure from that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "political speeches in the middle of a delicate strike if one is striking about matters with an industrial base. The great mistake made by the NUM executive was to allow its spokesperson to decide who wears the cap and to misrepresent its case. Its case has been badly misrepresented. It has been presented to the country, the people and the Government as a battle against entrenched Tory doctrines. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "e of integrity on both sides, there is lack of trust. The problems really started when the overtime ban was introduced. The problems within the NUM began when the union could not throughout accept the productivity deal. The time when some NUM regions accepted the productivity deal and began to make more money was the opportunity for the high productivity areas to become high income-earning areas.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "way of recollecting the content of the agenda drawn up by him and Peter Heathfield, and asking that the agenda be forwarded again. His letter also stated that the talks had to include uneconomic capacity. There were four NCB representatives in that room, yet they claimed that they could not recall what was on the draft agenda. I refuse to believe that. They are not stupid men. I know some of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.690.8", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "r that the NCB strategy, with the support of the Prime Minister, is that it wants total victory against and humiliation for the NUM. It wants to starve the miners into submission, because it must be aware of the hunger and starvation already in the coalfields. Gas and electricity supplies are being cut off. Bairns are having difficulty in getting clothes and footwear. There are financial problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.690.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": " the Members for Broxtowe (Mr. Lester) and for Staffordshire, South-East (Mr. Lightbown) said, this is a strike that should never have happened. There would never have been a strike if there had been a national ballot in accordance with the NUM's democratic traditions and that union's rule 43, which provides that a national strike shall be entered upon only as a result of a ballot vote of members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "sident of the NUM and explain to him the economic facts of life, the dispute would be over. The hon. Member for Midlothian quoted many documents, but the problem in the dispute has been that, although the NUM has sent documents in writing and has said things on television and face to face, every time the president has said anything about the dispute he has said that uneconomic pits must stay open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.695.7", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I have made it quite clear and will repeat again that if the NUM wishes to accept the NACODS agreement, there is no need for any written undertakings of any sort. I have made that absolutely clear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.695.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-04", "file": "debates1985-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "0a7649562f49fbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.695.9", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " of course, no winners in the dispute. Yet the tragedy is still being played out. Mr. Scargill seems set to fight to the bitter end, but has not the bitter end come? Can he ignore any longer the relentless tread of his members returning to work? Today's record number of returns once again highlights the growing dissatisfaction with his leadership. When will he listen to the rising tide of opinion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-04a.695.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.744.6", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rnment have given assurances to the people of Gibraltar that Gibraltar will remain part of Her Majesty's dominions unless and until an Act of Parliament provides otherwise, and, further-more, that Her Majesty's Government will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another state against their freely and democratically expressed wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.744.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Star Wars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "If any hon. Member can name a fourth I shall happily give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Television.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "French audiences have held up for other reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "oyer did not have to pay two days of holiday pay. That was the sort of thing that happened before the industry ceased to be in private hands. We shall have one or two things to say about life in the industry in the days of private ownership when we come to Third Reading. On Second Reading the Minister said: By the end of 1986 the state will own less than one third of the United Kingdom industry.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "mentioned Vosper Thornycroft. When the House last considered this matter, there were high hopes in Southampton that Vosper Thornycroft would receive extra orders. Can my hon. Friend tell us anything about the prospects for Vosper Thornycroft and for Vosper Shiprepairers which is a Southampton yard which is short of orders? Those yards face the spectre of privatisation, and people are enthusiastic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "Government intended to introduce a scheme under the statutory provision which they are bringing forward. In tabling the amendment, we intended to provide that lump sums only should be made available. If the purpose of the scheme is to provide sufficient funds to farmers to enable them to restructure their businesses, they would need lump sums to cover the capital costs of new stock and machinery —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "ng his comments tonight about the fairness of the tribunals. The former president of the NFU called me to his house last Saturday and told me how he had suffered an outbreak of summer mastitis in 1981 and 1982. He took his case to a tribunal, before which, in 15 minutes, he got what he did not regard as natural justice. He is a member of the magistrates' bench in my constituency and is suffering —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "satisfy proven need. That is not so. We have heard the figures. The scale-down from the proven need as assessed by the tribunals in Scotland is 42·5 per cent. The Minister has now admitted that it will be at least 35 per cent. in England and Wales. We understand that the figure could be substantially higher in Northern Ireland. There is a way to obtain additional quota to satisfy that need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.886.5", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": "or the needs of farmers who bought their farms then. Yesterday, I had the privilege to visit a dairy fanner who had moved from Yorkshire to Pembrokeshire. I am sure that the Minister will not deny a Yorkshireman a living in Wales. He was determined to buy a farm just outside Fishguard, so he came down from Yorkshire and had a word with the local bank manager, who said that he would not allow him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.886.5", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": "said that he would not allow him — [Interruption.] I am trying to make a case for the people for whom I feel sorry. If the Government do not do something in the near future, many of those who bought their farms in 1983 will go bankrupt. I visited that farm and met the Yorkshireman, who is aged about 30, and is married with two children. They were crying. When I saw the child turning to its mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "voluntarily to take the outgoers scheme. He is right. They had no alternative. The imposition of milk quotas reduced many of them to below viability, and if he comes to my constituency I will take him to a number of farms in precisely that position. One farmer in my constituency has had to dispense with his own son on the farm. He was training him with a view to taking the farm over in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-05", "file": "debates1985-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "47a1a5be8fd733a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk (Cessation of Production) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "r a lump sum payment and he has refused to allow him to have it. We know why. The Minister wants to have that choice himself. The choice will be dictated by the needs of the Treasury and imposed by the Minister and not by those of the farmer in the light of the business conditions in which he finds himself. The Minister wishes to retain flexibility for himself rather than giving it to the farmer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-05a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.921.10", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister stop his smug, braggart boasting about the generosity of the election bribe of £900 million, which to many people amounts to little more than telling a man about to be executed that he is having a good breakfast?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.921.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.927.6", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "als. Is he aware that the only way in which that authority will be able to meet the rate-capped limit— [Unterruption] —is if the £3 million of housing benefit repayment due is paid into its budget? What does the right hon. Gentleman propose to do to make sure that outstanding repayments of millions of pounds to that and other rate-capped authorities are paid so that they may be able to fix a rate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.927.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.931.6", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ntleman has only just discovered that it is the Government's policy, in pursuit of their general economic initiatives and the control of inflation, to keep a firm control of public spending, I am not quite sure where he has been for the past five years. I would have more sympathy for any council that had gone out of its way to seek private sector partnership to try to resolve some of its problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "We are setting higher targets for the water industry as a whole, including Thames. I should like to join the hon. Gentleman in paying a tribute to Mr. Roy Watts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "l Engineers were used to build a fence. The people who maintained law and order were the Ministry of Defence police and the civil police. However, it would not be appropriate for me to give details of the numbers of policemen involved. If I did that, the only gain would be that it would enable the right hon. Gentleman and his friends to calculate how many more demonstrators they need in order to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that what took place was an eastern European type of operation—which illustrated only too well the continued erosion of civil liberties that has taken place under Conservative rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "preceding_text": "ustrate again the Government's increasing determination to carry out by force what they cannot do by persuasion? It is clear that the majority of people in Britain are opposed to cruise missiles. Given all the heart-rending stories about the dilemmas and so on that the right hon. Gentleman faced, will he now say whether any warning was given to the men, women and children that they would be moved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "preceding_text": "nterruption.] Did they receive eviction notices? If it was not appropriate to issue such notices, why have eviction notices been issued at Greenham common since the peace campers first went there? Is it not a fact that because of the tremendous resistance of the women at Greenham, he is now using the iron fist at Molesworth? The logic of the right hon. Gentleman's argument that he is saving money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Clay", "preceding_text": "esworth? The logic of the right hon. Gentleman's argument that he is saving money—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] I am taking no longer than did the hon. Member for Corby (Mr. Powell). If the right hon. Gentleman is arguing that his action will save money in the long term—by nipping the protest in the bud now—the logic of that is that he might as well get the troops out now and round up the lot of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.953.7", "colnum": "953", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Am I allowed to state my point of order, or am I being challenged, Mr. Speaker? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.953.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.953.9", "colnum": "953", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "My point of order is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.953.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the hon. Member for Rhondda (Mr. Rogers) that I was not seeking to get a cheap laugh at his expense. I believe that we should seek not to raise the temperature of hon. Members through anything we say in the Chamber. Although I do not think that \"loony\" is a very unparliamentary word, let us avoid its use this afternoon. Mr. Tam Dalyell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "RAF Molesworth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "this occasion. Is the Secretary of State aware that with the Geneva talks about to take place, many people throughout the world and in this country believe that we should not be going ahead with any preparations for further deployment of cruise, but that there should be a complete freeze on any deployment until we know the outcome of those talks? When the Labour party is on the Government Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Local Government (Rates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "o a spend of about £785 million, assuming a modest drawdown of balances. Compared with the GLC's proposed budget of more than £860 million, the result of passing the order will be that next year's GLC precept will be about 7p less than it would otherwise have been. Of course, if we add the London Regional Transport levy, the amount that ratepayers will pay will be higher than this year' s precept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Local Government (Rates)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "mselves.\" — [ Official Report, Standing Committee D, 27 March 1980; c. 840–41.] That is the sort of promise that the House has been given by Conservative Ministers since they came to office. Now all of that is being swept aside by the Secretary of State's proposals. As policy failures have embarrassingly mounted, the Government have simply ploughed deeper into the rights of local councils —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Local Government (Rates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait till next year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "I am fully aware of that, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My charge against the Government is that the order does not go far enough. The Cleveland business community wants to know why Cleveland has not been rate-capped and included in the order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Local Government (Rates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "pt to stitch up Labour authorities which are seeking to defend jobs and services against the ravages of unemployment caused by the Government. The order is an abuse of power. The Secretary of State claims that the authorities were fairly selected by reference to what he has, in the past, described as the \"robust\" and \"objective\" tests of GREA, as he told the Standing Committee on 21 February 1983—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Local Government (Rates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "as. Such is the madness and utter lunacy of the system created by the right hon. Gentleman. I have two concluding points. The first is about the crucial connection between rates and jobs. When will the Secretary of State and the Minister of State have completed their evaluation of the Cambridge report? It is a final report, and they no doubt knew about its contents before it was submitted to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-06", "file": "debates1985-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0326031da1e1d198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1022.7", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Local Government (Rates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " of the extent to which we are protecting the ratepayers in these proposals. Under the precept limit in the order, the precept for the GLC is 36·5p. The precept in the GLC budget will be 43p—an increase of 18 per cent. The ILEA's precept in the order is 77·25p. The budget that ILEA has issued implies 83p—7 per cent. more. In Merseyside, the figures are much better—I mean much higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-06a.1022.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ad been absolutely worked out. It went on then to make the right hon. Gentleman's other point: In other circumstances, the decision to close will be made by the National Coal Board. The right hon. Gentleman is correct. NACODS may oppose all the way, but in the end it will accept the National Coal Board's right to manage, and of course it is perfectly free to use the strike weapon should it choose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And shorter answers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal for shorter questions, please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1099.5", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Tyne Shiprepair company on an excellent first year. It took 500 people on to its payroll. It has done extremely well under the spur of privatisation and has now 1,200 on its payroll. Success and privatisation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1099.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman is doing his best to salvage what he can from a difficult afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Water Authorities (Return on Assets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ost disastrous characteristics was that it believed that it was possible to finance extra spending by resorting to deficit financing on a massive scale. The author of the 1978 White Paper, from which I have quoted with approval, was the same right hon. Gentleman who, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, wrote his celebrated letter to the International Monetary Fund 15 months earlier. In that letter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Water Authorities (Return on Assets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "; It is the stated hope of my committee that there will be less Government intervention in future in the operations of the Water Authority. That letter is signed by Mr. Vernon Hughes. The National Farmers Union also wrote to me, and perhaps I may quote from the original: Mae ein aelodau yn methu a deall sut mae yr Awdurdod yn medru cysdiro codi y pris cymaint dros ben lefel chwyddiant yn y wiad. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Water Authorities (Return on Assets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "preceding_text": "day. It is part of the burden only because, as the House knows, investment in the water industry is a continuous process. It is like painting the Forth bridge. The authority in which my constituency lies is prepared to accept the financial consequences of the present situation, and other authorities in my view are crying out to court cheap publicity at the expense of present and future ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1177.2", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Water Authorities (Return on Assets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": "en they ask me to explain the reasons for that, I might offer to send them a copy of the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Fulham and hope that it will persuade them, but I know that they will not be persuaded any more than I am. I regret to say that I was also not persuaded by my hon. Friend the Minister, despite all his charm and courtesy and an excellent glass of muscadet last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Water Authorities (Return on Assets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "they are not prepared to will the means, except by their usual, thoughtless profligate universal remedy—increased public borrowing. It is the remedy to which they always resort, like addicts to their fix, and it is a fix that does no good for them or, in the end, for the people of Britain. The Government's position and that of their supporters on the Benches behind me has been clear and constant —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Water Authorities (Return on Assets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " that of their supporters on the Benches behind me has been clear and constant — [Interruption.] —ever since we approved the public expenditure White Paper. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Freeman) in that I cannot see how any of my hon. Friends who approved that White Paper can oppose these orders, which are associated with it. There can be no turning back on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "ying as £258,179,588 the amount which the Greater London Council are to pay to London Regional Transport under section 49 of the London Regional Transport Act 1984. This motion paves the way for the introduction of a Bill to determine the total of grants to London Regional Transport to be payable by the GLC for the financial year 1984–85, after 29 June 1984 when the Government took control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "overnment took control. [Interruption.] I explained why this measure is needed in my statement to the House on 29 January. The High Court quashed the direction that I made under section 49 of the London Regional Transport Act 1984. There is thus now no direction in force regarding the payment to LRT of the grants that the GLC budgeted for and precepted to pay to London Transport in 1984–85.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "For the hon. Lady to exult in the result of the High Court case, she must be able to show that she and her hon. Friends disagreed with the Secretary of State on the significance of section 49, and she has not been able to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-07", "file": "debates1985-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1158a807743e0c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1227.3", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "preceding_text": "That is my information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-07a.1227.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-08", "file": "debates1985-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "b94158d309fb0826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-08a.1298.5", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate further adjourned till Friday 15 February.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [18 January].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-08a.1298.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-08", "file": "debates1985-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "b94158d309fb0826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-08a.1298.10", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLDERS (CHOICE OF INSURERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-08a.1298.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.3.7", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "to blame his own civil servants, including, of course, Mr. Lloyd, his assistant principal secretary, who, on his behalf, signed the settlement? Even more absurdly, why is the Secretary of State trying to blame a Labour Administration when it was in his period of office that the decision had to be made whether to issue writs, and when all he did was to issue a writ that was five days late? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.3.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Sleipner Gas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "t was originally negotiated shows the degree to which, if the dollar is strong at a particular time, it produces a big variation in the price. In looking at the availability of our own supplies, as opposed to the need to import them from Norway, my guess is that the availability of our own supplies will mean that prices will be lower than they would have been if we had taken the Sleipner contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Abortion", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "oup, as was Dr. Gullick. They, too, gave clear guidance. But it is the business of Parliament to make up its mind on these matters and nothing that the hon. Gentleman has said weakens my argument that Parliament's failure to realise what was at stake led to serious difficulties. In those early debates I repeatedly warned that the legislation would lead to abortion on demand, and I was quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Abortion", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman has said weakens my argument that Parliament's failure to realise what was at stake led to serious difficulties. In those early debates I repeatedly warned that the legislation would lead to abortion on demand, and I was quite right. [HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"] I was indeed right, because the law has allowed abortion on demand. That is how it has been interpreted by a great many doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Abortion", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "uinea pig. Such was the weight of evidence, however, that the Lane committee was forced to admit that some doctors were practising abortion on demand. The fact that its members advocated no steps to prevent such practices was simply a measure of their views. They were also forced to admit that there was disappointingly little evidence to suggest that the legislation had stopped criminal abortions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.50.4", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Abortion", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I am telling the House what the Select Committee recommended. When I have done that I shall give way, although I know that many of my hon. Friends wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.50.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Abortion", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I call them on the one hand sperm and on the other ova, but they are not human life. The hon. Gentleman has asked a question so he must listen to the answer. Until they are fused, they are not human life which, unless it is interrupted by nature or some other physical event, will inexorably lead to a birth —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " in giving way to the many interruptions that marked her speech. In its first sitting the Committee discussed the three lines that make up clause 2 for two and a half hours, despite the fact that no amendments to that clause had been selected. Thirty eight hours were then devoted to clauses 3 and 4 and schedule 1. At that rate of progress the Bill would have spent well over 400 hours in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.77.6", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " of the 1983 general election. In addition, on one occasion in 1982 I had the irksome task of introducing a guillotine against some of the Government's supporters. The incident left me with the clearest impression that it was no ordinary guillotine occasion. I do not include it in the tally. Thus, a true reading of the score would be 12 to the Labour Government, 14 to the Conservative Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.77.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Yes, but they were the same basic raw statistics in respect of this Government and the previous Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.87.6", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": " Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath), whose seat in the Chamber I have momentarily usurped. My right hon. Friend is alleged to have said that the question of abolition was introduced into the Conservative party manifesto without any considerable discussion with Greater London Conservative Members. Since 1979 I have continuously been the secretary of the Greater London group of Conservative Members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.87.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Kenneth\r\nBaker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Kenneth\r\nBaker)", "preceding_text": "hole purpose has been to delay and destroy the Bill and to overturn the convincing vote on Second Reading, when the House accepted the principle of the Bill and the Government had a majority of 135. The word \"ritual\" has been used to describe the way that we conduct ourselves in examining legislation in Standing Committee. I have been involved in three guillotined measures in the past three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Health and Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "ny entrepreneur to establish a business in chemical manufacture or distribution. I believe, however, that the small operator in this sector of the industry should be given some financial encouragement to train his staff or to enable them to acquire the necessary knowledge of how to act in an emergency. My hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) is no longer in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Health and Safety", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Peter\r\nBottomley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Peter\r\nBottomley)", "preceding_text": "xpertise in the Factory Inspectorate; and 95 per cent. of inspectors' time when visiting factories is spent giving advice, information and guidance to employers. They should be seen as people whose expertise is of immense advantage to industry in ensuring that processes are safe and without risk to health. I do not wish to fall out with the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Teachers (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": " comparison the position immediately prior to the Clegg committee award is specious, and Ministers know it. Perhaps the main reason for the teachers' anger is the deterioration in their conditions of work. Last November, the Secretary of State received the Scottish joint negotiating committee working party report on teachers' workload. Let me quote some of the important conclusions in that report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Teachers (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "nd, not knowing whether they are to press ahead with the new curriculum to be assessed for examination in the fourth year or whether they are to revert to O-levels. It is not just a matter of the damage to children's education. There is widespread anxiety among pupils and parents that the grade and qualification that they will obtain will be seriously impaired as a result of the present situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Teachers (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan\r\nStewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan\r\nStewart)", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Strang) for making it clear that he intended no personal criticism of me in his opening remarks, but I found his comments about my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State both spurious and bogus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-11", "file": "debates1985-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ba4dc00b08acaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Teachers (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I have already given way twice —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-11a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.152.7", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Government's policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept those criteria. First, because the Labour party's policy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.152.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.154.6", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "preceding_text": "ay care ward. That is based on experience in recent months of similar changes in a surgical ward. However, the treatment of children with cystic-fibrosis is wholly different from the treatment of children in surgical wards. Many Opposition Members are desperately keen for the regional health authority to have a say in this and to make sure that any changes will be for the benefit of the children —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.154.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.160.6", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Chairmen of health authorities are appointed for their personal qualities and not to represent particular interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.160.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady says now, and she has said to me before, that she was not involved in the decision to prosecute. Frankly, I do not believe the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.162.5", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I told the right hon. Gentleman, and I must ask him explicitly to accept what I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.167.5", "colnum": "167", "heading": "RAF Bandsmen (Accident)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Yesterday afternoon, on the E6 autobahn near Langenbruck in Germany, a coach carrying the band of RAF Germany collided with an oil tanker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.167.5", "colnum": "167", "heading": "RAF Bandsmen (Accident)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Yesterday afternoon, on the E6 autobahn near Langenbruck in Germany, a coach carrying the band of RAF Germany collided with an oil tanker. [Interruption.] It is with the greatest regret that I have to inform the House that in the fire which immediately ensued, the band's Director of Music, Squadron Leader C. R. Tomsett, 17 bandsmen and the civilian driver of the coach died.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "University Hospital of 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": "ment's accounting officer would provide the PAC with any further information that it requires. There has therefore been no cover-up; nor, indeed could there have been. But in view of the outrageous and serious allegations that have been made on this subject, I have made available to the House the fullest possible information. I turn now to the relationship between the Secretary of State and WHTSO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "University Hospital of Wales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": " at Wales's premier hospital, and that a settlement was reached last February? Amazingly, the terms of the settlement were to remain confidential between the parties and their legal advisers. The settlement sum was derisory. The cost of repairs is prohibitive. Is it not a fact that a board member of the technical services organisation happens to be one of the right hon. Gentleman's right-hand men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House give an undertaking that the document which has been called the \"crown jewels\" will be made available to the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.178.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.178.12", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "She will be on holiday.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give the House a clear undertaking that he and the Government are responsible for the subject matter of the debate? Will he also give an undertaking that, since the Prime Minister is responsible for the security services, she will take part in the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.178.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Mr. Clive Ponting", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Michael Havers)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Michael Havers)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on my decision to prosecute Mr. Ponting. On 13 August 1984, certain facts were drawn to the attention of the Director of Public Prosecutions by the Ministry of Defence. In my absence, the Director consulted my hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.180.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.180.7", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Mr. Clive Ponting", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.180.9", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Mr. Clive Ponting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ght for those Ministers to have lost not a moment in taking the House into their confidence about their personal intentions today? Does not the jury's verdict — a vetted jury, incidentally — reflect the view that Mr. Ponting's evidence either was true or could be true but that it also believed that Defence Ministers blatantly misinformed, or were prepared to misinform, the House? May I first ask —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.180.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Mr. Clive Ponting", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am quite unable to say what conversations, if any, took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.182.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Mr. Clive Ponting", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, there is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House knows that there is to be a debate on this matter on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Mr. Clive Ponting", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not think there was undue haste. It was a very lengthy telephone conversation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Mr. Clive Ponting", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "quoted words of mine which I am not ashamed to agree with. That was tried in 1979 in a Bill in which the incoming Government reacted with great speed to the Franks report, very much unlike the complete lack of action by the Labour Government over the previous six years. That Bill did not meet with the approval of the other place. There was a great deal of criticism gummed together by Fleet street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sexism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "I will give way to any female member of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "t us consider the whole business of concessionary fares. The Government say that they have not been banned, but they never refer to the fact that many authorities will not only be rate-capped but will be constantly told that they are in danger of going into penalty. The spread of operators alone will make travel cards, which are a great asset to many old age pensioners, extremely difficult to use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "d wages being paid to them. The NBC has made it plain that its pension plans for staff will not be protected by the Bill and that the 1982 Act will not help the 15,000 pensioners involved. Why are the Government so determined to push this legislation through in this way? Do they genuinely believe that by opening the gates to competition they will produce a new era of better bus transport services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fry", "preceding_text": "hould have an opportunity to make up its mind about this fundamental change on the evidence, when it is published. That is the core of my plea. The House must decide whether to use our Select Committees or ignore them. Do we regard them as peripheral centres of activity to which we consign awkward hon. Members in order to keep them out of the Chamber, taking little notice of what they have to say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": " of buses and coaches in Britain has halved since 1953, down from 82 billion to 40 billion passenger kilometres per annum. The demand between 1972 and 1982 fell by 30 per cent., that at a time when the overall demand for transport was increasing rapidly. During that time, subsidies rose enormously. As the editor of one of the two excellent newspapers in my constituency, the Cumberland News, wrote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I will not give way because I do not want to detain the House for more than a few minutes longer. If Opposition Members are boasting that we are having the marvellous achievement of 50 years of regulation, since the 1930s, and that what we have is what state control and a fully integrated system has achieved, that is a hollow boast in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.241.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "preceding_text": "In view of the concession made by the Government—and as I have made my point on behalf of the Select Committee on Transport and on behalf of all Select Committees—I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "preceding_text": "alth Office, he was planning to sent me on a long boat trip to St. Helena to carry out an employment exercise. However, it was impossible to go there because of the poor boat service. This afternoon, when he was telling the bus industry that its motto should be \"Take a bus\", I thought that the Secretary of State was taking the House for a ride. The Bill will not do much for the travelling public —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "x whether their rates should be used to subsidise cheap travel in London. The Minister knows that it was electorally popular and successful. All the records show that. I admit that it was not free, because there is no such thing as something free in this world. I am sure that if the Government could tax the air they would do it. In contrast to Travelcard, Capitalcard prices are set at a premium. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "h figures when the matter was originally proposed in Committee. There was to be no accountability in advance. We are also entitled to know what sort of budget is planned for future years. Is it to be a slippery slope downwards with fewer services, more costs and higher fares, or is there to be a turning of one of the corners that the Government seem to reply upon to fulfil their best expectations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-12", "file": "debates1985-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "5002b562d196f7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "reas who have no possibility of being able to buy a car or of being able to travel on any form of public transport other than buses. They have to rely on LRT and they are being treated to every-decreasing services, ever-lengthening bus queues and an ever-more expensive service. In the end it is not the Secretary of State or other Ministers who suffer, for they ride around in chauffeur-driven cars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-12a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.326.11", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": ". The other four hon. Members were called to ask their supplementary questions; you called at least four hon. Members from the Government Benches, none of whom had a question down on the subject; and you called two hon. Members from the Opposition Benches to ask supplementary questions, although neither of them had a question down on the subject. I was the only one in that list who was not called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.326.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I assure the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton) absolutely that there was no question of victimisation. I had regard to the fact that I called him on exactly the same question yesterday, when questions were down to the Secretary of State for Social Services, and I thought it only fair to give other hon. Members a chance today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.327.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "only one course. He can put down a motion in which he apologises to my right hon. Friend, or he can table a motion which goes a long way to substantiate what he says, which would lead to a debate in this House or an appropriate committee of inquiry. The situation cannot be left where it is, because the right hon. Gentleman has pointed the finger at every hon. Member, and that would be intolerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is just what we want to avoid in a highly charged situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is just what we want to avoid in a highly charged situation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Order. I ask the hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) not to use that phrase, because that is just the difficulty that we are trying to avoid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. given that in the past two or three days right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House have accused each other of—shall we say—terminological inexactitude —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.4", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Reference has been made to me and my behaviour on a similar occasion. In all fairness to Conservative Members, they said that I graciously accepted the Chair's ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.5", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I accepted your ruling yesterday, and that is how it stands —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.5", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": " is how it stands — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are you?\"] That is the usual reaction from public school louts. I should like to make you aware, Mr. Speaker, if I may, that we are aware of what is going on in the House today —the media have informed the general public that the heavy gang on the Conservative Back Benches mean to do a great deal more of this. I thought that you should be made aware of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. I hope that my intervention will be helpful. Before you make any ruling on the issue that has been raised, will you take into consideration the political circumstances in which the question has been raised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I shall leave out the word \"deliberately\", but they misled the House of Commons. The whole business by the Opposition is an attempt to deflect attention from the real issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "I do not see the need for the clause, which seems to deny one the freedom to vote, in the constituency of one's choice, one of our last rights which we value greatly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " such. I shall not name individual religions or sects, but the title \"minister of religion\" is not a sufficient safeguard to ensure no abuse. I regret that many people style themselves as ministers of religion. How would the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed satisfy himself that a person so styled genuinely came within that category? We can accept the category of lawyer without too much argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "t justices of the peace, I believe that other hon. Members thought that that would be too restrictive, as do I. We must be practical about this matter. Although it is true that prudent people —the wise virgins who trim their wicks appropriately, as the biblical injunction states—will have made their arrangements for postal votes well before the whistle blows for an election, many people will not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "mpassion. One reason why the widow was reluctant to do this — a reason cited by many others in similar circumstances—is the fear that her son would leave. Those who are widowed or single parents are reluctant to speed the day when teenagers leave the house. They are therefore reluctant to ask for what is now a large sum—indeed, it equals what many teenagers would have to pay to rent a single room.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-13", "file": "debates1985-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f5d3fb20b0249eec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " use every echelon of the establishment to try to hammer them into the ground. They have used the judges and the law courts to try to get them down. They have used the police—who are known in my area as Mrs. Thatcher's private army—to try to smash the miners and the NUM. They have uprated the £15 deemed strike pay to £16 in an attempt to starve the miners. That was one aspect that Ridley had not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-13a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.476.7", "colnum": "476", "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 have received the right hon. Gentleman's letter. It contained no trace of apology or withdrawal of anything which he said — no trace whatsoever. Indeed, in many respects he repeated the assertion. He quoted from a letter written by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.476.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "id: the Prime Minister emphatically asserted that 'the Law Officers did not seek the view of, or consult with, any other minister, nor was the view of any other minister conveyed to them, before they took their decision to prosecute Mr. Ponting.' Mr. Silkin continued: As a statement of fact I do not question this assertion. Do I understand the right hon. Gentleman to be making a similar statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ve the whole of Sam Silkin's letter quoted, but unfortunately the right hon. Lady, with her selective tastes, still does not answer the question which I asked. As far as my repetition of assertions is concerned, may I say that that is still because the primary points have not been answered in anything that the right hon. Lady has sent to me. On the matter of apologies, yes, apologies are in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that the right hon. Gentleman does not have the grace to agree with the former Labour Attorney-General. May I now come to his question, and answer it in my own way. There has been no attempt whatsoever to mislead the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "erruption.] I have made it absolutely clear that the Government have a duty not to reveal intelligence which could be of assistance to the enemy or which could imperil the safety of our own forces. I notice that our enemies are very careful not to let us know how much and when they knew of our movements and operations. They are not being questioned in that way. We have a duty not to disclose that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is going right off beam. What I said, and have made perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. You will no doubt be aware, Mr. Speaker, and the House will be interested to know, that a couple of hours ago Mr. Clive Ponting was sacked by the Ministry of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "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. In Question Time there are now so many leaders around us all over the place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.486.9", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Has not the time come for a debate on the arts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.486.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "e done so on the basis of what the Home Secretary said last night. Before we come to a final conclusion on Report and Third Reading, if I may say so with due modesty, we should bear in mind some of the points that I have raised. At the end of the day we are concerned with preserving our democratic system, with all its faults— and no doubt there are many. Living in any dictatorship, Left or Right —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": ",677,417. The real problem, however, is in by-elections, when one sees the deposit issue, the problems and the abuse by so many people standing for the most strange reasons. The opportunity might he used to promote the cause of a person in prison or as a public relations exercise to promote the sale of vodka. In Chesterfield, 17 candidates stood—some of them mad, including the one who was elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "t will enable its members to stand for election. National Front candidates would, therefore, be able to afford to trade £1,000 for the £8,000 to which the Home Secretary drew attention as the benefits in terms of free postage. The small parties, including the Ecology party — there are many other small parties, some of which I like and some of which I dislike—simply do not have the necessary money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " the numbers in this place. It is a total distortion of the way in which people voted at the last election. Another example is the position of the Opposition parties in this place. The Labour party and the alliance each received about a quarter of the votes. The Labour party received slightly more votes than we did, yet it finished the election with 200 seats, while the alliance won only 23 seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "regard to the stability of Governments elected by proportional representation, we can look to continental Europe for examples. One of the great strengths of our system is that it provides a predictability and stability which many people have come to value. An inevitable result of proportional representation is a greater incidence of coalition Governments. That gives rise to many new possibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.553.4", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is fair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Yes. I am saying that we must look at all of the factors and weigh them up. Proponents of proportional systems are obsessed with the arithmetical reflection of votes in seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.553.5", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you this evening?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "This subject is one of the Liberals' hobby horses. Indeed, it may be the main one. There are others, such as site value rating, but certainly new clause 1 has brought Liberal Members into the Chamber. We have not seen them in such large numbers in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.553.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.554.5", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "uite simple for me to bolster my argument by saying that I did not agree. Then Liberal Members would not have been able to ooh and aah. The nature and unique position of Northern Ireland, which fortunately does not apply to the mainland—and, I hope, never will—demands something different. I do not know why Liberal Members ooh and aah as though they are pleased at the position in Northern Ireland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.554.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Yes, unfortunately he did belong to my party. I cannot deny the obvious. Before he belonged to my party he was however, in the Tory party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "ver to the wife of the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Penhaligon), that might be a solution. Let us consider how the votes were cast at the last election. The Conservatives got 13,012,316; the Labour party got 8,456,934; and the Liberal-SDP alliance got 7,780,949. The Liberals were prepared to fight that election. They have contested elections for many years and have never complained about the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "t is also clear from the proposed new clause that they would seek the periodic expiry of the order bringing that system into operation. The truth is that, unless there was a party with an overall majority in Parliament that was against proportional representation, we would be going through a one-way choke point: once one has it, one will never get rid of it, and one will be stuck with it for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "ave finished and exposed to them the weakness and foolishness of their case, they may not be so ready to say, \"Hear, hear,\" but will hang their heads in shame for having been so grossly misled for such a long time. I listened with care to the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Wrigglesworth), who was so unwilling to give way. If he had given way, I would have asked him to tell us how many seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "se 1. Perhaps we can return to that. The hon. Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Wrigglesworth) has left the Chamber, but perhaps he will read what I say tomorrow. I intervened in his speech for one reason only. I have read the document which is the product of the joint wisdom of the Liberal and Social Democratic parties. I read it because I am interested in Boundary Commissions and their activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ribution to the debate. But what do we find this evening? They are as men rejuvenated, as if bottles of Phyllosan had been consumed before the great ordeal of delighting us all came upon them. The smell of power — the thought of getting their noses into the trough of office — has so excited them that the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) is waving his arms around like a windmill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has woken up. Coalitions have clearly not been the downfall of Sweden, Finland, or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.582.7", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "That intervention was very much up to the mark for a former scriptwriter of \"That Was The Week That Was\". It was not an intervention of any substance, but it was entertaining. I have three final short points to make —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.582.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.585.6", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ortunity to choose at will between several different places in which to cast his vote has an advantage not conferred on other electors. That advantage tends to relate to circumstances, particularly in the case of people who own, or are tenants of, property in several places. It is feasible to have a system under which multiple registration occurs so that people can register their reasonable claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.585.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "ency they should do so because they have been exposed to the campaign in that constituency, because they know who the candidates are, the candidates have been able to reach them with publicity and canvassing and therefore the electors take a full part in political life there. When people take no part in political life and have no opportunity to do so, there is a weakness in the democratic process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "preceding_text": "0 or 40 years earlier. They could not take any of their problems to their hon. Member or to their theoretical local council. As I have said, the then Minister said of such patients in the 1982 debate that We cannot expect them to take a full part in local affairs.\"—[ Official Report, 18 October 1982; Vol. 29, c. 178.] Perhaps that is not surprising when they have no opportunity to play their part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.603.6", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "s that terrorists want him? He has taken his own precautions. My hon. Friends, on my behalf, have checked all available reference books — \"Vacher's\", \"Dods\" and \"Who's Who\"—and he has concealed his address all right. They will not get him unless they come to the House of Commons which he identifies as his address, unlike the Under-Secretary who properly lists his address where anyone — animal lib—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.603.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I do not rule out that it might be possible at some stage to examine the matter again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.604.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.605.5", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Question put and negatived.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gregory", "preceding_text": "n. Friends, because I have been in touch with quite a few of them and I know that they are sympathetic. Furthermore, I hope that he will never have any wish to regret the rather harsh words that he used. Nevertheless, I fully accept the point made by my hon. Friend. I hope that he will consider the new clause in the next few days as we prepare for Report. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.605.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.606.5", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "citizen that he is not mentioned as such. Why on earth do we perpetuate that old-fashioned outdated, eccentric, romantic, extravagant anomaly? Why do we persist in living in the past? The anomaly is the result of a wet, sloppy sentimentalism about the old empire which sits uneasily upon a reforming Conservative Administration. In the days when the British monarch ruled over a quarter of the globe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.606.5", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": " anomaly? Why do we persist in living in the past? The anomaly is the result of a wet, sloppy sentimentalism about the old empire which sits uneasily upon a reforming Conservative Administration. In the days when the British monarch ruled over a quarter of the globe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—everyone born within the British empire was a British subject and owed allegiance to the British crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.607.4", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " lived all their lives in the United Kingdom, found themselves suddenly not British citizens any more but British subjects, who, of course, this new clause would exempt. It is all right the hon. Gentleman taking that attitude, but in this land there are many millions of us who pay taxes. I am now a British citizen because I paid £70 to become one. I understand that the figure has now been reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.607.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.613.5", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "r views on that point later. The provisions in the new clause are based primarily on what happens in Australia where there has been compulsory voting for a long time. I do not believe that any one would say that there is great opposition in Australia to compulsory voting. We are not talking about a country which people view badly. The turnout in general elections in Australia is about 96 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.613.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-14", "file": "debates1985-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "837829f8ddf75ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Look at the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Armstrong. It is becoming increasingly difficult to listen to my hon. Friend with meetings, sub-meetings and conversations on the Conservative Benches. My hon. Friend is making an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-14a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ch the statute book, believe that it is authorised by and in accordance with their religious beliefs. I have no complaint or criticism of that. On the other hand, I have a great envy of people who have that faith and certitude. Yet I must tell the House that I would make the plea that I am making this morning exactly as I am doing if I were addressing an assembly of atheists in an atheist country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "al professions have for so long based their actions. The medical professions have not as a whole denied that fundamental principle, although there are several horrendous historical examples where they have done just that. I am sure that I do not need to remind the House of the barbaric practices which were carried out under the guise of medical and scientific research by Nazi and Japanese doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.665.6", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "ho wanted in vitro fertilisation following the Bill's enactment would have to go through the process of making an application to the Secretary of State for permission to be a mother. The right hon. Member for South Down is saying that we should introduce licensed motherhood and that the decision should be made in Whitehall by a faceless and anonymous bureaucrat. That is an intolerable suggestion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.665.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.665.6", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "mber for South Down with his monkish habits. Some days ago I observed him challenging a young black girl. He was promising her a future of fear because he was concerned, as he always is, with the disproportionate number of blacks that will come along. He is always interested in birth. It is no surprise that he should have introduced the Bill. He has always been interested in the births of blacks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.665.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.665.6", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "s. Some days ago I observed him challenging a young black girl. He was promising her a future of fear because he was concerned, as he always is, with the disproportionate number of blacks that will come along. He is always interested in birth. It is no surprise that he should have introduced the Bill. He has always been interested in the births of blacks — [Interruption.] That is his statistical —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.665.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I was just saying that, however eminent and eloquent the right hon. Gentleman might be, he has no qualifications whatever for playing God, if I might say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I was just saying that, however eminent and eloquent the right hon. Gentleman might be, he has no qualifications whatever for playing God, if I might say so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is exactly right. The right hon. Gentleman sought to create the impression — perhaps unconsciously—that somehow, because we take a contrary view to him, we are guilty of some kind of offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"At conception.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "sue not susceptible in the last analysis of rational determination. The right hon. Member for South Down had the grace to make that clear. It is emotive and prejudicial to talk of experiments on human beings in this context. Moreover, the proper moral question is not at what point life begins, but at what point in the development of an embryo we attribute to it the protection due to a human being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-15", "file": "debates1985-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "dcb56d51abdd3859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "obtained from experimentation on human embryos. That was the concession he made. He went on to say that there was another consideration—the sense of moral outrage that many people felt. Those are the two counterbalancing considerations that hon. Members must take into account. I believe, as does my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister, that the evidence favours voting against Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-15a.697.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "coal stocks, distributed and undistributed, for the end of the year 1984, and have been unable to get any further than 31 October. Perhaps the Secretary of State should now have the guts to tell the nation just what the coal stocks are so that he cannot be accused of misleading anyone. Will the Secretary of State also take into account the fact that it would be a good idea if, instead of waiting——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.717.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Severe Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "t of the scheme's operation. Indeed, two old people in my constituency, one in South Chard and the other in Seavington, have died from hypothermia in recent weeks. If a method cannot be found to alter the way in which the scheme is operated, there will be more suffering, and possibly even more deaths. My area of the south-west of England has been among the worst affected by the recent cold spell —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.731.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "e given to one Government is not made available to another is to be maintained, and if the proper accountability of Ministers—and not civil servants—to Parliament is to be preserved, we must maintain that position. Failure to do so would change fundamentally the position of the Civil Service. Particularly, it would rapidly lead to the politicisation of the Civil Service, which very few would want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "the allegations made by a civil servant about the behaviour of Ministers. Mr. Ponting has made the most serious allegations—many of them repeated yesterday—about my conduct in discharging my responsibilities as the Secretary of State for Defence. Most extreme and unfounded allegations have been made about the Prime Minister and about my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " documents enclosed — given the possible sensitivity of some of the information involved there would be no need of course to copy it widely within the Department. Additionally, I should be grateful for a draft reply to Mr. Dalyell's latest letter together with advice on whether the line proposed to be taken with Dalyell affects the line proposed to be taken with Denzil Davies. Mr. Ponting's reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.735.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The ideas on the rules of engagement came from me, as will be witnessed by the discussions that I had with Professor John Erickson of the University of Edinburgh. As we are on this subject, let me quote a letter from the hon. Member for Stroud (Sir A. Kershaw), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " version of one shown earlier that evening on Channel 4. The film showed Mr. Ponting typing a letter. It showed the envelope in which it was sent, addressed to the hon. Member for Linlithgow and postmarked 24 April. I shall place in the Library of the House a copy of the contents of that letter transcribed from the copy shown on the television screen. I shall now read the contents of that letter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "If what the hon. Gentleman says is the case, I unreservedly accept that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.751.4", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I realise that the right hon. Member for Llanelli (Mr. Davies) does not understand how —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.751.7", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Mr. Ponting was acquitted by the Old Bailey jury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.751.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "elgrano was a threat to the Royal Navy and to our task force, appropriate action should be taken. But I said at the time that I did not know—I did not have the facts to know — whether it was a threat or not. Unfortunately, with all the prevarications and cover-ups that have been going on, we still do not have the facts. But when we get all the facts I shall make up my mind whether it was a threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " an Adjournment debate, in an article by my right hon. Friend the former Foreign Secretary and one by the former ambassador to the United States. All the facts are there. They support the Government's case.\" — [Official Report, 21 February 1984; Vol. 54, c. 695.] I wrote to the Prime Minister on 6 March and she replied for the first time and gave the dates on 4 April. All the facts were not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e to the Prime Minister on 6 March and she replied for the first time and gave the dates on 4 April. All the facts were not there. [Interruption.] Or perhaps all the facts were there, but they certainly were not here, in the House. Perhaps now at least—I put it very kindly—the Prime Minister will have the good grace to come to the Dispatch Box and say that on that occasion her statement was wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.754.7", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e suggested by Mr. Stanley was neither truthful nor correct, and it was an attempt to refuse to answer any future parliamentary inquiries whether from the dreaded Mr. Dalyell or from any other Member of Parliament. So there was a refusal to answer questions. That was what was said on oath at the Old Bailey, and it was not challenged by any evidence called by the prosecution. That is the position —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.754.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.756.5", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "his House and that we should then see exactly what was instructed to civil servants. It sounded to me—and I think that it would have sounded to most hon. Members in the Chamber today—that it was perfectly clear that the only reason why two drafts were done—one, in Mr. Ponting's words, more truthful than the other—was that the Minister for the Armed Forces asked for that second draft to be written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.756.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.756.8", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "any problems were involved that even the hapless Lord Whitelaw was called to Chequers on a Sunday to try to advise on these matters. I think that I see the Prime Minister shaking her head in dissent. Maybe that was not true, and she may wish to deny it. If the Prime Minister indicates dissent, I believe her. I had better believe her because I do not have the secretarial facilities to do otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.756.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has a difficulty there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.758.5", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ate—the letter, according to evidence that was given, was beefed up a bit when it got to the Prime Minister's Office, but I do not make any criticism of that — did not mention intelligence. On that occasion operational matters were the higher and greater good used to justify the failure to give information. Then as the last refuge — it is in the motion—we have the protection of our Armed Forces\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.758.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I did not say it; Mr. Ponting said it on oath. That evidence could have been produced in court but the prosecution failed to do so. We have a style of government that demands total fealty from all individuals and all groups. It is a style of government that shows contempt—the Secretary of State talked about the Civil Service—for civil servants and for their advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "e political lifetime. He heard the devastating exposition of the facts by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence. If the right hon. Gentleman had risen in a full House, with the country listening to the debate, and had asked leave to withdraw his party's amendment, he would have dispelled the largely unfair belief that the Labour party did not want to see us win the Falklands war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "on frankness and fullness of discussion, often late at night. It must be hardheaded, but also sometimes lighthearted. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment, the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton, (Mr. Clark), has been taken to task for talking about Bongo Bongo land at a private meeting. Unless one can do such a thing and talk on those terms with one's officials —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "en the circumstances of a submarine. However, I made cross-checks. I should like to say something bluntly to all my parliamentary colleagues. The House might be wondering why the hon. Member for Linlithgow has been the receptacle of so much information, only latterly from Mr. Ponting, but from many other sources, including members of the task force. It was not because of the colour of my politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.773.9", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Traitors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It would have been much better had the Government come clean on these matters, because, who knows, there may be a diplomatic version of Clive Ponting. Certain people know the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.773.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "change policy? There are other considerations. The Argentines are now far better armed than they were in April 1982. They have the Otamelara and the Meko 360 frigates, powered by Rolls-Royce engines and using David Brown gearboxes, Decca navigation equipment — all made by us. They have the Israeli adapted Nesher 5s which can actually loiter and fight. Therefore, this is not a question of the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "nes are now far better armed than they were in April 1982. They have the Otamelara and the Meko 360 frigates, powered by Rolls-Royce engines and using David Brown gearboxes, Decca navigation equipment — all made by us. They have the Israeli adapted Nesher 5s which can actually loiter and fight. Therefore, this is not a question of the past— [Interruption.] Alfonsin will not start another conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.774.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "ly, but surely he is not trying to make a serious allegation. If he is, he is suggesting that it is one and the same thing for a private citizen, a Back-Bench Member of Parliament like myself or, indeed, the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), to divulge information that has been brought to us. We are not civil servants or Ministers and therefore are not subject to the Official Secrets Act.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "aw attention to what I believe to be the real importance of the debate, for which it will be studied in future years, long after the names of the participants, and maybe even the Falklands war are forgotten. That is that we are discussing today a central question, which must be decided, as to the proper relationship between the Cabinet, the Commons and the courts. That is what the debate is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.810.5", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ate of deception and misinformation in the Ministry of Defence that one official, Mr. Baker, sent a minute saying: I should be grateful for any corrections of fact or emphasis, particularly from DS5B, with relation to the Belgrano aspects lest I have departed inadvertently from the public line and risk a breach in our united front. That was a united front against a Select Committee of this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.810.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.810.5", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " she could not control her penchant for peddling misleading information. In a letter dated 8 October 1984 to the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) she said: The Belgrano certainly made many changes of course during May 2nd. That reply was in direct contradiction to paragraph 10 of the annex to her letter of 19 September. In the light of that conglomeration of misleading answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.810.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Stanley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Stanley)", "preceding_text": " went further. I took the initiative, and I was the first Minister to do so, in asking Mr. Ponting to go further than Ministers had done before and to prepare a draft acknowledging that the Belgrano was sighted on 1 May rather than 2 May. To twist and distort my request into saying that I asked for two drafts to be prepared, one telling the truth and one telling a lie, is frankly a monstrous slur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Stanley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Stanley)", "preceding_text": "ct represented far and away the most important operational deployment of the Royal Navy's submarines since the second world war. By the same token it represented, and it still represents, far and away the most important opportunity for hostile intelligence—Soviet intelligence as well as Argentine intelligence—to obtain an insight into our submarine capabilities and into their methods of operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "We had to take account of the fact that our SSNs have certain capabilities in common with our Polaris SSBNs and that therefore insight into the capabilities and methods of operation of one could have implications for the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Those questions took us into their sources of intelligence, their methods of communication, the capabilities of their sonar and the performance of their tactical weapons system. Ministers have been accused of being cautious about the giving of information in relation to the Belgrano.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.817.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, we are still conducting the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I wish now to deal with the Leader of the Liberal party, the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel). I have heard him argue that as it is now nearly three years since the conflict ended, the security objections have surely fallen away and all can now be revealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.818.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-18", "file": "debates1985-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c4a588a8130846d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Sinking of the General Belgrano", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again. It is for the House to decide whether, in pursuing a policy of partial disclosure in relation to the Belgrano, Ministers have got the balance right between giving too much information and too little. My personal view, for what it is worth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-18a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.849.7", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that those figures, and other comparative figures which are available, suggest a continuing preferential treatment for Oxford university? In view of the declining reputation of that university —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.849.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.851.7", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Gentleman not realise that, for instance, in the White Paper there is an 11·3 per cent. cut in revenue for special education provision for those in most need, the disabled and the handicapped, and a dramatic cut in capital expenditure for provision for the under-fives, when only about 40 per cent. of them can participate is such education? Does not the right hon. Gentleman not accept that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.851.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.851.7", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "he handicapped, and a dramatic cut in capital expenditure for provision for the under-fives, when only about 40 per cent. of them can participate is such education? Does not the right hon. Gentleman not accept that — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] You would have thought, Mr. Speaker, that as honours have been heaped upon me by my school, unlike other hon. Members, they would listen with some respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.851.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.854.7", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n for his support—I had expected nothing else—on the Noraid matter. It will help me in my discussions in the United States of America to be able to say that all parts of the House are united on this matter. On the right hon. Gentleman's latter point, having heard the previous question and answer, he should realise that I would still say yes. I think that we are in a much more sustainable position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.854.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.856.8", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister goes to North America on her expenses-paid trip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.856.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "and why the hon. Gentleman, for whom I have a great deal of respect, does not wish to be associated too directly with his Front Bench. He has always been an independent-minded Member, and would not want to come too close to the influence of the Front Bench. He referred to the Conservative party manifesto at the election. I had always understood that the hon. Gentleman was on the Left of his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.916.7", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "To have had the London Regional Transport board take over —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.916.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "9 direction, so in no way can it claim that it was never warned or that it was not fully under notice that that was the amount of money that it might have to provide and for which it should make provision. The hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich said that I never intended to appeal against the decision. I must put her right. I did intend to appeal, and if I temporarily made a slip at Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "fully under notice that that was the amount of money that it might have to provide and for which it should make provision. The hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich said that I never intended to appeal against the decision. I must put her right. I did intend to appeal, and if I temporarily made a slip at Question Time— [Interruption.] —and said that the matter was sub judice, it was sub judice to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "—and if the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich had taken the trouble to read the Official Report, she would have known what she was talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "—and if the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich had taken the trouble to read the Official Report, she would have known what she was talking about. [Interruption] In fact, the Government decided not to appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that it is uncommonly awkward to take the Committee stage of the London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill tomorrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "I ask the Leader of the House why he agrees to the Prevention of Terrorism Act being debated on Thursday when he knows that there is a one-line Whip and that many hon. Members will be absent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.949.7", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "I must declare an interest, because I drink water. I suspect that I share this interest with many right hon. and hon. Gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.949.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.953.4", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "rprised at the remarks of the hon. Gentleman. He cannot get away with it like that. I repeat that the Government have made up their minds and are taking no notice of these amendments, but I am going to have my say. The hon. Gentleman talked about democracy. That is a bit rich coming from the Government Benches. This Administration is in line with that of Adolf Hitler in 1933. It is a dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.953.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.953.4", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " the Government Benches. This Administration is in line with that of Adolf Hitler in 1933. It is a dictatorship. [Laughter.] It is all right for hon. Members to laugh. The right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East (Mr. Pym) made it clear during the election what would happen. He will be proved right. People will realise what is going on. 10.45 pm The new clause refers to health authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.953.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I never break the rules, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I respect the Chair. What the right hon. and learned Gentleman said is not respecting the Chair. He ought to know that much better than many of us because of the office he has held. I have criticised him for you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Minister is laughing. I will take the smile off his face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend puts his finger on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "The present situation is that the area health authority makes its representations, the regional health authority advises the water authority and the water authority fluoridates the water. It is on the request of the regional health authority, with the advice and support of the area health authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.959.4", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has asked me that question. Of a total of 148 parish councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-19", "file": "debates1985-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "579992a3a888100d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.994.8", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Makerfield (Mr. McGuire) was too experienced to put his name to that amendment. This measure makes respectable a vote on the issue of fluoridation. It is as though someone had said that if Crippen had been democratically elected and had convened a meeting of himself and his mistress at which one person voted for poisoning, he could not be taken to court. That is the principle", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-19a.994.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1020.7", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "When will the Government ratify the United Nations convention on the Decade for Women? Why have the Government not done so?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1020.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1030.4", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister inform the House whether, when the Prime Minister has discussions with the President of the United States, she will urge him to abandon his policy of destruction and destabilisation in Central America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1030.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Consideration of Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has reinforced my argument, but I was being terribly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1046.11", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Consideration of Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I was about to come to the point that the hon. Gentleman raises. It is said that there has not been sufficient time, that considerable discussion is needed and that we are proceeding with undue haste. I remind the House that we had a considerable debate on the Ways and Means resolution, when all this ground was covered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1046.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Consideration of Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "which will be debated later. They raise interesting new points to which I shall be glad to respond in due course. The fact that not all of her amendments were in order is not the fault of the procedure. I do not know what reasons Mr. Speaker would give for not selecting them. I am simply saying that it is not true to say that there was not time or opportunity for hon. Members to table amendments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Consideration of Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "y will always sit on the Government side of the House. If they do not protest now, it may be too late for them to start protesting when another Government propose to do the same. That Government may say that they regret it but that it is urgent business which has to be discussed. What will Conservative Members say then? They can hardly say that they protested at the appropriate time—namely, today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Consideration of Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says there may be something sinister about this. Does he think it is sinister that the Attorney-General is sitting on the Back Benches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Consideration of Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have a little note here. When the Attorney-General walked in I put down, \"Attorney-General. Prime Minister missing, on holiday.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Consideration of Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "of Britain, yet this is what the Government are up to. The breadth of the attack has not included the Social Democrats and the Liberals. They talk about freedom of information, being in favour of peace and other wonderfully abstract things, but when it comes down to the real nitty-gritty of fighting for parliamentary democracy, where are they? Not a single Social Democrat has spoken in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I see that the hon. Lady and I understand each other, on that point at least. The amendments are unnecessary. There is nothing in law to prevent the GLC from paying up on the day after Royal Assent, which may well he some time away. It does not need more time. The money could be paid by electronic transfer within a single day, or the GLC could write—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "Friday inclusive under the terms of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, it can be made immediately, on the same day. That is how the GLC has made payments to London Regional Transport during the past six months. If the due day is at the weekend, the GLC can discharge its liability to pay by dispatching a cheque on that day. The money would not necessarily have to be received on that day —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ve the issue in a way that is reasonable.\" What the right hon. Gentleman has done has been wholly unreasonable. Not only is the procedure unreasonable, but it is unconstitutional and unacceptable. Only because the Government, by our electoral system, have a majority in Parliament — though they have a gross minority of votes in the country—can they get a measure such as this on to the statute book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "uld accept that their party is in power on the basis of a minority of votes. I do not know whether the occupants of the official Opposition Front Bench were consulted through the usual channels about the business statement that was made last night. If they were—and I guess that they were—they must be considered to have been a party to today's exercise. I know that my colleagues were not consulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Bank Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "titutions have been established, and I congratulate those who showed initiative there, but if the hon. and learned Gentleman studies the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on the attempted takeover of the Royal Bank of Scotland he will appreciate the pressures facing the financial sector in Scotland. Many of his friends in the Conservative party in Scotland will tell him about their worries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Bank Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Having listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Dumfries, I believe that that is not an unreasonable inference. I have had experience of the Trustee Savings bank. I remember going as a schoolboy to my first secondary school in Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Bank Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I must express a degree of amazement—the hon. Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames) is doing his usual business of sitting in his seat and making some kind of intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Bank Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I must express a degree of amazement—the hon. Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames) is doing his usual business of sitting in his seat and making some kind of intervention— [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] No doubt he has once again dined too well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-20", "file": "debates1985-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "352fbbd3b36b8192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk Supplementary Levy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "arm gates and on retail rounds. That is the right way forward, rather than products being put into storage and intervention, finally to be sold to the Russians or others at knockdown prices. We must move forward in that area, and the whole House should support the Minister in these proposals. Indeed, because of his efforts in Brussels, many of the movements that I have described have been started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-20a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1203.4", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ers and the leadership of the NUM? Nevertheless, will the right hon. Gentleman understand that the mass of moderate miners throughout the country are deeply disturbed by the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that £4·5 billion, which the strike has cost, is a very good investment from the Government's view? The Prime Minister has talked about \"the enemy within\"—meaning the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1211.6", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I am sure that there is an innocent and constructive content in my hon. Friend's request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1211.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1212.5", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is a criticism of a Member of the other House. I think that the hon. Gentleman must withdraw those comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1212.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1216.4", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, I am asking about the making of a statement next week. Why is it that the Government are prepared to continue to talk at length about international debt with bankers from countries throughout the world? Why is it that they are prepared to argue about peace talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Limited List Prescribing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "sting for us? What proposals does he have to consult on including them in future? Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that the generics that are on the list, which are available only in proprietary form, are out of licence, so that other people can manufacture them? Otherwise, presumably they are still available only in proprietary form. Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether the policing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1230.2", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Skillcentres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quality.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Treasury has set for the Manpower Services Commission, involving the closure of six profitable centres in London, Gloucester, Bristol, Southampton and Medway? What kind of market economics is that? Does he accept that the Opposition welcome any proposal to increase training facilities, but we do not believe that the quantity of training should be increased and improved at the expense of quantity —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "o had an Adjournment debate on that topic. We currently have about 160 Jet Provosts in service but they have outdated avionics, high fuel consumption, side by side seating and a poor ratio of support man hours to flying hours. They would need major refurbishments to meet the pilot training need beyond the end of the decade, but I have to say that we have not yet ruled out the refurbishment option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1293.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-21", "file": "debates1985-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7fc7edd4a8987159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1304.4", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "vative Members. I understand their strength of feeling following Brighton, but I ask them to understand the strength of feeling which got me involved in the politics of Northern Ireland because of the violence and what it was doing to our democracy. If Conservative Members do not understand that, I am sorry. If they are now behaving in this way because of Brighton, whereas previously they did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-21a.1304.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And their rates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ell, then you are suddenly losing very large sums of money indeed\". The Audit Commission said that in Basildon there were opportunities to improve value for money locally, as there are in most authorities, but that the study showed that the council seemed to manage its basic services more effectively than the average. Some rate-capped authorities have increased expenditure faster than the average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.37.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "ow pay campaign, £25,000; employment and economic development activities, £10,000; video advice units, £25,000; and ethnic minority consultations, £10,000. Leicester City council does not even charge for the rent and provision of an office and free telephone to striking miners—striking miners who do not come from Leicestershire because 98 per cent. of Leicestershire miners have gone back to work —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "uate—and the council put forward the budget that it intends to propose on 7 March there would be a 40 per cent. cut in rates for the people of Islington. The Government refuse to discuss that figure because they know that the real cause of the problems of Islington, Haringey and all the other rate capped authorities is the Government's stealing of money from the poorest people in inner city areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "party to destroy local democracy, but I repeat that they have only succeeded in building up the most enormous opposition to their policies. On 7 March, when the budgets go through the local authorities that have been rate capped, they will put the seal on the alliance of local people, local authority workers and Labour councils in opposing the Government. They will also be joining with the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " of State towards local authorities. If for no other reason, these orders should be rejected because of the time that has been devoted to each authority. The whole exercise is being carried out with unbelievable haste and incompetence. Even Tory Members must be bemused. Can one imagine a Tory colonel returning to a constitutional club in Haringey, sitting down and saying, \"Good chap, this Jenkin\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " doubt that an authority's auditors would be seriously concerned by such a move and about the attitude to financial management that was being applied. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said, he would expect the district auditor to draw the amount of any deficit to the attention of the authority at the earliest possible stage so that it could take urgent action to put the matter right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "its. When a deficit appears, as it has done in the case of Haringey and Hackney, it must be recovered in the following year by a rate increase. If the district auditor came to believe that the build-up of a deficit had led to a loss and that that resulted from wilful misconduct, the loss would be surchargeable on the councillors responsible. Disqualification from office would follow automatically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.130.2", "colnum": "130", "heading": "European Court of Auditors", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "rt sums the matter up at the very beginning of its report when it says that the 1983 accounts do not adequately represent the real liabilities of the Community. The Minister cheerfully skipped over the fact that over £7 billion disappears from the accounts, partly through agricultural expenditure and partly through amounts raised for capital projects which get lost in the Commission's bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-25", "file": "debates1985-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "e4eb5c71d2ac35a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "European Court of Auditors", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "preceding_text": "her bodies in the member states have failed to provide any, reports and returns. That is absolute nonsense. The Council of Ministers will never agree as a whole because it represents individual national governments who are all trying to get action taken on their own behalf. The only supra-national body which can do that is the European Parliament and its independent powers need to be strengthened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-25a.136.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.160.7", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": " interest in modernising nuclear artillery. Specifically, the British, Germans and Italians are concerned that their modern FH70 Cannon under development will be nuclear-capable. Will the Minister put the House right on that point? Do we envisage the weapon having a nuclear role? Has it a nuclear capability, because that point is important to many Opposition Members? Secondly, in view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.161.7", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State take the opportunity at that meeting in March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.161.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "In accepting our congratulations on the outstanding success of her recent visit to America —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.168.5", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "—will my right hon. Friend confirm that she agrees with President Reagan that, for the European currencies to estabish a correct relationship with the dollar, it will be essential for the European countries to move towards American labour laws —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.168.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Prime Minister (Washington Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " order to catch up with the Soviet Union, to ensure that nuclear deterrence remains balanced, and to make absolutely certain that the Soviet Union does not leap ahead of us in research on anti-ballistic missile weapons when the United States is not doing any. Therefore, right from the start, I supported President Reagan's initiative on strategic defence. I supported research right from the start —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.180.7", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Prime Minister (Washington Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to take into account the fact that we have a heavy day ahead of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.185.6", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Prime Minister (Washington Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I repeat what the facts are, Mr. President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.185.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "at the addition of fluoride to the water supply is harmful to health he shall terminate any application made under section 1(1). I was advised a moment ago by Mr. Speaker and also by one of the learned Clerks, who was most helpful, that this new clause is defective in some way. I think that it is defective because the word \"terminate\" and the words \"Secretary of State\" appear in the same sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "ccepted that fluoride in the water supplies is a sensible, constructive measure. My dentist, among others, has convinced me of the evidence as to its benefits: he says it does no harm, and it is a powerful prophylactic against tooth decay, particularly in young children. Moreover, I have grown up with a prejudice against anti-fluoride campaigners, who have been widely regarded as rather eccentric.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "rough. That is one of the matters that worries me. I hope that the House will forgive me if I go at some speed because I realise that I have been speaking at great length and I do not wish to detain the House for a moment longer than necessary. Professor Mohammed of Missouri university has produced nine papers showing the mutagenic potential of one part per million that exists especially for mice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "and discovered that it contains no provision to enable him to cadge a lift. Why, therefore, should I address myself to his problems? The new clause is typically arrogant because those who sponsor it take the view that England and Wales are the only places on earth; it does not apply to Scotland and it is clear that the Minister does not understand the Scottish position. I will only say in closing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "n of human freedom that can be imagined, namely, that a poison should be put into the substance that everybody must drink. The new clause, and any other form of idiotic consultation, has no relevance to the choice of a person to drink water which has not been medicated for the purpose of halting somebody else's condition. The Minister mentioned AIDS. I do not know whether he has yet contracted it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-26", "file": "debates1985-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "e37d4bb4ad2ca28d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 1", "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": "s tonight concerns the borrowing limit placed upon British Shipbuilders. This is the statutory ceiling on the funds that British Shipbuilders may acquire from the Government or elsewhere — specifically public dividend capital, loans from the National Loans Fund and borrowings from the market. It does not apply to payments under the intervention fund or the shipbuilding redundancy payments scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-26a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "The question of Spanish practice in this connection will be resolved entirely when Spain comes into the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.332.6", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And points of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "No. This is a serious point. From time to time there are complaints and points of order from right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House about the length of time taken by supplementary questions to Ministers and their replies. I think you will agree that there needs to be a hurrying up of questions and answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.332.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ities. For a time, at any rate, those were the policies of the Labour party. It is true that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) was never a member of the Administration in which his right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) served as Chancellor, but it was the then Chancellor who wrote to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund in these terms —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "e to respond to the perfectly legitimate anxieties that were expressed by some of my hon. Friends. The answer I have given is that there will be no cost because the schemes might have dried up. It is because we accept the validity of the arguments presented to the Government that we have decided that it would be right in these circumstances to make an exception. Gross housing provision next year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " Government's position. I pay tribute to the hon. Members for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) and for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton). They are the only two Conservative Members out of 74 who signed the early-day motion who have been in the Chamber today and risen to their feet. They have made it clear that they will not support the Government. We shall be watching what the other 72 hon. Members do at 7 pm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": " to be wagged at the Opposition; besides which, it is my finger. Addressing his comrades at the Labour party conference of 1976, the former Prime Minister said: We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by boosting Government spending. That is what the Opposition are asking us to do now. The right hon. Gentleman continued: I tell you in all candour\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ng station. He has anything up to 16 sets of ballot papers; I hope that he will succeed in ringing the changes on them accurately. I say anything up to 16, but the Minister may say that there will be a computerised system which will ensure that he will be sent only the ballot papers for those particular constituencies from which electors are resident in that constituency where the polling station—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-27", "file": "debates1985-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "248e6f5337de6776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "us that the Government have responded so much to our amendments. I join the Secretary of State in the tribute that he has paid to the Under-Secretary for the way in which he has responded to our amendments. The efforts of my hon. Friends and myself have resulted in important and beneficial changes in what are the most fundamental laws in any democracy, the laws governing the conduct of elections.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-27a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.451.4", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I thank the Home Secretary for giving me advance notice of the announcement that he made today about the inquiry by Lord Bridge. That announcement and the letter that the Prime Minister has sent to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition are unclear, and, in so far as they are clear, are inadequate and unsatisfactory. First, is he aware that it does not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.451.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.451.6", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ot deal with the allegations of infiltration other than interception? Secondly, it does not deal with allegations of false classification of persons as being subversive. Thirdly, it does not deal with allegations that material obtained by MI5 has, against the principles of the Maxwell Fyfe directive, been used for party political purposes. Fourthly, it does not deal with unauthorised interception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.451.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.451.8", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall put one or two more questions to the Home Secretary —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Was that not a disgraceful question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Was that not a disgraceful question — [Interruption.] — a perfectly disgraceful question? How can the Home Secretary justify tapping the phone of an assistant to the leader of the Labour party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.464.7", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As you know, there is a great deal of pressure during Question Time. Today, the Home Secretary referred to the inquiry being carried out by Lord Bridge at the request of the Prime Minister. My point of order is simple and clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.464.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) was given a copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ct you to question No. 4 today, which was about police behaviour. The question was accepted by the Table Office and answered by the Minister. The hon. Member for Hampshire, East (Mr. Mates) asked a supplementary question. I simply ask you to make a judgment and to rule whether the question asked by the hon. Member for Hampshire, East was in order in so far as it did not relate to police behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ited States Congress, in which she expressed her eagerness for British participation in the star wars research programme, will the Leader of the House ensure a debate on the so-called strategic defence initiative as quickly as possible, since it appears that Britain will be dragged into it willy nilly, at least before the next general election, after which we shall put a stop to all that nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "ieve that that has happened. The Secretary of State perhaps can tell us—he must know. Will he tell us? I am not suggesting that Mr. Thatcher, if he chooses to continue with his private commercial life while he is the Prime Minister's husband, does not have the right to do so. There may be many justifications for his motivation. After all, he may be feeling insecure. The election is a long way off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "Caesar was heterosexual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State seems to be suggesting that I am querying the fact that the contract was given to IDC. I have never queried it in any way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.516.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.524.4", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "preceding_text": "ridge is still standing. The Conservative manifesto pledged to strengthen and repair the Severn bridge to meet the requirements of modern traffic. The Government are committed to that and stand ready to begin building a second crossing when that is necessary. They will adhere to their pledge. I am pleased to put certain statistics on the record about selective regional assistance. From July 1975 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-02-28", "file": "debates1985-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "568d1f7f8a3b6f4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": " and Scottish Members—are not in the Chamber and therefore cannot hear me. If they could hear me, they would be breathing down the back of his neck, and my right hon. Friend's Cabinet colleagues would be on top of him, too. I do not wish to inflict that on my right hon. Friend. He has enough problems, although not many from the Opposition. This is a great achievement, and it is set to accelerate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-02-28a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-01", "file": "debates1985-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "08cc79da20effaeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "I seem to recall about 15 years ago when computers were first coming in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-01", "file": "debates1985-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "08cc79da20effaeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "onflict between the first three judgements and the fourth. It may be necessary to extend benefits to families which are not 'poor' in order to minimise distortions in the supply of labour. In the end then, a trade-off has to be made. Basically, the rationale for subsidising the procreation of children has ended in the 1980s. Are the poor getting value for the money that is charged on their behalf?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-01", "file": "debates1985-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "08cc79da20effaeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " been crippled, women who had been at work and were getting maternity benefit, and so on. He also took it away from women who had lost their husbands. That earnings-related supplement was taken away by the Minister and his hon. Friends, yet he has the cheek to say that the Government are in business to help the low-paid and those who are on various social benefits. Who does he think he is kidding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-01", "file": "debates1985-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "08cc79da20effaeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "make them. Many of them are much brighter than we are at working out how the rules can be avoided. As my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton said, the system is against people in that position. It is our job to try to make things better. Equally, some of those people who are in work look enviously at those who are not in work and who do not want to find a job because they are better off on the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-01", "file": "debates1985-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "08cc79da20effaeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "s pocket money, or that that happens on any considerable scale, I do not know who he thinks he represents or what he is doing in the House of Commons. Certainly I do not think that mothers in his constituency will make the mistake of voting for him again when they hear that sort of nonsense from him. It is utterly disgraceful to suggest that child benefit is used on any scale for any such purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-01a.619.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that many general practitioners regard this Government as the most successful for a long time in the provision of health care?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.639.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that many general practitioners regard this Government as the most successful for a long time in the provision of health care? [Interruption.] This year £9 million is being allocated to major hospital developments. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has also taken an initiative with regard to renal dialysis in Bangor, Swansea and Carmarthen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.639.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "Is it not deplorable that the right hon. Members for Salford, East (Mr. Orme) and for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) have both refused to advance the proposition that today is the right day for wounds to be healed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"These are innocent men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "anagerial policy pursued by the board. Among those eight points is the NACODS agreement. TheNACODS agreement will therefore be considered, as envisaged in that document. As to the right hon. Gentleman's question about an amnesty, the matter will be dealt with by the board according to individual circumstances, irrespective of whether the courts have been involved. If someone has been found guilty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.660.4", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "As always with the management of any concern, the fact that a person has been acquitted of a particular offence is not a guarantee that he will continue in employment if, in the management's view, he has committed an act that is against the interests of the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.660.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "That sermon should be preached to the president of the National Union of Mineworkers. There is clear evidence that last March, had the terms available been put to the miners in a ballot, as they have always been put to the miners in a ballot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.675.3", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "f State is setting himself up as judge, jury and executioner—and that from a member of a party that calls itself the party of law and order. Those miners are guilty only of fighting for union policy. If the Government seriously want a workable arrangement between the union and the NCB, which I seriously doubt, there should be a debate tomorrow to allow the Government to announce a general amnesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.675.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ecreasing overall economic activity, will impose additional burdens on the public expenditure budget. The most eloquent example of that is to be found in the coal dispute, which I hope ended today. That dispute, on an honest calculation, has already cost the country £3·5 billion. The Government spent that money to ensure that they had the freedom to destroy jobs in the coal mining industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I give the hon. Gentleman three immediate answers. Had we applied—as we would have done had we been the Government—proper procedures over pit closures, there would have been no Cortonwood and no dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": " kindness was typical of Sir Anthony. It is a stunning paradox that such a kind, courteous and gentle man should lose his life at the hands of men of violence. I know that the whole House joins me in remembering Sir Anthony, deploring his death and grieving for him. I am sure that all hon. Members also join me in paying tribute to Lady Berry, who has borne her bereavement with dignity and courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-04", "file": "debates1985-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a129b06baa23a786", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "employers will contract back into the state scheme, more and more employees will be dependent when they retire on the state pension and more and more people will need supplementary benefit. There is a huge contingent liability for the future generation of taxpayers. I shall not rehearse the Opposition's deplorable financial history when they looked after our finances. Let us not make party points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-04a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.761.6", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that we do insist? It is unacceptable that hon. Members cannot seek information from Ministers on unemployment statistics. We can see that only as a cover up for embarrassing information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.761.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that unemployment rose sharply. His hon. Friend the Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) has challenged us for failing to take instant action to correct it. He knows that fewer people are employed under Socialist Governments in Italy and France at present than there were four years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "or millions of families who live in despair and demoralisation, and with very little hope? Does he realise that it is an enormous waste for the economy? These people would like to work and support their families and make a contribution to the economy. Will he confess that this figure is an admission of the failure of the Government's economic policies? In 1979, when the Tory Government took power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend-take time today to condemn the scurrilous contents of the full page advertisement in The Times, which was inserted by the drug companies? Is it not disgraceful that those with a vested interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Transport Bill (Committee Proceedings)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "ch is currently in Committee. This matter is specific because the Transport Committee report, from an all-party Committee, clearly damns the legislation. It talks about dangers to safety standards, where there will undoubtedly be a need for a considerable increase in already inadequate resources. It points out that concessionary fare passes are unlikely to be feasible under unfettered competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Interception of Communications Bill (Bridge Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "rely you will agree that it makes a mockery of our procedure and of the debate that is due to take place tomorrow. Therefore, as we have tried the Leader of the House and all possible channels, in the last resort we appeal to you, because you are there, as you have reminded us, to protect our rights. Our rights are being abused, and it would be completely wrong for the Bill to be debated tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Interception of Communications Bill (Bridge Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Once again I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) for his concern for my position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food and Environment Protection Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "If there is anything I can do to discomfort the idiocy of the Liberals and upset them I shall do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food and Environment Protection Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Food what those expenses might be. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary hinted that there would be income from fees. We need to know at what level the fees will be set in secondary legislation. It will be important for those who will be affected by the Bill — manufacturers of pesticides and those who might apply to benefit from the legislation and who would have to pay money to the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food and Environment Protection Bill [Lords] [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult for me if the hon. Gentleman keeps up a running commentary. I am trying to make a short intervention. If the licensing authority wanted to charge a fee for the clearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "etermination of those who are skilled in these sciences as to exactly what the position is. We have heard something of considerable importance from this article, that there is a woman chemist in the DHSS who apparently is an expert on enzymes of this type and who would be able to give effective evidence to my right hon. and hon. Friends at the DHSS. This surely would be of considerable importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, like myself, is a human being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "e are discussing an amendment that enables hon. Members to debate such an important issue, a Government Whip—my hon. Friend the Member for Watford (Mr. Garel-Jones)—should write a letter to a Miss Mellor saying: This is just to let you know that I have added my name to the early-day motion opposing artificial fluoridation of the public water supply.\"? Is my hon. Friend the Member for Watford here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "nables hon. Members to debate such an important issue, a Government Whip—my hon. Friend the Member for Watford (Mr. Garel-Jones)—should write a letter to a Miss Mellor saying: This is just to let you know that I have added my name to the early-day motion opposing artificial fluoridation of the public water supply.\"? Is my hon. Friend the Member for Watford here? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Where is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.910.3", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I feel that you are being a little unjust to me, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.946.4", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "It may be in the dictionary. No wonder the law of England is in such disrepute. Even its seniors cannot understand the English language, nor, so far as I can make out, can they consult relevant dictionaries. \"Filibuster\" has a simple meaning. It comes from the Greek for \"I love\" and \"buster\" meaning Buster Edwards, one of the great train robbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.946.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ultery case if a woman claims that she is a virgin and half the obstetricians say that she is, and half say that she is not. The judge must decide whose evidence he accepts. I had a case in which half of Harley street said that a woman was a new tyre which had never been on the road, and another lot said that her tread had vanished and that she was contrary to the construction and use regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "fe. Reference to that was made in Committee and it was cited earlier in this stage of the Bill, so I will not weary the House with it, except to quote this short passage from the report about frogs: The embryonic development of their eggs is delayed when they are submitted to a concentration of 1 part per million of fluorides. Similar effects are observed in tadpoles. Lava of the frog are exposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "e who consider that the flora and fauna of the United Kingdom are important. There is the additional fact that if it poisons the water for the flora and fauna, it also poisons the food chain which is grown in a natural form. The report goes on: The eggs of trout do not hatch when they are exposed to concentrations of 1·5 parts per million of fluorides. Again, some may consider that amusing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for that assistance. Let me repeat the figures again, because they are important. There was an 8·2-fold increase in cancer deaths in Birmingham —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for that assistance. Let me repeat the figures again, because they are important. There was an 8·2-fold increase in cancer deaths in Birmingham — [Interruption.] — as against only a 1·5-fold increase —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "eful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for that assistance. Let me repeat the figures again, because they are important. There was an 8·2-fold increase in cancer deaths in Birmingham — [Interruption.] — as against only a 1·5-fold increase — [Interruption.] — in non-fluoridated Manchester's cancer death rate, although before the fluoridation was begun in Birmingham, Manchester's death rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire, South (Mrs. Currie) will allow me to do so by remaining quiet for a moment, I can relay what she is saying. While I was describing to the House that, according to the Burk and Yiamouyiannis study, there had been an 8·2-fold increase in Birmingham at the same time as there had been a 1·5-fold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "s saying. While I was describing to the House that, according to the Burk and Yiamouyiannis study, there had been an 8·2-fold increase in Birmingham at the same time as there had been a 1·5-fold— [Interruption.] —increase over the same period in Manchester, although the cancer death rate had been higher there before fluoridation begin, my hon. Friend was saying that that was nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "—or if she listens, not bother to take them in, or if she does bother to take them in, try to laugh them away by saying that the people in Manchester all moved to Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "—or if she listens, not bother to take them in, or if she does bother to take them in, try to laugh them away by saying that the people in Manchester all moved to Birmingham— [Interruption.] —and took with them their cancer death rate, and that that is the reason why the rate has risen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1002.8", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Idiots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "is to mutter, not to listen, to pour scorn and, when invited to give a response, to fail to do so. That, I am afraid, sums up, does it not, the whole picture of this fluoridation debate? To begin with, the pro-fluoridation lobby says that no one in their right mind can be against fluoridation. It then says that in so far as there is anyone against fluoridation they are lunatics, nuts, cranks and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1002.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1002.8", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Idiots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": " far as it inhibits the enzymes, in particular, the repair enzymes, there is an explanation as to how it happens. In so far as there is now evidence about hydrogen bonding which works in live yeast cells, that is positive evidence that fluoride is dangerous, as it has never been known to be before in live cells. All that evidence is rubbish. It is all adduced by charlatans, knaves, idiots, cranks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1002.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "d, which is an area I certainly want to include in my remarks about the manpower and financial implications of the Bill. The point that he makes about social security is interesting, although I am not sure what impact fluoridation would have on the social security costs of the Anglian water authority. I suspect that it would be minor. I shall now deal briefly with the Severn-Trent water authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1046.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1070.7", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "Oh No, Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1070.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1074.6", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No. However, there is a Third Reading debate. All that is in the Bill may then be discussed, as is normal on a Third Reading debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1074.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1074.7", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "s not the mover of an amendment who acknowledges a slight blemish, but the Minister who points it out. I have read the Standing Orders and Erskine May very carefully. I consulted a previous Speaker on this. Nowhere in the Standing Orders is it laid down that an hon. Member speaking in the House of Commons must know what he or she is talking about. If there were such a rule, there would be silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1074.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1076.7", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher) but, as I said, it is POF 3 and PF 5 . The report says that that acid and also the esters of H 2 PO 3 F, the fluorophosphonates, may be prepared by the action of the silver salt on an ester. The report says exactly what we are saying—that those substances are extremely poisonous and volatile and act by inhibiting the enzyme cholinesterase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1076.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1077.2", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about thalidomide?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "s added to water, it can be guaranteed. I cannot guarantee that if I gave an hon. Gentleman an injection of penicillin that that would not cause problems, too. If I recommended two or even one aspirin tablets, I could not guarantee that it would not cause the slightest ill effect. All the evidence shows that no ill-effects or any consequences will arise from using fluoride at one part per million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1077.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman tries to intervene again, I am trying to answer his first question. We have built adequate safeguards into the Bill. We have listed those substances that can be added. Clause 2(1) contains sufficient safeguards.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I think that I covered part of that point. I say with humility that I do not need lessons from him as to my attitude to working people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "g classes—as Labour Members care to despise them—should be regarded as incapable of looking after themselves. That is the message I have received over the years in the House. Labour Members, far from realistically and honourably believing in human beings, do not even trust them. They do not like them. They do not think that they can even brush their teeth and they want the water to do it for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ys are not capable of looking after their teeth, and never for even worse reasons such as to keep people in the manner that those of his mind think they should be kept. For reasons of principle, I object to the Bill. For reasons of principle, I object to the concept. Nothing has convinced me more than the condescending, Socialist, idiotic arguments that I have heard from the tube station opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "that one was going to be completely smothered by his oratory. Nevertheless, it was a great performance. We also enjoyed—this is rather a \"station occasion\" today—the speech of the hon. and learned Member for \"King's Cross for Perth\" who introduced a number of excellent shafts of humour into the debate at all hours of the day and night. On behalf of all the water undertakers, one of the most vital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-05", "file": "debates1985-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "80c2d77fd48ff322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "than drive home to the Government our great fear of the possible result of the legislation. The Bill will be damaging because we are indulging in mass medication. It will be damaging to the Conservative party. It will be as though a nanny state is forcing medication down the throats of children. The messages from the Opposition, especially the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-05a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The answer to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is that it was introduced because the Public Accounts Committee suggested that we should get ahead, and it is always right to take the advice of that Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The House will doubtless be discussing the EEC decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " not convince even her own hon. Friends. Her hon. Friends on the Treasury Select Committee reporting today said that the Government's attitude exacerbated the problems of the pound. The Tory Reform Group today said: Under the Prime Minister's policies we are not eating the seed corn, we are burning it. Will the right hon. Lady take the advice of the Tory Reform Group and ourselves and many others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "g today said that the Government's attitude exacerbated the problems of the pound. The Tory Reform Group today said: Under the Prime Minister's policies we are not eating the seed corn, we are burning it. Will the right hon. Lady take the advice of the Tory Reform Group and ourselves and many others? [Interruption.] I know that the Tory party is split, and it is demonstrating it very conclusively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.4", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Perhaps right hon. and hon. Gentlemen would like to take up these claims with the chairman of the Tory Reform Group —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "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 question, but I noticed that he disagreed with his right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), a former Chancellor of the Exchequer. That means that he disagrees with the message. I am surprised about that, because the message was clear—higher productivity, better design, more vigorous salesmanship, more reliable delivery and services. The speed at which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r—higher productivity, better design, more vigorous salesmanship, more reliable delivery and services. The speed at which— [Interruption.] It is no good the Opposition yowling at something they do not like. The speed at which we achieve those objectives will decide the speed at which we get unemployment down. With regard to the Treasury Select Committee, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members are —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Rates (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "at system and support it. The hon. Gentleman said that I had suggested that an increase of 17 per cent. was not steep. That is not the case. I consider that it is a very steep increase. The increases that have been responsible for revaluation in Scotland still amount to about 12 per cent. The rest is due to overspending by local authorities which have refused to bring their spending under control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Rates (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the further increase in domestic rate relief will be welcomed warmly by Conservative Members and by those who pay rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-07", "file": "debates1985-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2e0a137e5be80ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "Supplementary Estimate of £1,000. The fact that has been included shows that we have open government in Northern Ireland. If it had not been included, hon. Members would not be able to debate the items. Perhaps hon. Members may not wish to debate them — Ministers do not wish to. We have included these items as a service to the public and to open government, and so that hon. Members can rise to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-07a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.3.1", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Would the Secretary of State care to arrange an urgent examination of the happenings this morning at the Comrie colliery, Fife, where, contrary to what he said, the management, in a vindictive, boneheaded and stupid fashion, locked the men out? These were men who wanted to go to their work. They were locked out", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.3.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.20.3", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is very experienced. Will he please withdraw the word \"lying\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.20.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.24.8", "colnum": "24", "heading": "National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "When this matter was discussed in Cabinet and it was argued that £19 million should be obtained from increasing prescription charges by a colossal amount—an increase which is five times the general level of inflation—did the right hon. Gentleman tell the Prime Minister and other Cabinet Members that the increase was tiny compared with the amount spent on Trident —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.24.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.29.6", "colnum": "29", "heading": "National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see my neighbour from Birmingham quoting the Daily Mail. If the Daily Mail said what the hon. Gentleman claims, it is an inaccurate report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.29.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.29.6", "colnum": "29", "heading": "National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see my neighbour from Birmingham quoting the Daily Mail. If the Daily Mail said what the hon. Gentleman claims, it is an inaccurate report. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Even the Daily Mail makes mistakes at times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.29.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pink.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I notice that the hon. Lady is today dressed in red—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "oyment doubled, yet the hon. Gentleman spoke as though there was an easy and facile answer. As I listened to him, I wondered whether he had voted for the motion at last year's Labour party conference—which in the end was defeated by the block vote system—which deplored mass unemployment and said that the answer was a 35-hour week, six weeks annual holiday for all workers, retirement at 60 for all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can intervene when I finish this part of my speech. I wondered whether that was what all Labour Members believed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I am not the only hon. Member to be deeply shocked by the revelation that so thin and shallow is democracy in the Labour party that Labour Members are not allowed a vote at their own party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State realise that it is offensive to the House for him to be so flippant and to spend his time on a knock-about attack on the Labour party conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.45.4", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "alls on unions to launch massive recruitment campaigns of YTS trainees to fight for full trade union control, union rates of pay, health and safety protection, —which they already have— five weeks paid holiday and 35 hour week. Does anyone seriously think that those changes are the highest priority for a youth training programme? It is vitally important that we build up the training content of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.45.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "efer not to do from political platforms, that our privatisation programme has been widely welcomed. We have just had excellent news from China concerning Cable and Wireless, whose chairman said that new vigour and vitality has flowed through that organisation since it entered the private sector, which I hope will be accepted by all hon. Members. We have not only had an improvement in the economy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": " far. My right hon. Friend said that the Government intended to spend even more on training. But, again, why not, as we are doing, move that towards the private sector, which is more reflective of the need and is more flexible? I fully support my right hon. Friend's proposed move in that direction. Another form of training which I should like to see is a move towards a national community service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "t intended to spend even more on training. But, again, why not, as we are doing, move that towards the private sector, which is more reflective of the need and is more flexible? I fully support my right hon. Friend's proposed move in that direction. Another form of training which I should like to see is a move towards a national community service — [Interruption.]/ — in the youth training scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "gdon (Mr. Major), to laugh. I want him to listen. Conservative Members talk about the creation of wealth. I have worked since I was 14. I have made my contribution to the creation of wealth, but I have not had a fair return for that contribution. A few people have benefited from my work and that of millions of other workers in Britain. There are one or two millionaires on the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": " few people have benefited from my work and that of millions of other workers in Britain. There are one or two millionaires on the Conservative Benches. [Interruption.] There are no millionaires on the Labour Benches; they are all on the other side of the House. They have raked in their profits from big business and from the efforts of the workers of this nation. I happen to have been one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "thampton, North (Mr. Marlow), who suggested that the Prime Minister was wrong in saying that there was no alternative. There is an alternative, and it is set out in the motion in the name of the Labour party, which deals with employment and industry generally. There have been one or two suggestions from the Conservative Benches about privatisation. In the past, privatisation has failed the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "sses has been the mining industry — apart from the past 12 months, with all the problems. The nationalised mining industry has been a real asset to industry and to the nation's economy as a whole. I worked in it for 35 years before I came to this House, so I know what I am talking about. When Conservative Members say that the workers of this nation are not prepared to accept change, that is a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "he cream before nationalisation, and all the good seams and all the good coal, leaving the rubbish for us to fight a war on. Following nationalisation, we in the mining industry accepted that a change had to take place. Conservative Members laugh, but they do not know what work is. They have never worked in industry. That is their problem. Half of them were born with silver spoons in their mouths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East talked about training, as did my right hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell) and others. No Government have spent more money than we have on training. It is known that my right hon. Friend and other Ministers are considering the future of Government training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.109.5", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " Monklands, East constantly congratulates himself on the part that was played by the last Labour Government in developing the North sea, but he ignores the part that was played by private enterprise. His comments about using the revenues of North sea oil for restructuring and aiding industry were silly. He likes to say that the revenues of North sea oil have been used to pay unemployment benefit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.109.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.109.12", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, West (Mr. Randall) keeps rising, but he can see that the Minister will not give way. He should not persist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.109.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "That was well recognised by the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), who said: The only answer to the economic problems\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-11", "file": "debates1985-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2624140788cc1fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "cannot bear to hear the statement of the right hon. Member for Leeds, East. He said: The only answer to the economic problems which have dogged Britain since the war is to improve the performance of our manufacturing industry. That means higher productivity, better design, more vigorous salesmanship, more reliable delivery and servicing. That means good management, good relations and co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-11a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "e for dealing with the matter. It is the task of the director-general to support and guide the staff of the service in carrying out their functions. As it happens, I have taken a personal interest in this matter and I have made it clear that I would encourage anyone in the security service who is concerned about any aspect of his work to take up the matter with senior management in the proper way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Yes, I wrote it beforehand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.181.3", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Isle of Man\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e are those who indulge in financial deals across the exchanges who do more harm to this country than many people who call themselves subversives. The Bill refers to deals outside this country, and that concerns me because I do not understand what it means. Does it mean that if a firm in this country has headquarters in New York, it is all right to try to find out what is going on in that company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "r of the public who is aware of an infringement. That is common sense. Fifthly, Justice suggests that mistaken material should be destroyed. I agree with that. Public confidence will be most important in the operation of the law. If there is some doubt about whether lawyers ought to be chosen by the Government, the lawyers could be chosen by the senate of the Inns of Court, or by the Law Society —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "It is not my job tonight to say whether the allegations in the programme were correct —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for intervening. I had to leave the Chamber while he was speaking, and I obviously misread the notes given to me. I would not have made that allegation if I had understood the way in which he put the matter. I shall read carefully in Hansard tomorrow what the hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "e criteria? He cannot have done so if he has not observed the criteria. I was asked about compensation for those who were found to be the subject of phone tapping that had not been properly authorised. It was said that we had not dealt with article 13 of the convention, which demands that there should be redress when the convention is violated. We have met article 13 by providing for compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-12", "file": "debates1985-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0eacf8ee66e63de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immobilisation of Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "preceding_text": " would be one of the most effective deterrents to illegal parking in the centre of the capital. I recall that the hon. Member for Portsmouth, North (Mr. Griffiths), who frequently tilts at conventional windmills, disapproved of the idea and voted against it. If he has an opportunity to speak in this debate, he may say that he intends to oppose it tonight. For my part, and that of my hon. Friends —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-12a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "In view of the widespread concern expressed about commercial rates in the Borders, and the concern about domestic rates, as expressed by my father in Glasgow recently, will my hon. Friend take the lead in rating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.293.9", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take a little trip to Inchinnan and speak to the former Conservative group leader of Paisley town council, one Mr. James Neal.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.293.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.293.10", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is that in the Borders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.293.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take a little trip to Inchinnan and speak to the former Conservative group leader of Paisley town council, one Mr. James Neal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is that in the Borders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "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": "Yes, indeed. A considerable number of police officers in Scotland were injured during the course of that unhappy industrial action. The offences have not been trivial. For instance, an iron bar was thrown through the window of a three-year-old child's bedroom and landed on the bed. Such matters are not to be swept aside and forgotten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies will have noticed the increasing number of English Members who have come to Scottish questions recently —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "British National Oil Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I think that the Minister might not take too much notice of the right hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell), who was a well-known failure as Secretary of State for Energy. Apparently, from what I have hard, the truth is foreign to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Privilege (Newspaper Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "e of Privileges. That Committee used the blunderbuss of seeking to ban the journalist in question. I urge the hon. and learned Member for Fylde (Sir E. Gardner) to bear that in mind before pursuing the matter further. My hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) was right to say that the House will find itself going after the journalist in question, and nobody else —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Privilege (Newspaper Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, because I am anxious not to delay the House. If the motion is approved, the result could be to pillory a journalist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Privilege (Newspaper Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "This matter should, without doubt, be referred to the Committee of Privileges—in regard not to a newspaper, but to an hon. Member. The motion does not refer to an hon. Member. My right hon. Friend the Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot) said that the House could divide on the motion. In doing so, it would be dividing against your judgment, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Privilege (Newspaper Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I made my remarks advisedly, because the difference between this application and others is that you have given it precedence. Therefore, you are expressing the view that the matter should be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Privilege (Newspaper Report)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "y the Committee. It was not a draft that had been prepared by the Clerk to the Committee without there having been political discussion. I thought that the hon. Gentleman might like to know that, as he rested much of his argument on the need to protect Clerks to the Committee because of the assumption that they had prepared a draft. That is not the case here. It was not me who leaked the document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "by 1984 there were 2,300 local authority, 3,430 public sector and 6,220 private sector new building starts in London — a total of 9,650. That makes London the worst housed city in Britain and possibly one of the worst in Europe. We should examine other grim statistics. In 1984, a horrifying 2,090 people were in bed and breakfast accommodation and 3,470 people were in other temporary accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "A great many hon. Members have argued for more capital spending, but they have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "A great many hon. Members have argued for more capital spending, but they have not—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] I shall not give way to the right hon. Gentleman again. He has not been present during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.5", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "to the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent—of the Government's willingness to divert resources to capital schemes whenever room for such a shift is created, it is necessary to look no further than Wales. As a result of the generally responsible and moderate spending policies of most Welsh local authorities, growth in current spending in Wales since 1979 has been well below half of that in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-13", "file": "debates1985-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c527c6bc8c82a987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.5", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " a shift is created, it is necessary to look no further than Wales. As a result of the generally responsible and moderate spending policies of most Welsh local authorities, growth in current spending in Wales since 1979 has been well below half of that in England. [Interruption.] That better performance has allowed us to release resources for capital purposes in each recent year while maintaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-13a.400.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-14", "file": "debates1985-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "eabce8d44ce73175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "g yet another White Paper undertaking yet another inquiry is no answer for the old who are frightened, for parents who are anxious and for young people who have to grow up in this society? With those considerations in mind, will the Prime Minister engage in activities to get at the root causes of these problems so that we can arrive at the right cures to them? I assure her that if she undertakes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.431.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-14", "file": "debates1985-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "eabce8d44ce73175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-14", "file": "debates1985-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "eabce8d44ce73175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "With regard to Monday's limited list debate, is the Leader of the House aware that in evidence to the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments on Tuesday this week an official of the Department of Health and Social Security openly admitted that the Scottish list was completely inadequate because it had been drawn up in a hurry? That being the case, does the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-14", "file": "debates1985-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "eabce8d44ce73175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": ". If we want to get away from the arguments about sovereignty, we must look to mutual interest. There are immense resources of minerals in Antarctica. At present prices they may be uneconomic to mine, but that will not always be so. As Arab supplies of oil and European supplies of coal are worked out—as one day they will be — the economic viability of harvesting Antarctica will become more real. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-14a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-15", "file": "debates1985-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "235b353c7e9aa41f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "West Midlands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "7;5 per cent. increase over the previous year. There is more good news to be culled from the same work. The final paragraph on page 61 reads: One aspect of the labour market which did show a substantial improvement in 1984 was redundancies, with a reduction of 31 per cent. compared with 1983. Notifications so far received indicate a further reduction in 1985, although probably only a marginal one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-15", "file": "debates1985-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "235b353c7e9aa41f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "West Midlands", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "tively sponsored the setting up of the West Midlands industrial development agency, which has an important role to play in these matters. Several Labour Members have defended the West Midlands county council. I remind them that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), an Opposition Front Bench environment spokesman, said that he would not lift one finger to save the county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-15", "file": "debates1985-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "235b353c7e9aa41f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "West Midlands", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": " under the Housing Defects Act for additional allocations towards the cost of repurchasing or reinstatement grants.\"—[ 0fficial Report, 13 March 1985; Vol. 75, c. 348.] That point was aimed specifically at the houses that have been designated by the Secretary of State rather than the houses under any local scheme. If Birmingham has houses that are already designated, that might offer some comfort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.603.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-15", "file": "debates1985-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "235b353c7e9aa41f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.605.4", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE ELDERLY IN HOME OWNERSHIP BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday 22 March.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-15a.605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I would not wish to launch into such an attack upon the rights of local authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Mr. Silkin) published the last White Paper on that subject. This package will not achieve any radical change. Inasmuch as the Minister says that he is prepared to fight for effective controls on production while defending the special British interests, we support him. However, his performance in opening the debate did not inspire great confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "the terminal voyage of the Belgrano, with exactly the same smokescreen of innuendoes and misinformation. In 1980, the then Minister for Health said that he was not yet persuaded that a limited list would of itself produce lasting economies in the cost of the NHS or necessarily be in the best interests of patients. That is not all. As late as 22 November 1983, the present Minister for Health said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " those central points. How could he do so when not even his own officials believe him? In trying to defend the indefensible, Ministers have given three main reasons for standing on their heads, each of which is specious. First, they say that a fuller study of the health system in other countries has convinced them that financial savings of the order indicated by the Secretary of State can be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ons are issued per head of population each year. The equivalent figures are 11·2 for Germany, 10 for France and only 6·9 for the United Kingdom. There is therefore no justification for introducing this scheme from that quarter. Thirdly, Ministers fall back on the £75 million savings to explain the exercise. I must tell them that analysts in the industry think that it could turn out —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "try say that savings are much more likely to be about £20 million to £35 million—so low that presumably even the Secretary of State would not claim that it warranted blacklisting 1,800 drugs. I hope that the Secretary of State will read the DHSS document. I shall be glad to make a copy of his own document available to him. It suggests that the industry is probably right. This is my last quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ers of the Labour party screaming for more and more money to be spent on the National Health Service, for when we seek to make savings they fight us all the way along the line. The waste of expenditure on drugs in the NHS is a national disgrace. There are hundreds of thousands of medicine cupboards in ordinary homes throughout the country that are jammed with NHS medicines that have not been used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": " or eight types of pill that they have to take, always return to the pharmacist and ask for the whole lot to be prescribed, whether they need them all or not. That is something that will always happen. It is largely due to the confusion that people feel when they are taking so many different drugs. My mother had to take about seven different kinds of pills, and then she developed a duodenal ulcer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "t one region alone the cost was £170,000. We cannot go on wasting money at that rate. It is ridiculous. My right hon. Friend and the Government have had six charges levelled against them in relation to the proposed regulations. The first is that the money saved may not be used on the NHS. My right hon. Friend exploded that allegation at once. The money that is saved will indeed be used on the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "No, because I want to finish my speech. The third charge is that the Government have refused and still refuse to consult. No one can accuse my right hon. Friend of that. There have been offers of consultation and there have been consultations. His door has been open, and time and again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "e list will help, not harm, pharmaceutical companies. The fifth charge is that this is a new, revolutionary and unique attack on the freedom to prescribe. I am sorry that Labour Members are so ignorant about this matter. They should know that nowhere in the world can doctors prescribe anything that they wish for their patients at taxpayers' expense. Hospital doctors have had similar restrictions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "abour Members are so ignorant about this matter. They should know that nowhere in the world can doctors prescribe anything that they wish for their patients at taxpayers' expense. Hospital doctors have had similar restrictions — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] If Labour Members go on like that, I shall read on for a great deal longer, and they will be sorry. The restrictions that have always obtained —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "—but at best many thousands will have to move from a settled regime into an unsettled one. Others, whether my right hon. Friend likes it or not, will be forced to buy, so for the first time we shall have, even if in a modest manner, a two-tier Health Service. When 10,000 people in Northampton, with no instigation from me, sign a community health council petition complaining about the regulations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-18", "file": "debates1985-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "66add600ea7e8655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": " list will make a substantial contribution to saving, it is not the end of the story. There will be need to direct our attention again to the prescribing habits in the primary sector. To that end I would encourage my right hon. and learned Friend to think next time by way of incentives to the doctors to co-operate — perhaps financial incentives, because most people respond to financial incentives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-18a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that teachers' pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the National Union of Teachers is seeking to prove that might is right because it is the biggest teaching union, that it has divided the teaching unions, and that the other teaching unions disagree with it fundamentally and are prepared to conciliate, arbitrate and negotiate to solve the problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.766.5", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "May I remind the Secretary of State that he is actually responsible for running education in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.766.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the review is to examine the matter that I have described. We shall go through the whole process of receiving the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.774.12", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister share the view of The Times that the Foreign Secretary's speech on the American star wars programme was muddled, mealy-mouthed and damaging to the Alliance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.774.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.777.6", "colnum": "777", "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 alleged north-south divide may I point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.777.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.777.6", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to the alleged north-south divide may I point out— [Interruption.] It is not right to talk of a straightforward divide between north and south. Parts of the north are very prosperous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.777.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Budget", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Three months later.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": ", or about the taxation of pensions, or the need to have more public investment in jobs instead of giving tax handouts to the rich. What most of us do at present is photocopy the letter and send it across to the mandarins in the Treasury with a letter of support from ourselves, perhaps. Some bureaucrat at the Treasury just presses a key on the word processor and we get back a three-sentence reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.779.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Budget", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": " inflation if we reduced all economic activity to zero. That is the economics of the graveyard and that is the direction in which this Chancellor is leading us. He is making Britain into an industrial and economic graveyard. If we are looking around for uneconomic units, he is the most uneconomic unit in this country. He should therefore be made redundant, and my Bill will make provision for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.779.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.780.2", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Budget", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Budget", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, I wish to oppose it, first because it is a quite unjustified misuse of the practice of the House and, secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-19", "file": "debates1985-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b30e63ccb479d21b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Budget", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ", including VAT, will put between 1p and 2p a pint on most beer, depending on its strength, 1p a pint on cider, 6p on a bottle of table wine and about 10p a bottle on sparkling or fortified wine. In recognition of the current difficulties of the Scotch whisky industry, however, I propose to increase the duty on spirits by only 10p a bottle, well below the amount needed to keep pace with inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-19a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.862.6", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "If the food programme were expanded to absorb all the food surpluses available throughout the Community, that would involve disposing of that food at a much lower price, if not at a zero price, and the cost of so doing would exceed substantially that of which my hon. Friend already complains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.862.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "In his new year's day message to the City and the world, the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised Britain a Budget for jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "nly the most gullible of his supporters would believe that the Chancellor had kept that promise. When next year the Chancellor or his successor introduces the Budget for 1986, unemployment will be no less than it is today. Indeed, the probability is that it will continue to rise throughout the next 12 months. Yet, had he chosen to do so, the Chancellor could have begun to put Britain back to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Workers' councils?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "If the two-year rule is introduced, it will be abolition in everything other than name. If the right hon. Gentleman does not understand that, he does not understand the workings of the legislation over which he is supposed to preside. That rule, that new change and the abolition of the workers' councils—or rather the wages councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "y carried out in the United States, has been included in the Government's estimate to pad out the figure. The right hon. Gentleman did, however, answer a question about the cost of the miners' strike, saying: What I actually said on 31 July was that the cost of resisting the strike was a worthwhile investment. The Chancellor seeks to re-write both Hansard and history. That is what he meant to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.878.5", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "t is that they have made home ownership so difficult, especially for those seeking new mortgages. As for tax privileges, I believe that 14 of them are listed in the latest publication of the Institute of Fiscal Studies. These are tax privileges that are available to the very rich with expensive accountants and they are a scandal when set against the payments that they receive. No one wants to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.878.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "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": "The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) has opened the debate with a characteristic and almost endearing combination of irrelevance and bombast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is so stung by what I have said, I will check the record. I shall check Hansard and if I am proved to be wrong I shall be delighted to withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, what is important, and this is the point that I am making, is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "MBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I am not exactly certain what I am supposed to withdraw. If the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook assures the House that at no time was it in his contemplation that the Labour party would take back into public ownership council houses, I am very happy to accept that assurance. All I am saying is that the right hon. Gentleman obviously has developed his thinking on this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "lation that the Labour party would take back into public ownership council houses, I am very happy to accept that assurance. All I am saying is that the right hon. Gentleman obviously has developed his thinking on this question. [Interruption.] I have said that I am very happy to accept reassurance from the right hon. Gentleman. I have made my position absolutely clear. If the right hon.Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.880.6", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I think that we are getting a little far from the debate on my right hon. Friend's Budget statement. I am not certain what I am asked to withdraw, quite honestly. Let me move on to the next point. The right hon. Gentleman also asserted that in principle we all believe in tax cuts. The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.880.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.880.6", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "etting a little far from the debate on my right hon. Friend's Budget statement. I am not certain what I am asked to withdraw, quite honestly. Let me move on to the next point. The right hon. Gentleman also asserted that in principle we all believe in tax cuts. The right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—in case the House did not hear, asserted that in principle we all believe in tax cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.880.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "age what I am expected to withdraw. I am very happy to withdraw on the reassurance of the right hon. Gentleman that it is not part of the policies of the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends to take back council houses into public ownership. If I may say so, this is not relevant to the debate on which we are embarked. The other point that the right hon. Gentleman made was that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.881.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the House to let the Chief Secretary continue. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Order. I distinctly heard the right hon. and learned Gentleman say that he would withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.881.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I thought that I had made my position absolutely clear on this. I said that on the reassurance of the right hon. Gentleman I was very happy to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.882.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.882.7", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I want to debate, if I can, some of the other points made by the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook. [Interruption.] I do not think that I can say more than I did say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.882.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.882.8", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am not quite sure of the rules of procedure of the House but, as I understand them, it is improper for one hon. Member to call another hon. Member — or dishonourable Member—a liar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.882.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If I may perhaps deal with the subject of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.6", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It may be that right hon. and hon. Members on the Labour Benches did not hear accurately what I said. I suggest that they wait and read in Hansard tomorrow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".] If they wait until tomorrow they will find that I have entirely accepted the reassurance offered by the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.8", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends are worried about the diversion of time in what should be an important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.11", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to say — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".] I hope that the House will at least allow me to say what I want to say. I made it very clear about 10 minutes ago that, on the reassurance of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook, I withdrew my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.11", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to say — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".] I hope that the House will at least allow me to say what I want to say. I made it very clear about 10 minutes ago that, on the reassurance of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook, I withdrew my remarks. [Interruption.] Further than that, I do not see what I can honourably be required to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.11", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ar about 10 minutes ago that, on the reassurance of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook, I withdrew my remarks. [Interruption.] Further than that, I do not see what I can honourably be required to do. [Interruption.] If there is any doubt about it, I suggest that right hon. and hon. Members would do well to check the matter in Hansard. I hope that I have now made it absolutely clear that I said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.883.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I have now said three times, if not four, that I withdraw. I cannot reasonably be expected to say more. Other right hon. and hon. Gentlemen are being deprived of the chance to contribute to what I believe is an important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.884.8", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "atters not whether it is a senior Minister or a Back Bencher; the same rules apply to everyone. However, the situation as explained by the hon. Member for Houghton and Washington is entirely different. This is a matter of debate. No unparliamentary words have been used. I distinctly heard—I am sure that the whole House heard—the Chief Secretary say on several occasions that he withdrew the remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.884.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may now revert to the main theme of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.6", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I cannot allow this to continue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.6", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I cannot allow this to continue — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] — without asking you whether the Chief Secretary will assure the House that he will examine the Official Report and make a statement after having done so. If he gives that assurance, he may be assured that most of my hon. Friends will discontinue our points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.7", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "I shall continue to deal with the Government's economic policies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.885.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.889.6", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is now retracting what he said and is saying that the Daily Mail misreported him, I accept that. He also held a press conference. Is he now saying that he will not abolish the upper earnings limit for the employees' contribution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.889.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "cussion a little of the concern expressed so strongly by my constituents. I know that he is aware of this worry. As a professional accountant, I welcome many of the worthwhile — albeit undramatic — changes in the tax regime. In deference to so many of my colleagues who wish to participate in the debate, I may, as a member of the Standing Committee on the Bill, discuss the changes more fully later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "are often little better off than they would be if they stopped work and went on social security. In some extreme cases they are even worse off being in work. It is surely ridiculous that unemployed people cannot afford to take available jobs. It is clearly wrong that a man working should be little or no better off than if he is not working. That problem could be reduced by raising tax thresholds —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-20", "file": "debates1985-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14812635b0f55100", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "sponsibility I should like to look to the future, I must, in looking for the causes of unemployment, look to the past. I hope that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr. Davis) will not mind if I remind him of the days in the late 1950s when he was a student at University College and I was a student at the London School of Economics, and the debates that he, I and others had at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-20a.952.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "It is most unwise to make predictions about the precise level of unemployment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.979.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Does not even the Prime Minister, who heads this high mortgage Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.981.4", "colnum": "981", "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 know what view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.981.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "RAF (Basic Trainer Aircraft)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, in the interests of his job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Such an attack on my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland is contemptible. The House understands that any responsible Minister with integrity does not reveal the arguments that he employs in Cabinet. In my experience, Scotland could not have a man who fights with more determination than does my right hon. Friend in the interests of his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ally set up they covered manufacturing industries, but now they work more in the retail area. It is fair to draw attention to the point made earlier, that the whole welfare system and the floor that it provides makes the position different. A further overwhelming and significant difference is that two thirds of people covered by the councils are part-time workers. Therefore, the decision is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "not achieved the targets set for it. In his 1984 Budget speech the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the proposed tax reforms would create new jobs. We all know that the reality is that 12,000 jobs per month went down the drain. That is the success that is attached to that Budget. If we ignore the fiddling of the unemployment figures — which is what the youth training schemes are really about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. I should not have thought that that issue was in doubt. These Budget statements clearly show —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1025.5", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I confirm that the schemes are about fiddling the unemployment figures and under-playing the real level of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1025.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I was going to come to that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "is equal to the average wage paid to 50 people in wages council industries. The Duke of Edinburgh tells us to talk not about the unemployed but about the employed. If he makes such comments, he is likely to hear responses from some in this House which would show that we are very concerned about the level of unemployment. I should like to quote from some Cabinet papers that have come into my hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ers to turn to the lower wage bands. The Government are encouraging the growth of part-time employment. In their press notice of 15 March they say that they intend to encourage part-time working, as the Secretary of State has confirmed, and that they will pay employers £840 in three instalments so that those employers can create two new part-time jobs. A new part-time labour concept is developing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "impact on our social benefits structure. We are trying to carry a first-rate social benefits system on the back of a second-class economy, and we cannot do it. Nor can we avoid the problem because it affects hon. Members on both sides of the House. After all, when, after the next general election, my right hon. and hon. Friends form the next Government, they will have to face that serious problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-21", "file": "debates1985-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bae467fb02b0f94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "overnment have weakened the unions and their power to represent those people. I admit that the wages councils have had a mixed history. They have not done the job as well as they should have. All hon. Members—Front Benchers as much as Back Benchers—have a responsibility to protect the weakest in our society in employment. The Government will not fulfil that duty if they abandon the wages councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-21a.1036.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.24.11", "colnum": "24", "heading": "South Africa (Shootings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is seeking to extend the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.24.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " the longest sustained period of upturn in the United Kingdom since the second world war, is far from over. The forecasters — perhaps the 364 economists and their satellites on the Opposition Front Bench are to be excepted — are predicting continued buoyant growth throughout 1985, probably up to about 3·5 per cent. I remind the House that the United Kingdom led Europe out of the recession —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "us look a little harder at that. Overall, manufacturing industry output fell sharply from its 1978 peak of 109·8 to a trough of 93·9 in 1981 and in 1984 it was back up to 100·2. Within the general category of manufacturing some sectors are still in decline while others are pushing strongly ahead. Of course, Labour party thinking is governed by the block votes of trade unions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would be better employed sleeping somewhere if he cannot keep his mouth shut for two minutes at a time. Our employment peak was 1979, when the annual average figure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ompanies to exploit technological opportunities. It is for individual companies themselves to bear the primary responsibility for projects near the market, and with the increasing company profitability they are now better placed to do so. I know that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East is dismissive of profits — he talks of corporate tax savings being \"frittered away\" in profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ties more and more itself. My aim is to offer a more helpful and more readily comprehensible service to industry and commerce. With improving profitability, improving prospects and a more helpful tax regime, companies are able to afford to do more. That is in line with the views of the right hon. and learned Gentleman himself. He has expressed the view that he is not very keen on grants and that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I shall happily look the figures up for the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "It is too simple to say that if imports are increasing, there is no problem with demand. It is more complicated than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "shed. They believe that they do a good job for those who are covered by them — even 2·5 million is a substantial number—and that they bring about good industrial relations between employers and those working in firms that are covered by the wages councils. That is why they do not wish the wages councils to be abolished. I want to sound that note of warning to my right hon. Friends opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ompetitors. This scheme will not be put into effect for another year, so another year will go by and the young will still be unemployed and untrained. Let me add a word of warning here. Many of us would find it extremely difficult to accept a situation in which social benefits were removed from people between the ages of 16 and 18 if they did not accept a Government proposal for a training scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "wage and dismiss them within two years in order to take on new young people. We have seen that happen before and we opposed it. We produced legislation to prevent it happening. That is why I am sad to see these proposals come forward. We must also have a regional development policy to create a balance between the north and the south. We have tried to do that in the past, with considerable success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Until this world depression, or the depression in this country, arrived, I could have pointed to innumerable places in the north-east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.65.5", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were you the runner up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "anuary into an almost lethal cocktail. The Chancellor's clamant, know-all discourtesy does not matter much. In some ways, it is rather endearing. At least it is universal—the right hon. Gentleman does not discriminate between people. What matters more is that, of all the 15 Chancellors I have seen operate in the House, the right hon. Gentleman is at once the most arrogant and the most incompetent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.65.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "ard double digit unemployment with equanimity and which they interpret as an endorsement of the very policies that have produced that level of unemployment. I suspect that the speech which will be most widely reported tomorrow was that of the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup. He delivered a devastating indictment of the Government's economic policy. He convinced me that he cares deeply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "s that does not matter. Indeed, I think that it was the right hon. Member for Hillhead who pointed out that there was no gulf between them. When he went on to remark about the shallowness of the gulf between him and Labour Members, I watched the expression on the face of the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen). I know that that comment caused him considerable agony. The argument —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "higher rate of interest than the right hon. Gentleman or anyone else would wish. That is why it is of first importance to keep the borrowing requirement down. Other countries are pursuing the same policy. As the right hon. Gentleman acknowledged, other countries are trying to bring down borrowing and monetary growth and to remove the rigidities in the economy from the supply side. There is a gulf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "pe that Opposition Members fully understand the implications of those remarks and will now unreservedly endorse the benefits that will flow from wage moderation. This year's PSBR turned out to be higher than was planned, but I believe that it was right to borrow to finance the costs of the coal dispute. Those effects were only temporary, and now it is important to get back to the path of the PSBR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ernment in the world today. The costs of the coal dispute are a once-and-for-all cost. They are temporary, and it was right to borrow to spread the cost over future years. The NUM leadership forced its members into a loss of £1 billion in wages in a vain attempt to overthrow the democratic process. Now that that is behind us, the prospects for the economy are much better than they would have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-25", "file": "debates1985-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "8090e63c0bd750de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's figures are not quite correct —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-25a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, because I believe that the right hon. Gentleman is wrong. He does not deny that output is at an all-time record and that investment is at an all-time high. I assume that he supports the youth training scheme. We shall get more jobs when we have more people producing goods and services which everyone will buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that fires are still raging in the Galapagos Islands and that on Isabela 500 giant tortoises are now seriously at risk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "84–85 and 1987–88, at a time when the number of pupils is estimated to fall by 5 per cent.? In short, the right hon. Gentleman is attempting the hopeless task of squeezing a quart out of a pint pot. Is the Secretary of State further aware that his remarks about partnership ring very hollow in a week when half a million children's education is being disrupted by the teachers' dispute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.224.10", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "hat educational expenditure by local authorities will fall by 9 per cent. in real terms over the next three years? Incidentally, contrary to what the right hon. Gentleman has said, the last two years do not include the unallocated margin, a point which he always tries to raise. It is also a bit thick for the Secretary of State to claim credit for the Clegg award, as I heard him do this afternoon —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.224.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Doctors and Dentists", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "off to study unfashionable specialties in the regions and often end up not receiving the training for which they came here and which they have a right to expect. Does the Secretary of State agree that the system needs a radical overhaul to provide a clear guarantee of the quality of training offered, and of its completion? Does he accept that without further guarantees about standards and quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Doctors and Dentists", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "That last question was unworthy of the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Teachers (Strike Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anna McCurley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anna McCurley", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that not only was the teaching profession anxious to implement the Munn and Dunning proposals, but the Government gave adequate assistance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Teachers (Strike Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "hough it was not made clear by the EIS. That school was chosen because it was in my constituency and because I did not support the teachers' claim for an independent pay review. The EIS fudged the issue. It would not admit that. The suggestion was—it would seem absurd to anyone with common sense — that the EIS had happened upon Aberdeen grammar school as part of a general programme of escalation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Teachers (Strike Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that I am not a Conservative Back-Bench Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Teachers (Strike Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "e in the long term, when we are trying to cope with the difficulties of falling school rolls and the impossibility of being able to secure promoted posts. This is why my right hon. Friend has suggested that we should negotiate a package of pay and conditions together, so that all these matters can be thoroughly investigated and sorted out, to the satisfaction of the teaching profession as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.290.10", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Teachers (Strike Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "preceding_text": "—and other unions are as concerned as the EIS to obtain a solution. The problem is that the members of the EIS appear to be led by the nose by an unrepresentative bunch of deadheads, one of whom in 1961 was voted the most boring man at Glasgow university, and he went on to be voted the most boring man there in 1962 and 1963. For him the strike represents the zenith of his political career to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.290.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Revaluation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": " part of the package which my right hon. and hon. Friends in the Scottish Office believed it right to implement. My concern does not stop at the quantum of rate support grant but extends to its distribution. This has caused much anguish in district councils. The needs element of rate support grant has been substantially curtailed. I have made representations privately to the Minister and publicly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Revaluation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "housing revenue account allocation this year. Such a substantial reduction puts pressures on local authorities, their officials and councillors and ultimately upon the ratepayers. I am not ashamed to admit that I argued for a slower shift of resources from the districts to the regions because I believe that a massive shift will create difficulties. As a pragmatist, I am a gradualist in all things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Revaluation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "not be found on the Opposition Benches, whose Members have given us a predictable response. I urge caution because I recognise that a Scotland-only solution will narrow the alternatives. At this stage, I should like to see the field left as open as possible. I do not believe that there is any advantage in hurrying towards a solution which will take us off one hook merely to impale us upon another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.354.9", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Revaluation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "I assume that the hon. Gentleman is making a case for an increase in the needs element of RSG. Is he seriously suggesting that if there were an increase in the needs element of RSG, in the majority of authorities in Scotland it would go to the ratepayers, or will it go — as is most likely — to increase expenditure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.354.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.374.5", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Newspaper Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " tried to impose. I suspect that that will come out into the open and it will be difficult to defend the scale of penalty imposed. However, it will also be difficult to justify the weakness of employers in not standing up for their employees. As my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Bruinvels) said, we are not criticising only one side of the industry for there is fault on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.380.4", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Councils", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Labour Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "preceding_text": "o doubt that sweatshops will again rear their evil head, and that leads to the most significant question that has to be asked in the continuing debate about the future of wages councils. I make it clear to the Minister and to Tory Back Benchers that we in the Labour party do not accept that a debate at 3 o'clock in the morning is the way that important matters of this nature should be considered.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.380.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-26", "file": "debates1985-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eeedc138026bde91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Councils", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-26a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.461.8", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Election?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that, following the election of Mr. Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, the time is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.461.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I take my hon. Friend's question extremely seriously. He raises a very important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend is right. It is not merely a matter of what is happening in Leicester, but that manufactured exports, excluding erratic items —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.474.9", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is very uncharacteristic of the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.474.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Television Licence Fee", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the fee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": " being implemented within the next six months. The governors will also be calling for reports every six months not only on the implementation of these specific recommendations and the continuous programme of activity reviews but also on the management training programme and other steps designed to ensure that the change in emphasis in management style and approach sought by Peat is being achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Television Licence Fee", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": ". [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the fee?\"] Taking all the various factors into account, I believe a settlement substantially below the level requested by the BBC should enable the corporation to maintain its present level and range of services. But the BBC's ability to enhance its services will depend very largely on the degree to which it achieves the improvements in efficiency that I have referred to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Television Licence Fee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "You have been prescient, Mr. Speaker, but characteristically so. On that basis I have decided to increase the fee for a colour television licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.479.4", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Television Licence Fee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary's statement lasted 11 minutes. It could have been limited to the three words, \"I cop out.\" The statement is another example of the shoddy and opportunistic approach —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.479.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Television Licence Fee", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "dvertising is the only alternative to the present system that is worth considering, and that is an assumption that Labour Members utterly reject. Therefore, let me make it clear that, whatever the outcome of the inquiry, there are no circumstances in which a Labour Government will permit advertising on either BBC television or radio. Professor Peacock must take that into account in his activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.479.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Television Licence Fee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "May I express the hope that the Home Secretary will not listen to talk of patriotism and the BBC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "mstances, one could justify an expenditure of £600 million for the provision of adequate services. But no, the GLC seeks to spend £900 million. That leaves £300 million of ratepayers' money available for expenditure on mean, obscure and extravagant little schemes, of which the Labour party in London seems to be so much in favour. Of course my right hon. Friend must bring the Bill before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "well has nothing whatever to do with London, but one of the groups opposing it was funded largely by the GLC. Is that a constitutional use of London ratepayers' money? One of the activities which the GLC got up to in its opposition to the Bill was to encourage its suppliers to write to their Members of Parliament, almost threatening to withdraw their contracts if they did not support the GLC line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.554.6", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has made it to the Front Bench.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.554.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.557.6", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not agree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ctly elected upper tier of local government in London stands up. We all agree that housing should be a borough function and that, apart from the trunk road network, highways construction and maintenance are borough functions. We all agree that in outer London education should remain a borough function and we all agree now that transport is rightly under LRT and outside local government altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.557.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that all the major planning and transport decisions fall inevitably not to the GLC but to the Government and to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Marsham Street.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that all the major planning and transport decisions fall inevitably not to the GLC but to the Government and to the House? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I invite the Opposition to consider this. Where does London begin and end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "e never said anything different and, as the Member of Parliament representing Hampstead, I am satisfied with the assurance that I have had on those points. Both those objectives can be achieved without creating an elected London-wide body. It may be—I have said this before, and I repeat it for the benefit of the right hon. Gentleman—that the three-borough joint committee is not the ideal solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": " it would be a hothouse for political agitation. It would have no resources and would blame everyone else for anything that it did not like, especially if its political complexion was different from that of the Government of the day. It would have no responsibilities and no powers, and anything that went wrong would be somebody else's fault. That would be an occasion for great political posturing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "We have made the position completely clear to the House on many occasions. What I want to do now in the two minutes that I have left is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "We have made the position completely clear to the House on many occasions. What I want to do now in the two minutes that I have left is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] The answer is that there will be a reinstatement of countywide democracy in the metropolitan counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I must press on. Then there is the question of roads. There has to be overall planning for roads and for traffic control. It is in precisely this area that the GLC has abandoned its strategic role. It has not had a road policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.594.7", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "preceding_text": "When we can clear the Chamber of those who are not interested in local government—when the gossip column people move out and those who care about local government stay—perhaps we can get on to the amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.594.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.594.9", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Mr. Speaker, because some of us are extremely interested in local government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.594.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or reselection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "preceding_text": "burner. We are not saying no to this £38·5 million aid to domestic ratepayers, but it will not compensate them for the shift that took place in the revaluation or the cut that has been engineered by the Government in the rate support grant. Ministers may feel that they will buy off trouble in Conservative Association executives. I wish there was a Conservative party conference every month —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing system or to abolish domestic rates. Two hands have been raised. I am delighted to know that. Those hon. Members can speak for themselves. However, there was no great clamour from the hon. Members for Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Mr. Hirst), for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) or for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Malone) for the abolition of the domestic rate, even though they were invited to comment. May I just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-27", "file": "debates1985-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "595abff5577e2fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin J. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin J. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " say whether there should be a local corporation tax for businesses. If there is no local corporation tax, there will still be revaluation and the anomalies that we are debating tonight. In my constituency, those anomalies have resulted in Maclays brewery's rates bill being reduced by 12·14 per cent. It may be only accidental that the Younger family has a major shareholding in that brewery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-27a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.638.6", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "a of improving procedures for the confiscation of assets as if that were a new thought. My right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary has been saying for 12 months now that we are working actively on finding a new power. Twelve years ago the House thought that it had solved the problem. It is clear now that it had not. We are now considering the Hodgson report. The hon. Gentleman will know —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.638.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that a nuclear-free zone in Wales is a big joke there, and is not, and never will be, accepted? It is purely Labour party political propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady telling us that because there is an inflow we can do without the £50,000 million that has gone out of the country? Would it not be sensible to reintroduce policies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was the Budget.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "been underlined by the recent tragic events in South Africa. I assure the right hon. Gentleman that we shall try to have a debate as soon after the Easter recess as can be arranged. Finally, the White Paper on employment that is published today is an important statement of Government policy, but it follows a debate in the House within the past few days when the matter was dealt with exhaustively —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": ", but I thought that it would probably be more convenient to clarify the matter in the context of this debate. I do not seek to abuse the procedures of the House—indeed, I am always anxious to help the House in its deliberations—but I believe that when I was asked about this matter yesterday the hon. Member for Newham, North-West was making a frivolous complaint. However, I set in hand inquiries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e—to their possible break-up. At that time, the Select Committee said that it believed that many economies would result from the single headquarters that would emerge in the new force areas. It said that there would be benefits in beat and patrol work, in motor patrols, in economies of scale and in equipment. Thus, the police and the Select Committee were against that suggestion. Who is in favour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "don who are paying for them. I do not really expect the hon. Member for Newham, North-West to answer any of our questions because he has now been elected, by 26 votes to 20, chairman-elect of the GLC for its last year. I have asked him on several occasions and the House is still waiting to hear from him whether he is going to collect his chairman's allowance of £8,000 or is he going to give it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ormerly widely dispersed to other elected politicians. The Rates Act also involved centralisation, under the right hon. Gentleman's control, of decisions formerly at the discretion of local councillors. Like the whale in John Donne's \"Progress of the Soul\", the Secretary of State is insatiable — his gulf-like throat sucks in everything that passeth near. The passage of the Bill has taught us much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ll is designed to give statutory reality to a party political vendetta originating from a Prime Minister whose obsessive loathing for all opposition calls into question her very commitment to democratic freedom. All other major changes in our structure of local government have followed careful and close examination. But such former standards and traditions count for nothing in today's Tory party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.752.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.753.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.755.8", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.755.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.767.4", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "Following the death rattle of Scargillism from the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Eadie)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.767.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ve been sacked. It is right to consider the background to the sackings and the inevitability that those who want to make a success of the industry will not be happy to see the violence that was at the pit gates brought back into the collieries. That is why there was widespread support, certainly in my constituency, for not re-employing those who were guilty of crimes of violence or serious damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": " does not help. If Conservative Members had done what we have done, and had looked at the report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the mining industry, they would know that each pit is mentioned, together with whether or not it is economic. The report shows that we could be left with about 100 economic pits. That is how serious the Prime Minister is when she talks about uneconomic pits —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-28", "file": "debates1985-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "55c0655b4a11ea0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "No, I am not going to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-28a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-29", "file": "debates1985-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "e07fb90e44d3dada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-29a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "ibutions allowable against tax? Does he realise that the overall impact of the Budget has already reduced interest rates by 1 per cent. because of the strengthening of the pound, which is reflected in the importance that the Government place on beating inflation? Does he realise that, following the strengthening of the pound, petrol companies have already been able to reduce prices by 4p a gallon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-29a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-29", "file": "debates1985-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "e07fb90e44d3dada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-29a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "ting two years to 16-year-olds and one year for 17-year-old school leavers, which would lead to recognised qualifications. Does the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow seriously believe that that is not a success story for the young rather than the dismal picture that he had chosen to present to the House? I should like to draw the hon. Member's attention to an article in the Glasgow Herald.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-29a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-03-29", "file": "debates1985-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "e07fb90e44d3dada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-29a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "mber the surge of optimism in Scotland when the regional policy began to have an effect. I remember, as does my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley, South (Mr. Buchan) the setting up of the car factory at Linwood, the pulp mill at Corpach and the aluminium smelter at Invergordon. The Labour party had to fight for many years to get those companies established. Where are they now? They have all gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-03-29a.852.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The transfer of questions is a matter for the Ministers concerned, but as VAT is a matter for the Chancellor, that is no doubt why the hon. Gentleman's question was transferred. On the general matter, it is normal for Ministers to link questions up to No. 25, but I also do my best to ensure that hon. Members with similar questions are called, as happened today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.902.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": " Federation of Women's Institutes. Therefore, the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends should plead guilty to the charge of peremptory and arbitrary legislation and the denial of the opportunity to make serious and informed comments not only to consumer bodies and those who operate the bus services, but even to a Select Committee. Thirdly, no concessions were made during the Committee stage —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ry legislation and the denial of the opportunity to make serious and informed comments not only to consumer bodies and those who operate the bus services, but even to a Select Committee. Thirdly, no concessions were made during the Committee stage — [Interruption.] Perhaps I should correct myself. The Government accepted that the traffic commissioners' maximum age should be reduced from 70 to 65 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that that sort of mischievous nonsense would not be brought to the House today, because my hon. Friends and I know full well that the proceedings of the Committee have never been interrupted for the lack of a quorum —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman has picked the wrong person to ask. The answer is, \"Myself.\" I tabled an amendment on the age of traffic commissioners —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "sire to get shot of the Bill quickly may be that the hon. Member for South Hams (Mr. Steen), who caused the suspension of the Committee's sitting on the occasion to which my hon. Friend referred, said that Conservatives wanted to see the healthy people in the community catered for by bus services and that only when services were commercially viable and profitable would they consider the needs of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, The hon. Member for South Hams also said that he was the only qualified social worker serving on the Committee. He felt that, before bus operators could deal with concessions for the disabled, their services had to be profitable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, The hon. Member for South Hams also said that he was the only qualified social worker serving on the Committee. He felt that, before bus operators could deal with concessions for the disabled, their services had to be profitable — [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We asked whether that was the voice of the Tory party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "r. Stott), has gone off and got married and is now on his honeymoon. I am sure that the whole House wishes the hon. Gentleman and his wife all the very best. It is all very well for the hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr. Dixon) to say that the Conservatives could not keep a quorum in the Committee, but it was the hon. Gentleman and the Opposition who orchestrated that little campaign of schoolboy tricks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "s that the hon. Member for Hereford has just given the House. Let us contrast the position in Hereford with what happens in South Yorkshire, which has stood up to every scrutiny by every outside body that has examined the system, not over only two and a half years, but over the past 10 or 12 years. South Yorkshire has a population of 1·3 million and 350 million journeys are made every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Birmingham City Council Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made an important point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Birmingham City Council Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": ") is aware, another decision was taken in Birmingham this week, in which I have been involved. All parties decided that the city would put into my hon. Friend's constituency the one and only international indoor stadium in this country. If the argument that we must not spend a penny on anything except housing is to be sustained, my hon. Friend will not be supporting that project, but I support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.988.9", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Birmingham City Council Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "e should do no social good. That is a misconceived argument, and we have to be careful where it takes us. In essence, it is a philistine argument, because it takes us to the proposition that we should stop spending any money on the arts, on sport or on the heritage of our city. There has been some reference to Socialism as being the language of priorities. As we know, that came from Aneurin Bevan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.988.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Birmingham City Council Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "All of them. I made it clear that that ballot was conducted at the residences of all the people — every person living in that vicinity was polled —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Birmingham City Council Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Four or five witnesses were present at what was a calm and cool discussion. It is not scurrilous at all. The whole thing hangs on entrepreneurial skill and confidence in organising road races to make a profit. The city council may say that it has total confidence in everyone concerned, but that is not what it says in private. That must be said here because Birmingham ratepayers' money is involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-01", "file": "debates1985-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "45de25f480834d95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.1028.4", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Heritage (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "or to purchase, historic houses, and that includes the purchase, by agreement, of gardens. Subsequently, there is now the power of the National Trust for Scotland to acquire gardens. However, why will my hon. Friend not include a register for gardens? After all, there is the power in the English Act, which is clear and there for everyone to see. I accept that my hon. Friend will come back and say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-01a.1028.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1047.5", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Obviously, we listen carefully to that statement from the Opposition Front Bench, made with the full authority of the Labour party. I think we now see that in future union members are to be denied secret ballots —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1047.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1056.5", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Last week's seminar on rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1056.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1057.11", "colnum": "1057", "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 stop answering like a latter-day Marie Antoinette?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1057.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1057.11", "colnum": "1057", "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 stop answering like a latter-day Marie Antoinette? [Interruption.] When will she realise that the game is up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1057.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1057.11", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "hat her reliance on blind market forces has resulted in an overturn of the opinion polls, the details of which, I trust, she has seen today? Is it not a fact that the jingoism of the Falklands has worn off and that the realities of economic life have now brought into play some powerful figures, who are opposing her, on the Benches behind her? Is she aware that the postmen are lined up against her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1057.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1058.7", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Governor is not in the Government.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The Governor of the Bank of England, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and all Members of Her Majesty's Government agree that interest rates have a key role to play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1058.8", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I specified the Governor of the Bank of England separately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1058.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1058.12", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Transport Bill is an excellent measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1058.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I welcome what the right hon. Gentleman has said about enlargement and border controls. Prices under the agriculture budget are subject to majority voting and not unanimous voting. Only if a fundamental national interest is involved does the Luxembourg compromise come into play. We are not, therefore, able to exercise a veto on all agriculture pricing matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will remember that, well after Salazar, Portugal was nearly taken over by the Communists and it could have stayed a Communist country. Due to the great bravery of the Portuguese people, Portugal was rescued from that for democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1080.4", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "English Channel (Fixed Link)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that, whether this link is financed by private or public capital, it will nevertheless represent a massive expenditure largely for the benefit of the south-east of England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1080.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1082.6", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "English Channel (Fixed Link)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Price", "preceding_text": "As a member of the Select Committee which looked at the issue in the previous Parliament, may I ask my right hon. Friend two quick questions? Is he aware that not a single promoter who appeared before us was willing to put up the money without a basic Government guarantee? Is there to be one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1082.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rmen go to war. The same Ministers must decide whether there is a tangible risk to the security of the state. That is my judgment and what I offer. I am not persuaded that a decision by the judges would be the right approach. Similarly, my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, East has suggested a group of Privy Councillors. We all know Privy Councillors. I have the greatest respect for most of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "tter of speed. I can conceive of quite a few cases in which expedition is of the essence. If the Home Secretary has to make a detailed application, set out his grounds, accumulate the evidence and no doubt instruct counsel, it will take a long time. Counsel might be the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery or even myself. I am not one to refuse briefs of that kind or of any kind. I am not proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-02", "file": "debates1985-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "112a2b1f409a756d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "at they are unlikely to provide a long-term solution. Even during the past couple of days, hon. Members have received telephone calls and letters from the many agencies and groups involved in dealing with those who will be affected by the regulations. Those groups would normally, if not always, be wholly sympathetic to the Government. They certainly seek to be non-partisan and non-party political.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-02a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of a document issued in the name of the Haringey joint union committee against rate capping, which has been endorsed by the London boroughs shop stewards on a Londonwide basis, calling for complete disruption of local authority services by phased action, including shutting down street lighting and traffic lights, stopping Thames water maintenance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "d aware of a document issued in the name of the Haringey joint union committee against rate capping, which has been endorsed by the London boroughs shop stewards on a Londonwide basis, calling for complete disruption of local authority services by phased action, including shutting down street lighting and traffic lights, stopping Thames water maintenance — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—closing schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that we have an absurd system of local government finance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "' I am very fond of the hon. Gentleman, and we on the Conservative Benches respect him greatly, but I must say that he has got it wildly wrong. My decision to extend the life of these development corporations to 1988 has been warmly welcomed by hon. Members on both sides of the House and by the entire community of north-east London —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Employment, Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "It is difficult for the hon. Gentleman to sustain the charge that the Government are washing their hands of the problem when during the past week we have introduced two White Papers, which deal specifically with some of those issues. I would have hoped for a more positive response from the Leader of the Opposition and his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Employment, Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "who work in industry are trained in the skills of the future. The Leader of the Opposition happened to raise his head at that, but that is a quotation with which I agree. It also happens to be the policy that we have been putting forward. The hon. Gentleman asked about the forecast. I have looked hard through \"Labour's Jobs and industry Campaign\", but I cannot find many forecasts — and rightly so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Employment, Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ople than there was in 1979? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that the emerging problem of skill shortages is of the Government's own making and that despite the rhetoric about skills and qualifications for young people the reality is that the Government are preparing young people for low-tech and no-tech jobs with low skills and a low-waged future? Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1230.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Early-Day Motions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn). Last night I tried to table an early-day motion pointing out the significance of this event, and particularly highlighting the outstanding loyalty and unswerving devotion to the cause of his party and to his Leader that he has evidenced recently. The Clerk refused to accept the early-day motion on the grounds that it was tendered in a spirit of mockery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Trade Union Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ear ago, it failed to deal adequately with one of the features of trade union law that has fallen most into disrepute—the system by which many trade unions are assumed to be willing to pay a political levy to the Labour party unless they take active steps to contract out of that levy. My Bill seeks to put right that omission by making subscription to political funds dependent upon contracting in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Trade Union Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "o pay a political levy to the Labour party unless they take active steps to contract out of that levy. My Bill seeks to put right that omission by making subscription to political funds dependent upon contracting in — [Interruption] —so that every trade unionist who contributed to a political fund would be doing so with his own explicit consent. That basic principle seems so eminently reasonable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1235.5", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Trade Union Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "instead of opposing my Bill. However, when it comes to the desire of some Conservatives to protect, feather-bed and prop up the Labour party, there can be no doubt that that was the motive that led Ministers to oppose their Conservative colleagues and join Labour in the Lobby. What they are thinking is: better the devil they know, and know cannot win, than the devil they really fear can beat them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Trade Union Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman said that it was involuntary; he said that there is a compulsory political levy. I wonder how far one can stretch reality. The truth is that over 2 million trade unionists opt out of paying the political levy. Therefore, those who opt out of paying the political levy are no secret society. They are no exclusive group of people. They are widely advertised. Let us look at the evidence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Trade Union Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "an stretch reality. The truth is that over 2 million trade unionists opt out of paying the political levy. Therefore, those who opt out of paying the political levy are no secret society. They are no exclusive group of people. They are widely advertised. Let us look at the evidence — [Interruption.] Alliance Members do not agree with democracy because they are not prepared to listen to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Trade Union Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": " may want to benefit from, they are not here. They were not here on that occasion. So the evidence suggests that we have a one-sided case from the Liberals. I want to refer again to the Liberals' attempts to get money from trade union organisations. I am lucky enough to have a letter in my possession addressed to the general secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union. It is dated 13 June 1969—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-03", "file": "debates1985-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "58f6221fcd731b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hammersmith\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I listened carefully to the slender arguments adduced by the Minister and the hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Norris) and to the patently malignant remarks of the hon. Member on the Opposition Front Bench, the name of whose constituency eludes me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-03a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-04", "file": "debates1985-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "330707872fb80043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-04a.1336.6", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman. I was delighted that the contract for the RAF trainer went to Shorts. I was especially delighted because there was no need for any special pleading or special subsidy in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-04a.1336.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-04", "file": "debates1985-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "330707872fb80043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-04a.1341.9", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEmBERs:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman describes a set of situations on which I cannot confidently comment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-04a.1341.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-04", "file": "debates1985-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "330707872fb80043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-04a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "PETITION", "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": " economic hardship, it is astonishing to discover Islington Council squandering £1·6 million of rate-payers' money tarting up its offices in the town hall. Not only were they perfectly adequate to begin with, but the work is being carried out using the most expensive wood on the market—American oak. Brand new office partitions are being put in, all covered in beautiful and costly hessian.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-04a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-15", "file": "debates1985-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "7a8a75d473d24825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-15a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "In a sense, the problem is rather ironic as it is a testament to the court's popularity that many contracts, parties to which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-15a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-15", "file": "debates1985-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "7a8a75d473d24825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-15a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "I have no anxieties whatsoever, but I am always concerned to keep out the forces of evil and destruction in the form of the Labour party, and, of course, the alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-15a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-15", "file": "debates1985-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "7a8a75d473d24825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-15a.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But he has come back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North, who is now back again, told me that he might have to leave during my speech—not because of my speech, but because he had a prior engagement with constituents elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-15a.89.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "I note the Minister's comment about it being hard to find a definition of productivity. Is he prepared to examine the possibility —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "I note the Minister's comment about it being hard to find a definition of productivity. Is he prepared to examine the possibility — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\".] Oh, children, shut up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.124.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.130.7", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that not all doctors are going out of their way to frustrate these arrangements and that, in the case of the chronically sick, those who are permanently ill and need pain-killing drugs, many doctors are complaining—certainly to me in my constituency — that they are precluded from prescribing what they believe to be clinically necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.133.12", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "How many extra flights into Manchester international airport will result from the Prime Minister's visit to the far east? Regarding her visit, does it help our country to talk about seeing off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.133.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In the first part of the question, I think that the hon. Gentleman was referring to a possible application by Singapore International Airlines. Talks on that will be starting shortly. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "an matter earlier. I believe thatmore flights into Manchester are required from Singapore. As for the second part of the question, I shall read out precisely what I said. Referring to strikes, I said: Then came the big one—the strike of coalminers. That is in the public sector. But the great achievement of that was not only that some miners stayed working, not only that we saw it off after a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.136.9", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I saw the pledge by the Labour shadow spokesman to repeal the Immigration Act 1971, which he said was —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.136.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.144.5", "colnum": "144", "heading": "House of Commons Chamber (Microphones)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": " it be possible for the fact to be conveyed to the Services Committee that we on these Benches did not ask for an additional microphone to be placed above our heads, as there is no unruly element on the Bench below our Gangway? I was wondering whether an additional microphone had been placed on this side because it was hoped that the Opposition might be crossing the Floor of the House to join us —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.144.8", "colnum": "144", "heading": "House of Commons Chamber (Microphones)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I hope that you will manage to establish the real reason why representations were made leading to the fixing of these new microphones, Mr. Speaker. In the House of Commons the Leader of the Official Opposition gets heckled, the Prime Minister gets heckled —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.144.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Prosecution of Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "l in the future Criminal Justice Bill or, indeed, in any legislation. He simply reminded the House that there was such a Bill in the pipeline and that he had an open mind. I think that that is a graceful way of backing down, and is certainly not to be taken as an attempt to reintroduce a wholly unacceptable proposal. I would prefer to give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": " the sort of teaching that he has given. One would think that somehow in this day and age it was racist to teach English. What are Mr. Honeyford's qualifications? He has taught at that school for four years. He has a first-class record. There are 540 children at the school, and it is oversubscribed for the next school year. Obviously, he has the confidence of the majority of the school governors —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": " school—perhaps the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden) would like to say something about this, if he has visited the school—to dispute the fact that it is a good school where discipline and authority are maintained, and the children are happy and are being educated in a good environment. No racist could control such a well-run school, with dedicated students learning and speaking English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ss him out of his job. Some 150 demonstrators marched from the school to the education offices in Bradford. After that rent-a-mob besieged his office, the director of education, in a blue funk, announced a major review. Ten educational advisers descended on Mr. Honeyford's school to investigate it. A few paltry recommendations were made, one being that he should improve relations with the parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-16", "file": "debates1985-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "66f82fedfa9e3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "owed cowardice. They could have dealt firmly with the Left-wing agitators months ago. The same people visited the parents and, although the majority of parents cannot speak or write English, 200 similar letters arrived on the desk of the director of education asking for Mr. Honeyford's dismissal—I am justifying the Trots and Marxists being involved. Last October, a governors meeting at city hall —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-16a.235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.260.4", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General is prevaricating dangerously for someone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.260.6", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "lace. We have already had promises that those deliveries will stop. We are now told that they will continue. Yuill and Dodds will deliver 8,000 tonnes a week, despite the way in which the contract was made. Will he tell his right hon. Friend that the chairman of British Steel told me that no such contract would be made, and yet it has been made? The Government are guilty of political involvement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Royal Dockyards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "hird question first, the difficulty he is in will be clear to all because the answer is, no, the contract will not be a cost-plus contract. It will be as a result of competitive tendering for the bulk of the work that will be carried out by whoever manages the operation. The fact is that there are international precedents for large organisations involved in defence being managed under this system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Royal Dockyards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us the details.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "r to all because the answer is, no, the contract will not be a cost-plus contract. It will be as a result of competitive tendering for the bulk of the work that will be carried out by whoever manages the operation. The fact is that there are international precedents for large organisations involved in defence being managed under this system—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] In the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Royal Dockyards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "tween unions and management. The broad outline of the efficiency gains that the management believes to be possible will be put to the unions, and a consultative process will take place. Over the course of perhaps two years we see the opportunities for efficiency gains, which could reduce the present job levels in the Devonport dockyard by some 15 per cent., but one's experience of such a process —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Adjournment Debates (Speeches)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "script. All the matters that have been raised today were dealt with by the Deputy Speaker who was in the Chair yesterday evening. I see no reason whatever to dissent from any of his rulings. In the circumstances, he acted very properly, and it would be wrong if the House adopted the practice of appealing against matters which have already been dealt with and decisions which have already been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McWilliam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McWilliam", "preceding_text": "er the members of a Select Committee in a way that the House and other legal bodies would not have control over the tribunal, the commissioner or anyone else. If any member of the Select Committee leaked information, it would be a breach of the privileges of the House and that Member could be brought to the Bar of the House, as has happened, and justice could be meted out immediately by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.294.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I see that the hon. Member for Beckenham (Sir P. Goodhart), who moved the amendment, wishes to withdraw it. Is it the pleasure of the House that the amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "secretary is wholly inappropriate. The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well that there was a planted question, with an answer which did not provide the terms of reference. It was only the fact that a number of journalists at No. 10 Downing street applied for and were given the information, and were then good enough to let Members of Parliament see it, that enabled us to see it in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "ould substantially erode the financial viability of independent local radio, local newspapers and, in many ways, independent television companies. Many of them would face the prospect of severe financial difficulties, if not bankruptcy, because the advertising cake is limited. That is not my assertion; it is the assertion of Sir Denis Forman, the chairman of Granada Television, and Rodney Harris —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": " and bitterness. It is indefensible and cannot be accepted. It is also wrong and unjust that hotels pay the same £58 to provide 15 television sets; they pay exactly the same price as one pensioner living on a single pension. We have the ability to change that and we should have the will to change it. Many pensioners—hon. Members on each side have the letters and representations at their surgeries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "pensioners should have the ability to watch television without having to pay the new exorbitant fee. Yet, if we put this in the context of other tranches of £325 million, the comparison is not perhaps as odious as the Minister may attempt to make out. In order to give all our pensioners a free television licence next year, we have only to take out seven months of the cost of the Trident programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "This is a matter for a clear political decision, which can and should be taken by the House of Commons. Hon. Members on the Government Back Benches are entitled to take the view that they would rather spend £325 million on the purchase of a Trident missile system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-17", "file": "debates1985-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "52e23f79d208f4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.360.2", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I think you will understand that it is very difficult to make a speech, given the constant barracking and harassment of Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-17a.360.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-19", "file": "debates1985-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b994135331a5785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-19a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "For the sake of completeness, and as I do not wish to be left out, I wish to speak briefly on what must be a unique occasion, because the Minister has introduced a welcome proposal. We also give our support and congratulations to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-19a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-19", "file": "debates1985-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b994135331a5785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-19a.467.6", "colnum": "467", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "olt from the blue for many small business men and the National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses. It was proposed to extend statutory sick pay to 28 days. Having had discussions with those affected, the Secretary of State was able to announce relief from national insurance contributions for 12 months from the passing of this legislation. That was in recognition of the extra burdens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-19a.467.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-19", "file": "debates1985-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b994135331a5785c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-19a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that my hon. Friend would enter into the spirit of happy co-operation that has pervaded our proceedings this evening —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-19a.507.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-22", "file": "debates1985-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "f2c8026e6ac53c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ews. They were packed with Tory members. The nil extra cost constraint imposed by the Treasury enforced a pure cost cutting exercise and the short time scale precluded serious analysis. We do not know how hard the Secretary of State fought in the Cabinet committee, but we know that he has lost every battle down the line. The leaks that I have established from journalists are undoubtedly authentic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.627.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-22", "file": "debates1985-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "f2c8026e6ac53c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I should like to continue, if I may. I am asked about our policy. It is to control public spending and to bring down inflation. It is to encourage industrial investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-22", "file": "debates1985-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "f2c8026e6ac53c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "preceding_text": "re than 6 per cent. There has been not just a money increase but a real increase. That goes beyond the guarantee that we gave as a manifesto commitment to maintain pensions in line with inflation. Once again, the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) has not cited statistics correctly. Total expenditure on social services amounts to more than £100 million a day and 77,500 staff are employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-22", "file": "debates1985-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "f2c8026e6ac53c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "near the bottom of the Government's priorities. That does not accord with the facts. Social security is the largest single Government programme. It accounts for 30 per cent. of all public expenditure, with total cost of £40 billion, and rising. It is the only Government Department in that position. The rate of growth has doubled inside five years and that makes the Labour motion absolute nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.693.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-22", "file": "debates1985-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "f2c8026e6ac53c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "It seems to range wider by the moment. The right hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Harrison) has raised another interesting question. Did the hon. Member for Oldham, West consult the shadow spokesman for the Environment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-22a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "in shire county schools has hardly changed, by and large, taking into account areas such as that covered by the Derbyshire education authority? Will he bear in mind that I agree with my hon. Friend the member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery) that it is bordering on hypocrisy for Tory Members to talk about absenteeism when some hon. Members turn up for less than 30 per cent. of the time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.726.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.731.8", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State give the House an assurance that appraisal will not be linked to the quality of teaching—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.731.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": " to talk about costs when his own White Paper is not costed at all. He knows perfectly well that his own White Paper would cost £1 billion to implement. He has not come clean with the House. Is he aware that the Conservative Central Office has not understood that £50 million was a net figure? The right hon. Gentleman intends to cut the number of teachers by over 6,000 in the coming year. Finally —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": " billion to implement. He has not come clean with the House. Is he aware that the Conservative Central Office has not understood that £50 million was a net figure? The right hon. Gentleman intends to cut the number of teachers by over 6,000 in the coming year. Finally — [Interruption.] —and let us get back to the teachers' dispute, which he started—is he now saying that he will respond positively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is riot the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "The question is whether the Labour Opposition intend, if given the chance, to phase out independent education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.734.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Lancashire", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "nt. of the insured population of many towns, including Blackburn, Preston and Burnley were without work. That devastation was wanton and unnecessary. It was caused by blind and doctrinaire policies. The people of Lancashire resolved that it should never happen again. They fought for policies of full employment, they voted for policies of full employment and, for 35 years, they got full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Lancashire", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "nd doctrinaire policies. The people of Lancashire resolved that it should never happen again. They fought for policies of full employment, they voted for policies of full employment and, for 35 years, they got full employment. [Interruption.] From the end of the second world war until 1980, Lancashire had virtually full employment. Unemployment rarely went above 6 per cent. People could find work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Lancashire", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "I do, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I rise to comment on what must be considered one of the most cynical abuses of the House that we have witnessed for a long time. The county council is facing elections on 2 May and it is not without significance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Lancashire", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "uced on any day this Session, it has been introduced today, nine days before those elections. As the only hon. Member whose constituency includes the name \"Lancashire\", I feel qualified to draw the attention of the House to some of the flaws in the Bill. All hon. Members who represent Lancashire constituencies — there are some on these Benches — want more resources spent on Lancashire as a whole —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.755.11", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I can see plenty of empty seats. I do not see any reason for any hon. Member to be unduly cramped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.755.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.756.4", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.756.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.756.8", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "not been raised. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) asked me whether it was in order that the official Opposition spokesman address the House from the Dispatch Box. Of course that is the case. But I do not know—and he has not yet raised with me the question — whether that excludes the right of any other right hon. or hon. Member to address the House from the Dispatch Box —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.756.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not also the convention that right hon. and hon. Members should be allowed to speak in the Chamber from the Bench upon which they normally sit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not also the convention that right hon. and hon. Members should be allowed to speak in the Chamber from the Bench upon which they normally sit — [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] — and that there is a deliberate attempt by the bully boys and thugs of the Labour party, as we saw in the miners' dispute, to stop free speech in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "es, but we are not going to have it re-run this afternoon. The hon. Member has raised a useful and constructive point of order. If it is suggested that all will be well and tranquillity restored if the leader of the Social Democratic party was allowed to resume his usual seat below the Gangway, then I would address an appeal to the hon. Gentlemen who are occupying that Bench to allow him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.759.9", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sure that you will recognise that a serious point is involved concerning the conventions surrounding where right hon. and hon. Members speak from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.759.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "g the corridor to another place, they will see an important debate being carried on by non-elected people in this Parliament. Any hon. Member who then returns to this more important Chamber will see that a debate on an important subject upon which many of us on this side of the House feel extremely strongly is being deliberately resisted in an undemocratic manner by democratically elected Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.762.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.763.8", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.763.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.763.12", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "o be open for longer in some cases. The count would have to be more secure. No doubt arrangements will be made to change the cardboard boxes and a few other issues, but the substantive issue would not change. Since the Act was passed we have seen how the National Union of Mineworkers has changed its rules. Mr. Arthur Scargill has arranged for his casting vote on the NUM executive to be taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.763.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " it. We decided to back democracy in trade unions. We should like to have democracy in political parties and other organisations. Postal ballots, as the SDP knows, are expensive. We know that the Labour party will not trust its members to vote for its leader. We know that the Labour party will not trust the one-member, one-vote system,. We will not have lectures on democracy from the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.768.5", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will never make such an allegation. If he would like to say that standing up, I would be grateful. I was never sponsored, and no money was given to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.768.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "That is diametrically opposite to what the Act states. It states that the members should decide fully, openly and democratically whether they wish to make contributions to the Labour party. If they decide to do so, openly and democratically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"After March.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ings, 200,000 members never received a vote and 20,000 received a vote to which they were not entitled. The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union has tried hard to establish the best possible postal ballot system, but there are still problems. Right hon. and hon. Members know that people who come to our constituencies after October are not able to vote for us for 15 months —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I had better get to the Dispatch Box quickly, while I have the opportunity to do so. The amendment reflects the Government's anti-trade union attitude, and their legislation applying to unions must be seen in the light of their overall policy. SDP opportunism is reflected in the motion, which was not particularly ably moved by the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "importance. I have explained that I am well aware of the way in which ballots operate, and I have described my involvement in them. In my notes, when preparing this speech, I wrote, \"SDP evidence,\" and left a gap which I thought I could fill in when listening to the speech of the right hon. Member for Devonport. In the event, he did not produce a scrap of evidence to justify any of his assertions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "o that union. I wish that he had decided earlier not to proceed with that. He was prepared to make all sorts of scurrilous charges on the basis of what he said he had heard from individual members who were making allegations about ballots. The Secretary of State was right to point out that that union acted, without recourse to legislation, firmly in the case of Bristol and dismissed two officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ink that there were a few blue union members around at the time, but in the main they were members of the TGWU. It is nonsense to say that there is no democracy in the trade union movement. As we all know, fiddles sometimes take place within every organisation. Can any hon. Member say that they do not take place within the Conservative party? I do not know how many votes take place at local level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-23", "file": "debates1985-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2f4255809efd23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ports (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman continues to refuse to listen to what I am saying. I repeat that the policy of the Opposition to ports is identical to the policy that was adopted towards major industries by Mussolini. I could, if the hon. Gentleman wished me to do so, draw other parallels, for example with the economic policy of the Roman empire as it was applied to certain outlying states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-23a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-24", "file": "debates1985-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b866c45ed31adf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-24a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I cannot. I am not especially concerned about that matter. I am concerned with constructing a practical system that will work. No doubt we shall be able to dredge through the records and eventually find a precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-24a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-24", "file": "debates1985-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b866c45ed31adf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-24a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "have often said that it is inadequate in dealing with the problem of financing British industry. I am glad to say that that view is no longer held exclusively by those on these Benches. Indeed, members of the Government sometimes express it. In a recent eloquent speech, the Secretary of State for Wales berated the City for the inadequate way in which it approached industrial investment in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-24a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-24", "file": "debates1985-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "8b866c45ed31adf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-24a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "e of the House—that too often City institutions are more concerned with churning money rather than ensuring that that money is put in places where it will serve the national interest We in the Labour party are also extremely concerned that the internationalisation of the City will make it much more difficult to look to the City as an instrument which will serve the policy of a national Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-24a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-25", "file": "debates1985-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cba6fac25a9d1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.976.7", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ayer having to pay at least £75 million to bail it out? Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the report on the subject, which has been sat on since February, should be revealed to the public at large so that every taxpayer who has had to help bail out this uneconomic unit, Johnson Matthey Bankers, has an opportunity to see all the sordid details involved in the case? Is he aware that Mrs. Thatcher —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.976.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-25", "file": "debates1985-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cba6fac25a9d1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.976.7", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "large so that every taxpayer who has had to help bail out this uneconomic unit, Johnson Matthey Bankers, has an opportunity to see all the sordid details involved in the case? Is he aware that Mrs. Thatcher — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—the Prime Minister has had a letter from me for a month asking for the report to be published but has refused to answer it? It is time that the Government came clean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.976.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-04-25", "file": "debates1985-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cba6fac25a9d1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Say that outside.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The whole thing stinks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-25", "file": "debates1985-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cba6fac25a9d1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.979.7", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor says that he has no power over exchange rates, but he has power over inflation. When will he fulfil some of the promises which he keeps making when he travels the country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.979.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-25", "file": "debates1985-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cba6fac25a9d1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.997.6", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "tary of State for Education and Science to show them that the industrial action which the teachers are now taking is qualitatively far more intense than any similar action taken by them on any previous occasion, and that it will be prolonged. Will he ask them to arrange a debate on this important issue so that some new money can be put on the table, separate from any reassessment or restructuring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.997.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-25", "file": "debates1985-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cba6fac25a9d1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Budget Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ll meet again in a few days' time to take that further. I made it clear both to the Council and to the Commission that the United Kingdom expected that if there was any unexpected overrun on agricultural expenditure beyond the figures that we have been considering, they should deal with that by a number of means that would not require member states to provide more funds during 1985. One of those —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-25", "file": "debates1985-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cba6fac25a9d1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-25a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-26", "file": "debates1985-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ec508c28e4d60aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "ful lobbying bodies. One statistic above all illustrates the need for the measure that we are debating: the 150,000 miles of hedgerows to which the hon. Gentleman referred as having been lost in the past decade. As hon. Members know, I have always taken an interest in heritage and conservation matters and I should not like it to be thought that my interest is confined to the \"built\" environment. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-26", "file": "debates1985-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ec508c28e4d60aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I found the intervention of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food reactionary and appalling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-26", "file": "debates1985-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ec508c28e4d60aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "Would it not be better for the debate not to be an inquest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1153.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-04-26", "file": "debates1985-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ec508c28e4d60aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1187.14", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORSES AND PONIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday 3 May.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-26a.1187.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.14.6", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that when I was a Euro-MP I received about £30,000 for secretarial and research allowances and was able to keep a researcher and a secretary fully occupied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.14.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "fore March 1982. I have to say, in all candour, that to extend indexation to inflationary gains before March 1982 completely would have been too expensive in revenue and staff. Finally, I deal with development land tax. In clause 87 we propose the abolition of development land tax. If this move commends itself to the House, it will be the third tax which the Government have abolished in two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ouse, knowing what the Bill contained and what the Budget proposed, wrote to his constituents predicting a fall in unemployment before the next general election. I ask the Chief Secretary now, and I shall give way to him at once for his answer, whether, on behalf of the Treasury, he will confirm the prediction by the Leader of the House that unemployment will fall before the next general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.36.5", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about taking from the poor and giving to the rich, but how will it help Britain's economy to return to what he says he wants—the highest penal rates of taxation, which we inherited? It means that he wants to go back to the days of 95 per cent taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.36.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.37.7", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "No, of course I cannot. Such a question is preposterous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.37.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "r for Derbyshire, South (Mrs. Currie) for that part of the Bill. Like many right hon. and hon. Members, I shall look beyond this year's Finance Bill to the Green Paper that will be published later this year on the reform of personal taxation. It will cover several aspects of the development of income tax after computerisation. But the centrepiece will be the proposal for single transferable votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ive in reducing the numbers in the traps. Our intention is to phase in the system so that no couples lose in cash terms. With legislation in 1987, the system could be in place by 1990. Many right hon. and hon. Members have questioned the delay between the publication of the Green Paper and the implementation of the proposals. They have asked why fully transferable votes cannot come in before 1990—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-29", "file": "debates1985-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6f5ab85635ac1139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": " billion. Secondly, the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook spoke about the impact on those who are least well-off and about the pattern of taxation and national insurance charges during the period of this Government. It is difficult for Opposition Members to understand, but most of us are more concerned with the genuine quality of life of those in work than with attitudes on envy and redistribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-29a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-30", "file": "debates1985-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "89d443623ab249d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-30a.124.5", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ask of arguing on behalf of the workers in the dockyards has fallen? Does he agree that it is significant that the right hon. Gentleman who was bullying his way to the Dispatch Box last week, the leader of the SDP, the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen), who represents one of the constituencies affected, has not found time to come to the House to represent his constituents today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-30a.124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-30", "file": "debates1985-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "89d443623ab249d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-30a.132.6", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that service men in Europe are there not by choice but because they were posted, and that an average single service man returning home three times a year to keep contact with his family or girlfriends has to pay £58 to £100—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-30a.132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-04-30", "file": "debates1985-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "89d443623ab249d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-30a.136.2", "colnum": "136", "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 believe that it is a fundamental duty of government to undertake deep-seated reviews. No Government can displace that duty. We have undertaken a review. The matter will shortly come before the Cabinet. Discussion of it may take more than one meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-04-30a.136.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right in identifying some of the past causes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree with my hon. Friend about that. We probably export more of our GDP than any other developed country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "hern Ireland. As the Department of Finance and Personnel's memorandum of response of 24 October 1984 and the supplementary memorandum of 8 January 1985 make clear, Government policy has been changed. A project such as De Lorean would not now be supported. Industrial support is made available only for projects in which a substantial part of the financial resources is provided by the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "me that the closure involves the loss of 1,400 jobs and a loss to the nation of 500,000 tonnes of coal per year, most of which is used by the Ravenscraig steelworks. I hope that the Secretary of State will look into the details of this closure. I am informed that the power was switched off in that pit, leading to flooding, that valves were left open and that no attempt was made to recover the pit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made that point clearly in answer to the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The NUM agreed to sign the NACODS agreement, but the Government refused to allow that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "as no signed agreement to end the strike. Therefore, no agreement can take place against the background of the authority of an agreement. The Government and the NCB did not want an agreement, and that is the problem which the industry now faces. The Secretary of State did not face the realities of the position, nor did he face the facts put forward at the talks yesterday. I deal now with the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cockeram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cockeram", "preceding_text": "The House is not being asked tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cockeram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cockeram", "preceding_text": "The House is not being asked tonight—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I would be called to order if I responded to the hon. Gentleman's question. The House is being asked to approve a massive sum for the coal industry. It is interesting that the Opposition regard that as a relatively insignificant sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "preceding_text": " whether it be about Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor, Everton and Manchester United or Arthur Scargill and Ian MacGregor, without getting sacked, where the hell is the industry going? It is all very well to talk about rational decisions. I have here a newspaper which was sent to me this week. I do not recommend it to anybody, but I want to point out a headline on page 3—\"NCB's duty to heal wounds.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "preceding_text": "since I started work as a boy. I served on the consultative committees and worked through my branches to make my pit a happy pit. There is no such thing today as a happy pit, and there is nothing in the Bill to make any pit happy. The Bill is inadequate. There is nothing in the Bill to improve industrial relations. I should like to know why there is no mention in the Bill of the enterprise scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": " its leader had taken the time to visit a pit and a strike centre when he came to my constituency during the dispute rather than just whizzing through the area. As for the SDP, the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) shows exemplary interest in a number of things, but he has shown the extent of his interest in the coal industry by his continuous absence from coal industry debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "s crime, he should have been charged with a serious crime. In Scotland breach of the peace is not regarded as a serious crime. Another man, George Wallace, check No. 1517, aged 30, was bound over to be of good behaviour for six months. He had been in the industry for eight months, and was dismissed. I could give other examples. One of the finest men I know is the chairman of my constituency party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "wen) during the strike, but he has not been present for one moment during our debate. We are talking not only about future investment in the industry, but about the cost of the dispute. The dispute was unnecessary, and it was engineered by the Government. Anyone who read the article in The Economist knows that the present Secretary of State for Transport was the principal architect of the dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "ment to the next, with the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Mr. Woodall) saying that the Government were just paying lip service to the industry. No wonder my hon. Friend the Member for Warwickshire, North (Mr. Maude) said that any stranger coming into the debate would be incredulous, and rightly so, because we are talking about substantial sums. As my hon. Friend the Member for Erewash (Mr. Rost) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-01", "file": "debates1985-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "051e95db028d2d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "fectively behind them. It is recovering only because of those who truly care about their industry. One of the most important resources of our coal industry is the calibre of the men who work in it. I hope that Opposition Members will admit that the post-strike recovery is built on the solid rock of miners who worked through the dispute, and I pay tribute to their courage and determination tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-01a.385.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-05-02", "file": "debates1985-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c8bde4f93150a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I was content that there should be a debate on immigration next Thursday, but I understand that the Opposition chose otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-02", "file": "debates1985-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c8bde4f93150a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.399.7", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "If I am wrong, I withdraw the remark. I am entitled to make the point that on three separate days I and the Home Office have been happy to have a debate on immigration, but for some reason that has not been satisfactory to the Front Benches of the two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.399.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-02", "file": "debates1985-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c8bde4f93150a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.410.12", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "r to my constituency chairman that the rise in the number of people at work is still offset by the increase in the potential national work force as those leaving education substantially exceed those ageing into retirement. I then said: I believe, however, that the underlying strength of the economy will, in time, reverse this situation. That will be the most decisive moment during this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.410.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-02", "file": "debates1985-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "4c8bde4f93150a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that contributions to party funds have been debated vigorously in the recent past. Of course, we can all make observations about the size of the contribution made by the British School of Motoring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-02a.411.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-05-03", "file": "debates1985-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6312313bbc500b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-03a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "No, I must proceed, and I wish to observe Mr. Deputy Speaker's injunction. I was not aware that the Minister was trying to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but if he is, I shall give him the opportunity to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-03a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-03", "file": "debates1985-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6312313bbc500b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-03a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unborn Children (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I would go further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-03a.590.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-07", "file": "debates1985-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "44f20243153fb2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.615.3", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "My answer to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, dealing with the figures, is the same as that which I gave to his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.615.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-07", "file": "debates1985-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "44f20243153fb2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that one of the lessons of last Thursday's elections was that people do not like absolute power exercised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-07", "file": "debates1985-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "44f20243153fb2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.620.4", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recognise that one of the lessons of last Thursday was that people do not like absolute power exercised by minorities, that they do not like ideology and dogmatism and that they are becoming increasingly fed up with the the Prime Minister's own hectoring style? Far from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-07", "file": "debates1985-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "44f20243153fb2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.620.4", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recognise that one of the lessons of last Thursday was that people do not like absolute power exercised by minorities, that they do not like ideology and dogmatism and that they are becoming increasingly fed up with the the Prime Minister's own hectoring style? Far from— [Interruption.] If we always have to make ourselves heard above a hubbub", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-07", "file": "debates1985-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "44f20243153fb2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": " If I wanted to make party points, I would say that, in 1977, instead of there being a reverse differential on duty in favour of derv, there was a reverse differential of 5p a gallon, in the money terms of the day—it was a considerable difference—against derv. The hon. Member for Workington should look at all these aspects in the round. If he seeks to be fair—I know that he often does—he will see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-07", "file": "debates1985-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "44f20243153fb2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " impact on the provincial press. It would be dangerous to quote figures about the impact but it will be more than marginal. I say that for several reasons. The provincial press is now of such a flexible character that we are talking not just about the publication of one or two weekly titles. Often, there are big print centres involving several newspapers that, because of the technology, have to be", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-07", "file": "debates1985-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "44f20243153fb2d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "onsider the effect on the newspaper industry. Most of the relevant points have been extremely well made by my hon. Friends the Members for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill). for Paisley, South (Mr. Buchan), for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell), for Burnley (Mr. Pike) and for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher). The House is, therefore, in the fortunate position that it will not have to listen to me for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-07a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-08", "file": "debates1985-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d23b98f553266825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his support. I am sure that the citizens of Leicester object to the use of ratepayers' money for political propaganda because of the way that it has been manipulated. On rate capping in general, I was glad to see that last night Sheffield city council at last faced reality and, against the advice of its leader, set a rate within the limit set by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.776.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-08", "file": "debates1985-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d23b98f553266825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has the hon. Gentleman read it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is creating a certain amount of advance and synthetic indignation about this. I was commending to the House, and, indeed, Mr. Speaker, I commend to you, the excellent pamphlet written by my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Freeman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-08", "file": "debates1985-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d23b98f553266825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "This is absolutely crucial to my point of order, Mr. Speaker, as you will see as I develop it. Having cleared the House of Commons, the Bill went to the other place. On 2 April, at the request of Lord Tordoff, the Liberal Chief Whip in the House of Lords, the House went into Committee to deal with one amendment, which would have curtailed the activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-08", "file": "debates1985-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d23b98f553266825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "was designed to make the Bill more effective? Finally, had any hon. Member risen in his place on any of the occasions when the Bill was brought before the House with the promoter's intention that it should proceed without any discussion and sought to declare any personal interest, if he had one, in the matter, would not that have constituted debate arising on the matter and would it not by itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-08", "file": "debates1985-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d23b98f553266825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Licensing Acts (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "ebate. However, it would be wrong of me to promote this measure without indicating my awareness of and respect for the concern shown by those in the House who have consistently opposed the introduction of longer and more flexible licensing hours. Before my election to this House, I studied for the preparation of a television programme on alcoholism and problem drinking, especially among the young—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-08", "file": "debates1985-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d23b98f553266825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Licensing Acts (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": " among the young— [Interruption.] I said that much in the House had not changed in 40 years and our licensing laws are undoubtedly part of that. I suspect that in 40 years the same Opposition Members will be heckling from the same Opposition Benches. As part of my research I was privileged to undergo a 12-week training course with the ACCEPT organisation on what it called sensible drinking skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-08", "file": "debates1985-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d23b98f553266825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.861.7", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sports and Recreational Facilities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " Playing Fields Association. That organisation has embraced the needs of children's play. The Minister has been coy recently about that area. I remember the Prime Minister making a statement that the hon. Gentleman would be specifically responsible for children's play in future. That announcement was made about two years ago, since when not one word has been uttered about it as far as I can trace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-08a.861.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Security", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the right hon. Gentleman's first point, it is a fact that Bettaney was arrested before he was able to hand over some of the information which he had accumulated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Roberts", "preceding_text": " security guarding, in Government Departments … I cannot go into detail about the steps which are taken to ensure the suitability of commercial guarding companies\". That is what I was told, and yet the Prime Minister makes statements about her concern for national security. I am not prepared to allow private companies to be responsible for the security of the correspondence of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that, this week, the European Parliament debated a motion concerning the plight of Cypriot refugees, and that it will debate another such motion in the near future? Would it not be appropriate if the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.920.6", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " widely supported among our Community partners. We must now consider on what terms the MFA should be renewed, and for how long. Clearly, with the new GATT round approaching, any renewed MFA will be in some sense a transitional measure. Some of our European Community partners may press for a prior commitment that thereafter all special restrictions on textile and clothing trade will come to an end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.920.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.920.6", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " I think that it would be premature to give such a commitment unconditionally at this stage. This is a matter that will have to be negotiated in the GATT round. In those negotiations all the major participants should be prepared to see all the major derogations and exemptions from the basic rules of the GATT put on the table for negotiation. For the developed countries this cannot exclude the MFA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.920.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "be specially important. We shall, of course, keep in close touch with the industry and with other interested parties, as well as with the many hon. Members who clearly take an interest in this subject. The House will have seen the early-day motion in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough (Sir J. Fan). It has attracted 110 signatures from hon. Members in different parts of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " of the developing countries. They have prominent and robust economies. The suggestion that the MFA is directed against the poorer and starving countries of the world reveals a gross misunderstanding of its purpose and its effect. The MFA is the mechanism which allows some of the poorest countries access to our markets against competition from some of the stronger, newly-industrialised countries.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "to say that we would have secured certain orders. The hon. Gentleman knows that every country has to balance such considerations. If I gauge his line of thinking correctly, he is suggesting that without having secured anything on the export front we should bilaterally rid ourselves of the arrangement. His words can have no other meaning than that the arrangement acts against our national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "areas. He talked about 2 per cent. unemployment as if it did not matter, but there are no other jobs in those areas. If 50,000 or 100,000 jobs were lost, people could not find work elsewhere. Professor Silberston claimed that a reduction of 5 per cent. in import prices would lead to shopkeepers reducing their prices by the same amount, so that customers would benefit. I find that hard to believe.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.943.3", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman knows nothing about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "se that many hon. Gentlemen disagree with that. However, careful analysis and consideration of the criticisms will show that some of the criticisms are also ill-founded. I have considered Silberston's report and the criticisms of it, and I believe that he got it about right in general direction, if not in detail. We could pick holes in many of the details, but in general the thrust is about right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-09", "file": "debates1985-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c5c6fe20e4ac56a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about article 19 of the GATT?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "e predatory trading nations would press home what is in some instances an unfair market advantage. If we were to weaken the MFA or bring it to an end, the result would be the very antithesis of free trade. If that were to happen, we should enter a jungle. The issue is not confined to the arrangement or free trade. We have a choice of chaos or regulation, and the Opposition will opt for regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-09a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-10", "file": "debates1985-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5f9ef36325cabef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-10a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer", "preceding_text": "alled, is a mistake in legislation. There are sometimes cases where, notwithstanding the absence of the woman, the facts are overwhelming. Although I accept my hon. Friend's point, in cases under clause 3 it would be desirable and right to call the woman. However, there may be a small residue of cases where that would not be necessary and it would impede the cause of justice for it to be required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-10a.1015.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-10", "file": "debates1985-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5f9ef36325cabef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-10a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I understand and respect that. My hon. Friend has been deeply involved and has worked very hard with others who wish the measure to go forward as quickly as possible. With the greatest respect, however, this is a complex, deep and important issue and we must get it right. If we get it wrong, innocent people may suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-10a.1047.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Football Grounds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "l with the problem. We must ensure that, in such circumstances, people bent on disorder are not allowed to travel this country to break the law. I hope that the inquiry will take account of that point. My right hon. Friends and I are concerned about the fact that there is to be only one inquiry. The Home Secretary is wrong to limit the terms of reference to the Bradford and Birmingham occurrences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.37.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Civil Liberties", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shareholders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "sue to some extent. Therefore, the House should always be on its guard. The Government are trying to deal with social and economic problems by increasing centralised power and order. Centralised power is itself a danger to liberty, as is unaccountable power. We often hear the Tory party talking about trade unions, but how little do we hear it talking about votes in companies, votes between people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.67.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1144.5", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor of the Exchequer aware that had that rise of over £115 billion been spent in Britain it could have provided 1,000 new general hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1144.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1175.2", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "guidance even suggests questions which should be used to trap applicants into making a statement which would justify refusing them entry under the primary purpose rule. In its report the CRE described those questions as ambiguous and unfair. I shall give three, which are given in the report. They are If your fiancée did not live in the United Kingdom, would you still go to her home to live?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1175.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " treatment that we believe reflects the civilised democracy to which we lay so regular a claim? Is it fair that the treatment of a man who wants to marry someone from, say, Mauritius is much less good than if each of the partners was in that country when they first decided to marry? In every case, those who come, whether as students or visitors, abide by the rules. They come here for good reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "he is a member disdains and rejects the economic policies of previous Conservative Governments. None of us would be in politics if we thought that everything that had been done in the past was perfect. The record of Labour and Conservative Governments has not been identical. The Conservative party has always had a much more deeply racist element within it, which has called much more passionately —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "s. Clauses 5 to 9 were inserted at the request of the LBA, supported by the ALA, and are designed to help to prevent footway collapse in London's streets, which include many vaults and cellars. Unfortunately, this is happening too often now as heavier and heavier lorries use our streets. Clause 10 seeks to exempt from the licensing codes that control massage establishments premises which are run —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1212.6", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "s for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) and for Woolwich (Mr. Cartwright) that it is unnecessary. Personally, I do not believe that the boroughs consulted the market traders adequately. From the evidence that I have, there seems to have been scant consultation with the London-based Federation of Street Traders Unions and little, if any, consultation with the National Market Traders Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1212.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "for far too long. I cannot accept that the problems that he is referring to are the responsibility of the GLC. I think that I have understood the mood of the House quite quickly. Hon. Members are scurrying backwards and forwards across the Chamber. I think that it might be of some assistance to the House if I say that I accept instruction 4, or words to that effect, to leave out part V altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ut part V altogether—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".] Hon. Members should not cheer too loudly. I shall submit better drafted new clauses in Committee. I feel that there are some clear inadequacies in the Bill. I do not want to take responsibility for them here. Therefore, all the matters relating to street traders will be taken out of the Bill and resubmitted in Committee. I refer to parts V and VI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ther—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".] Hon. Members should not cheer too loudly. I shall submit better drafted new clauses in Committee. I feel that there are some clear inadequacies in the Bill. I do not want to take responsibility for them here. Therefore, all the matters relating to street traders will be taken out of the Bill and resubmitted in Committee. I refer to parts V and VI— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Let me be clear about what the hon. Member for Newham, North-West has agreed. If I heard him aright, he has agreed to withdraw parts V and VI totally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-13", "file": "debates1985-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e8a3b8dc0cfb85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1227.5", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Immigration Control Procedures (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am referring to the London boroughs, too, but I have the Leicester market on my mind because that is where I operate from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-13a.1227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.169.8", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I gladly join my hon. Friend in congratulating all of those concerned in the building of the airstrip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "since she first came to power in 1979 the last shiprepair yard in my constituency has closed, the last shipbuilding yard in my constituency has been put in mothballs, the last pit in my constituency has been closed, the last steelworks in my constituency is to be phased out at the end of this year and that MacGregor has just announced that the Whitburn workshops in my constituency will be closed?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "of this year and that MacGregor has just announced that the Whitburn workshops in my constituency will be closed?— [Interruption.] If some Conservative Members would stop shedding crocodile tears about unemployment, we might get somewhere. Is the Prime Minister aware that in my constituency one in three men are unemployed and that of those 40 per cent. have been unemployed for more than 12 months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister note that tomorrow is the launch of the coalfields community campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister note that tomorrow is the launch of the coalfields community campaign? [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"] I regret that that remark shows the opposition's ignorance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.172.4", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take time this afternoon to ponder on the fact that, during Prime Minister's Question Time last Thursday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " a revaluation, they have been doing it silently, which seems to be a very strange way of going about it. I have looked up the record. They did not object to revaluation or oppose it in any way. The hon. Gentleman may have been campaigning for the relief of commercial ratepayers, but I have not noticed him doing so. If he was, he was calling for a maximum sum. The biggest sum was about £5 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": " they have a policy not to have a policy. Effectively, they are drifting about aimlessly without coming up with a constructive idea on how to ensure that, in the next 15 years, Britain's interest in pricing and production of our energy resources is maximised, with the maximisation of the industrial opportunities that arise therefrom, in a way that regrettably has not occurred in the last 15 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "cent speech to which I shall come— is right to refer to trade unions, which, naturally, seek to improve conditions for their members. They would be misguided if they did not. Likewise, the first obligation of the companies is to make profits—one might say, to perform the role of the vulture, and the vulture goes where the pickings are easy— and it is inevitable that they will look afterthemselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "ith our European partners. Our European partners would not take quite the same attitude if the legacy was theirs. It is delightful that the Minister now recognises that orders should accrue to Britain. It is a pity that he did not perceive it before or that people such as the right hon. Member for Guildford, who inflicted a great deal of complacency on the House today, did not perceive it earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "967. It should be scrapped now and the money involved in implementing the provisions of the Bill should be used to that end. To continue to pour money into unsuccessful ports, propped up by such a distorting agency as the dock labour scheme, is as wasteful and as sterile as pouring money into unviable coal mines, unused railway lines and unwanted steel capacity. The money would be better invested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.272.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bogus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not unprecedented for an hon. Member to detain the House as long as did the hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Chope) without finding the courage to vote —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-14", "file": "debates1985-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2fd61b3b7464110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I rise to speak to the amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-14a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ble to this country. Mr. John Harvey-Jones, together with Lord Weinstock, in giving evidence in another place the other week, fired a broadside at the complacent Government by observing that not only did he sell 11 per cent. less of ICI's products in the United Kingdom than he sold in 1979 but that the principal reason for that was that 30 per cent. of his customers had ceased to exist since 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "oo many cases the City and its institutions refused to provide adequate finance. Indeed, we suffer grievously from the lack of an industrial banking system. That is why the Labour party urges the creation of a national investment bank which can lend to industry on a time scale and on a basis which will secure the investment that our industry needs to re-equip, particularly in the new technologies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.333.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Information Technology (Mr. Geoffrey Pattie)", "preceding_text": "support every single strike no matter what the cost, its reactionary and damaging policies in favour of increased taxation, further nationalisation, and greater state intervention, its policies of deplorable fiscal irresponsibility, incompatible with the restraint of inflation and enhancement of competitiveness, and its eagerness to seek partisan gain at the expense of British industry and jobs.'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": "t on services rather than physical assets. That trend will undoubtedly continue. For example, in the United States the service sector is now three times the size of the manufacturing sector. There was a series of significant inaccuracies in the right hon. and learned Gentleman's speech. Early in his speech he said that the unemployment figure was nearly 4 million—in fact, it is 3·2 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I do not want to delve too much into that aspect of Labour party policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "ney pumped in by the taxpayer, but the initiative and entrepreneurial spirit of the industrialists. That is what we must generate today. That is what we must recover. I was impressed by the fact that my hon. Friend the Minister not only listed the Government's efforts to encourage industry but described how they are trying to instil a new spirit into industry in connection with the new technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " taxpayers' pocket. I often feel that politicians are arrogant in thinking that they succeed in creating jobs by waving a magic wand when experienced business men cannot. I especially feel that many Opposition Members are arrogant when they have no business experience, having been full-time politicians, academics or journalists. At the end of the day, the best way of helping high-tech industries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": "ced the choice between talking to 200 industrialists, engaged in the business of exports, or listening to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith). Out of courtesy I must at least pretend that it was a struggle, but I doubt whether anyone in the House would believe me. I am told that the right hon. and learned gentleman said that he wanted to start a great national debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is oil\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Yes. I might equally ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he has ever heard of manufacturing, banking or financial services, or any other aspect of our trade. The Labour Government suffered from chronic balance of payments problems, and for the past five years we have had a balance or better on our trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.414.4", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I did learn from it. I learnt, for example, about the extraordinary ignorance, bias and partisanship of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.414.11", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "No, no, no. The hon. Gentleman had his chance and I will now deal with the point that he raises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.414.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.415.7", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "It is always useful to look at the front page, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.415.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.415.7", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "utput…. Output volume is reported to have grown faster than in the last three Surveys and its rate of growth is expected to accelerate over the next few months. The capital goods sector continued to grow rather faster than the average. Capacity utilisation still remains broadly constant and has now remained static over the last four quarters. Given the increase in orders and output\"․", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.415.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": " down and become much more complex. Far from providing a greater source of justice for the people to whom the hon. Gentleman refers, I believe that it would be more difficult through delay and complexity for them to achieve their objectives. I do not accept that legal aid is desirable at industrial tribunals. I believe that people with good cases can obtain legal representation if they require it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "tly reasonable to examine that aspect from time to time to ascertain whether the original judgments were still correct. The Labour Government took the view that the period should be reduced. As a vice-chairman of the Small Business Bureau, I can say that that decision by the Labour Government to reduce the period of qualification has done grave damage to small businesses and to employment in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.431.5", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": " and a 12-month or six-month corresponding qualifying period for unfair dismissal legislation, two months or six weeks before the period expires, the employer would take a view of the individual and say, \"If we are even in doubt about this man's fitness, we should get rid of him now.\" If we have a longer qualifying period, the probationary period would still remain at six months or 12 months, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "s from his own side and gasps of amazement from those of us who thought that this measure, which is so important for so many people, would at least be given the courtesy of a full explanation by the Minister who was introducing it. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman worked on the basis that the least said the soonest ended, and the quicker he could return to yawning on the Front Bench in his charming way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "But, in the end, one comes forward with the impression, which is made in good faith —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "blished that there is an impact which should be considered—whether direct or actual, because of the psychological effect. I think I can still survive the compliments of the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner); we may have to put up with each other for some time yet. He referred to the length of my speech and whether I was reading it too fast or too slowly. I was not too clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ople who lose their jobs. That shows that there is a sense of reality in the outside world, even though we in this House may occasionally lose it when debating issues of this kind. If people were listening to this debate and believing all they heard from the Opposition Benches, one might expect a good many employers to start dismissing people unfairly and wantonly and on a large and growing scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-15", "file": "debates1985-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "f79cdfdcec78216b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "lthough a pre-hearing assessment might remove it. But there are cases which have been brought to my attention of cases involving people who clearly have not qualified through the qualifying period, where an employer has been summoned to attend an industrial tribunal hearing. If the hon. and learned Gentleman is saying that that is wrong, I should be interested to hear from him, but it is the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-15a.460.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-16", "file": "debates1985-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "927096e015f889c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-16a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said at Question Time on Tuesday: Those remarks must have been deeply wounding and we on these Benches reject them absolutely.\"—[ Official Report , 14 May 1985; Vol. 79, c. 169.] I understand that the hon. Gentleman is withdrawing the remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-16a.490.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-16", "file": "debates1985-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "927096e015f889c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-16a.490.4", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that my hon. Friend has withdrawn the remark and, of course, I therefore do. I hope that the hon. Gentleman now thinks that that airstrip was a very good investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-16a.490.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I have not fought the policy. A reasonable increase in tolls for the first time since 1979 is a sensible proposal. I am pressing on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the most serious part of the agricultural year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": "sion for beef producers and sheep producers, but it is only short-term. I wish that the Minister and his counterparts in Europe would discuss the long-term future of agriculture. Confidence would be restored if the industry knew that the variable beef premium and the sheepmeat regime would remain in force for the next 10 years. I should like to ask the Minister two other questions, one on quotas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": " counterparts in Europe would discuss the long-term future of agriculture. Confidence would be restored if the industry knew that the variable beef premium and the sheepmeat regime would remain in force for the next 10 years. I should like to ask the Minister two other questions, one on quotas — [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Were quotas discussed for other products which are produced in Britain ? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.756.7", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "in the way that he believes appropriate, even on a three-line Whip, and I do not challenge his right—perhaps the Opposition Chief Whip would—to say what he has said. In our amendent we refer to \"any legislation\"; we do not refer specifically to the legislation that is heralded in the Auld report. Conservative Members are to be whipped through the Lobby on a three-line Whip on this matter tonight —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.756.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.760.5", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Gentleman to permit me to continue. I have given way on several occasions. I have a great deal more to say and I should like to see how we get on before I allow the hon. Gentleman to intervene. It is no wonder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "—protection of the workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "n 1983, and included this provision, that no employee—not \"no established employee\"— shall be required to perform such [Sunday] work, and refusal to work for any retail establishment on Sunday shall not be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge, reduction in hours, or any other penalty. That is what they have in Massachusetts, and that is what we demand in the Bill. Nothing else will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "gislation were the working classes. It is paradoxical that now their alleged representatives are very much against the amelioration of these laws. I am not an admirer of Victorian values, and I am grateful that, in this respect at least, the Government are departing from them; although it is fair to say that Queen Victoria was not a sabbatarian, and was opposed to the sabbatarianism of those days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "preceding_text": "the small corner shops. They already suffer from intense competition from supermarkets that have all the modern techniques and the bulk-buying facilities that enable them to sell goods more cheaply. The corner shop does considerable business, by its standards, on a Sunday. If superstores open on Sundays it would lose most of this business and many corner shops and small businesses would disappear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Existing workers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": " workers in the retail trade who, for religious reasons or on conscience grounds, might not wish to be forced to work on Sunday and might fear that they would be discriminated against. Therefore, I was particularly pleased to hear my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary say that the only matter on which he disagreed with the Auld report was the protection of workers in the retail trade", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "y as a whole. Therefore, the predictions of the Institute for Fiscal Studies about job losses will not be borne out. I believe that Sunday trading and the extension of hours adds to the gaiety of life and the convenience of the consumer. It adds to the opportunities for the family. People may say that the morbidity, boredom and dullness of the traditional English Sunday brings the family together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hancock", "preceding_text": "dividual's right to choose whether to support it, and hon. Members should not have to have the Government's boot put up their backsides in order not only to get them to the Chamber but to get them into the right Lobby. That is not in keeping with what I should have thought were the traditions of the House, and of this Government. But of course it is up to each retailer to choose whether to operate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I shall sum up on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Mellor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "ould be in a better position to make progress in the debate if the Opposition had coherently explained how they would resolve the anomalies created by the legislation. The committee comprised three people of great distinction. Those people were aided in their work by six assessors. The assessors were carefully drawn from the interest groups who would be most affected by any change to the 1950 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.819.10", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "There is no question of the traditional British Sunday being thrown over. We are saying that we should trust the people to make their decision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.819.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-20", "file": "debates1985-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e4d240c34a2ff9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Shop Hours (Auld Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The Government have placed a three-line Whip on the business, but those with genuine conscientious objections do not have to vote for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-20a.820.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.853.7", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has already said that we expect the rate to reach around 5 per cent. by the end of the year, and to be lower still in 1986.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.853.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.854.10", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend found time today to see press reports of a survey which show that 76 per cent. of the public wish to see the proceedings of this House televised? Can she —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.854.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Higher Education", "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": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement about the Green Paper published today on the future development of higher education. Copies of the Green Paper are available in the Vote Office $", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.857.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.870.8", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw). It was my fault — I misunderstood his question. We know — they are published in this paper—the number implications of the fall in student places. It will be, for variant Y, a fall of 74,000. I have promised that by next year we shall try to interpret the implications for the higher— [Interruption.] It is all explained in the Green Paper. There are charts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.870.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "I am flattered that the right hon. Gentleman regards my undertakings as so much more genuine and real than his own. He may not be Secretary of State next year, let alone for another two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.901.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "emain in the scheme, the operator can appeal to the Secretary of State, and who knows what attitude the Secretary of State will take? He may take decisions that are utterly unacceptable to us. Experience certainly suggests that that will be the case with the present Secretary of State, although the next Labour Secretary of State will doubtless take the first opportunity to repeal these provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is becoming extremely passionate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "No, not by bus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Herefordians?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " However, I acknowledge the hon. Gentleman's gracious-ness in allowing interventions in his contribution. I regret the negative attitude that has been taken and on the basis of hearsay evidence. My hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. Brandon-Bravo) related the experiences of councillors from Nottingham who visited Hereford. People who have visited Hereford and spoken to Herefordians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-21", "file": "debates1985-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdc55c19f5771244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.968.2", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "I am deeply grateful to the Secretary of State for this newly found —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-21a.968.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.999.6", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Israeli weapons\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Minister may answer, but I thought that the south Atlantic was not in the middle east.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I fear that my hon. Friend has not properly read the Dooge report to which he refers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Bates Colliery (Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ryman", "preceding_text": " and industrial relations. This is a most serious matter and I ask you to consider it earnestly. This is not a token application, as sometimes happens, and it is not a matter that can be considered lightly. Although today's business is important, it should not be allowed to jeopardise the jobs of 1,400 of my constituents who have been thoroughly misled by the dishonest behaviour of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Bates Colliery (Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": " must on any reasonable interpretation of the English language, if the language means anything, be considered dishonest. The junior Minister was at Ellington colliery in the north-east when he said that he would seriously consider the proposals submitted for the viability of Bates colliery. He has not done that. He has not had time to do that, because the closure was announced yesterday afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Bates Colliery (Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "d dishonest. The junior Minister was at Ellington colliery in the north-east when he said that he would seriously consider the proposals submitted for the viability of Bates colliery. He has not done that. He has not had time to do that, because the closure was announced yesterday afternoon. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] That is why I am suggesting that the Government have been thoroughly dishonest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Bates Colliery (Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "th-east when he said that he would seriously consider the proposals submitted for the viability of Bates colliery. He has not done that. He has not had time to do that, because the closure was announced yesterday afternoon. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] That is why I am suggesting that the Government have been thoroughly dishonest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—so has Mr. MacGregor, the chairman of the NCB —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.10", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Bates Colliery (Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Whether Ministers have been incompetent is another matter, but the Minister himself is not dishonest, and that is the word that I want the hon. Gentleman to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1010.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Bates Colliery (Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "May I have an opportunity to explain what I have just said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "say that sometimes a great deal of money has been involved—in garages, bus stations, property and so on. Some of my hon. Friends will be interested if the hon. Lady is saying to the House that the representatives of the ratepayers, in the form of the metropolitan county councils, have parted with public money to the National Bus Company without any contractual arrangements about what is to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The astonishing thing that the hon. Lady is trying to reveal to the House is just that. She is trying to say that local authorities have parted with large sums of money to the subsidiaries of the National Bus Company, although she knows that the National Bus company has always had the right — not the compulsion of Government — to sell any subsidiaries it wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1029.5", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": " these changes are those who will be able to ignore all the commitments that were entered into by the NBC and the PTEs with their employees. It is a disgrace. It is one of the nastiest, most unacceptable and most rotten parts of the Bill. I hope that the Secretary of State can sleep at night, because what he is doing both to the pensioners of, and those working in, the bus industry is disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1029.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " they will be — that will continue. The right answer must be to look at the funds themselves, apart from the parent company, recognising that they have their own assets and their own liabilities. We must make sure—absolutely sure—that the assets are adequate to discharge the funds' responsibilities. That is what we have done on all previous privatisations. That is what we have undertaken to do in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "nothing to look after people; they just impose what an operator thinks he can make money on. Market forces remove all sense of caring and, more important, reliability and stability, which are essential ingredients for those passengers whose jobs or way of life are dependent upon them. That is the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Dr. Marek) was making, and I subscribe to that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "red. The hon. Member for Sunderland, North showed that ICI, Marks and Spencer and other private sector companies undertake market research. What leads him to believe that the motivation for profit which drives Marks and Spencer to seek out surveys to ascertain where customers can be found will not also be a motivation for bus operators to undertake the same activities in the metropolitan counties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "preceding_text": "It is not often that I find myself in agreement with the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours), but I have to remark on the duplicitous attitude of the Liberal party towards the Bill. I have lived for four years with the trial area in Hereford. The people of Herefordshire like what they have been living with for the past four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "xample of the scare-a-day and the distortion to which the Bill has been subjected. A failure to run a registered service when it is registered will result in penalties falling upon the operators. We have been told of these endless scares and of the cowboy operators and unsafe vehicles, yet every operator will need an operator's licence and must have servicing facilities available for his vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that I have never been on a bus. Not only have I been on buses, but I have been on buses in Hereford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1102.4", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The Minister said that he had been on a bus in Hereford. I am pleased that he had, because the opportunity of doing that will not be available to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1102.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1102.6", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1102.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1111.4", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Royal Ordnance Factories Trading Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ssh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "out secret materials and processes that are owned by the state being handed over to the private sector, and I am worried about it. The Minister knows that many developments at ROF Patricroft should not go to the private sector. They should not even be bidded for. One could talk about many items, but one is expected to be quiet. I know of many developments at ROF Patricroft which are highly secret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1111.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Royal Ordnance Factories Trading Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anna McCurley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anna McCurley", "preceding_text": "Why does the hon. Gentleman think that the integrity of our defences would be damaged? After all, if a state of emergency prevailed in this country, we would requisition and do whatever was necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Royal Ordnance Factories Trading Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " in the last analysis he will give no clear undertaking about the way in which this great institution is to be carved up and hived off. Is the Government's aim to ensure security of supply for our armed services? The answer to that is also no, as the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull has shown. We know that 11,000 medium artillery shells for the British services are now to be manufactured abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-22", "file": "debates1985-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ec07c95f4ee41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Royal Ordnance Factories Trading Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ufactured abroad. [Interruption.] The Secretary of State for Employment laughs, but the Prime Minister herself admitted yesterday that those shells are to be produced not by the royal ordnance factories but by the Belgian armaments organisation PRB—a state-owned concern, incidentally —which was required to put in the cheapest possible quotation. The cheapest possible quote required it to use not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-22a.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-05-24", "file": "debates1985-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "2120699738ce9573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-24a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Cystic Fibrosis (Prescription Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ns that last for a long time and are on the increase in this country. That applies to cancer, too, despite all the research efforts. I am not trying to muddy the waters. I am only trying to point out to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton and the hon. Member for Brent, South that there is a whole host of conditions for which a very good case could be made. That is where the rub comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-05-24a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I hope that when the right hon. Gentleman is able to consider carefully what he has just said he will recognise that it was extremely wrong and in bad taste for him to use that inflammatory language at such a crucial stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.6.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I hope that when the right hon. Gentleman is able to consider carefully what he has just said he will recognise that it was extremely wrong and in bad taste for him to use that inflammatory language at such a crucial stage— [Interruption.] —in the present situation. I ask him to take time to go underground, as I have done at Point of Ayr, at Ellington and at Selby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.6.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.14.13", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend will be aware that the private Member's motion to be moved on Friday to ensure the debate of a Bill that has the support of the House is within the rules of order, and it is proper that it should be debated. However, does he agree that there is a procedural loophole here, at which both he and the Select Committee on Procedure should look, to see whether action can be taken to stop it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.14.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "In respect of this Friday's innovation, to put at its lowest, and major misuse of parliamentary procedure, to put it another way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "European Cup Final (Brussels)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ime Minister agree that in addition it is essential to discover not only those who commit the crimes but why they commit such crimes? Therefore, can we look forward to a quick and thorough investigation with that in view, which would involve the police, youth and social workers and others with direct practical experience from week to week of dealing with the issues posed by the spread of thuggery?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Social Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that, behind all the rhetoric about restructuring, this statement represents the erosion of the fundamental principle of a welfare state for all citizens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Social Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "l bring about a net loss in the next few years to pensioners and the unemployed of at least £1,000 million a year even before the huge losses from the abolition of SERPS begin, and that the main beneficiaries, whom he did not mention, will be the rich, who will receive even bigger tax handouts in future Tory Budgets? We welcome the Government's limited reprieve on SERPS, in response to our demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Social Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW much will it cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "For various reasons, I cannot give the figures for which the hon. Gentleman asks. As I explained to the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot), no detailed analysis of cost can be made until benefit rates have been set in April 1987.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.48.5", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Social Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that almost everyone in the House accepts the need for some reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.48.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Revaluation Rebates) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I am happy to state our position. We will look very hard at the alternatives —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Revaluation Rebates) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "preceding_text": "I shall happily take on that task. The new breed of Labour councillor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.93.2", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Revaluation Rebates) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be aware that I have in the past done exactly what the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) has been asking for. I have reported to the local authority auditor the city of Dundee and its councillors. Had they not stopped doing what they were doing, they would have been prosecuted. They had been printing a news sheet and did not even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.93.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Revaluation Rebates) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "at he called on the Government to ensure that the positions were similar. He neatly avoided the fact that, on 28 July 1982, the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. Wilson) pronounced these exciting words: There is nothing wrong with revaluation. In fact, there is much to be gained from it. I have listened with interest to some of the criticisms that his party has made since then about revaluation. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-03", "file": "debates1985-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb4d1bdc9a502a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Revaluation Rebates) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "ties before an audited certified claim can be prepared. The hon. Member asked about disabled persons' relief, and I think he appreciated that I was not altogether clear about it. I am still puzzled as to how it can arise. If the hon. Gentleman will write to me about it, I shall look into the matter. My hon. Friend the Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Mr. Hirst) asked about mines and quarries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-03a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, contrary to the statement of his hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Dr. Mawhinney), what is exercising the minds of Catholics in Northern Ireland is not whether they should be members of the UDR but whether they can avoid being killed by members of the UDR—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman accept that one of the things that keeps service men in the service is professional pride in their job? Does he realise that the Government's cost-cutting exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.146.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In accordance with custom, we have still to decide the figures for this year's uprating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In accordance with custom, we have still to decide the figures for this year's uprating— [Interruption] . It is according to custom. It is done either on a historical basis or on a forecast. We rejected the forecast and chose the historical basis. That means that we must wait for the May retail price index figures, which are not published until June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.151.6", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. This is a Green Paper. If the hon. Member looks in some of the separate volumes he will find many figures already there on a number of things. There are far too many to have been absorbed in the short time that the paper has been out. We are not yet prepared to put figures to particular benefits for very good reasons because we believe in sound finance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.151.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "day to release to the press on or about midday a written answer to the hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Chope) giving notice that the Government's merchant banking friends are being given another chance to dip their spoon into the gravy by working on proposals to privatise Rolls-Royce? That move will put the jobs of thousands of people in my constituency at risk. Has a breach of privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " representation and transferable votes. I think that the Liberals want proportional representation in local government because there is such a row between the Liberals and the Social Democrats that they want the opportunity to stand against one another. That is the plan. If we are not careful, we shall finish with something like the system in Northern Ireland. Is not that a wonderful hotch-potch?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am opposing the Bill because I believe that a majority in the House wants to ensure that we do not allow it to go forward. There have just been elections in Northern Ireland on a transferable vote system. We can see the result. According to the news today, all hell has been let loose in various councils. They have had to bring in the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "osing the Bill because I believe that a majority in the House wants to ensure that we do not allow it to go forward. There have just been elections in Northern Ireland on a transferable vote system. We can see the result. According to the news today, all hell has been let loose in various councils. They have had to bring in the police— [Interruption.] — and countless other incidents have occurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is generally accepted in the House that hon. Members listen to speeches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is generally accepted in the House that hon. Members listen to speeches — [Interruption.] As one who listens to speeches, I object most strongly to the so-called alliance rabble barracking my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I entirely —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "se at the end of the day there will be fewer of them after the general election that there are now irrespective of whether they have the local government transferable vote. > The Liberal party and the Social Democratic party can agree on hardly anything. I should like to know what the local government candidates would do on matters affecting policy. Would they be able to put out joint manifestos —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "als are not very happy about it, or at least they have slight reservations—not in principle, simply on the arithmetic. Therefore, it would be interesting to see those manifestos. I suspect that we would have not joint selection for candidates in local government, but almighty rows based not on democracy but on some sort of quasi-regional vote, in which delegates would come from the various areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "n for candidates in local government, but almighty rows based not on democracy but on some sort of quasi-regional vote, in which delegates would come from the various areas — [Interruption.] No, that is absolutely wrong. Those are some of the problems that would occur. I do not believe that the Bill will get very far because the Government will kill it as they have killed many others on a Friday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Isle of Wight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "iberals and Social Democrats in their pamphlets, going downhill just a little bit. I do not want to over-egg the pudding, but I read a pamphlet the other day by the alliance which said that whereas it had been generally in favour of proportional representation for everybody in the British Isles, it now had some reservations about the Orkney and Shetland constituency, and Caithness and Sutherland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. John Stradling Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mr. John Stradling Thomas)", "preceding_text": "ess-favoured areas will be continued. Fifteen thousand Welsh farmers now qualify for assistance following successful negotiation of the redefinition of the area in 1984. The industry has welcomed the wider grant coverage that is possible under the regulation. Decisions on the new capital grants scheme will be made shortly. That is not a picture of inertia or complacency, but of realistic action. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stradling Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stradling Thomas", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. To the best of my knowledge that is a piece of fiction. I have no way of confirming any such thing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stradling-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stradling-Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made great play in his speech of pre-1903 schools. It is the quality of provision with which we are concerned, not the age of the building. That is not a vital symbol. As resources become available, development in that direction, which is highly desirable, will continue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Access?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "ion; and welcomes the framework for the future development of higher education set out in Cmnd. 9524.\"• Higher education should not be debated in the terms which the hon. Member for Durham, North (Mr. Radice) has chosen to use. Higher education is to be judged by quality. It can be judged properly only by quality, excellence, fitness for purpose, scholarship, research— basic and otherwise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": " have been dealt with many years ago, but again I have no time to talk at length on those important topics. The debate has been very interesting. Conservative Members have introduced some useful points but they have been talking about the subject as from a distance, without knowing what was going on at ground level and what disillusion is being felt by teachers and researchers in higher education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "versities would like to be able to engage at least 900 more lecturers and senior staff during the next period. He was right. However, I must tell the House that during the same period about 700 vacancies are expected to occur. There will still be a worrying gap, but it will be of the order of at least 200, rather than at least 900. The hon. Member for Knowsley, South (Mr. Hughes) in a good speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "he 1979 figure as was predicted at the time. The hon. Member for Wrexham also asked me to deal with the Prime Minister's letter to the Association of University Teachers and explain why level funding has not been provided. Since that letter was written, the public purse has incurred a number of expenditures that were not predicted at that time—for instance, the small matter of the miners' dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-04", "file": "debates1985-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5fcf6bc8595b7042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFICIT GRANTS TO NATIONAL COAL BOARD 10.15 pm", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "l is designed to contract the coal industry. This is a pit closure Bill. It seeks to restrict coal production and cause job losses in many mining areas. The Minister is the third Minister responsible for the coal industry in the last six years. It is logical to assume—I say this without personal rancour —that he will not be in office to defend his handiwork when the Bill's life expectancy expires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-04a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The House must also understand that the United Kingdom is and has been in trade surplus for many years. That was not a factor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The House must also understand that the United Kingdom is and has been in trade surplus for many years. That was not a factor—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil.\"] Opposition Members attack whatever commodity suits them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.6", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I well understand my hon. Friend's anxiety. As I said the last time when I answered questions on this matter, it does not appear that the Japanese broke any undertakings and agreements on aid. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.6", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I well understand my hon. Friend's anxiety. As I said the last time when I answered questions on this matter, it does not appear that the Japanese broke any undertakings and agreements on aid. However— [Interruption.] If the House is finished, I shall continue. However, what I find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.299.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.300.0", "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 not lost for words, but I have no intention of shouting above this bear garden, and the sooner hon. Members stop shouting, the sooner we shall get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ejects the suggestion that the air transport industry should be subject to the damaging restrictions on its operations which would be the outcome of the forced diversion of traffic to regional airports\". If the hon. Lady does not agree with that statement, she might like to know that I was quoting her Government's White Paper of 1978. What was good enough for that Government is good enough for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may recognise two points: first, the vote was on whether the House should adjourn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on honouring his promise not to construct the fifth terminal? Is he aware that that will bring great relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And a different Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "t movement limit at Stansted will come before the House for many years, because we have not yet imposed it, which is the first step. I cannot anticipate the decisions of my right hon. Friends the Leader of the House and the Patronage Secretary about the nature of the whipping on an occasion many years ahead and, perhaps, in a different Parliament, under powers which Parliament has not yet granted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Member's Statements)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ow given a different version of what I am supposed to have said. Yet I have maintained consistently exactly what I said, which is supported by the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Ross), who spoke to eye witnesses. I stand by what I said, notwithstanding what the lady said in her letter in the Daily Telegraph today. As to the Mhari L, I made it clear that circumstantial evidence was given to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "I understand the point, and I think that the hon. Gentleman will find, when the draft order is published, that it is covered. Where, after a rebate has been granted by the rating authority, any alteration is made in the rate value or in the pre-revaluation rateable value or in the revaluation rateable value itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.353.4", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": " Under-Secretary of State made some play of the fact that at the time that the Liberal party was campaigning for exactly this kind of relief package we were asking for only about £4 million. He knows that that criticism of us was as much a criticism of the Scottish Federation on Small Businesses and Self Employed which had assessment information available to it that that is what would be required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.353.4", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "at criticism of us was as much a criticism of the Scottish Federation on Small Businesses and Self Employed which had assessment information available to it that that is what would be required— [Interruption.] It has emerged since that such organisations as the Liberal party and the federation, without the aid of computers, are no more inaccurate than the Government, who have the aid of computers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "ork, and they have not yet been able to complete it. We may therefore find that there will be some £20 million in the kitty. I give my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State great credit for having obtained the money from the Treasury. I take no notice of the rubbish about its being to gain an electoral advantage. It was a first-class job done by an honourable and first-class Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "tion increase that would create an unacceptable burden and: We decided that level was three times the existing rateable values\". On what basis was that decided? Why should there be such integer worship in this age of computers? If a factor of, say, 2·9 were more appropriate, the calculation could be made just as easily. The Minister has a duty to explain why he decided on a multiplier of 3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-05", "file": "debates1985-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "24ce1d0800e121aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "preceding_text": " political camouflage The delegates at Perth had to be told something. The Secretary of State had to assure them that the Scottish Tory Members at Westminster were not an extinct breed. Consequently, he came up with the £50 million figure. To compound everything, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was then telling the Scottish press that the Secretary of State would not get his £50 million next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-05a.369.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "With regard to the extraordinary admission that the Home Secretary has just made in response to a question from my hon Friend the Member for Islington, North (Mr Corbyn), can the right hon and learned Gentleman now tell the House what action is being taken to ensure that such a thing does not happen again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. I have indicated—perhaps I should reiterate it to the right hon. Gentleman — that taxpayers' expenditure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. I have indicated—perhaps I should reiterate it to the right hon. Gentleman — that taxpayers' expenditure — [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman always forgets that all the money he would give away comes from the pockets of his constituents. Taxpayers' expenditure on housing benefit has risen from £1.2 billion in 1979 to £4.2 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.435.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.436.8", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister spare a moment this afternoon—I am sure that she will—to convey to her Chief Whip an expression of the delight which today's news has caused in all parts of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.436.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "two other important points about the replacement proposals for the supplementary benefits scheme. First, with regard to the income support proposals, we are proposing a further, very important change in the capital rule which I believe will be widely welcomed by many pensioners. That is the introduction of a tapered rule running from £3,000 to £6,000 in place of the present £3,000 capital cut-off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "This sounds absolutely marvellous, but what are the limits in relation to the social fund? If there are clear cash limits, what happens if a number of people at a given moment have special needs but the limit is reached? Those of us who live with grass roots people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS \"Ah \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " That gives rise to the problems which have led to the extreme complication of housing benefit supplement We are proposing equal treatment for people on the same income, whether it is derived from supplementary benefit or another source That is a major gam in fairness and equity. The right hon Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale will have realised that I cannot give figures that he wanted", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "ows and warden-controlled complexes, and that entails an increase in public expenditure. There has been a growth in the number of residential homes. In 1982-83, expenditure on the care of the elderly in residential homes rose from £39 million to £102 million. Expenditure for last year is estimated at £190 million. While private homes provide better value and lower costs than local authority homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "ion and wait for a knock on the door? The Government need to help them find a new purpose, a new role and a new aim. People will be increasingly out of paid work at a younger and younger age. We have a vast and increasingly fit army of young retired people who have a wealth of experience, knowledge and skills. We have to find a task and a purpose for them. There is a tremendous waste of resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to disturb my hon. Friend's recitative, but will he deal with the point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS \"Ah 1 \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I have only the figure of representations received—667 I have picked out a few views which are already public", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "No, I am so short of time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "No, I am so short of time [Interruption ] I am not scared of Conservative Members I may give way later if I find that I can get through my speech in time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "st of the world? It says that Almost all countries in the world now operate minimum wage systems, and none to our knowledge excludes young workers The latter are entitled to such protection as any workers, and even more so because they are more vulnerable to possible exploitation due to their inexperience and perhaps because of their very desire to earn a living by finding a first job Since 1979 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "should look at the evidence instead of showing their prejudices Since 1979 youth unemployment has doubled but the relative pay of young people has fallen sharply over the same period Young males have received pay rises 23 per cent lower than the average increase for adult males Young women's pay has fallen 20 per cent behind the equivalent increase for adults. A Department of Employment research —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": " women and half of all women workers are protected by wages councils. This, therefore, represents an enormous threat to women. About 5 per cent. of people protected by wages councils are young. That may be a small percentage of the total, but it represents 20 per cent. of all young workers, and 90 per cent. of them work in retailing, catering and clothing. Large numbers of them are black workers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "d men have enjoyed increases in real net pay 10 times as large as the wages enjoyed by the poorest, and the Government want to increase still further the wages of the better paid and, at the same time, to reduce the wages of the poorest. The Government have no case for suggesting that the abolition or weakening of wages councils will create jobs. The claim is false and there is no evidence for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "Unemployment in Britain has resulted from mistaken policies over many years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "ars. Relative to adult rates, wages for boys are 8 per cent. lower and for girls 12 per cent. lower than they were five years ago. Yet youth unemployment has trebled. What sort of conditions are the young people working in? Just under two weeks ago I had an article in a magazine called \"Just 17\". As a result of that article over 80 girls aged 16 to 20 have written to tell me about their employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-06", "file": "debates1985-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d4a91dc9c0511ce8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.531.6", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "concerned is with an organisation with which she is connected—that a document has been removed from my Department. Sadly, it meant the end of the career of a young junior civil servant because he leaked the document of a senior civil servant, in this case the permanent secretary. I say that only in sorrow, and Opposition Members who gloat with great delight about leaked documents must have regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-06a.531.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that I speak for myself. I do, but I also speak for many other hon. Members. There are cogent reasons why we should pay tribute to the hon. Member for Bolsover. He has reminded us of the responsibility and power of Back Benchers. He has moved a writ. For far too long in the House the moving of a writ has been the subject of a cosy relationship between the Whips Offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "I am told that some people believe that Welsh whisky is superior to Scotch whisky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "ustom on this occasion. As I listened to the debate and the reasons advanced for holding an early by-election by moving the writ today, I found the arguments very compelling. They were put most persuasively. I believe that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover has good reason to suspect that there is considerable nervousness on the part of the Government about the holding of an early by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.575.4", "colnum": "575", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "onger delay of six months affecting the by-election in Orpington in 1962, because the Government Chief Whip at that time was too frightened to move the writ. All that contrasts sharply with other occasions. For example, in June 1973 only three weeks were allowed to elapse before the by-election in Ripon took place. The defence of the then Leader of the House our former colleague, Mr. James Prior —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " assured of a relatively early by-election, my purpose will have been achieved. Another major reason for doing it was to show Back-Bench Members that they have the power to move writs for by-elections. Perhaps in the future other hon. Members will take a hand in matters when the Government of the day, of whichever colour, seem to be unwilling to move a writ. I shall make the necessary withdrawal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "other hon. Members will take a hand in matters when the Government of the day, of whichever colour, seem to be unwilling to move a writ. I shall make the necessary withdrawal — [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"]— but I should also say that, if the House objects, I can do nothing about it. I am trying to be obliging today. Mostly it is revolution, but today it is roses, so I shall make the necessary withdrawal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.577.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "divided pretty equally among the parties, also wanted to speak. Those hon. Members should have a chance to say what they want to say on the main Question before we proceed to the Orders of the Day. My second reason for objecting to the amendment is that the Orders of the Day contain a motion which is a gross abuse of the privileges of the House and which contains the seeds of considerable danger —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.579.9", "colnum": "579", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "not on the place of that Bill in the ballot, as it does under our regular rule, but on whether the promoter can persuade an hon. Member who has drawn a place in the ballot for private Member's motions to use that opportunity to create a timetable or non-timetable motion for the Bill. That is a fiddle; there is no other word for it. It is a crooked piece of procedure and we ought not to condone it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.579.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-07", "file": "debates1985-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8bcffd8f712f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "who serve us so magnificently and diligently without so much as a whimper of complaint. They do not have the Floor of the House to make such complaints. We should consider them and how we put them to disadvantage—even inefficiency—by making it almost impossible for them to carry out their task. Inconvenience is caused not only to the servants of this House, but to the servant of my house— my wife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-07a.584.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-10", "file": "debates1985-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "e0f3f6b022f85c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-10a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ncouragement of low pay and yet more cuts. As my hon. Friend says, disabled people will be more disadvantaged than all the others. I could have said much more, but I know that some of my hon. Friends wish to speak in the debate. The proposals in the Green Paper relating to the disabled and to the disadvantaged in society who receive social security benefits will undoubtedly be a complete failure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-10a.681.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " end of the century. The outgoings on SERPS have to be met by incoming contributions. As to beyond the century, the contributions that people will make to new occupational pension schemes will be accumulated and will therefore be there, saved and ready to be paid out. I remind the right hon. Gentleman that Labour's proposals for pensions alone at the last general election would have already added—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "h should be an exciting and fulfilling time of life. Throughout the ages, poets have celebrated and revered youth. Youth's the season made for joys wrote John Gay. Byron also dwelt on the sweetness of youth: Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty; Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "The Minister will hear later of particular proposals. That figure was arrived at by an independent assessment made in the Labour party. I shall give him the figures from independent bodies if he cares to have them. Let us talk about the plight of youth in terms of jobs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "The Minister will hear later of particular proposals. That figure was arrived at by an independent assessment made in the Labour party. I shall give him the figures from independent bodies if he cares to have them. Let us talk about the plight of youth in terms of jobs — [Interruption.] I am not proud of those figures, This is a most desperate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": " he cares to have them. Let us talk about the plight of youth in terms of jobs — [Interruption.] I am not proud of those figures, This is a most desperate— [Interruption.] If Ministers looked at the findings of the Unemployment Unit, they woui.d find the figure of £5 billion to £7 billion, which was worked out by that unit. The Minister of State knows well of the existence of that unit. From 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "mission. The figures are obtained through an independent survey, so factually the hon. Gentleman is incorrect. The hon. Member for Huddersfield says that Labour has a vision of youth. That is fine. But what does he intend to do with that vision? I listened carefully to everything that he said, but he did not put forward even one new idea. That is the position of the Labour party. It has no ideas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " will have the opportunity of joining the scheme if he wishes. That is no cutback at all. Originally the guarantee covered all 16-year-olds, but we have now given the opportunity to every 17-year-old. Therefore, the hon. Gentleman cannot argue that there has been any cutback. Furthermore, there is common ground between us in our wish to see better quality training throughout industry and commerce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The case to which I referred that evening occurred in a business run by a Tory councillor. I did sort it out. It concerned the exploitation of a young worker. Other examples have come to my attention, and the Minister must know that we intend to produce a report by October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have none in you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should sit down. He has nothing to say to me. I, for one, have confidence in youth in particular and workers in general.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "me to give way. If we are to compete with our major competitors, we must perform in training and education, and I refer the House to an interesting written answer yesterday by the Secretary of State for Education and Science to my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett), who asked about the age participation and training in European countries, in the United States and in Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-11", "file": "debates1985-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "32efe863cc2f9792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.840.5", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "ouse, when giving advice to impressionable young people, should advise them to break the law rather than to take advantage of the opportunities that may or may not be available to them. It was indeed welcome that the hon. Member, in the honesty with which he expressed his views, left us in no doubt whatever where he and his colleagues will stand when they form a majority on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-11a.840.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ild another? Is he aware that where clearance has taken place the social problems that have resulted have far outweighed any savings that my hon. Friend thinks there may have been in terms of improvement grants? Will he reconsider the importance of improvement grants, which I believe are good for the community, good for first time house-buyers, good for the country and ensure good value for money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that the figure of unfit houses that was revealed in the 1981 survey was lower than the figure shown in the 1976 survey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.884.5", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anyone other than the hon. Gentleman is talking about lifting all rent controls from privately rented property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.887.8", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "HoN. members: \"In Bolton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "Are not an increasing number of people who were encouraged to buy their homes now asking local authorities to repurchase them because of poverty and unemployment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.887.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will have taken comfort from the most recent figures published by the Department, which suggests that in the first quarter of this year total expenditure on repairs, maintenance and improvement was 10 per cent. up on the previous quarter and 8 per cent. higher than for the comparable period of the previous year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HoN. members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "If a genuine survey were conducted, would it not reveal that support for home helps, nursery education, capitation, revenue support, mentally handicapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's concern for Britain's defence interests is well known. Perhaps he will forgive me if, in the present circumstances, I do not become too deeply drawn into those matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " of trained United Kingdom regular forces increased from about 284,000 to about 297,000. The figures do not support the more extreme reports of increasing overstretch that have appeared in the press. Recruitment is generally good, except in some technical areas where there is fierce competition from the civilian sector. Outflow from the armed forces is certainly increasing as the economy picks up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ation in the economy. I do not know why, but I suspect that the right hon. Gentleman has a point when he says that it is partly due to inefficiency and other reasons. I do not dispute that. Let us then assume that defence inflation for those two years is only 1 per cent, a year greater than the rate of inflation. That will put at least another £500 million on the defence budget in those two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I said that the cost would go up to that figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "AN hon. member: \"It was the Labour Government who proposed Chevaline.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "retary of State. That money will have to come from the rest of the defence budget, and it can come only from hardware, equipment, stores, and supplies relating to conventional forces or from military and civilian manpower. The money cannot come from anywhere else, and the Secretary of State knows it. We have been told in the past that it was perfectly possible to accommodate Polaris and Chevaline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "ide. It is not fair, reasonable or honest for the Secretary of State to be a signatory to that communiqué without making the facts clear to his allies and friends. Last Monday, when I visited Congress, I asked some of the senior people there whether they knew what was happening to the British defence budget. They had not a clue. They had not absorbed what would happen between 1986 and 1988.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.927.5", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " afford it, have supported and will continue to support Polaris, but are prepared to admit that Trident is not a natural follow-on from Polaris. It represents a substantial increase in cost, megatonnage and warhead numbers. There are other options, which must be studied. There is the straight option of replacing Polaris. Although that is difficult, British Aerospace believes that it could do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.927.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " members of Nato in order to split them apart. But as long as the United States is negotiating seriously, and is not breaking the SALT II treaty limits, and as long as the President—who never supported that treaty anyway —is within those limits, we are in the serious ball park of proper negotiations. Of course, the Soviet Union will use propaganda. In many senses, the United States does the same —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "d decision to invest in science and technology that is co-ordinated throughout western Europe. Indeed, the Secretary of State rightly attaches great importance to that. Hon. Members would be most unwise to feel that we were strengthening the Alliance by pursuing and supporting too enthusiastically a mistaken policy initiative in terms of the SDI. Let us have research and development by all means —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "r as leader—and he was not a democrat—he began to open the doors of the prison camps. He also made it clear that the Stalinist regime was not acceptable for the future. There are those who would like to return to Stalinism, but my point is that we cannot continue in the way that has been suggested by some hon. Members who say that the Soviet Union is the enemy and should be more or less destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "t powers could sit down and agree that from tomorrow all nuclear weapons will be abolished, but as the right hon. Member for Taunton (Sir E. du Cann) has said, that is not likely to happen— what is happening is proliferation. Somebody somewhere must begin the process of removing nuclear weapons. That is why my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and I raised the issue of NATO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. members: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Taunton (Sir E. du Cann) has said, that is not likely to happen— what is happening is proliferation. Somebody somewhere must begin the process of removing nuclear weapons. That is why my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and I raised the issue of NATO. [Interruption.] It is difficult to argue a case properly when one is limited to 10 minutes. How many minutes do I have left?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Antony Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Antony Buck", "preceding_text": "ember for Norfolk, North-West (Mr. Bellingham). I apologise in that I was not here earlier. I have been out of the Chamber for a while, because I was tempted away to a NATO reception, organised by the NATO defence college. When the Minister replies to the debate, he may wish to say something about that very interesting organisation, which was responsible for my being absent for part of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-12", "file": "debates1985-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "c5c2b2d36bef7c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Defence", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. John Lee)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. John Lee)", "preceding_text": "o the right hon. Member for Devonport when he talks about conventional expenditure. However, his arguments about their being a realistic nuclear alternative to Trident in the 1990s are not very convincing. With respect, it is not satisfactory at this stage to talk about possibly running on Polaris with increasingly expensive refits, or perhaps encouraging British Aerospace to produce a new weapon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-12a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "Has the Secretary of State noticed the good news of the increased recruitment of Catholics — between 10 and 12 per cent. — into the RUC?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1006.6", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister keep in mind the proposal put in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1006.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1006.6", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister keep in mind the proposal put in this House— [Interruption.] —when the matter was debated by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1006.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1007.7", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us have the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I made clear in my letter to the right hon. Gentleman, the purpose of issuing a Green Paper was to set out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1007.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman did not quite expect the answer that I gave. As to the latter part of his question, Mr. Lyon was an expert adviser, but the Government do not always have to take expert advice —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.9", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "It is sometimes difficult in the Chaiŕ to hear what is being said in the House, but it is sometimes difficult to hear in the House what is being said in the House. It must have been obvious to everyone in the House that the Opposition deliberately drowned my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's answer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.9", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mischievous?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "imes difficult to hear in the House what is being said in the House. It must have been obvious to everyone in the House that the Opposition deliberately drowned my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's answer — [Interruption.] —just as they are trying to drown this point of order. They succeeded in drowning my right hon. Friend's reply to the somewhat mischievous question of an ex-Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.9", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "e House. It must have been obvious to everyone in the House that the Opposition deliberately drowned my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's answer — [Interruption.] —just as they are trying to drown this point of order. They succeeded in drowning my right hon. Friend's reply to the somewhat mischievous question of an ex-Prime Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Mischievous?\"] I raise this point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.11", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I shall put it when I can be sure that you can hear it, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1010.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1013.3", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "aking into account both the European court judgment and the new restriction on Tamils? Thirdly, will the right hon. Gentleman arrange for a debate in Government time on the crisis facing the arts, caused by the unexpected shortfall of £30 million that has resulted from the Government's failure properly to estimate the effects of the abolition of the Greater London and metropolitan county councils?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1013.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "preceding_text": " that the availability of identity cards could be a critical part of the fight against terrorism and crime in general? Does he further accept that many forms of security card already exist? Therefore, may we have a debate on this subject so that the Government might be encouraged to make available to the public on request a standard identity card, just as passports have been available for decades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1018.7", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "There is no time made available specifically and explicitly by the Government next week. However, if my hon. Friend could not slip the matter into Thursday's agenda, I would feel that he was not living up to his reputation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1018.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1035.8", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates 1985", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement(Mr. Adam Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement(Mr. Adam Butler)", "preceding_text": " £2·5 billion. Those facts provide the Government with the answer to most of their critics. With this dramatic increase in the equipment budget the Government have gone a long way to meet the almost insatiable requirements of the armed services and to strengthen still further our contribution to NATO. However, as the sophistication of modern weaponry and systems increases, so does the cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1035.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates 1985", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "ck concept. I asked the Secretary of State what view of the FOFA concept had been taken by the NATO military committee, and was told that that committee's business was, by its nature, confidential. I then asked whether the FOFA concept would be on the agenda of the December meeting of NATO defence ministers, and I received the reply that the business of the ministerial committee was confidential —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates 1985", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "ld Congress that it was used on NATO's Reforger 82 exercise. He also made it clear that the declared intention of the United States Defence Department was to bring about European acceptance of the \"Air-Land Battle\" doctrine, involving the offensive use of chemical and nuclear weapons in deep attacks. Who is telling the truth, our politicians or American politicians? I know who I prefer to believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates 1985", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "nce of the \"Air-Land Battle\" doctrine, involving the offensive use of chemical and nuclear weapons in deep attacks. Who is telling the truth, our politicians or American politicians? I know who I prefer to believe. [Interruption.] I do not believe our politicians, and that is clear to all on the Opposition Benches. If we do not receive answers from Ministers, I cannot believe what they do not say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates 1985", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "cally-elected Government. When asked what the American reaction would be to a British Labour Government abandoning nuclear weapons for Britain, General Dalton replied that the United Kingdom has \"a key geographical position\". When asked what kind of pressure might be put on a future Labour Government and whether the pressure might include economic sanctions, General Dalton replied, \"It might be.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates 1985", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "e nuclear business. I shall not go into the military arguments, but I hope that the Minister will say something about the political arguments. They are much too neglected, and many people outside this House do not understand them. We must consider the effect among the people of the United States if it was felt that we were opting out of a responsibility that we have carried for the last 30 years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-13", "file": "debates1985-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e7dfb5fed17c2d44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates 1985", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "d be profoundly damaging. Militarily it makes no sense at all. When my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Speed), in an acute intervention yesterday, asked the right hon. Member for Llanelli whether he accepted the need against Soviet submarines for the nuclear depth charges provided by the Americans and operated from this country, the right hon. Gentleman had no answer whatsoever to offer. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-13a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-14", "file": "debates1985-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09861a09ae5e660c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-14a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-14a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " engines for the Honda-badged cars and the Rover 213. Fifthly, the right hon. and learned Gentleman asked whether the Honda-badged cars produced in Britain would count against the industry-agreed informal quota of Japanese cars on the British market. The answer is no, because the aim is to achieve a level of British content that will qualify them as European cars to be sold in the European market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " from a grave increased penetration of our domestic, market by imports. Between 1974 and 1979 those imports increased by 28·4 percentage points. I am happy to say that between 1979 and 1984 the tide was stemmed and the increase was only 1·2 percentage points. House will be aware that the Labour Government's record in this respect was disgraceful, whereas ours is a great improvement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.22.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "The Minister has not dealt with the point that I wished to make—and nor has the White Paper. Nowhere is Liverpool airport mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "It was an appallingly bad Bill in every other respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": " suggestion to build terminal 5. The Government should make it clear that they have no intention of studying road and rail links without announcing what can be done to make life more tolerable for those living in the vicinity of airports. The Secretary of State says that it is his intention that the Perry Oaks works at Heathrow should be moved and that there should be a survey as soon as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has given his colleagues a clear understanding that when BAA is privatised there will be no difficulty with transfer charging or cross-subsidisation. He has said that when all the clear sets of accounts are available it will not be possible to subsidise landing fees at Stansted. I say to all of you on the opposite side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "preceding_text": "s policy on airports is the same now as it was in 1978? In 1978 the Labour Government's White Paper rejected the suggestion that the air transport industry should be subject to the damaging restrictions on its operations which would be the outcome of the forced diversion of traffic to regional airports\". Is that what the Labour party believes? If not, the hon. Lady is talking nonsense, is she not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.47.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker(Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Sir Eldon Griffiths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "The Minister, in opening the debate, quoted in aid Mr. Gil Thompson, the director of Manchester airport, as being in favour of the proposals. I do not know whether there is any connection, but seven days previously Mr. Gil Thompson received an OBE from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ct, it says that for London airports one should read \"national\" and that the regions comprise the rest. We are told that civil aviation is vital to our prosperity, but that means the prosperity of the south-east, with the regions taking their share of what is left. I speak in defence of Manchester airport, but I am confident that I speak for the airports of Scotland, the north-east, and Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.111.4", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way? Give way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.111.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "der to defuse the rebellion in the Conservative party, many much-needed decisions have been fudged. If there is one—perhaps the only one—expanding industry in this country, it is the one under discussion today. Its turnover amounts to billions of pounds, and it employs over 85,000 people. Any decisions that any Government take in that area should reflect the importance of that industry to Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-17", "file": "debates1985-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1adfe24ab6597e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Airports Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ok one that was won by the Liberals. Nevertheless, it is to say the least surprising that Ministers in the last Conservative Government were actively involved in encouraging a company such as Lonrho to act in direct competition with British Airways, for which they have financial responsibility in that the taxpayer eventually picks up the bill. Perhaps we can have some explanation of those actions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-17a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware of the damage that will be done to the Health Service by the decision not to fund the nurses' pay claim?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Gentleman started off with the nurses' pay claim —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "dex figures for next year's uprating. We must await the decisions on the structure of the changes before we can give a range of illustrative figures. The right hon. Gentleman seemed to approve that approach, because when he was asked last Thursday on the radio to give figures for taxes and contributions for Labour's policies he replied: I'm not going to put a figure on two or three years' hence\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the document which the general management council of the Labour party issued to English local government councillors inciting them to break the law and to refuse to follow the Rates Act 1984 so as to thwart the Government? Does this not show a two-faced approach to local democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.168.10", "colnum": "168", "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 correct. The law is indivisible and has to be obeyed. All of the law has to be obeyed. That is what democracy is. There is a chance to change the law, but until it is changed existing law must be upheld, and I totally and utterly condemn anyone opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.168.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "It would also have meant that contributions and tax would have had to be increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "that when the Labour party puts its proposals before the House and the country before and after the next general election, there are two things that we shall not do. I shall not write to right hon. and hon. Members saying, as the Prime Minister did on 20 May 1983, nor are there any proposals to change the system. Nor will I permit my Secretary of State for Social Security to give any undertaking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to say it, but my hon. Friend is right. Many reports have already been received to show that that sort of thing is happening —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment if the hon. Gentleman will bear with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "No, that is not right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e Government's fault. That is what they always tell us. Now, with family credit, they have a new message for the low paid. They are saying, \"Take low wages to price yourselves into jobs like good little workers, but do not take wages so low as to entitle you to family credit for, if you do that, you will either not dare to take increases for fear of losing credit or you will be in such problems\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.202.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.209.5", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "we may ditch that scheme and replace it with a Fowler scheme which, too, will be ditched in its turn. The pensioners will be the innocent victims of a party political squabble in which none of us is prepared to make any change in what we think are our most prized objectives. Pretending that there is no problem over SERPS, as the Labour party does, is, quite frankly, to bury one's head in the sand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "lem over SERPS, as the Labour party does, is, quite frankly, to bury one's head in the sand.[ Interruption. ] If the Leader of the Opposition recognises that there is a problem with the financing of SERPS, we can begin to talk about what should be done. If he is saying that, he must be ready to enter into some form of discussion on how to reduce the cost of SERPS. If he is not prepared to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ld be great. The prize of all-party agreement would be immense, being stability in pension provision and structure into the next century at a cost the nation could afford, with a fairer and more redistributive system. Do not let anybody tell me that that would not be widely welcomed, including by the private pension industry and by pensioners, who are currently apprehensive about what will happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ng the unemployed, as my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) said, the Secretary of State is refuted by his own document. If, as is stated, the withdrawal rate on housing benefit is 70 per cent., and that on family credit is 60 per cent., as the leaks have said — the leaks have proved to be accurate so far —taxpayers claiming family credit and housing benefit will lose about —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "erby. If that is not the case, we shall be glad to know about it. When will we get the figures? Ministers say that they cannot provide them because they cannot predict the benefit rates of April 1987. If they cannot estimate what the benefit rates will be in less than two years, how can they estimate the cost of SERPS in 50 years time with such precision that they already know that it is unviable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "I must first ask whether the proposals which the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) brought before the House about two months ago are already in the dustbin of history. Not surprisingly we have not heard them repeated tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "I must first ask whether the proposals which the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) brought before the House about two months ago are already in the dustbin of history. Not surprisingly we have not heard them repeated tonight. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"] I shall answer the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Because 18 months ago the data from the 1981 census were not available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Because 18 months ago the data from the 1981 census were not available. [Interruption.] It is no good Opposition Members disputing the fact that the estimates on which the decisions about SERFS were based in 1975 reflected an estimate of the number of pensioners in the early part of the next century 1 million less than —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "lable. [Interruption.] It is no good Opposition Members disputing the fact that the estimates on which the decisions about SERFS were based in 1975 reflected an estimate of the number of pensioners in the early part of the next century 1 million less than — [Interruption.] If they were all alive, and if the Labour Government knew what would happen, why did they not publish the figures at the time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.6", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "But the Government do not collect surpluses, and that is the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have answered the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "t guarantee that our children will be able to fulfil; and puts in place a structure that we believe can sustain pensioners in the future, with a promise on which they can really rely. The Leader of the Opposition has recognised the mistake he has made in what he said. We now want him to recognise that the policy that he is proposing is unsustainable and that it is time that the Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-18", "file": "debates1985-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5621fe34327c8878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.261.4", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Social Security (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ad torrents of rhetoric from the right hon. Gentleman and one extravagant adjective after another from the hon. Member for Oldham, West. What has been the contribution to the debate of the hon. Member for Oldham, West? It has been to complain that the Government have not done everything that their advisers advised. But the Opposition do not even do what their spokesman on social security advises —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-18a.261.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.281.8", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite correct. The final figure will not be known until the last eligible ratepayer has been paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.281.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman looks at the Order Paper, he will see that I gave preference, as is my practice, to those hon. Members with questions on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "As I develop my case, the hon. Gentleman will discover that the problem that he has to face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.308.7", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "My answer to the alternatives that the hon. Gentleman offers me is that I do not believe in a statutory incomes policy. I do, however, believe, as I have always believed, that an agreement must be forged between unions and Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I return to the subject on which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e expected to be at or below the rate of inflation during the next two years. In short, under the Labour Administration electricity prices increased by 2 per cent. every six weeks, whereas under the present Government they have increased by 2 per cent. during the past two years. I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West (Sir J. Page) will also record that particularly important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "d under the last Labour Government and history has a horrible way of repeating itself. Loose money would be in pursuit of low interest rates. Taxes would be high and in the early years of a Labour Government substantial wage increases would be granted. All that would be incredibly bad for prices and inflation. The evidence is there. The Labour Government's record is very bad and ours is very good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "asgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton), as I shall deal with some of the points with which they dealt. My constituency is, of course, nowhere near Cathcart, but is is within three or four miles of Great Grimsby. I often enjoy reading the comments of the hon. Member for Great Grimsby in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph. Indeed, seldom a day passes when that populist Member is not talking about the ordinary man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "etary's speech clearly showed where everything has gone wrong. People in the lower income groups are suffering. In a flashy contribution, the right hon. and learned Gentleman tied up the problem with a blue ribbon in the hope that he would get away with it. He and his Government will not get away with it. I shall tell the few Conservative Members who have sat here during almost all of the sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "r. We had humbug over inflation, and humbug over taxation from the party which promised to tax the rich until the pips squeaked. The hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) believes that the rich are families with incomes of £15,000 to £20,000 and over. We then had humbug over electricity prices from the party which put up electricity prices by 2 per cent. every six weeks when it was in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "ignored by the Opposition. Food prices are the most important part of the fight against inflation. Those who are most affected are the poor, pensioners and those on fixed incomes, and they will be protected by our guarantee to increase social security benefits by 7 per cent. The country and the House owe a debt of gratitude to British farmers for keeping food prices at half the level of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": ", South (Mr. Brandon-Bravo) says that that is true in the city of Nottingham, I believe what he says. I am not suggesting that he is trying to mislead the House. I assume that he is referring to the Labour-controlled Nottingham city council when he talks about the good administration of the city's affairs. As for his point about revenue and capital receipts, of course I understand the difference —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "It might come as news to many of those Opposition Members who have joined the debate in the last few minutes that, for almost all of this debate on an Opposition motion and on a day when they have chosen the subject, there were perhaps never more than half a dozen Opposition Members present.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "arkbrook. The right hon. Gentleman knows that he has no hope of controlling inflation unless the unions let him do so. We were told before, and we are being told now, that Labour is the party that can manage the unions and that Labour has a special relationship with them. Now the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook has launched his mark 2 version of his pay policy, which he calls a \"social compact\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-19", "file": "debates1985-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58cce2339007ecfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.383.9", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ty is showing not a new face, but the same raddled old face, wrinkled and worn. The whole House is sick of Labour's cosmetics. If the Opposition table a motion disapproving of the Government's handling of the economy, they must offer credible alternative policies. The only new thing in their jobs and industry campaign is the razzmatazz, the tee-shirts, pop concerts, break dancers and body-bopping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-19a.383.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.430.14", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shabby.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have read the full report of the Select Committee on Employment. Nowhere in that report does the Select Committee condemn the tactics of violence and intimidation used against working miners. The National Coal Board has just issued a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.430.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in the pre-election period of 1979 she said that if her party was elected to power it would deal with law and order? Is she further aware that this Government have dramatically increased —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in the pre-election period of 1979 she said that if her party was elected to power it would deal with law and order? Is she further aware that this Government have dramatically increased — [Interruption.] — the number of police officers, their earnings and their equipment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.434.8", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I naturally recognise and completely respect your authority, Mr. Speaker. It might have been useful if I had been informed earlier that the number of interventions that my hon. Friends would be permitted to make would vary according to the number that I made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.434.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.434.8", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": ". It might have been useful if I had been informed earlier that the number of interventions that my hon. Friends would be permitted to make would vary according to the number that I made. [Interruption.] I am aware that you, Mr. Speaker, have no control over the Prime Minister's evasions. It is because of her continual taste for dodging that I am obliged from time to time to get in more than once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.434.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "er to make the kind of ruling that you have made today. I stand corrected if that is not so, but I believe that it is true. Last week, or the week before when two Tory Members were in the first six or seven places or just missed, you made a point of calling them for earlier supplementaries. The same has happened today with another Tory Member. The impression is being created that there is a bias —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.435.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman has forgotten his lines.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.435.10", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can clear the matter up. It is a matter of judgment. There are more Conservative Members than Opposition Members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.435.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.436.5", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have business questions to follow, which is an opportunity for Back-Bench Members to ask questions. We also have a statement to deal with and an important debate in which many hon. Members wish to take part. I am prepared to continue to answer this matter, but I assure the House that I have not changed my practice from the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.436.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can explain that. Prime Minister's questions provide an opportunity for the minority parties to have their say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.437.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.442.7", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "May I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to the fact that the Select Committee's report on the misuse of hard drugs was published today? In view of the report in today's edition of The Guardian that the Prime Minister intends to take command of the drugs campaign —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.442.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": " opportunity of commenting on the proposal on page 15 of the Dooge report called Gradual establishment of a homogeneous judicial area because it suggests that the European Court of Justice may play an even more important role in future. That may show that the Government are in favour of encouraging people, such as Myra Hindley, further to undermine the supremacy of Parliament by appealing against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "for political life in Britain and Europe in what the Minister of State said and the Dooge report proposed. I support what my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Deakins) said about the way that Europe treats Third world countries and the way in which Europe treats and throws out people who have come to Europe in search of work after Europe has grossly exploited their Third world countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.524.5", "colnum": "524", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ill reply to the debate — was Latin America. The European Parliament has passed an important resolution on Chile, suggesting that Ministers combine to take some action against the vicious, oppressive regime in that country. It is about time that the EC considered a joint political approach to the matter, and I agree that the setting up of a small political secretariat might help in that direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend will catch your eye, Mr. Speaker, next Tuesday in the debate on own resources. I am sorry that he did not catch your eye this afternoon. The process began at Fontainebleau —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-20", "file": "debates1985-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b0ea8f98d81a9e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "dering the French suggestion of EUREKA. I must come back to the question of Mrs. Castle, of whom the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) spoke so warmly. Although I am sorry Mrs. Castle lost her job in the European Parliament, I do not think that we should have too much sympathy for her, bearing in mind that it was she who led the walk-out of the Labour MEPs during President Reagan's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-20a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-21", "file": "debates1985-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "d8c4c59355f0f09b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-21a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Small Firms", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that. However, the hon. Gentleman does not seem to want to face issues that exist. I am aware of the activities of Business in the Community. There is nothing for us to disagree about. If some enterprise agencies are talking shops, why not recognise the fact? If some do not use resources effectively, surely a Conservative Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-21a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-21", "file": "debates1985-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "d8c4c59355f0f09b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-21a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Small Firms", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "pansion schemes. The majority of small businesses in the Borders area would not know what £500,000 looks like, although, of course, the area includes well-established knitwear and hosiery industries which compete internationally. There is a way forward, and I have considered it in some detail in relation to my constituency. We should give the local talent — for example, bank managers, accountants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-21a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-21", "file": "debates1985-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "d8c4c59355f0f09b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-21a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Small Firms", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look who is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "d, deputations will come to see the right hon. Gentleman and he will receive the odd letter on the proposals. There will be the odd flea in his ear about the combined effect of these measures. I hope that there will be an early response to the Binder Hamlyn report on the discounts issue. Large retailers have acquired monopolies in a number of industries, thereby prejudicing our smaller businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-21a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Yorkshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "er. Is the Under-Secretary of State satisfied with the machinery for operating the colliery review procedure in the case of the threatened closure of a pit? Is the hon. Gentleman aware—I shall be most interested in his views—that the colliery review procedure is a farce? It contravenes every rule of judicial impartiality. The decision to be made in respect of a proposed colliery review procedure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.622.8", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman used the phrase \"all-party Select Committee report\". It is true that one Conservative Member agreed with parts of that report, but, as the right hon. Gentleman well knows, that report has been widely condemned for having no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.622.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.622.8", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman used the phrase \"all-party Select Committee report\". It is true that one Conservative Member agreed with parts of that report, but, as the right hon. Gentleman well knows, that report has been widely condemned for having no— [ Interruption. ] A report which failed to deal completely with the violence that took place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.622.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "Has not each Scottish miner who was sacked exactly the same right as sacked miners elsewhere to go to an industrial tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "Has not each Scottish miner who was sacked exactly the same right as sacked miners elsewhere to go to an industrial tribunal—[ Interruption. ] Is it not also a fact that in some parts of the country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there are those who consider the allowances to be perfectly adequate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.641.5", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "r exists because it is one of the skillcentres being closed. Not even the much bally-hooed retraining of miners through the MSC and the skillcentre training agency will do any good, even though it is a perfectly placed skillcentre to make a contribution in that area. I do not wish to dwell too much on that but that is where the people from Brecon and Radnor would go to obtain their skill training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "t will include coherence in terms of rights to education and training, which will embrace both those in study and on YTS, and those in employment. Coherence will also be extended to methods of learning and its certification and assessment, focusing on outcomes and based on a modular, integrated system to ease entry and re-entry, and the development of personal profiles of learning and achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "the Minister's speech did not measure up to the seriousness of the situation. It was an extremely complacent exposition of the Government's case in an area in which this country does not do well. I am sure that there is common consent across the parties that Britain has not done well in it for a long time. The Government are charged with damaging and hindering the position for ideological reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": "een about 60 per cent. of adult rates, in Germany the typical range is between 20 and 30 per cent. of adult rates. Over the years, trade unions in this country have succeeded in forcing up the rates of pay for apprentices to completely unrealistic levels. Consequently, they have succeeded in eliminating the training of apprentices throughout most of British industry. It is against that background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "nce derived from a lifetime in industry. Opposition Members have our different perspectives and emphases, but we are agreed about the extent and gravity of the problem. A wealth of reports has been issued in the past two years. It seems that everyone but the Minister and his Department are seized of the difficulties and dangers. The document \"Competence and Competition\" from the NEDC and the MSC —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": " to quibble about the figures; I wish only to bring home to the Minister, the Under-Secretary and Conservative Members the extent of the gravity of the position. There is no room for complacency. Britain is going backwards while other countries are racing forward. That is something that the Minister does not want to grasp. In a moment, I shall put forward policies that the Government should adopt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "ecretary would not like his hon. Friends to encourage me to do so. If the Minister does not believe what I am saying, let him read the news release from the CBI. After all, Sir Terence Beckett is a great supporter of the Conservative party. It states: A breakdown of the skill shortages now being faced by British manufacturing industry shows that they cover many types of jobs ranging from welders\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "they can do, and they must seek parliamentary authority to go beyond those powers. It seems that those of us who are elected to represent the interests of our constituents should properly scrutinise any measures that come before us. When we have a measure that will affect the people of Birmingham, it is particularly important that Birmingham Members should pay attention to what is being proposed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "520 residents and that about 34 per cent. voted. Apparently 1,290 voted yes and 283 voted no. Perhaps that is a significant majority in favour of the Bill, but it means that many people did not consider the proposal. When one considers the information that was put to those who participated in the referendum, it is clear that they were not fully informed of the facts, especially the potential cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-24", "file": "debates1985-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "8e6d1220497ec7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I am quite ready to answer that point, but I abide by your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall leave it to another day to respond to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), who, unfortunately, has recently been associated with a sludge works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-24a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.757.6", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "The Government are offering the teaching profession the prospect of a changed salary structure in return for improvements in effectiveness, the use of an expanded in-service training network and increased promotion prospects —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.757.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "f their pay claim, chosen to withhold their support from the head teacher in exercising his overall responsibility for the conduct of the school during the midday break. This has placed a great strain on the head teachers and I should like to express my respect for them and for their sense of duty towards the pupils—and to those who have helped them—in maintaining supervision over the past months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.767.7", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we have a candidate who is concentrating on putting across positive, constructive policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.767.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.767.11", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In that speech I said that movement was a part of finding a job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.767.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.767.12", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To resign\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the greatest blessing that a Government can give to the sick, the unemployed, the disabled and those on fixed incomes is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.767.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that one of the issues that is emerging in Brecon and Radnor is the utter inability of the rate support grant formula to maintain an adequate level of services in areas of great sparsity of population? In view of the £50 million of help that she has given Scottish ratepayers and her promises to reform the rating system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Board and Lodging Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ts, and it has many other advantages. We shall no longer have to negotiate about the amount, argue about the timing or justify how the money is used. Instead of ad hoc and arbitrary refunds, our VAT contribution will be reduced automatically and without procedural argument each year. The system is built into Community law. It will last as long as the 1·4 per cent. ceiling remains in place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I shall not give way. We have shown by the agreement at Fontainebleau that we can achieve our purpose by determined negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Because of earlier events, the time for this debate is undoubtedly all too short —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t about the obscene surpluses which the Labour Government created when they operated a subsidy policy? It would be much more constructive if the hon. Member told us how to deal with the pricing of agricultural products in the Community and how to deal with the surpluses which arise. The hon. Gentleman criticised Mediterranean agriculture. The only answer is to reorganise Mediterranean agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " Spain and Portugal as democracies within the European family. Some of us lived through the Spanish civil war—I was in Spain during the civil war—and some of us lived through the time of the dictatorship after the civil war. We do not wish that to arise again. That is why I am surprised that some Opposition Members do not wholeheartedly support the accession to the Community of Spain and Portugal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " The second matter on which we must concentrate is technology. We all realise now that Britain cannot manage modern technology on its own. We are having to import technology and combine with it, for example in the car and electronics industries. Since we cannot do it on our own, Europe must do it together. That will involve budgetary expenditure to bring about the change and developments required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Why not?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "une 1984; Vol. 62, c. 1001.] That has not happened. The Foreign Secretary, I think by a slip of the tongue, referred to what is actually a conclusion of the Council as a decision. The text on financial budgetary discipline as was stated by the Prime Minister subsequently, 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/1985-06-25a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "preceding_text": "ern to southern Europe. It is born of a fear that in Greece, Italy, southern France, Spain and Portugal there are millions of Communists and others who may become Communists. Most are called, scoffingly, peasants or are in industries serving the peasantry. Therefore, people think that lots of money should be poured into their pockets through the CAP to subdue their undesirable political instincts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Freeman", "preceding_text": "ve to address the draft budget for 1986 and, more important, the draft budget for 1987. There I can agree with him that a ceiling of 1·4 per cent. must be maintained and economies must be achieved, particularly in the discretionary spending of the Community. To criticise the intergovernmental payment for 1985 is to miss the point, because that was already predetermined by decisions in 1984.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Freeman", "preceding_text": "al payment for 1985 is to miss the point, because that was already predetermined by decisions in 1984. [ Interruption. ] My hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor) indicates part of the reasons for the 1985 IGA and I will come to that in just a moment. My second point—here I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Corby (Mr. Powell)—is that we have to look at the deal as a package.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Obscenities?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": " this and many previous occasions, the Opposition have simply said that the Government threw away a golden opportunity when the Community was running out of money and pressure could have been exerted to ensure that agricultural spending was brought under control through a reform of the CAP. That would have overcome the obscenities about which the hon. Member for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor) spoke —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I shall explain the VAT rate in a moment. I said that the percentage increase proposed in the 1986 budget is only 2·5 per cent. — the lowest increase for a very long time. It represents a tight and tough target for the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "provisions in the text, but how on earth can there be an absolutely rigid guideline for agriculture when one cannot even predict the weather at the beginning of the year? Of course we cannot. Any hon. Members who pretend otherwise are merely demonstrating how unrealistic is their approach to the Community budget. The fact that the guideline is not rigid does not mean that it is not fast and tight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he weather at the beginning of the year? Of course we cannot. Any hon. Members who pretend otherwise are merely demonstrating how unrealistic is their approach to the Community budget. The fact that the guideline is not rigid does not mean that it is not fast and tight. [Interruption.] The budgetary disciplinary measures are proving effective. I was asked whether France would be a net contributer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "does not arise. It has been suggested that we should be better off if the 1 per cent. ceiling were to be left in place. Nothing could be further from the truth. In domestic terms, our contribution would be about double what we shall be paying under the Fontainebleau abatement. If we kept our contributions at the 1 per cent. ceiling without abatement — and surely we should never get any abatement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": " already taking a serious chance. There has been no answer from the Government on whether the proposed budget is contemplating expenditure at the level of 1·35 per cent. There has been no answer from the Government about their assumptions about the level of the dollar. There has been no answer from the Government about whether they will com back again for another cut of public expenditure.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-25", "file": "debates1985-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "4de90dace1491e94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "ents in their own countries, who have to be concerned about the taxpayers and consumers in their own countries, would sing a different tune. The buck would stop in the country where the surplus was being built up. That is a far more sensible way of dealing with the CAP. It is a way that would work and we could cut expenditure on the CAP. People say that I am anti-European. I am not anti-European —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-25a.873.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "One has to recognise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food and Environment Protection Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " not know what they are being sprayed with because they are given inadequate information. A Mrs. Betty Clarke of Birchington near Thanet contacted Friends of the Earth in April. She explained that she and a neighbour had suffered seven days of wheezing, swollen glands and bleary eyes as a result of crop spray. I accept that the cause may not have been crop spray, but it may have been. Many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "hey pushed them into a corner called Northern Ireland and left them to fester. We are now facing the consequences of that. Until we go back into the wider framework and get fresh air into the situation we will not break down the barriers and build the structures that will allow us to grow together at our own speed. The New Ireland Forum was an attempt by one of the parties to reassess its attitude", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.995.4", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "le of Northern Ireland think, and how the statements from the two Front Benches will be interpreted by them. From listening to the hon. Member for Foyle (Mr. Hume) one would think that the SDLP is characterised by a sweet reasonableness. It is strange that in his city his party excluded every Democratic Unionist member from every committee when it first took office in the Londonderry city council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.995.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "am of a united Ireland, whatever the right hon. Gentleman may do in looking after his constituents. I met one of the right hon. Gentleman's constituents only the other day at the Cambridge Union. He was singing the praises of the right hon. Gentleman, but also said that his English student friends did not dare to go into the shops at Warren Point because he could not advise them of their safety. \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1014.4", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": " parleying with that enemy.\" The British Government faced Hitler and defeated those who stood against freedom. Until the day I die, I shall make no apology for fighting Sinn Fein and the murderers of my people on every corner. I shall never betray the trust of those people, whether or not it is demanded by the hon. Member for Hillsborough. The hon. Gentleman can parley with Sinn Fein if he wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1014.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows the legal position. If there is a suggestion that a parade should be banned —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-26", "file": "debates1985-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aa9b88238b9167e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "preceding_text": "de of the water. That is a responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary and, in due course, the information that the hon. Gentleman seeks will become apparent. The right hon. Member for South Down (Mr. Powell) claimed that there was no co-operation between the Government of the Republic of Ireland and the British Government and, by implication, between the security forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-26a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1063.12", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I was in Brecon and Radnor getting in Labour votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1063.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1064.5", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1064.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady accept that the action yesterday by the Secretary of State for Defence conforms brilliantly to the rule that elections work wonders? May we, in the next six days, have an extension of that rule to cover special credit facilities for newcomers to fanning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady accept that the action yesterday by the Secretary of State for Defence conforms brilliantly to the rule that elections work wonders? May we, in the next six days, have an extension of that rule to cover special credit facilities for newcomers to fanning — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] — for increased expenditure on high schools in Powys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "rday by the Secretary of State for Defence conforms brilliantly to the rule that elections work wonders? May we, in the next six days, have an extension of that rule to cover special credit facilities for newcomers to fanning — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] — for increased expenditure on high schools in Powys—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] — for the withdrawal of the Transport Bill to rescue rural buses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "ons work wonders? May we, in the next six days, have an extension of that rule to cover special credit facilities for newcomers to fanning — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] — for increased expenditure on high schools in Powys—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] — for the withdrawal of the Transport Bill to rescue rural buses—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—an assurance that there will be no nuclear dumping in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.5", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that a business, Oak Publications, newly set up in Lincoln to publish a free newspaper, has been blacked by the NGA because it refuses to impose a closed shop after the employees, in a free vote, rejected a closed shop?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.5", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that a business, Oak Publications, newly set up in Lincoln to publish a free newspaper, has been blacked by the NGA because it refuses to impose a closed shop after the employees, in a free vote, rejected a closed shop? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Is she aware that that action has, in this new enterprise, frustrated nine jobs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1073.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the hon. Member asking for a debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "er words, Lothian region will be brought below the already completely inadequate guidelines that have been set by the Secretary of State. Lothian is not unique. Tayside is in exactly the same position. What about some of the hideous complexities that will now face Edinburgh district council? The right hon. Gentleman seems determined to throw everything at the situation, including the kitchen sink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Opposition day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I should like to say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1128.4", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Opposition day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman said that what he had in mind was a different structure of taxation. Now, however, as we have learnt from his green—or whatever colour it was—paper, which has disappeared into some pigeon-hole somewhere, the hon. Gentleman's idea of a new structure of taxation appears to be one in which everybody right down to the bottom of the income range pays at least 15 per cent. income tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Opposition day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sexist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "of child benefit, that organisation said: We recommend that as economic circumstances permit, child benefit is increased in line with increases in tax allowances, or at least protected against rising prices. Poor old Emma Nicholson. She really did her best among the upper echelons of Conservative women. Just her luck that the present Government are led by a women who happens to be more like a man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Opposition day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman does not mind my saying so, the House is in some difficulty about what he means, because he keeps changing his story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Opposition day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman prefers not to respond, but I am pleased that he is listening. Without the active support for child benefit on the Tory Benches, those of us who put a premium on the benefit must look to the future and adjust our position accordingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1155.6", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "s what the Government want to do. I remember what happened when the right hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Prentice) was the Minister with responsibility for the disabled. History is now being repeated. The Opposition were moaning and groaning as we do constantly, about unemployment. The right hon. Gentleman set up a scheme with one thousand storm troopers to find out where he could rob the disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1155.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-06-27", "file": "debates1985-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "b6967b1af136aa33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "She has already finished.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Please don't stop!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-27a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-28", "file": "debates1985-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecfd9f5171502567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "o be £250 million, if not more. All of that money could more usefully have been used to fight crime in our villages, towns and cities. We know, however, that the cost to the Metropolitan police was £16·5 million and that nearly £7 million of that remains to be reimbursed. We know also that the Metropolitan police had to make cuts of £8 million in expenditure, which has not been reimbursed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-28", "file": "debates1985-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecfd9f5171502567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1213.2", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "It is a question of priorities, and the Home Secretary gives his priorities to the House of Commons. The cuts in VAT and Inland Revenue staff —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-28", "file": "debates1985-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecfd9f5171502567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1215.8", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The person who is on his feet has just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1215.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-06-28", "file": "debates1985-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ecfd9f5171502567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1237.5", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has the hon. Gentleman seen it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "produce newsheets entitled \"Policing London\" written in a fashion aimed to detract from the good work of the Metropolitan police, and to spend £35,000 on producing a \"Policing London\" video, which has already been mentioned in the debate. I was most disappointed that the right hon. Member for Gorton could not find it in himself to repudiate the suggestion in that video that communities must rebel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-06-28a.1237.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.2.4", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that, once again, by spreading scare stories, the GLC has again worried many disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.2.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.3.9", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that the unprecedented closure of the M1 is due to the enormous increase in road freight over the past decade —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.3.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ceived telephone threats to his wife and children. The threats were reported to the police and the trade union officials, but still nothing has happened. On Wednesday 5 June 1985, the maintenance manager on the site, Mr. Alec White, who is a member of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians received a message to report to the head office to discuss the work load with the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.67.2", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "e group in his election address. He simply promised to freeze council house rents\". The hon. Gentleman's election address was calculated to mislead, and so is his motion today. An honest motion on housing would have been in the following terms: That this House notes that local authority capital expenditure on housing was cut by 50 per cent. in real terms between 1974–75 and 1978–79\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.67.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "\"Knocked on the head\" is my paraphrase of what was said in the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the. Minister will give the House one other fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.75.4", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Sir Paul. I appreciate that you have said that you have given a ruling. In the light of the observations during the past few minutes by hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber, would you be kind enough to give further thought to your ruling? It is absolutely clear that, if we proceed to deal with the Committee stage now, we shall be groping in the dark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.75.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being characteristically less than charitable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "ter would not be able to escape. In no way, Mr. Walker, do I wish to give you unnecessary exercise, but I say that because we are talking about allocated expenditure, and expenditure is at the very root of political decision. Ten days ago my extremely eloquent hon. Friend, the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, spoke about the Foreign Office's attitude towards majority decisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-01", "file": "debates1985-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "83aeb35fca96ac61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "se 4 into effect until such time as the Department has considered the STEAC Report on the framework of higher education in Scotland as a whole\". That committee has been looking at the nature of higher education in Scotland for some time, and I gather that it will report in the autumn. Quite rightly, the Secretary of State is saying that he wishes to wait until he knows the outcome of that inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-01a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.167.18", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "How much time will front-line air and ground crews spend with their families under the Government's lunatic cost-cutting programme, which is resulting in each of our aircraft carriers not being fully equipped with their own aircraft and manpower—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.167.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.176.9", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister any idea of the number contained in the paragraph he has mentioned, the attendant costs of those cruise missiles stationed on the British mainland and the feelings among this generation of young people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.176.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I am offering you the opportunity to vote —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "European Council (Milan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "She got us into this; she is going to have to get us out of it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Council (Milan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "— without altering the treaty of Rome —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Council (Milan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You have got to cover yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "— without altering the treaty of Rome — [Interruption.] I understand the embarrassment of the Conservative anti-marketeers, but shouting will not cover their tracks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Council (Milan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "together over the weekend and all that they can offer to the 15·5 million unemployed in the Common Market is the prospect of yet another study to report in December? Would it not have been fitting for the British Prime Minister, who has the largest number of unemployed, to take the initiative at the summit to try to bring down unemployment? In the wake of Milan, is it not absolutely plain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Council (Milan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n unemployed in the Common Market is the prospect of yet another study to report in December? Would it not have been fitting for the British Prime Minister, who has the largest number of unemployed, to take the initiative at the summit to try to bring down unemployment? In the wake of Milan, is it not absolutely plain — [Interruption.] I know that Conservative Members do not like it, Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Council (Milan)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " and which we agreed should not be considered. The right hon. Gentleman said that the decision can be taken by majority vote. That is not quite right. One can call an intergovernmental conference by majority vote. Any recommendations that it makes to change the treaty would have to be done by unanimous vote and would also have to come before each Parliament. It would have to be by unanimous vote —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.187.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.203.6", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Fibs and Fowler's Howlers\". The flagship of the Government's defence in that leaflet —no doubt it will be repeated today by the Minister for Health—was that there had been a 12 per cent. increase from 1978 to 1983 in the number of in-patient cases. For misleading propaganda, that takes the biscuit. First, that may merely reflect the fact that more people are ill under this Government, as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.203.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.205.5", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I am suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "den on the same budget that pays for new developments. We are witnessing what operation candle-ends has brought us. Morale among staff has plummeted. Last week, the Nursing Mirror published a stress survey which stated: The replies came thick and fast showing many nurses feel overtired, inadequately trained and unsupported in the current climate of NHS cutbacks. It reported that, in the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "orn to mothers in the lowest socio-economic groups and many to mothers in the ethnic minority groups. Poor nutrition, unwanted pregnancies, smoking and drinking alcohol were identified as causes. In June 1984, the Select Committee published its first monitoring report on perinatal mortality. The rate has fallen — three cheers for that — but it has not fallen enough. The Government must do better —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-02", "file": "debates1985-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "db0fddb48911f664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The Minister is blocking the charitable ones as well. The hon. Member for Oldham, West want on to talk about private operators — I paraphrase what he said — using every fiddle in the book to push up charges, and said that there had been nothing to stop them. When we take action in these matters, we are told that this is in some way uncaring and totally against the interests of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-02a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "On Second Reading we debate what is and what should be in a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give commitments about legislation before being able to examine the matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "the brewery to which I have referred claimed that it did not accept that alcohol was the cause of the violence. Sponsorship of football clubs by drink companies is clearly designed to associate the consumption of alcohol with youth, glamour and sporting success, though every first-rate sportsman knows perfectly well that it is death to achievement on the sports field to consume alcohol in excess —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Senior?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": " doses of what the hon. Gentleman seeks to dispense. That is not the answer to the problem. I know that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart), is waiting desperately to hear me declare my interest in this matter. I am perhaps the only hon. Member who is a director of a senior football club. I am a director of Cowdenbeath football club —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is correct, and I appreciate his deep knowledge of the game —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "nt must deal equitably with both, or they will be building up trouble for the future. The Government say that they will deal with that problem and achieve equity by not allowing people to drink in a private box, but allowing them to drink in the directors' room or in the supporters' club round the corner. What will be the consequence to football if the Government deal with the problem in that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "Of course he is. Only the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Bruinvels) could possibly think that if a Minister does not listen to the House he is not in contempt. That is why the hon. Gentleman makes such nonsensical remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "s all to the good. The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman), who spoke first for the Opposition, was concerned not so much with this piece of legislation as with criticising the Government for failing to act on the broader issues. It seemed that he was suggesting that there has been inadequate action. He was critical because we have not done anything except to produce this Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-03", "file": "debates1985-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "8eb9be2026424f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "discussion that took place. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I was not a party to the discussion, but I have consulted my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and it is his view that the provision of the principle that there should be a reduction in the time to enable, as it were, a licensing system to apply, should not apply to the Bill. I would go further than that. There was —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-03a.449.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.730.4", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Opposition will oppose the timetable motion. Are they really saying that the whole day, extending, as the motion provides, until midnight, is too little time to debate these issues fully?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. One thing that the Bill will do — this is not its purpose, but a by-product of it — is to rid London of Ken Livingstone as leader of the GLC. That is ridding us of somebody who has done for local democracy what Josef Mengele has done for medicine—perverted his art with brutal and idiosyncratic practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall deal in a moment with that matter and all that goes with it, as well as with the statement this morning by the Leader of the Opposition. I repeat what the Government ought to bear in mind. At the beginning of the debate on the Bill the alliance made its view clear. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "We have always believed that the metropolitan counties should be replaced by regional government. We opposed the setting up of the metropolitan counties, and we have never liked them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Local Government Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in London.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ny of the powers which Whitehall and this Secretary of State and his successors will inherit. Perhaps the Government should have paid more heed to that message at the beginning. I end with these two notes of warning to the Labour party and its policy makers and to the Government. They should notice that since 1982 the alliance, and not the Labour party, has done best in local elections in London —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "I am glad the hon. Gentleman has allowed me to return to my course. I want to deal with precisely those matters. People talk about the residuary body.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " progressive than she is. She normally likes to be thought of as the progressive, warm and humane voice of the Department of Transport and it must be a real problem for her to have to come to the House to read a brief that was more suitable for the abrasive tone of her boss the Secretary of State for Transport. The Minister has failed to produce any sound arguments to explain how two Departments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-08", "file": "debates1985-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "127b8f8223269c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about quangos?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Our policy has always been that London needs a regional authority directly elected which should cover these powers and many others. The new super-expanded GLC, for which the present GLC chairman and others will be fighting, is a concept that they have adopted from us, and we have been arguing it for a long time. I am sorry they are so slow at reaching the right conclusion, but that is not unusual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-08a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.882.6", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is already seeking to chip away from what is a determined effort to introduce a quality two-year scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.882.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.883.8", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "It would be helpful if the hon. Lady would write to me with details of the £20 million to which she is referring —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.883.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman calls for more investment in industry, but every hon. Member knows that part of the problem that we face results directly from increased investment in industry, which has created a significant proportion of the increase in unemployment. I wholly repudiate suggestions that the figures that I published last week are not accurate. I have published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.894.6", "colnum": "894", "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 influence the right hon. Gentleman's questions. He must not influence my answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ise that the tax applies only to someone who is paid or receives a total of £8,500 a year, but in calculating that income the Inland Revenue takes into account the employer's contribution to the cost of providing a workplace nursery. Therefore, a person is taxed both on his wages and on the employer's contribution to the nursery. It is common for a well-run nursery to cost £4,000 a year per child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "If the benefit in kind is not drawn to the attention of the Revenue it can hardly be expected to tax it. I have no window into the mind of individual taxpayers and how they fill in their tax returns but in so far as it was generally assumed not to be a taxable emolument, taxpayers did not fill in returns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I am saying. [Interruption.] I have a clear idea on the subject. On the basis of the taxation principle —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Reliefs and benefits should have significance for all, not just for the few, although it may be hard for inegalitarian Socialists to understand the truth of real opportunity for all. If the same relief were offered to the 600,000 mothers at work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-09", "file": "debates1985-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "06146e94a91860fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": " of the hon. Member for Falkirk, East will live long in my memory. Nevertheless, it would not be right not to tax one form of income received by one group of people while others have to pay tax on all their income. The amounts can be substantial. Some postmen clearly receive very modest amounts—I shall not go into details on an individual basis — but others have declared amounts of more than £250.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-09a.993.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "South Africa (Sanctions)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "South Africa (Sanctions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Gentleman has a financial interest, no doubt it will be in the Register of Member's Interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1139.10", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "put jobs at risk. That is the issue tonight. The House of Lords clearly said \"Keep the jobs.\" What a situation. The House of Lords say that we should not have penal legislation to cripple production. The Law Lords say \"Keep the jobs\" but Ministers in the Commons say, \"Keep the revenue and do not bother about the jobs.\" That is nonsense. Has the Treasury calculated how much revenue it will collect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1139.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": " to the discrimination against those who drink blended vermouth. I wonder why the Government have chosen to impose a further tax on that alcohol. Blended vermouth is a relatively mild drink, which is less intoxicating than many others. Why has the Treasury chosen to discriminate against people who drink blended vermouth? What is the justification for overturning the decision by the House of Lords?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "ld provide, so to speak, a clog on the market. People would be disinclined to have their stocks and shares turned over in the way that market circumstances would normally have dictated. We thought it right, therefore, to eliminate that distortion by introducing the last in, first out rule. The hon. Member for Thurrock asked me perfectly properly how many people will be affected. I cannot tell her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "as been considering events outside the House, he will know that the purpose of the clause has been widened as a result of the ingenious schemes pursued by tax lawyers since our debate in Committee of the whole House. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman sees the clause as so important that he has decided to attend the debate. The clause abolishes development land tax, at a cost of £50 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1214.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1221.5", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " that income tax paid to it and the company (in this paragraph referred to as \"the recipient company\") has either had that excess paid to it, or has received an additional amount in accordance with arrangements made under Regulation 2(1) of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (General) (Dividend) Regulations 1973, it shall be liable to a fine for the violation of the provisions of section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1222.4", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "2. — (1) This paragraph has effect where a company to which section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1222.6", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "(3) For the purposes of this paragraph the efective date shall be deemed to be the date (Not to be later than 31st December 1986) on which the legislation referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above actually becomes effective in the province, state or other part of the territory outside the United Kingdom which has been prescribeed as a unitary state for the purposes of section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1222.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1222.8", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawl of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "3.—(1) in any case where arrangements are made, whether before or after section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1222.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " in sub-paragraph (1) above, from which income tax has not been deducted by the person making the payment, and has a qualifying presence in a unitary state at the time of the payment, shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph 1 above as a company from which the entitlement to claim payment of the excess of a tax credit over the income tax chargeable on its income has been withdrawn by section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "4.—(1) Where it appears to the Board that the provisions of section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.5", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Supplementary provisions as to withdrawal of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "\"Paragraph 4 of Schedule", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.7", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "5.—(1) In this Schedule and section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.7", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tution of the words \"51 per cent.\" for the words \"75 per cent.\" wherever they occur, qualifying distribution\" has the same meaning as in Part V of the Finance Act 1972 (taxation of companies and company distributions), unitary state\" means a province, state or other part of a territory outside the United Kingdom with the government of which the arrangements referred to in subsection (1) of section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1223.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-10", "file": "debates1985-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "14c3561d5539bf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Withdrawal of right of certain non-resident companies to payment of tax credits", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "(2) For the purposes of this Schedule and section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-10a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1257.4", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n over the past six years. Will the right hon. Lady now tell us the answer to the question whether the Conservative party should be boasting or complaining about the 16·5 per cent. rise in public spending? Should it be complaining or boasting about the 6 per cent. rise in the share of GNP on taxation? Is the right hon. Lady proud of spending, or is she proud of cutting? Is she an Iron Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1257.7", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Compared with the Labour Government's record, all members of my Government and Back Benchers should be proclaiming this Government's record with great pride. In practice, the last Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1257.7", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Compared with the Labour Government's record, all members of my Government and Back Benchers should be proclaiming this Government's record with great pride. In practice, the last Labour Government — [Interruption.] In practice —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1258.8", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gladly congratulate all those who have virtually completed the repair work on the M1 ahead of time. I congratulate those who did the work, and my right hon. and hon. Friends at the Department of Transport who arranged it so excellently. May I point out that spending on major motorway repairs is up by more than 50 per cent. in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1258.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1260.9", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, arising directly out of Prime Minister's Questions. You are renowned for your generosity and kindliness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1260.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1263.7", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "der which was laid today has been made under the urgent procedure, following representations by interested persons in Northern Ireland. Because the order was made under this procedure, no proposal was drafted and circulated. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is today writing to the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly to explain why the urgent procedure was used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1263.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend says, they would have been rate capped. What is sauce for the goose ought to be sauce for the gander. Time after time I used to bore people stiff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "nd helpful part of our procedures and our democracy in this Parliament. The report of the Select Committee is unanimous. There was an intense effort to ensure that what we reported was supported by all members of the Committee. The membership of the Committee covers a wide spectrum not only of politics but of personalities. It ranges from the quiet, genteel members to the not so quiet and genteel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "It was not on a falling total —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-11", "file": "debates1985-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "88a0745e34d4c1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "between the role of social services departments and that of the NHS, both institutions must be looked at again. I would favour bringing things closer to the local authority where there is a greater possibility of democratic control, or democratising the Health Service. The relationship between the two institutions must be brought closer together. I should like to refer to several recommendations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-11a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-12", "file": "debates1985-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "646d4c21edf49563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-12a.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "House of Commons (Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " a small fee for teaching them. But the right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) put his finger on it when he admitted that he is too idle to discipline himself to make proper use of them — in other words, to teach them what they should do. I do not see this place as pre-eminently or even peripherally an institute of higher education for undergraduate aspirants to the world of politics —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-12a.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.12.4", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "nd The Sun, which show that an alarming number of families of miners who worked throughout the strike have been severely victimised, threatened and had their houses daubed, and that many miners have been prevented from returning to work? Can my right hon. Friend advise miners who want to go to work, and their families, how they might be protected and will be able to convict those appalling miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.12.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that some Members of this honourable House are willing to give out passes like confetti? Should there not be a limit to the number of so-called research assistants which so-called hon. Members can inflict upon us all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.15.10", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that I am not surprised that the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the chairman of the Tory party does not need research assistants? On the other hand, those hon. Members who are in the serious business of politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.15.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No strawberries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the number of people wishing to have strawberries and cream on the Terrace of the House of Commons far exceeds the supply of teas available? That being so, will he seek to extend the season during which these teas are available in suitable facilities, perhaps starting at Easter rather than at Whitsun?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.20.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "r only two years, but I must tell the hon. Gentleman, who entered at the same time as me, that the gullibility of Tory Back-Bench Members never ceases to amaze me. Let us consider the real world and leave the Thatcherite monetarist universe which the hon. Gentleman seems to occupy. Let us consider what those in the front line of the service say about the figures. The hon. Gentleman did not listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "eal terms, which, on current predictions, will be trebled this year. That will be extremely damaging. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will agree that the National Association of Health Authorities is aware of the difficulties and realities of providing health care. The Minister for Health visited Cardiff last month, and much good that did the Tory party when the voters were asked for their opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "said: I do not accept that the award poses any threat to standards of care. Within the NHS, the Minister's is a lone voice compared with what is being said in the authorities of England and Wales and in the Scottish boards. He continued: I just hope we are not looking too far ahead\"— it is good to know that the Health Service is being governed by ad hoc expediency with the implications of this\"— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "e Government—given the trend of the past two years, that is extremely likely—health authorities could find themselves forced to make far bigger cuts than anything yet contemplated. I shall give the Minister several examples, which he will be pleased to hear are not anecdotes. I have been in touch with several health authorities about how they propose to fund next year's pay award. In West Lambeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.47.6", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ervice for the sick and frail, reducing nursing cover on night duties, reducing cleaning standards in staff accommodation, charging low-paid NHS staff more for meals, cutting staffing levels on long-stay wards, reducing training spending, reducing fire precaution levels, reducing the quality of services in the control sterile supplies department and reducing family planning and dentistry services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.47.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.49.7", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "preceding_text": "which is compounded by a heavy cold. First, I pay tribute to the late hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor, Mr. Tom Hooson. He was an excellent constituency Member and has been taken from us at an early age. He was dedicated to the people of Brecon and Radnor and served them well. I am sure that the House will wish to join me in remembering his good work and in extending great sympathy to his family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.49.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.57.6", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Lanarkshire, West (Mr. Hind) has only just come into the Chamber. He wants to intervene only to prove to his constituents that he has taken part in the debate. The Minister did not mention waiting lists. Since the Government came to office there has been an increase of 15 per cent. in the number of people on waiting lists.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.57.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "ct my district health authority. I find it a peculiar paradox that the British Medical Association tells us that there are 700 junior doctors unemployed, and that 20 per cent. of junior doctors have experienced six months' unemployment over a two-year period, when in my authority in the past month a casualty ward has been closed in three hospitals, not through lack of resources or lack of finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.58.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Deakins", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it possible that the matter is sub judice? I understand that the Secretary of State may be considering an appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "I can only repeat what I have said. If there are changes as a result of the legislation, any changes in the agreements will have to be negotiated with those who are parties to them. That has been the character of participation. For example, where it has been BNOC's responsibility, or in relation to other contracts which BNOC has with a non-participation agreement, where on the specific agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.89.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.91.4", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Pipelines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Paul Dean)", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member has spoken once in the debate. Does he have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Banks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "alleviating the concern in some parts of Scotland. This concern has not been reciprocated by the staff of the TSB nor originally by the trustees when the Bill came before us on Second Reading. All of us who live in Scotland, who are interested in the bank's success and who realise that a large part of the bank's success in Scotland will go towards making it a great successor in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.134.2", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Banks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "If the pursuer—I understand that is the correct term for an appellant in a Scottish court—in this case, contrary to the advice that the Government have received, were to succeed in obtaining a judgment against the trustees of TSB Scotland, we would, of course, consider our subsequent action in the light of that judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Banks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "That is a helpful contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-15", "file": "debates1985-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e47ba32f843afc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trustee Savings Banks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "I have felt like an intruder during much of the debate, because despite the way in which some people interpret my surname, I have no connection with Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-15a.138.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether that has anything to do with bed and breakfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.162.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.164.6", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "e developments had come to light during the reviews? In the light of the statement in the last few days that these matters were not discussed, and in the light of the Government Actuary's statement that costs were not unforeseen and that what has changed is the Government's willingness to meet the costs, will the Minister now tell us whether his right hon. Friend intends to apologise to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am more than prepared to compare Government aid—taxpayers' aid—with the charitable contributions made freely by people in Britain. When I do, I see that in the past year, a year in which the Government took £40 million off aid, the people were prepared to subscribe £67 million in aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e Government took £40 million off aid, the people were prepared to subscribe £67 million in aid—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"] Well, why do we not have it all together, public and private? I also see that the Government have cut an amount equivalent to 10 times that which has been subscibed in the wake of the Live Aid concert. In any case, is the Prime Minister not ashamed of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "f the Live Aid concert. In any case, is the Prime Minister not ashamed of the fact—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that the only way in which she is prepared to provide short-term aid to the starving is by robbing the hungry of the world as she shuffles round the aid budget? Will she do three things? First, will she reverse this disastrous and cruel cut in aid policy? Secondly, will she make a contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend seek time this afternoon to drop a congratulatory note to Bob Geldhardt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend seek time this afternoon to drop a congratulatory note to Bob Geldof—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "\"Lifting the Burden\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "7;3. They make it clear that The Government's policy is to simplify the system and improve its efficiency … An efficient and simple system can speed the planning process and facilitate much needed development which helps create jobs—in construction, in commerce and industry, and in small firms. The White Paper then makes this important point: The Government is equally concerned to protect\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "\"Lifting the Burden\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I appreciate my hon. Friend's remarks. I know his long experience in this sector and I enormously respect the expertise that he brings to bear. I no longer express surprise at Labour Members' reactions. I know that my hon. Friend will be particularly pleased to study with care page 11 of the White Paper which, in paragraph 3.6 (i), goes into considerable details about the important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "\"Lifting the Burden\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "Is it riot a fact that the White Paper will do nothing to lift the burden of mass unemployment from 5 million people in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bright?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "cil tenancy and no private rented accommodation to be had. We have lost that crucial flexibility in the housing market that is so important for flexibility in the labour market. The result is that we maintain high levels of unemployment in some parts of the country while there is a growing scarcity of labour in others. That cannot make sense. I am sure that some bright spark on the Labour Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "their Government are in office. Moreover, they are a Right-wing Tory Administration who have made a particular virtue of deregulation and privatisation. Surely the Prime Minister needs no lectures from the hon. Member for Warwickshire, North (Mr. Maude) about deregulation in the privately rented sector, yet the Cabinet has decided to shelve any such proposal during the lifetime of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "campaign, and some people would argue, bearing in mind Labour's majority in that election, that Labour would not have won without the effects of that Act. That is one of the reasons why the Prime Minister is so reluctant to act. In her constituency about 20 per cent. of the electorate live in privately rented accommodation. I wonder how many people in Finchley would want the hon. Gentleman's Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.190.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "me people would argue, bearing in mind Labour's majority in that election, that Labour would not have won without the effects of that Act. That is one of the reasons why the Prime Minister is so reluctant to act. In her constituency about 20 per cent. of the electorate live in privately rented accommodation. I wonder how many people in Finchley would want the hon. Gentleman's Bill? [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Norman Fowler?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": " the rating system. Such debates often acquire the nature of seminars. I believe that Mr. Edward Pearce referred in the Daily Telegraph to the verbal sludge of municipal speak which characterises many parliamentary debates on rating matters. I shall try to avoid that verbal sludge. I should like to remind the House of something that Fowler said in his \"Modern English Usage\". I paraphrase slightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because the quality is lower.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "end £126 per pupil on school cleaning when another can manage with £31? Why does one council service its vans every 600 miles when identical vans can go twice as far between services elsewhere? How can it possibly be right that some vehicles go for fewer than 10 miles between services? If one authority spends £7·30 on meals on wheels to the elderly, why does another spend only £1·30?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has reaffirmed that the Audit Commission is not the poodle of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": " same period was a vice—or was it vice-versa? The Minister did not say. Against that background, is the real reduction in local government expenditure since 1979 of 4·6 per cent. regarded by the Government as a success? Public expenditure has gone up dramatically. Local government expenditure has gone down. Were the assembled Tory Members—although there were not too many of them here today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "A Labour Member has muttered to me that that is the Government's new line—that pensions and the Health Service will have more money and that everything else will suffer. I expect that in real terms that is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "be larger than it would otherwise have been. If this is the case, a high level of rates will be associated with a high level of local employment. This is the opposite of the conventional argument that high rates are harmful for local employment\". The conclusion of the report is that it is Labour councils which have been protecting jobs and the Conservative Government who have been destroying them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "that, in the fair island of Anglesey, Holyhead has 3,670 workless people. The male unemployment rate there is 23·9 per cent. and the female unemployment rate is 17·7 per cent. Yet he wishes to attack Ynys Môn and penalise it heavily. It looks as though he will have the willing aid of the hon. Member for Ynys Môn. We shall watch with interest to see how he votes tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-16", "file": "debates1985-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "eaa3b40a30421cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Lorries (GLC Ban)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": "in Dyfed. In spite of that, the target has been set at £130 million. Dyfed is £2·4 million above the target and is being penalised by £3·1 million. That is a devastating situation for Dyfed. Interestingly enough, I believe that Dyfed is the only county council in Wales since reorganisation which has not elected an official Conservative county councillor. Is this the price to be paid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-16a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.308.9", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "First, there is no £20 million shortfall. The scheme was always designed to be demand-led—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.308.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the Solicitor-General aware that not so long ago an hon. Member was detained and roughed up by the Glasgow police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Teachers (Pay)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has once again told the House about the contribution that he is prepared to make towards an agreement with the teachers next year, but parents want to know what, apart from general exhortation, he is doing to solve this year's dispute. I am disappointed that the Labour-led employers' imaginative new approach has not yet produced a settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Teachers (Pay)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are the Secretary of State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "he teachers have consistently refused to discuss it. It is not I who have lacked flexibility. As for the opportunities of the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues in the Labour Party, I would remind both him and them that they have allies in the teacher associations. What is he, and what are they, doing to bring the teacher associations, in particular the National Union of Teachers and their leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Teachers (Pay)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "Mr. Teacher—Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Johnson Matthey Bankers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer was wholly right to inform the House of this latest development in the Johnson Matthey affair at the first opportunity, and I thank him for that. Obviously, it is not possible to speculate about the outcome of the police inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.320.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Wages Councils", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "bits the creation of more jobs and that is especially true in the case of young people. The present powers of wages councils also undoubtedly impose complex and unnecessary burdens on business. The Government believe that the case for radical reform is clearly made, and propose to introduce early legislation which will, first, remove all young people under 21 from any regulation by wages councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.326.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Racial Harassment", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Thorne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "y I postulate a rhetorical question? How often do we hear of building society managers saying, \"Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Thank you for your interest, but the house is pre-1919, so you will be better off down the road at another building society which gives greater percentage loans or loans at a lower rate for such properties.\"? How many times can we expect to hear building society managers saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " monopoly, has suddenly decided that it had better start to steal the building societies' clothes. Therefore, it has dressed itself up as the protector of the house buyer and started to attack the building societies as though they are ogres and have not been serving the house buyer for about 100 years by providing mortgages. The Lord Chancellor, acting here as the political arm of the Law Society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " vulnerable than solicitors. Indeed, solicitors have been able to maintain a monopoly of conveyancing for many years, despite the protests of the public. As soon as the pressure develops that building societies should offer a range of choice and insurance policies, they do so. As a result, we now have three insurance companies recommended by building societies. The details can be worked out later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "In May 1984 he led his party to unprecedented defeat in the district council elections and lost control of Edinburgh. He now purports to act as though that defeat never took place. The local authorities in Scotland have every right to fight by every legitimate means available to them. They have the backing of public opinion and it is clear what would happen if there were by-elections in Edinburgh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "e than 50 per cent. benefit from increased expenditure without having to contribute to it. It is an absolute mug's paradise. If I had been a Socialist, I would have taken advantage of it long ago. I would have been spending through the roof, because votes can be bought. One can have any number of bowling greens and one can besmirch a city with notices saying, \"We are providing services with jobs.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "n rather than shout, they might learn something. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, East raised a very important point. Edinburgh is about to have to service the Commonwealth games. I am informed, from the most impartial sources of all persuasions, that those who would have been contributing to the Edinburgh Commonwealth games are ceasing to do so because of the policies of Edinburgh district council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "it has been transferred elsewhere. It has been invested, so called, in Trident and in a new breed of nuclear weapons. That is hypocrisy, and I use that term advisedly. The Government have priorities, but they are not interested in the people of England or Scotland or wherever. One recalls the old reactionary slogan of guns before butter, but today the slogan is missiles before life, before health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "—for the middle classes and the rich. It talks about hosting the Commonwealth games. It talks about many things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order to decorate the Opposition Benches with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "pool, Scotland. I fully support the fight which my hon. Friend is making on behalf of the people of Edinburgh. I can assure him, on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Broadgreen (Mr. Fields) of the support of the Liverpool people. I note that the Secretary of State is shaking his hands, but he is the monkey grinder for Mrs. Thatcher, like the Secretary of State for the Environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e does it in a certain way, and he tries a little flannel, but he does not con many people. He may suggest that in better times it is possible to be more generous, and it is true that in good times in the past a few crumbs were given to the working class. Now they are being taken back. Why is this action being taken against Edinburgh? Is it because the Secretary of State is vicious and vindictive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " and there were calls for a return to the gold standard. That resulted in attacks on jobs and living standards, and the working class suffered. Despite the setback of 1926, when the working class was let down badly because of weak-kneed individuals—the TUC of that period—in the local authorities there were individuals such as George Lansbury in Poplar who led the way forward. I say in all modesty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " inefficient because it creates massive unemployment and results in foodstuffs, like industries, being destroyed; it is corrupt because it fosters the black economy and harbours, for example, the Vestey family; and that it is dangerous was demonstrated by the conflict in the south Atlantic. For all those reasons, the capitalist system is condemned. My advice to my colleagues in the Public Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-17", "file": "debates1985-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "144c594038cfca18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "dustries, being destroyed; it is corrupt because it fosters the black economy and harbours, for example, the Vestey family; and that it is dangerous was demonstrated by the conflict in the south Atlantic. For all those reasons, the capitalist system is condemned. My advice to my colleagues in the Public Gallery— [Interruption.] —is that they should stick to their guns. It is not simply a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-17a.432.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-19", "file": "debates1985-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8684ebd1eda225a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-19a.658.7", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-19a.658.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-19", "file": "debates1985-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8684ebd1eda225a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-19a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "industry in Northern Ireland should be dismantled—I am entitled to put another. I suggest that those workers consider stepping up the campaign for the nationalisation of the gas industry in the North and for its control to be put in the hands of a board of directors on which the majority of votes come from the trade unions and the stewards' committees in the industry and the trade union movement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-19a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-19", "file": "debates1985-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "8684ebd1eda225a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-19a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "hat happens in this country, under the clean air legislation and similar provisions. I have made the position clear. We shall cover all the costs of putting in the alternative fuel, but—I repeat that there is no difference between what we are doing in this respect and what happened with the clean air legislation—redecorations and the rest are not covered. In other words, we are following practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-19a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-22", "file": "debates1985-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "670534b1b531a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Ethiopia (Famine Relief)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that the Hercules will only supplement the food aid which, by road and rail transport, should have reached the drought areas already, and that the contributions that can be made—sadly, and despite the magnificent role played by the RAF—is likely to be marginal? The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-22", "file": "debates1985-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "670534b1b531a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The amendment provides the power needed to change the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 to vary the amount payable by means of an order subject to affirmative resolution in each House. The House will recall that among the many announcements made by my right hon. Friend during recent weeks that have caused pleasure was his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-22", "file": "debates1985-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "670534b1b531a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "rs wish me to rehearse them, I shall not do so. A further factor must be considered. If a change were made in the Bill to the law relating to compensation, it would create an anomaly, not only between the English and Scottish personal bankruptcy procedures, but between the law of compensation as it relates to company insolvency in Scotland and as it would relate to personal bankruptcy in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-22", "file": "debates1985-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "670534b1b531a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yorkshire Water Authority Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will the Minister stick to that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that the derogation could be overturned by a majority vote in the Council, because under article 100 of the treaty a unanimous vote is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-22a.830.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Sixth Forms", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "offer to which the right hon. Gentleman referred earlier is to recruit, retain and motivate people of the right quality, how can that purpose be fulfilled by two such enormously different pay offers as that to the teachers and that to top salaried people? Is that the reason why, at a conference last week, the right hon. Gentleman's remarks were greeted with cries of \"Rubbish\". \"Shame\" and \"Crap\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "she means, when she quotes the figures, is that she is prepared to subsidise extravagance for the rich but will not afford justice for the generality of people. Has she no understanding that social justice must play a part in economic policy and that if it does not that economic policy is doomed, as the right hon. Lady has demonstrated in the last six years? Will she now answer a simple question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Although those were average increases of 35 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was a member of a Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.861.6", "colnum": "861", "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 questions were answered, and he does not like that. He was a member of a Government who accepted average increases for the top of the Civil Service, the top salaries review, of 35 per cent. We, on the same basis, have accepted average increases of 12·2 per cent. The whole of the Labour party supported those increases —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.861.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The 1978 Top Salaries Review Body contributed to the sense of unfairness that led to the winter of discontent in 1979 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.862.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.866.4", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Corporal Punishment", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "preceding_text": "Now that he is quite rightly dropping this ludicrous Bill, will my right hon. Friend look at another option that he rejected on Second Reading, which is to do nothing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Royal Dockyards (Devonport and Rosyth)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "This must be the most unholy alliance this Parliament has ever seen. If I could come back to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.876.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.877.6", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Royal Dockyards (Devonport and Rosyth)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I give the right hon. Gentleman the unqualified assurance that I will listen to people who know something about it, but this nation made quite clear what it thought about his ability to know something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.877.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Royal Dockyards (Devonport and Rosyth)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend asked me two important questions. The first is about the number of compulsory redundancies. It is my hope that we shall use every endeavour, to secure this purpose, to ensure that the job losses can be achieved by way of natural wastage and voluntary retirement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We are about to go into recess.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "It is not. We are parties to the convention and to the right of individual petition. We are duty bound to give effect to the Court's interpretation of the convention. The rules give effect to that. I am not able to announce whether there should be a change of policy depriving individuals of the right to individual petition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "gent or feckless that they become unacceptable burdens on taxpayers already resident here. However, what sounds fair in principle—and what the Home Secretary described this afternoon as realistic—becomes unacceptable in practice, because the new rules define for the first time exactly what \"public funds\" means. The Government's definition is very wide indeed. It includes family income supplement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surprise, surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "that this guarantee should apply to men settled here since then. That, in my opinion, is the humane decision.\"—[ Official Report, 11 November 1982; Vol. 31, c. 695, 753.] That humane decision is now being violated. The present Minister of State, addressing the Conservative party conference in 1983, made a courageous speech opposing, the racialist resolution proposed by the Billericay constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "n 1983–84, 45 per cent. of so-called immigrants were Britons returning to the United Kingdom. In that year only 15·5 per cent. of immigrants came from the West Indies, Africa and the Indian subcontinent—the areas from which, according to the Government, there is the greatest pressure to emigrate to the United Kingdom. The Labour party certainly believes in firm immigration controls —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": " down, so the figures should not be changed by all that much, and we look forward to seeing exactly what will happen. There are Conservative Members, and perhaps Opposition Members, who are opposed to the changes simply because they have been forced by the European Court. I have to say to them, and particularly to my hon. and very dear friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-East (Mr. Budgen) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is in the Chamber.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "t they say by their approach to Europe. Then we have the Labour party. I listened with interest to the right hon. Member for Gorton, who tossed the racialist tag rather freely around. I would say to him—and I hope that he reads this in Hansard tomorrow—that abuse has never been a substitute for argument. Simply abusing Conservative Members who take a genuine interest and concern in these matters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "I thought that afterwards, she would wish to apologise, but she did not. I suppose that \"apology\" is not a word that appears in her vocabulary. I thought that my right hon. Friend put the case eloquently, fairly, reasonably and in a statesmanlike way. I wish to add from the Back Benches, where I serve with pride, just two or three questions to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "The ethnic minorities do not have the opportunity under our existing electoral system to represent themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "y plans to cancel their bank holiday weekend to remain in the Home Office to receive those letters or deal with those representations, or that they had intended to do anything other than put more staff in the Home Office to deal with the problem and place a great burden on Members of Parliament who represent constituencies such as mine, to which a large number of asylum seekers are likely to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ck in Sri Lanka with the way in which Polish refugees were treated some years ago. During the bank holiday weekend, when much of the story became news, I had the opportunity of interviewing about 60 people who had arrived from Sri Lanka. They were all young and frightened and they had all come here in nothing more than the clothes in which they stood up. They were fleeing from terror and violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House. The Minister has not made a persuasive argument. He said that the visa requirement had been applied with reluctance; it was certainly applied with celerity. The Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": " judiciary and the military. We should be making a grave mistake if we deviated from that path. It would create difficulties not only for this Government but for future Governments. The case that Plowden makes is unanswered and is unanswerable. In their heart of hearts, all hon. Members know that. We have lost our sense of perspective. We have been influenced by envy and hypocrisy. Let us cut out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "the teachers' dispute would have justified the Government in taking a different decision on the TSRB report. As for the timing of the decision, one of my hon. Friends has already said that there is never a good time for such decisions. However, if the Government will allow me to offer a constructive criticism, I believe that there may be scope for improvement in the presentation of such decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "I disagree with my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark). On this occasion, as on many others, the Government have made the right decision. It is a difficult decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "It is a courageous decision because the issue of top salary reviews is always shrouded in a fog of arithmetic illiteracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1003.5", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "en on 25 grand to get 50 grand. I shall put three points to those who oppose the rise. First, to give a fairly random example, a major-general who in 1970 received three times the sum of a newly promoted captain will receive only two and three quarters the sum after the increase. Secondly, do we believe in the erosion of the differentials of the most important and successful people in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1003.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "As far as the salary review of the Lord Chancellor and the others are concerned, this is a different decision, but it is the correct one. The decision has been made and the more it is attacked by a few of my hon. Friends the more it will appear to be a bad decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ms that have been made, three questions arise. Are the criticisms directed against the review body? Are they directed against the civil servants and others who will receive increased salaries as a result of the order? Are they directed solely against my right hon. Friend, who has had to take the decision? I shall deal with each in turn. Is it suggested that the review body is lacking in integrity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "they directed solely against my right hon. Friend, who has had to take the decision? I shall deal with each in turn. Is it suggested that the review body is lacking in integrity? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Anyone who sees the names of those who sat on the review body knows their record and must understand that their integrity is beyond question. Is it suggested that the review body lacks independence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I have no time. Can it be said that the review body is somehow incompetent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-23", "file": "debates1985-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c2b0ffc1a245fc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "nge — that is left to my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson), and I respect him for it. We must first decide whether these great issues of top people's pay, which are full of great political difficulty, are best vested for their recommendation in an outside body such as the Top Salaries Review Body. If that is our judgment, and we have lived with that form for some years now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-23a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1028.4", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "We had a useful and constructive exchange of views on a large number of matters. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1028.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "If Foreign Ministers ever work closer together on a common policy, and whether they do or not, will the Foreign Secretary make it absolutely clear that he is against torture? Will he make it absolutely clear that he is against torture in Turkey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Hon. Member for Linlithgow", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "on. Member in which he says that he did not leak those documents to the papers concerned and nor did anyone acting for him. The Committee accepts what the hon. Member has written and I will therefore propose that the Committee makes that clear in a separate report to the House. I know that the Committee will wish me to express regrets for any embarrassment caused to the hon. Member for Linlithgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that through his skill and imperturbability he has won the compliments of the House, in particular of the overwhelming majority of my right hon. and hon. Friends, and that he therefore has complete freedom of manoeuvre —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "d as long ago as June 1984. Therefore, the question of the House adjourning for three months while that man has to wait to know what the parole board will decide is something that I, and I hope other hon. Members, find intolerable. What the parole board decides is a matter for the board. But that a man should have to wait that length of time after 10 years of imprisonment is an absolute disgrace —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am not casting slurs on anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Authority Services (Tendering)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "t since 1979, they are worried that the number of local authorities that go out to private tender is dropping in the light of experience. It has dropped from about 12 per cent. in 1982–83 to 11·3 per cent. in 1984. In Scotland, only Orkney and Shetland goes out to tender. Conservative Members are concerned that not enough is happening. In the words of Rodney Bickerstaffe, they know —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Authority Services (Tendering)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NUPE.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. ICC Cleaning Services has been employed by some local authorites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that it is entirely beneficial for the blacks. I am simply suggesting that to bring them to equality, economically and politically, takes time and education, and that is not fully widespread at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "I dislike what Conservative Members say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Innocuous?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": " will continue to stand firm, on trade sanctions. My last point of the three that I mentioned is the farce of continuing sporting sanctions against South Africa. If my hon. Friend the Minister has a chance to advise the Prime Minister before she goes to the Commonwealth conference in the Bahamas in the autumn, he should tell her that if there is any way in which the innocuous Gleneagles agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who paid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I shall endeavour to be brief. I do not have a prepared speech and I hope to speak from my experience of visiting South Africa and Namibia on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am not sure the word \"condemned\" has come from the mouth of the British Minister. I believe that the British Government have said that in their view the Government in question are null and void.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "e, I shall refrain from remembering his constituency. It was interesting to note that the right hon. Gentleman entered the Chamber during our debate for only a few minutes. Since he has recently spent some time in that part of the world, one would have hoped that he would have spent more time in this Chamber of democracy and made a positive attempt to do something about the matter, but he did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " whether the speeches that we make inflame a difficult situation or help it. If it is the former, one should be careful about the speeches that one makes. We feel that way about the speeches that some politicians from other countries make about Northern Ireland, which we know inflame the situation there unnecessarily. Is it not also possible that if we take the licence that our freedom allows us —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "they should not make such speeches. I am saying that they should think carefully before doing so. There is a difference between saying that one should not do something, and saying that one should think carefully before doing so. With democracy come certain conditions that should be recognised. One is that one is required to apply oneself sensibly in a way that will not unnecessarily damage others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "ronger than was Rhodesia's and would undoubtedly adapt to sanctions. Listening to the \"End of Empire\" series on the BBC the other day, I was interested to note that on the programme on Zimbabwe Mr. Smith himself said: We were worried for I suppose a month or so, uncertain, but nothing terrible happened. In fact, it was a little better than we had expected, and then gradually got better not worse\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Councils", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has views on the YTS which are not shared by the trainees. If he suggests that trainee electricians are in bogus jobs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-24", "file": "debates1985-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "22fb10928b51b573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture (scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John MacKay)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John MacKay)", "preceding_text": "roblem of surpluses than the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland. He rather skidded over the problem of surplus production in the Community. not just on cereals but other products. It might be interesting for the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland if I read out to him what one one of his leaders said in a debate in January. The hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-24a.1277.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-25", "file": "debates1985-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "0433970556ff304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1291.12", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer recall that in his first speech from the Dispatch Box as Chancellor of the Exchequer on that bright confident morning he said: an essential ingredient in providing the right balance between fiscal and monetary policies\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1291.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-25", "file": "debates1985-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "0433970556ff304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "t. They have important implications for jobs and, as I remarked earlier this afternoon, the numbers of people in employment are rising rapidly. If I may be permitted to come back to the subject of the question, I point out to the hon. Gentleman that it is the Government's policy to maintain interest rates at whatever level—but not above that level—is needed to exert downward pressure on inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-25", "file": "debates1985-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "0433970556ff304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1303.6", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Before the Prime Minister leaves this afternoon to address the Capitalist Internationale, will she comment on today's report on the inquiry into British housing, which specifically criticises the Government's single-minded emphasis on owner-occupation as having certain dangers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1303.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-25", "file": "debates1985-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "0433970556ff304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1349.5", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " of the comments made on this occasion, we shall clearly have that matter in mind when considering what should be put in the scheduled list of the uprating of benefits next year. I am glad to see the hon. Member Oldham, West nodding, because we do not wish to convey the impression, which he evidently first gained, that we have in some way sought to conceal matters. That was far from our intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-25a.1349.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-26", "file": "debates1985-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "03e0a071964eeca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-26a.1435.4", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Okehampton Bypass", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "Is it not an outrage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-26a.1435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-07-26", "file": "debates1985-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "03e0a071964eeca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-26a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Blackmill Hospital, Ogmore", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": " of beds, not the increase in accommodation—when waiting lists are getting longer and the elderly are living longer. If I had not secured this debate today I should have been attending a birthday celebration for Mr. Arthur Beaty, in Dwfrig ward at Maesgwyn hospital, Brynceithin, who is celebrating his 100th birthday today. I am sure that the House will want to record its birthday greetings to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-07-26a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-21", "file": "debates1985-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "457eb0f4214b8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I did not hear the vice-chairman's remarks. I have only seen them reported and, as often as not, I am sure, reported totally out of context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.9.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-21", "file": "debates1985-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "457eb0f4214b8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "As I said to the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore), these sort of matters can reasonably be discussed through the ususal channels. I want to say again that, once upon a time, those on the democratic end of the spectrum in public life believed in the doctrine of the man for the job. If there is someone who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-21", "file": "debates1985-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "457eb0f4214b8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "As I said to the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore), these sort of matters can reasonably be discussed through the ususal channels. I want to say again that, once upon a time, those on the democratic end of the spectrum in public life believed in the doctrine of the man for the job. If there is someone who— [Interruption.] Oh yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-21", "file": "debates1985-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "457eb0f4214b8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "As I said to the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore), these sort of matters can reasonably be discussed through the ususal channels. I want to say again that, once upon a time, those on the democratic end of the spectrum in public life believed in the doctrine of the man for the job. If there is someone who— [Interruption.] Oh yes— [Interruption.] If we believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-21", "file": "debates1985-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "457eb0f4214b8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Inner City Disorders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman that the basic arrangements for block grant distribution redistribute resources substantially in favour of areas, such as the inner cities where needs are high. The inner city authorities—not all of them, but too many of them—are opting to throw some of this potential benefit away by spending at levels which they know will reduce their grant entitlement and impose extra burdens —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-21", "file": "debates1985-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "457eb0f4214b8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Inner City Disorders", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend make it clear that any attack on the police, whether physical or verbal, must be condemned? The police need all the support that we can give them. Will my right hon. Friend recognise that the vast majority of the people expect the precepts of Anglo-Saxon behaviour and of law and order to be maintained? These standards must be maintained. despite what other ethnic minorities want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-21", "file": "debates1985-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "457eb0f4214b8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.50.4", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Board and Lodging Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman speaks of abuse by landlords, and that, of course, is correct. We all know of the advertisements that have been placed. However, l have to tell the hon. Gentleman that there is clear evidence of abuse by claimants as well. I shall give one example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-21a.50.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Teachers' Dispute (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his expressed view, which I share, that the existence of discussions, even though they are not negotiations because I am not a party to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Teachers' Dispute (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ve to study carefully the problems. what resources would be needed and where they would be available, and I shall give all the help I can in its study of those issues. One of the most shattering aspects of the ballot last week was not so much that it showed a majority as that there was such a vast majority for the choice of using examinations and the future of the children as a bargaining counter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Teachers' Dispute (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ills, training and talents to bring about sensible solutions. Those sensible solutions must be based on, first, the available cash; secondly, the available resources; and, thirdly, the customers, including the parents but primarily the children. Taking all those factors into account, it seems strange to me and, I am sure, to many other active trade unionists who understand what negotiations mean —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Public Opinion Polls (Prohibition at Election Times)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "ctive one because, given the way the Bill is proposed, only professional organisations will be barred from publishing, which means that if an amateur were to come up with findings there would be no way in which he could be stopped. The effect of the Bill would be rather like banning meteorologists from forecasting the weather a week before a garden party in case anyone might be put off from going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Temporary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "—the kind of mechanism which successive British Governments have been seeking since we joined the Community on 1 January 1973.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "—the kind of mechanism which successive British Governments have been seeking since we joined the Community on 1 January 1973. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Temporary.\"] Despite the dissent of some of my hon. Friends, I use the word \"lasting\" deliberately because the new system will last until such time as all member states —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "it is a lobby and that is the problem. The European Assembly wants to spend public money that it does not earn itself, just as Liverpool wants to spend public money that it does not earn itself. May I trouble the House very briefly with a private address to my friendly neighbourhood Whip? I shall be voting against this nonsense tonight. I am second to none in my admiration for the Prime Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.206.5", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of Britain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that I gave way to my hon. Friend because I enjoyed the courtesy of doing so, but in a way I am sorry because I was proposing to answer the question before he asked it. We are not the Prime Minister. We are the House of Commons of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.206.5", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "not have to take the same direct view as the Prime Minister. If we as Parliament believe that by withholding our agreement from the measure we can secure a better deal for Britain, that is possible. We are in a different position from the Prime Minister. We have different powers and a different relationship with the Community. We have a different job to do. If we vote against the measure tonight —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I have given the answer, and on another occasion we may develop the question whether an alternative approach would be preferable. At present that is the legal position. There were a series —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "nity operates. The Government do not dissent from many of the criticisms. There is no disagreement about the fact that there are many defects in the Community. However, differences exist about the best way of rectifying those problems. Primarily Opposition Members, but also some Conservative Members, are essentially opposed to British membership of the Community and do not wish to see it reformed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "There is not much wrong with the Government that would not be put right by a fair voting system and a fair system of local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-22", "file": "debates1985-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c9d49fa90e78c592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "to an industry employing 5,000. The north-east has a firm foothold in the future with such industries as biotechnology and advanced manufacturing technology. Much of the good news is not publicised as widely as it should be. Another example is the Nissan factory at Washington which should create 4,500 jobs if all goes well, with a further seven overseas companies attracted to the region this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-22a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.279.8", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruptioni.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is he also aware that Liverpool, according to EEC charts, is fifth from the top in the league of areas with regional problems? Is he further aware that one in four of the workers on Merseyside is unemployed and that Liverpool is only part of Merseyside? Will he stop talking a lot of nonsense, like his colleagues, about Mr. Hatton and begin to deal with the real problem of Merseyside —unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.279.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.284.8", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Home Secretary—or rather the ex-Home Secretary, complete with his new job and new hairpiece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.284.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to intervene over what is an abuse of the orders of the House. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has attempted to attribute to me views which, under a point of order, I could not possibly answer, nor indicate the extent of my agreement with my hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I have been urging them, as we urge other such groups, to suspend violence because in those circumstances the possibility of a meeting becomes realistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "—some of which have precisely the effects that are not intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "of South Africa. We cannot ignore the mounting tragedy. We must do what we can to assist and encourage peaceful and progressive change. I hope that the debate will send a message to the moderate and peaceful people in South Africa who want moderate and peaceful change. Let us tell them, \"We are prepared to assist you and to be on your side.\" That does not mean economic sanctions. It does not mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "t and encourage peaceful and progressive change. I hope that the debate will send a message to the moderate and peaceful people in South Africa who want moderate and peaceful change. Let us tell them, \"We are prepared to assist you and to be on your side.\" That does not mean economic sanctions. It does not mean—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] It means using our economic position and our political position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "were perfectly accurate in cash terms. For the urban programme they amounted to an increase of treble in cash, and almost double in real terms. The right hon. Gentleman's figures confirmed that. That is not something of which we need to be ashamed. These are very large sums of money. Since 1979, £150 million in Birmingham and £140 million in Liverpool have been spent on the urban programme alone —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "We are debating —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "an Opposition motion calling for a judicial inquiry. I have explained why, in the Government's judgment, that is a mistake. I have explained in detail the nature of the Government's response to the problem and the steps that we are taking to resolve it. I have mentioned the responsibility of the community, which includes the Opposition. I have put a direct question to the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "e nature of the Government's response to the problem and the steps that we are taking to resolve it. I have mentioned the responsibility of the community, which includes the Opposition. I have put a direct question to the Leader of the Opposition— [Interruption.] I have discharged my responsibility and I ask him to discharge his. The House will judge whether he gave a direct answer to my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-23", "file": "debates1985-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "60d3c93b0a98a9c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Nuclear Power (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Giles Shaw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Giles Shaw)", "preceding_text": "cipline is a dirty word. It has long since ebbed from millions of homes and it has been dragged from thousands of schools. The police stand as the main bastion of discipline and responsibility in our society. Our main task is to rebuild in the affected areas that confidence which all law-abiding citizens in Britain enjoy—peace under the rule of law. Our police will he in the van of that endeavour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-23a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-24", "file": "debates1985-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5add2c39283823c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.419.11", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Including the hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in 1984 20,000 young children went missing in this country, including 1,047 from Leicestershire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.419.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-24", "file": "debates1985-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5add2c39283823c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "That council is not on my list. Perhaps it decided against fluoridation later —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-24", "file": "debates1985-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5add2c39283823c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "ovide for the current practice whereby fluoridated water must be supplied to a non-requesting area because of routine maintenance, such as cleansing or pump maintenance. As such maintenance is planned and carried out on a regular basis, it cannot fall within the definition of an emergency. This amendment remedies that omission. I would stress that neither the amendment nor the text of clause 1(6)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-24", "file": "debates1985-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "5add2c39283823c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Water (Fluoridation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "No. We are debating amendments to a Bill which will give power to health authorities to introduce a noxious substance into the water supply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-24a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-28", "file": "debates1985-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c36338c55a8964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.660.10", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": "I hope that this will not be treated as a party matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.660.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-28", "file": "debates1985-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c36338c55a8964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": " rather strange, coming from the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), who was the very hon. Member who used his voice for Clive Ponting? Was it not he who tabled questions planted by Clive Ponting and which were to be answered by Clive Ponting, who then denied that he was the author? Is it possible that the hon. Member for Linlithgow is a hypocrite, disloyal, or has taken leave of his senses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-28", "file": "debates1985-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c36338c55a8964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 45", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "or that required a new version of the amendment; we were told that it was not on. When my noble Friend Lord Morton of Shuna introduced a similar amendment in another place, again it was opposed. Therefore, it came as something of a surprise to us when this popped up at a very late stage, the Report stage in another place, and has now found its way to us. However, it is not for me to be ungracious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.711.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-28", "file": "debates1985-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c36338c55a8964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.785.2", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART I", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) was not quite sure of her attitude to the money resolution and the amendments that relate to it, which will be taken tomorrow. At one moment she described them as massive changes and a little later she said they were tiny changes. She will have to make up her mind before tomorrow whether she regards the amendments as massive changes or tiny changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-28a.785.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that in the main those in new employment since June 1983 are part-time workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that in the main those in new employment since June 1983 are part-time workers? [Interruption.] I remind Conservative Members that they are the last people who should speak about part-time employment, because most of them are engaged it it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that in the main those in new employment since June 1983 are part-time workers? [Interruption.] I remind Conservative Members that they are the last people who should speak about part-time employment, because most of them are engaged it it. [Interruption.] There are about 300—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.809.7", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "In welcoming my right hon. Friend back from her travels, may I ask her to find time today to note that her demonstration of resolute leadership and statesmanship in Nassau and New York —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.809.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Since 1979 the Government have allocated £1,900 million in urban programme grams to inner cities. The urban programme has more than tripled from £93 million in 1978–79 to £338 million in 1985–86 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Commonwealth Meeting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ealth leaders on that mission judge that further pressure is required? I gather that there is some difficulty in choosing a British representative for the Commonwealth mission. I put it to the Prime Minister that we have a number of very suitable candidates in the House and that she could usefully consider distinguished and well qualified Members, including, perhaps, those from Cardiff and Bexley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Commonwealth Meeting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev on 19 November? Is that still the right hon. Lady's feeling, or was that wishful thinking, resulting from the reasonable desire which she and others have that President Reagan will announce counter-proposals before going to Geneva? Can she, in any event, confirm that President Reagan will report back to NATO after the Geneva summit? Thirdly, is the Prime Minister aware —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Commonwealth Meeting", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen).\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ote that when I make a long statement the right hon. Gentleman wants it short, and that when I make it short he wants it long. I tried to be brief in this statement. It suits me very well when the statement is briefer than the questions. As regards sanctions, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, the Labour Government were absolutely against far-reaching economic sanctions. Indeed, they said in 1978—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.817.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ovention— which the right hon. Gentleman supports and wishes to maintain, as I do — that automatically a stop is placed and the action that would otherwise be taken is suspended. The problem is now caused partly by the increasing number of arrivals and partly by the increase in the number of representations. It is not a matter of inconvenience to the Home Office or of administrative inconvenience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.827.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "preceding_text": "one have always experienced a certain disquiet when exercising this facility? It is impossible, through a letter or telephone call to the constituent, in any way to judge the merits of the case. Nevertheless, in the present circumstances I always feel obliged to telephone the Department of my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State, who, in my view, does a difficult job extraordinarily well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What misuse?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "It is partly that, but primarily that under the misuse of the system quite large numbers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.834.6", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Their Member of Parliament— not you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "of immigration control. He told my hon. Friend the Member for East Kilbride (Dr. Miller) that his story about what happened in Scotland was not typical, but he was wrong. These problems for our constituents occur every week. Genuine family members come here to visit their relations but they are turned away. Their only way in is by ringing their Member of Parliament. This causes an enormous amount—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.834.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will recall, Sir, that I was the Member—the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "Not entirely, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.839.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-10-29", "file": "debates1985-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "ed01cac9111e3919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "preceding_text": "I wish to speak to the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) to Lords amendment No. 223. The Minister did not have the benefit of a Scottish education —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-10-29a.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Malone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Malone", "preceding_text": " Hyenas\". Of course, I maintain that the humming birds are on the Government side, and I shall say nothing about the hyenas. I was sure that the Patronage Secretary had read the reference to me, which started, rather flatteringly: No one should doubt Malone's profound commitment to getting on. So far, so good. It went on, rather strangely: Malone, though, is ill-served by his physical appearance\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ivers, I can only hope that, for the sake of us all, they do not have the same intentions for Members of Parliament. It was a remarkable by-election, as hon. Members will recall. The hon. Gentleman was not, as we have been reminded, elected to represent Glasgow, Hillhead. That seat was won by the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins), a Welshman, as everybody knows from his accent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "d find the Secretary of State for Employment. Even on the Government's fiddled figures, 3·3 million people are unemployed, 1·25 million have been out of work for more than a year, and 1·5 million under 25 are unemployed. When we ask where the future lies and where jobs will come from, the Secretary of State for Employment says that the real hope for the future lies in tourism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "7;3 million people are unemployed, 1·25 million have been out of work for more than a year, and 1·5 million under 25 are unemployed. When we ask where the future lies and where jobs will come from, the Secretary of State for Employment says that the real hope for the future lies in tourism. [Interruption.] Only a few weeks ago that was in the newspapers, written in his own fair hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "and finished.\" Then he said, \"I saw herself on the telly telling the Tory party conference, 'Come to the 1990s when people can look forward to their retirement.'\" He said, \"She just doesn't know anything, does she?\" Minutes after meeting that fellow at that meeting in my constituency, I met a youngster who told me that he had stopped looking for work when the board and lodging regulations changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "es and all the other awful substances that are used. We want an orderly society, a just society and a secure society. That is fundamental to freedom. The brutishness of crime makes us, like all other decent citizens, angry and vengeful. But anger is not enough. We need action. We need action to help the police to prevent and detect crime. We need action to make their task much easier in many ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "detect crime. We need action to make their task much easier in many ways. [Interruption.] Conservative Members can help in that, too. We want action to assist the police in catching and punishing criminals. The orderly society, however, cannot and will not be gained merely by policing the problems or punishing the results of crime. The police know that. A fairly senior young officer recently said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "e appreciate it this afternoon, though I was convinced by his speech that he can still very much see straight. The transformation of the north of Scotland into a world centre for the offshore oil industry is one of the great technological advances of the post-war period, as my hon. Friend said. It has made the far north one of the most prosperous parts of the country by using and embracing change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "y pledges foolishly made without any serious thought as to where the money would come from. You name it we were pledged to increase it\". They are well on the way to doing the same. Following enormous increases, the consequences were massive cuts—bigger than anything before or since. Indeed, that inveterate diarist, Mrs. Barbara Castle, has recorded that to while away the time in a Cabinet meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of 3 per cent. a year. This is the first time since the war that we have had such a long period of growth coupled with both balance of payments surpluses and low inflation. Opposition Members talk disparagingly of the performance of manufacturing industry, but last year British industry exported more manufactured goods than ever before in our history. It is to be congratulated and not criticised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rt of violence that we get in Socialist areas. Where we find Labour local authorities we find poverty of a deeper sort than anywhere else. Manufacturing investment was up last year by more than 14 per cent. Manufacturing output was 4 per cent. up last year, the biggest rise since 1973. Yes, the numbers employed in manufacturing are still falling. Indeed, they have been falling since the mid-1960s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ce 1973. This was achieved by the new realism of industry itself, management and work force alike. It was not and could not be achieved by Government and Whitehall. The duty of Governments is to create the conditions in which enterprise can expand and flourish, and to help in educating and training a skilled work force. The Government have done more to train young people than any other in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "es against property have increased, and I believe unemployment to be the root cause. People who are not part of the criminal fraternity are turning to crime almost as a way of life. We must tackle that problem immediately. We shall support any Government moves to tackle drug addiction. The increase in drug addiction is also related to some extent to the feeling of helplessness in our inner cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "the police force. It is undoubtedly true that while only 300 of our 20,000 Metropolitan police are black, the tensions that Lord Scarman highlighted in his 1981 report will continue. The Rev. Jesse Jackson said that the attitude of blacks boycotting entrance into the police was wrong, and we must all endorse what he said. We must try to recruit more black people into the police and integrate them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "I shall happily send the hon. Gentleman the 66-page document that we have prepared showing how false are the statements being made by the hon. Gentleman, Mr. Hatton and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Spence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Spence", "preceding_text": "is important industry. The whole question of shop opening hours must be related to the tourist and leisure industries. Not just holidaymakers, but people generally, want to be able to shop more or less as and when they like. They want to be able to purchase a meal or drink not necessarily in accordance with the present opening hours. Thus, the proposal to revise shop opening hours will be welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "Attempts have been made to refer the matter to the bedding industry's conciliation machinery, but the parties have not been able to agree to terms of reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-06", "file": "debates1985-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "05aafd598c954a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not proven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "t the name of the company right. If we are to discuss the facts of the case, let us discuss the full facts. Why did the hon. Member for Blackburn not refer to the paraffin bomb which was hurled at the Sutton premises after the police had tried to calm a group shaking the perimeter fence? All of that, and more, was recorded in the local newspaper, the Craven Herald and Pioneer on Friday 11 October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-06a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-07", "file": "debates1985-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c3547f9091021e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.125.4", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "right that I should deal with the matter. I shall try to do so—I may not succeed—in a way which the House will find to be fair. When we discuss this subject, we are talking about figures of recorded crime and there is some evidence from the British crime survey that the public may be more inclined now, possibly largely for insurance reasons, to report crimes such as burglary, than they used to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-07", "file": "debates1985-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c3547f9091021e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had better make up his mind whether he wishes to represent the Police Federation in this House or whether his loyalty is more to the Government in their attacks on the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-07", "file": "debates1985-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c3547f9091021e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.137.5", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Environment also shows that crime can be reduced by improving estate lighting, by the installation of anti-vandal glass, by stronger front doors and frames and by closing walkways on deck flat complexes. However, after a half-hearted effort to obtain more money for housing and housing repairs, the Secretary of State for the Environment was forced in Cabinet today to settle for a derisory increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-07", "file": "debates1985-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c3547f9091021e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": "ation between unemployment and crime. At the end of his speech he said that there may be other factors linked with the increase of crime, but his central argument was simplistic, connecting it with unemployment. Is the hon. Member really telling us—I have asked him this question in the Welsh Grand Committee—that simply by the creation of more jobs the crime rate will come down? Is that his thesis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-07", "file": "debates1985-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c3547f9091021e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "lf speaks highly for having one coordinated force. During the last few days there was a television programme on \"Operation Julie\". Today, Mr. Lee, the investigating police officer, spoke most eloquently for a national drugs squad, but it will be hard to have such a squad without a national police force. The more I think of it, the more I fail to understand why we do not have a national drugssquad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-07", "file": "debates1985-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "c3547f9091021e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "preceding_text": " as an Opposition Front Bench spokesman on home affairs because of, to use his words, the intimidation, chicanery, lying and cheating by Militant Tendency supporters. It is necessary only to be a member of a local authority which is under Labour control or Militant Tendency control to understand the sort of attack that one can come under for opposing the controlling party's policies. The violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-07a.197.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "It has taken us a long time to force that concession out of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I shall never forget the nonsense talked during the passage of the London Regional Transport Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.300.5", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sexist\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is a disaster, although the Minister of State is all right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.304.8", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I do not quite know who Sir Anthony Beckett can be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.304.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.313.4", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Suspension of a Member", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the concern of the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg) about the difficulties that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.313.4", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Suspension of a Member", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": " between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and myself. When I was sent to this House, my constituents expected me to call Ministers to account, and to do so without fear or favour. What has happened in this case is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made a grave, constitutional error and I believe that the right course would be for the Prime Minister this afternoon to call for his resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": " the Government to introduce a special premium for very severely disabled people. Otherwise, the Government will be hitting the most severely disabled. That would be absolutely intolerable. According to the Policy Studies Institute, the new disability premium proposed under this review will at best reach less than half of those supplementary benefit claimants with related health needs. Even worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Lester", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was on Friday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Lester", "preceding_text": "cial security White Paper is published as a result of discussions on the Green Paper, the contribution of the right hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South will be taken into account. I do not wish to speak specifically on education and social security, which are the subjects for today's debate. I want to speak on the part of the Queen's Speech that refers to overseas development and our aid budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lester", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lester", "preceding_text": " of 0·18 per cent.—we are left with the average for the OECD European nations, a figure which is more similar to that applying to the United Kingdom, of 0·50 per cent. I hope that we shall take that as a more realistic percentage to compare with. I support the Chancellor's bullish remarks to the effect that we are now entering the sixth year of continuous growth in Britain's economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "ufficient attention. My hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Dormand) rightly said that education is not in chaos but is in a deep crisis. It is in crisis because the teacher has been undervalued, the status and dignity of teachers have been demeaned and their salaries are so pitifully low that they do not know how they can carry on. When the Government talk about balance, Mr. Deputy Teacher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Tell him to sit down, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I remember listening to a Home Office Minister speaking at the Tory party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-11", "file": "debates1985-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ebd7a61d6dc4c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "orce and sincerity of the contributions of my hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Mr. Lester) on overseas aid, my hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. Haselhurst) on airports, my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, North-East (Mr. Thurnham) on Warnock, and the hon. Member for Eccles (Mr. Carter-Jones) on the elderly and on a subject on which I used to enjoy being his ally—rehabilitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-11a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "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": "uld, of course, have been running at a higher level than this were it not for the proceeds from privatisation, to which I will turn in a moment. But even without the privatisation proceeds, this year's forecast PSBR would still be the smallest as a percentage of GDP since 1971–72. The Government's privatisation programme is now getting into top gear and will continue for many years to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Helpful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I take entirely my hon. Friend's point. It is one which I have considered on a number of occasions. I have some responsibility in this matter. The different figures for current and capital expenditure are shown much more clearly in the national accounts for anybody to see. These distinctions are not always very, not very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": " of the youth training schemes are not new. Announcements were made about them previously. There is a possibility of 100,000 more YTS places being provided as a result of the announcement that the Paymaster General has just made. Can he tell us whether the quality of the training that young people can expect to receive under the scheme will be more than under the skivvy schemes offered at present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ed to be as generous in his approach to local authorities that have local employment and enterprise schemes? They have done a better job than many of the private enterprise schemes, producing more jobs, which are often cheaper, of better quality and longer-term. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman accept that I do not want to knock private schemes? Anything that creates jobs I quite welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "d to average unemployment pay of about £50 gives a wage level of £70 for the six-month scheme? If that is so, will the scheme be compulsory? If people refuse to go on it, will they lose their benefit? At the end of the six-month period, if a person refuses to continue to work for a wage from which the £20 has been deducted, will he face the prospect of suspension of benefit? The Paymaster General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The average payment allowed under the scheme is £63. As I have explained, while we are reviewing it, the difficulty is that if we dramatically increase it we may reduce the number of places under the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the reference in his statement to the long-term unemployed and the implications of his statement represent a calculated insult to the long-term unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not underestimate the problems faced by people who live in areas that have undergone profound change in the nature of employment locally, as the hon. Gentleman described, and that is one reason why we are putting more effort into bringing back fresh jobs, even in areas such as tourism, hotels, leisure and so on, which are derided by his Front bench spokesmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall consider that question. However, I believe that recipients of unemployment benefit as well as those of supplementary benefit are eligible for the community programme. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Enterprise and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "preceding_text": "May I warmly congratulate the Paymaster General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) will deal in detail with unemployment measures and the attempt through wages council legislation to force more people into part-time, low-paid jobs. The Government's campaign—it has been orchestrated throughout the whole establishment—to suggest that substantial numbers of the unemployed do not want to work or are not genuinely seeking work is contemptible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ght hon. and learned Gentleman to dissociate himself from those remarks. If he does not, we shall know that all the Conservatives believe that, on the principle of collective responsibility, if on no other basis, young people should get off their butts and look for work. I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will take advantage of this magnanimous opportunity to put the record straight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ally and no work force has faced such penalties. There are no greater monuments to inactivity than the deserted steelworks. I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will confirm the Government's policy of maintaining the five main steel-making plants. I am sorry that the Government gives them a guarantee for only three years. I do not know why the Government cannot give a longer guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "nd learned Gentleman has given it. It has not in any sense been wasted. It has brought new prosperity to many areas in Scotland and formed the basis of an offshore supplies industry which will continue to earn money for Britain overseas long after our domestic oil reserves have run out. North sea oil has made a massive contribution to the balance of payments. It has provided money to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that Mr. Archer has himself commented on those remarks. If the hon. Gentleman is seriously interested in the questions of employment and unemployment which are concerning this House, his reference to remarks of that kind, and dwelling on them in the way that he has, must illustrate that he has reached rock bottom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "I regard it as a sign of the trivialisation of the debate by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "hich will lead to nearly 12,000 jobs being created or safeguarded. I should also like to mention one arm of our regional policy—the English Industrial Estates Corporation. Its work is an important component of regional policy. The demand for its factories has grown as we have emerged from recession. On the other hand, income from receipts is not expected to be as high as at one time seemed likely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "r party and industry somehow had a mutual interest and that Labour was prepared to listen to industry's needs. If nothing else, he deserves full marks for sheer brass neck. The truth is that the Labour party's policies, in contrast to those in the Gracious Speech, would be catastrophic for industry in this country. Reckless spending policies, financed by economic irresponsibility, would soon push—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.485.2", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ent. The Prime Minister, having proclaimed herself for years the prophet of rolling back public expenditure, having re-nailed her colours to the mast at Blackpool by saying, \"We will not reflate,\" then proceeds to regale the Lord Mayor of London with boasts of the Government's colossal programme of public expenditure. I am not surprised that more consistent economic thinkers such as Lord Stockton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "s a capital asset; certainly it is not renewable—almost entirely for current purposes, it amounts to improvident finance on a scale that makes the Prime Minister's old friend General Galtieri almost Gladstonian. However the money is used, I am deeply sceptical about the management and consumer benefits that flow from turning public monopolies into private ones. I hold no brief for nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "It is probably well known that I have never been in favour of any measure of nationalisation since at least the mid-1960s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I said that from the early 1960s I was, on the whole, disillusioned with nationalisation. It was perfectly well known to everybody at the time that there was resistance to such measures in the Government, and it is absolute nonsense for any theory of Cabinet Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "I should like to talk about the problems we would face if we tried to restore full employment in Britain. It has not been touched on by any Government speaker because the restoration of full employment has never even been a Government objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "preceding_text": "tion. I wish they would explain to the youngsters leaving school this year why they have no hope of obtaining proper jobs. Several hon. Members have mentioned small businesses, whose development I strongly support. I was involved in that area before I entered the House. But it would take many small businesses to create the 20,000 jobs that we need in Rotherham today, not in five or 10 years' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "jobs. Growth now has a negative effect upon jobs. We simply cannot rely on growth to provide full employment. A mixture of public and private investment is crucial if the Government want to reduce unemployment. I welcome the Paymaster General to his first debate on employment in his new capacity, but I strongly deplore the fact that the Secretary of State for Employment should be in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " unemployed non-claimants, those who have temporarily stopped work and the effects of special employment and training schemes, the total comes to 4·75 million looking for work. If we add to that figure the 250,000 that the Minister is fiddling today, unemployment stands at 5 million on the basis of the Government's own figures and the labour force survey. I do not want to argue about that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "cheque instead of cash. If that is to be the case, it removes choice from the individual. The Government are always talking about choice and the individual, but he will no longer be able to exercise his preference to be paid in cash rather than by cheque. The individual will now have to pay £40 or £60 a year in bank charges, which is a large sum for someone who is not earning much money each week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "tend to channel our youngsters into wages council industries. That will enable them to ease the rate of unemployment among those who have completed YTS courses. I understand that about 50 per cent. of those who leave the courses are unable to obtain jobs. The Government intend that they should skivvy in kitchens, wait in hotels or work in shops. That sort of job is being set up for our youngsters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " reveal a much smaller employment response than that predicted by the Chancellor. I suppose that 15,000 is much less than 150,000. It continued: Part of this difference is attributable to revisions in the Treasury model\". Even the Treasury model was got at to produce the figure of 150,000. It is clear that there are fiddles in every figure that the Government produce. We know that that is so but —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-12", "file": "debates1985-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b30cf3da1e382250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Darfield Main Colliery", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": "rstand that a full meeting of the NCB is expected to consider the unions' appeal at a meeting on 6 December. The hon. Gentleman made a number of allegations, of which I had no prior notice, against the NCB and its chairman—and I mean no criticism of him for that—but the specific details of assurances given by the chairman must be a matter for the hon. Gentleman to take up with the chairman direct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-12a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "TSB (Scotland) Sale (Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest; I am a depositor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.566.6", "colnum": "566", "heading": "TSB (Scotland) Sale (Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "he TSB in February regardless of yesterday's setback in the Scottish courts. Will the hon. Gentleman make it clear that the Government will not take the action before vesting that they need to take to allow the flotation to go ahead? Will he also make it clear that the Government will await the final decision of the courts before doing anything that would facilitate the flotation? Is it not clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.566.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Breweries Merger (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the mass of the public will view this matter as one where a Minister has managed to tip off certain favoured people with information to which the remainder of the population is not privy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.575.7", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "n the sale has financed a couple of years of tax cuts, how does he suggest that those temporary tax cuts will be sustained? When I asked him that question yesterday he mumbled a generalisation about the sale of other assets. May I therefore ask him specifically if what he hinted at as the afternoon went on is true? Is it the Government's intention to sell into private ownership the water industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.575.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.575.7", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "volves a writing off of 3·5 million men and women who are unemployed. They have been written off because they are politically expendable. Although, no doubt, the wets in the Cabinet will seize on the announcement as a sop to their consciences, the minuscule increases in housing renovation and hospital building will finance virtually no jobs. I have it on the authority of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.575.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "meanwhile, let me put an immediate question to him. Which privatised companies would a future Labour Government, if there were to be one, renationalise, and on what terms? Would they renationalise British Telecom, British Airways, British Aerospace, Britoil, the British Gas Corporation? Would the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook care to answer that question? I should be pleased to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Bought by your party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": " off will question the case that they should be made slightly better off while they see millions of their fellow citizens without a job. The Government have a particularly cynical and rather too market-oriented view of their fellow men and women if they believe that votes are going to be bought at the next election in quite the same cynical way as they were bought in the fifties and early sixties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "o pay the heaviest price. I would like employers' costs to decrease further, which is why the SDP advocates a reduction in the national insurance contribution. I do not like the fact that the employment measures—some of them desirable—announced by the Paymaster General yesterday must be financed by industry. Everything should be done to help to keep down unit costs and to keep Britain competitive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "preceding_text": " to announce such achievements? My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has said that we must not take a risk with inflation. If there were to be an untoward drop in interest rates, that could lower the level of sterling and cause a rise in inflation. With that in mind, on 30 October I asked my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister whether, with the low levels of sterling then, which became even lower—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "British economy, but they are still firmly wedded to the doctrines of high interest rates and an artificial exchange rate that goes with that. Of course, there have been increases in productivity, but increases have also taken place in the economies of our major competitors. The net effect is that British industry is at least 19 per cent. less competitive internationally than it was six years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "astle—Gateshead, and, in London, the three further areas of Lambeth, Hackney and Islington and the five dockland boroughs. We used three instruments of policy to assist them—the rate support grant, which was based on the assessment of needs, the housing investment programmes, which came directly under ministerial control, and the refurbished urban programme. What has happened since? In real terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "We are now in the closing moments of the debate on the Loyal Address. This is Parliament's central debate of the Session. It began a week ago with speeches from my hon. Friends the Members for Birmingham, Hall Green (Sir R. Eyre) and for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Malone). As the debate has proceeded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.645.7", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "d, it has blended into a national debate, and never more so than today, when the affairs of the economy have been under scrutiny. It is nevertheless symbolic of the unifying character of the Chamber that what sets out as a matter of constituency representation becomes part of that wider debate. It is well worth making that point, given that the Queen's Speech is redolent of ceremony and tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.645.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "9—strands of policy designed to strike a balance between the liberal traditions of individual enterprise and freedom and the collective traditions of the state accepting a protective role in defence, domestic order and social welfare. The successful striking of that balance is the act which will secure consensus in public affairs without which Government in a consultative democracy cannot proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton) asserted that unemployment will be worse two years hence than it is now. I do not know whether that view is shared by the Opposition Front Bench or whether its occupants are taking their cue from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook, who has decided that silence may not be golden, but it is the best that one can contrive at this stage of the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-13", "file": "debates1985-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "c49ff90a8cb8ab29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "f jobs has risen by 600,000 since the spring of 1983 and that development is welcome. Then there is the matter of unfilled vacancies. They now stand in the latest month at the highest figure since March 1980, and show an increase of 18 per cent. over the last 18 months. In all these matters I am not resting my case on absolute figures, because unemployment figures do not have a precise exactitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-13a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.669.13", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "As I said, a statement will be forthcoming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.669.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.670.7", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that many hon. Members would argue that the expenditure levels are about right? Is he able to provide the House with details of both internal and external expenditure for the Province? Will my hon. Friend accept from me that there is considerable admiration for the work that he has done during the last 12 months in the Province?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.670.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman will understand that he puts me in an extremely difficult position. I have explained clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition has given me a fair catalogue to which to respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's moment has certainly passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) spoke of what he believes to be a necessity. He also referred to what he thought was a fact. I think he said that the control by the House over its EC funds was mythical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "will no longer have to fight every year to secure a refund, as has happened since the end of the transitional arrangements, and, at last, Europe can begin to take a step forward. Secondly, the Government are to be congratulated on further securing an effective mechanism for budgetary discipline and the control of agricultural spending. That is far better than anything the Community had before and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-14", "file": "debates1985-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "6fa603b0130f78c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Ian Gow)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Ian Gow)", "preceding_text": "hat it said it would do is immaterial. I wish to pay tribute to its clarity. It said: British withdrawal from the Community is the right policy for Britain—to be completed well within the lifetime of the parliament. That is our commitment. I wish to talk about the hon. Gentleman's election address, of which, for greater accuracy, I have a copy. He said that Labout will take Britain out of the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-14a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-15", "file": "debates1985-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f5b754fda4712ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-15a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "t I said a few moments ago, he will see that we have totally changed the basis of the publicity to a rolling programme with a different impact. I do not want to announce the campaign this morning, so I shall decline to take up my hon. Friend's provocative points. I assure him that it will be a hard-hitting campaign. The police have told me that they will be happy to co-operate in it to the utmost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-15a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-15", "file": "debates1985-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f5b754fda4712ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-15a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " the House with me when I say that a police presence is what is required. The Select Committee makes the fairly controversial recommendation to raise the speed limit to 80 mph. I think that most people know that it is unlikely that the police will proceed against motorists who exceed the speed limit by up to 10 mph. Therefore, 80 mph will soon become 90. There is a speedometer calibration problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-15a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bribe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " by that body? Secondly, is the intergovernmental conference to discuss plans for possible devolution before the Government consider putting them to the House, or is that essentially constitutional issue regarded as the prerogative solely of the United Kingdom? Thirdly, there have been many reports since Friday of the United States proposing or offering governmental assistance to Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.20.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "onsibility for Ulster—for Northern Ireland—could do aught else than wish the Government well in their endeavours. I was especially pleased to hear the words of the hon. Member for Foyle (Mr. Hume). Is the right hon. Lady aware that I regret the reports in the weekend newspapers that, in the light of the response of the Unionists, there is talk of sending 9,000 soldiers and two battalions of paras—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.23.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.25.8", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has consistently argued that, despite the Republic's claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland, it has no right to intervene in the domestic affairs of this kingdom. Now, she proposes to give it a legally enforceable right to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.25.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o defeat the violence that afflicts Northern Ireland. The acceptability to which he referred related to devolved government, which would have to be broadly acceptable to both sides of the community. That would be a matter for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after discussions with the constitutional parties in Northern Ireland. After what the hon. Gentleman has rather scandalously said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "t between Dublin and London? Despite that, we have seen an intransigent and unreasonable outburst from the Unionist parties in Northern Ireland. Does the right hon. Lady feel that the time has come for the British Government to take more heed of the views of the people of Britain and all the people of Ireland and begin the process of bringing about the reunification of Ireland and the withdrawal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tell the House and the people of Northern Ireland what is the legal status of Northern Ireland in the eyes of the Irish Republic? Does she know that in a Deny newspaper today it is reported that one document that was signed by the right hon. Lady at the Hillsborough summit recognises Dr. Garret FitzGerald as the Prime Minister of Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is working himself up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Nicholson", "preceding_text": "milies of those who lost their loved ones feel that they have been betrayed by the Prime Minister whom many of them may have trusted. Why should we accept the Prime Minister's solemn promises and assurances in the agreement when every other promise and assurance ever made by successive United Kingdom Governments have proved to be worthless and have succeeded only in bringing death and destruction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ng down their references to censorship. Those who oppose the measure are saying, \"Let councils spend their money on political campaigns.\" I have no objection to political campaigning. All politicians indulge in political campaigning, but the costs should be borne by political parties, not ratepayers or taxpayers. The Bill will not interfere with any legitimate non-party based publicity activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "mself into the hands of the megalomaniacs of Marsham street and go OTT—which, he will appreciate, stands for \"over the top\". I come to this debate from what can only be described as personal experience, and I admit to sharing to some extent a prejudiced viewpoint, as would anyone who, like me, has been resident for some years in the London borough of Southwark under increasingly Left-wing control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "ton, Comrade Bernie Grant and Ted Knight. But those hon. Members do not tell the whole story, because Lansbury and the Poplar councillors went to gaol for their beliefs. That will happen to Hatton and company in Liverpool for their opposition to this Government, and they will be going to gaol on behalf of decent people who need the houses, jobs and proper services that this Government are denying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "preceding_text": " loyalty past the limit. I shall draw on my experience of the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is only reasonable for ratepayers who pay the highest rates in the country at least to expect some attempt at value for money, and a sensible order of priorities. As for the businesses which are going bankrupt or throwing people on the dole solely because of the rates level—that has been well established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.82.3", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "y Porter. If Westminster city council cannot obtain an exclusive interview with its own leader, who can? Of course, the information sheet will be stopped if the Bill is enacted. It consists of an anti-GLC diatribe, and if that is what Lady Porter thinks is in the interests of Westminster, she has a right—nay, a duty—to put it out. My right hon. and hon. Friends talk about and believe in democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.82.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.97.4", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "preceding_text": "n local government. In Edmonton, we look over the boundary at the behaviour of the leader of Haringey council, Bernie Grant, and we see the behaviour in local government that the Labour party condones. The Labour party has hijacked ratepayers' cash for party political aims. It is playing its own party political games with the taxpayers' money. We see the results of that in London and other cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.97.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.97.4", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "preceding_text": "leader of Haringey council, Bernie Grant, and we see the behaviour in local government that the Labour party condones. The Labour party has hijacked ratepayers' cash for party political aims. It is playing its own party political games with the taxpayers' money. We see the results of that in London and other cities. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) may say, \"Bullshit\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.97.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-18", "file": "debates1985-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e95e2568bbdbdd4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I think that, like the hon. Member for Blackburn, I should not give way. Otherwise, I shall run out of time, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-18a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.123.5", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is responding to five or six questions, but is it not a fact that nearly all of them have been tabled by Conservative Members? There are about 20 questions asking the right hon. Gentleman to make a statement on the dispute, and almost all of them have been tabled by Tory Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Okehampton Bypass (Confirmation of Orders) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "ation and seek to make short cuts in parliamentary procedure. Although everyone is in agreement on the need for a bypass, there is profound disagreement on the merits of the southern route as compared with the northern route. We have a straightforward conflict of interests between the protection of the environment and the national park on the one hand, and the defence of farming land on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Okehampton Bypass (Confirmation of Orders) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": " quarry is right at the end of the five mile arc. If one is standing at Okehampton, the arc starts two or three miles on the east. It swings round, and Meldon quarry is five miles to the west. Therefore, it is just outside the area that I am talking about. It is over the ridge. My hon. Friend asked how many people enjoy that area, which is an important point. I was up there on Sunday, unannounced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Okehampton Bypass (Confirmation of Orders) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Typical.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "avour. When the votes are cast—I see that my hon. Friend is returning to the Chamber just as I am about to foretell our fate—I think he will discover that more of his hon. Friends are against him than are for him. But that remains to be seen. Lastly, it may appear to be somewhat anomalous and odd that an hon. Member who represents about the most urban consituency should be speaking on this issue.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Okehampton Bypass (Confirmation of Orders) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " the House and Government institutions are faced—the difference between gain and loss. Is the gain to the people who seek to bypass Okehampton and to the people of Okehampton greater than the loss that will be suffered by the loss of amenity if part of the national park is lost? Is that loss sufficient to justify the bypass being built a little more quickly than the northern route, which I favour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Okehampton Bypass (Confirmation of Orders) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ke it clear that Labour Members do not take the view that there should not be a public inquiry. Such an inquiry is an essential safeguard to protect the democratic rights of those who feel aggrieved. I wish to nail at the outset the suggestion of some Conservative Members that that is not our position. The difficulty lies in trying to work out how long the delay will be, according to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.226.5", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Heat-Treated Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not like to be misinterpreted. He meant that the whole discussion was about cream.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.226.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Heat-Treated Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "livery. It will not be as for the UHT arrangements. There will be an open opportunity for milk to come in. If the amount of milk that comes in corresponds with the amount that comes in under the UHT arrangements, I doubt whether many ports will make much money out of it. After all the worries that were expressed when we talked about UHT, the actual amount of milk that ultimately came in was small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Heat-Treated Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "—although there will be after the next general election. Secondly, and equally important in this context, I am a Co-operative party sponsored Member. I hope that Conservative Members will recognise that Labour Members declare their interests, unlike some of them. The hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Livsey) was assailed and assaulted by Conservative rowdies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Heat-Treated Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "The Minister is in the best position to name them. I shall name them on another occasion, but it is not my immediate subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-19", "file": "debates1985-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e3cd81c5a303ee83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Heat-Treated Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ports that are best able to handle it. We have enough faith in the free market to believe that it can choose which ports to send its milk to. The hon. Gentleman asked about enforcement. The comparison with the olive oil regime seemed extremely far-fetched. Opposition Members are supposed to belong to an international party. They sing \"The Internationale\" and yet everybody outside Britain produces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-19a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.256.4", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not accurately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.256.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before we begin the important debate on the televising of proceedings of the House, I should announce that I have not selected any of the amendments on the Order Paper. I should add, however, that no fewer than 34 right hon. and hon. Members have expressed the wish to take part. A number of them are Privy Councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What do you want?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "The answer will lie in the decision that the House makes at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "y successful to wish to continue with it. They have already decided to do that. Indeed, the experiment in the other place is a good reason why we should follow suit. It seems, not to put too fine a point on it, that they have stolen a march on us, and have gained by the televising of their proceedings while we have lost. If we allow the cameras in, we shall move forward well into the 20th century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "] No doubt hon. Members are equally concerned about 20th-century medical advances which might save their lives. There is much to be said for the 20th century. We must face the fact that many members of the public rely mainly on television for their information about politics. It was estimated in a recent poll that 62 per cent. of the people say that most of their information comes from television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Sock it to 'em Janet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "I shall come to editorial control later. I do not intend to answer just because someone says, \"Jump—here and now.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.280.4", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "know what the position would be for the experiment, but the cameras are certainly available. Of course, we understand the reluctance of the ITN and the BBC to engage in capital expenditure for an experiment only. Let the House be under no misapprehension—the cameras exist. Some of them are British and it would be a small boost to our manufacturing industry if cameras were introduced in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that that practice will cease. I am suggesting only that we shall have a fresh medium for reporting what happens in the House. There will be misrepresentations and misreports and there will be complaints about them, just as there have been complaints about the newspapers' reporting of our affairs. For us to say, in whatever the year is, 1985—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "een said that Front Benchers and Privy Councillors will have an advantage. That is not necessarily the case with the reporting of proceedings by the press, and I do not see why it should be so with this new form of reporting. It is said also that televising will infringe the rights of minorities and smaller parties. Sometimes it is said that the Liberal and Social Democratic parties will not have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. As a Privy Councillor, I am not allowed to give way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "to monitor the performance of the producers? It is quite impractical and we know it. Television would also alter the timetable and the tenor of our proceedings. Important debates would no longer start at 3.30 pm but would be timed to start at peak viewing times after the tea has been eaten at 6.30 pm, and those who speak will be chosen for their ability to speak and for their photogenic qualities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for South Down (Mr. Powell) deployed arguments, which he put in his usual profound way, which were used when people objected to the reporting of our proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ntary priorities to meet the demand made by the new medium. Many of us may be disappointed and disillusioned by the experiment, and electors may reach a similar view. Practical problems must be considered. I want to make it clear on behalf of Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National party that we would not be happy to be represented on the Select Committee by a member of the SDP or the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.336.6", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all of them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " after the next general election. I agree with a great deal of the hon. Gentleman's speech. For more than 20 years I have listened to every debate on this subject. To begin with the arguments were mainly technical—about the heating, the lighting, the cameras and the interference because of the presence of cameramen on the Floor of the House. Virtually all of those arguments have now been resolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.336.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": " cannot have it both ways. We need the help of the press, and we should not be critical. What would Question Time today have been like if we had had television cameras? It would have been like a greenhouse. We would have had so much hot air and so many plants—the plants being the planted questions that we hear all the time—that it would have been like filming a greenhouse. I have changed my mind.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "preceding_text": "' coverage in the morning and the evening. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) put it well, although he and I are on different sides in this matter, when he said that the BBC in its morning programme had not done a great service to the serious broadcasting of this House. Milton Shulman, in The London Standard recently, said that televising the other place had been a resounding flop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "me years ago, I am told, before I arrived here. I gather that the present Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster occupied a seat on the Opposition Front Bench below the Gangway for five years and that he was known affectionately as the Chingford skinhead. I am told that he was a most effective opponent of the then Labour Government. Indeed, I have been informed that some Labour Ministers feared him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "nds who occupy seats on the Opposition Front Bench below the Gangway are equally vociferous and effective in their opposition to the Government, as are some hon. Gentlemen who occupy seats on the Government Front Bench below the Gangway. They know that they are effective when they challenge their own Ministers. Can hon. Members afford to let their constituents see them practising their ugly craft?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "anging Government policy, the hon. Member adopting it has been effective. If the television cameras are allowed in, some of my hon. Friends who sit on the Opposition Front Bench below the Gangway—and some hon. Gentlemen who sit on the Government Front Bench below the Gangway and who, without the cameras, are courageous enough to criticise their own Ministers—may feel constrained in their attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A gift?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "preceding_text": "He said, \"I got my coverage coast-to-coast on the news.\" The only trouble was that no one knew what he had said, and he did not feel very good about it. What a length to have to go to in order to secure television time. That goes against the reports we have heard about the idealism of the Canadian experience. While I was there, a fish in a big greasy parcel was thrown on the Prime Minister's desk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "our cameras. If we cannot hang them under the Gallery—at present, we cannot—we shall have to put them at each end of the Chamber. If we do so, we shall obtain extremely odd shots of those sitting on the Front Benches. If we light the Chamber from above, all the shadows will come down—any television lighting director could tell us this—and those sitting on the Front Benches will look extremely odd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Fookes", "preceding_text": "ember for South Down (Mr. Powell) suggested that we should be voting for the principle. I take issue with him. We shall be voting for an experiment. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House made it abundantly clear that we shall have a further opportunity to reach a final decision. It would therefore be wrong not to allow the various views to be tested by means of an experiment. In the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.359.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.361.7", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.361.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.372.4", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Board and Lodging (Social Security Rules)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has described clearly one type of case that we intend to tackle by the earlier regulations and these—the young person who ought not to be able to leave home at the drop of a hat and pick up large sums of taxpayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.372.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Board and Lodging (Social Security Rules)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ciation of Chief Officers of Probation. The report states: In Northumberland, a mentally disturbed, former client of the Probation Service received notice of time expiry, could not find alternative accommodation, committed suicide. It is possible, legalistically, to say that it cannot be proven that that was the sole cause, but certainly there is strong evidence to suggest that that was the cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Board and Lodging (Social Security Rules)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": " added to those. The list includes all the people we want to help, such as the pregnant, the mentally handicapped, the mentally ill, the disabled, students on vacation living in their normal term-time accommodation and people under 19 with no parents or guardians, and all the others. The hon. Member for Oldham, West talked about people who had committed, or were alleged to have committed, suicide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.379.4", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Board and Lodging (Social Security Rules)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "There has been a campaign to try to brand the Government as evil ogres doing down poor and handicapped people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.379.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Board and Lodging (Social Security Rules)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "social security system that prevents or discourages people from working; but we make a plea, at a time of massive unemployment, for a genuine test of whether a person wishes to work. Twenty years ago, the rules were clear. The Ministry of Labour was closely linked with social security payments, and people who claimed benefits could have their claim tested by being presented with a job opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-20", "file": "debates1985-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5122dadddc71d7ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Board and Lodging (Social Security Rules)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "enty years ago, the rules were clear. The Ministry of Labour was closely linked with social security payments, and people who claimed benefits could have their claim tested by being presented with a job opportunity. [Interruption.] The previous Government and this Government have been unwise to try to divide the workings of the Department of Employment from the payment of benefits. Many claimants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-20a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-21", "file": "debates1985-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "71e97bacea02bcbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-21a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend will accept that there is considerable argument in this area, and that it was therefore sensible of the Government to make sure that we had the full facts before making our decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-21a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-21", "file": "debates1985-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "71e97bacea02bcbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-21a.420.7", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "iven that schools will be closed and rubbish will pile up in the streets, not to mention the possibility of problems on the streets, will the Leader of the House ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, even at this eleventh hour, whether he will meet the leaders of Liverpool city council? If not, will he arrange for a special debate next week so that hon. Members can debate these problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-21a.420.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-21", "file": "debates1985-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "71e97bacea02bcbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-21a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I admire the ingenuity with which my hon. Friend draws to my attention the problems of Leicester, East every Thursday afternoon. No one is a more doughty champion of the east midlands and Leicester than he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-21a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-22", "file": "debates1985-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c084f4660adbd55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-22a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "We could support UNESCO for 10 years on what we lost over the De Lorean scandal. Why can we not get the matter into proportion? Why should money not be spent on educating people to be more sensible than they are at the moment? I am strongly in favour of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-22a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-22", "file": "debates1985-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c084f4660adbd55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-22a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "It is significant that, so far, every hon. Member who has spoken has favoured our remaining in UNESCO, although we know that the right hon. Member for Blackpool, South (Sir P. Blaker) is hoping to catch the eye of the Chair and take an opposite view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-22a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-22", "file": "debates1985-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c084f4660adbd55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-22a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril D. Townsend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril D. Townsend", "preceding_text": " been made. They have been thoughtful, and I include the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Thomas) in that context. I say to my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Front Bench that I am well aware that there are different views within the Government about whether we should stay in UNESCO. We have been in the Chamber for three hours and we have not yet heard anyone who has had the courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-22a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "In general, many of the levels of fees will be set by statutory instrument, as it is not possible to set fees in primary legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "d to a body that is necessary to this country's farming health and food health which has been built up over 40 years. He should explain why that is being jeopardised in pursuit of monetary objectives. It is no wonder that the farming press is so unkind to the Minister when he has friends like the hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Watson). The hon. Member really ought to think before he rises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Not in all cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.641.5", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "preceding_text": "Therefore, would it not be far better and less costly to send them to the starving populations of the African countries? Is it not immoral, or sheer greed, to keep food stored while children go hungry and die of starvation? Is there not one whit of compassion in the Government? Why should we not guarantee to send, say 2 million tonnes a year for the next five years to one of the African countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "ave. Clause 9 is superb. This morning I took down from the bookshelf a book that I wrote some years ago \"Farming in the Clouds\". At page 156, I saw that I had argued for a new Agriculture Act which contained something very similar to the marvellous clause 9 that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has inserted in the Bill. It seems to be word for word what I wrote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "preceding_text": "t to conserving the most valued qualities of the environmentally sensitive areas. At this point I make a plea, which was raised by the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody). It is ridiculous that we should be landed with jargon in the words \"environmentally sensitive areas\". We should use more imagination and gusto in finding names. Why not call them \"heritage\" or \"stewardship\" areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "s in Committee. This is a sop to the environment lobby. If it were not, the Minister would have had much more to say about the change of heart and the new priority. I have not forgotten the fact that the Government have been eager to get in the headlines, claiming to be the Green party and the people who care about conservation, but in reality they have blocked more moves than they have initiated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "aw the amendment on the Order Paper I thought that the Liberal party had had a temporary aberration. There are Liberal Members who have cause to support environmental issues, but I was very disappointed with the speech of the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Livsey). The cause of conservation and the environment has suffered a severe setback because of the Liberal party's apparent desertion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": "I welcome the generous terms in which the hon. Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) welcomed clause 9. The hon. Gentleman raised several points which I hope to deal with as I reach the relevant point in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.690.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we could agree to pair my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham), the Opposition spokesman on the environment with the Minister of State, Department of the Environment, who referred to agriculture as the engine of destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "mber for East Lothian made generous comments about clause 9. He said that it met a great need. I hope that he will agree that it was grossly unfair of the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland, first, not to give credit to my right hon. Friend the Minister for having put the Bill forward, having won over the European Community, getting a directive from it and bringing it to the House. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "yside. When we come to the point about ADAS and research, which many Opposition Members made, I suggest two things. If one wants an agriculture that can sell the products that it produces, one must bring it much closer to the market than it has been heretofore. The industry has been too production-oriented—not marketing-oriented enough. The Government are determined to take the unpopular measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "east the House is into the last week before the recess and is likely to give Ministers an easier ride. I urge the Minister to come clean tonight and to tell us what the student grant increase will be for next year. If he cannot tell us tonight, he must promise a statement within the next 10 days. I congratulate the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Walden) on his recent appointment. I wish him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that, between 1979 and now, the Government have reduced the proportion of GDP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that, between 1979 and now, the Government have reduced the proportion of GDP—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question in my way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "I shall not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the hon. Gentleman's policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "re going to pray and which we are now seeking to revoke are another nasty and devious way of making the Department of Education and Science's discredited projections and demands become a reality. I say again, with fear of boring the House, that higher education is being sacrificed on the altar of monetarism. That is not a policy to benefit education. We wonder whether the Government have a policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "ent of the National Union of Students, went to see the Minister's predecessor, he was told that decisions in respect of supplementary and housing benefits would be taken by the Department of Health and Social Security alone. The Department of Education and Science would have to wait to find out how its students would be able to support themselves. We believe that higher education is an investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-25", "file": "debates1985-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "599d4010f5007e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.712.6", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "So far as I am aware I have said nothing that requires to be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-25a.712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.729.11", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's answer. The reduction in the local overseas allowance for BAOR troops has a certain pin-stripe logic in Whitehall, but it means a pay cut for the troops. I have discussed this with the troops. They tell me that single men in particular have suffered a pay cut of between £20 and £30 a month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.729.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I thought that the Secretary of State for Education and Science might have been writing a response to the hon. Gentleman's pamplet \"No Going Back\" entitled \"No Going Forward\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "nenviable case. It is that violence cannot be excused by poverty, idleness or unemployment, but it clearly cannot be said to be unconnected with those evils. Violence, support for violence, toleration of violence may come from political fanaticism or plain gangsterism, but it can thrive on the scale of Northern Ireland only in conditions of economic insecurity and the alienation which that breeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "nation which that breeds. [Interruption.] I am telling the truth. I know that the hon. Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth (Mr. Dickens) is never very keen on that. Therefore, I say to the Prime Minister that it is essential in Northern Ireland, as elsewhere, for her to adopt new policies of expansion and employment in order to stimulate recovery, to increase opportunity and to generate jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "g the operation of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978. In addition, we need not wait upon the Intergovernmental Conference before demanding a review of the procedures for strip searching at Armagh prison, to get prompt action on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland and secure an early repeal of the Flags and Emblems (Display) Act 1954 that has long been sought by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "as no real parallels elsewhere. It never was, nor has it become, a separate entity in international law. It is not a condominium. It is a province of the United Kingdom which for the first time has become subject to the legal right of two sovereign governments to determine how all matters which go to the heart of sovereignty in that area shall in future be determined. It is not only the unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "Is not the advice of the Northern Ireland Office to all those who visit Northern Ireland that demographic changes within Northern Ireland will lead, perhaps within the next 20 years, to the nationalist population becoming the majority? Has that not been said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "vernments and by our Government. Look at Cyprus now. My father before me tried to introduce power sharing in India. It was broken up, with millions of dead, into three bits. Some other Minister, I forget who, tried to have power sharing in Palestine. There was an admirable power-sharing constitution in the Lebanon, but read the papers this morning or those for any other day for the past few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": ", the unionists still regard as their enemies not just the IRA but the minority community in Northern Ireland which has been mistreated for so long. During the long years of British occupation Ireland could not be ruled without force. It was a land of constant revolt against an imperialist force which had stolen the land from its owners. Often those revolts were led by Protestants like Wolfe Tone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "bility, we shall not get investment from abroad to get the Province moving, a better standard of living and less unemployment, which is often a source of recruitment for the paramilitaries. The Leader of the Opposition is not present, but I often faced him across the Dispatch Box when we were involved in education matters. We have moved on since then, although he has moved much faster than I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " nationalist minority are not simply observers of the agreement. I am sure that the hon. Member for Foyle (Mr. Hume) will agree with me. They are participants to help settle the fears of the unionist community by their increased help in security matters. My right hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery) mentioned devolution. He is not with us because he is elsewhere at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "way to others who wished to intervene. Similarly, for the nationalist community, at the Intergovernmental Conference British Ministers and Ministers from the Republic will meet to discuss matters of mutual concern. In the long run, that should also be of advantage to the unionist community because the traffic will be two way. We shall not simply be replying to what Ministers from the Republic say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "ic will be two way. We shall not simply be replying to what Ministers from the Republic say. [Laughter.] Hon. Members may laugh, but I cannot imagine my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State or any Northern Ireland Minister in any British Government going along to listen to a list off things that the Republic says that we should do without taking a list of our own. It will be a two-way traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "o bribe in the shape of money from America. There is still no specification of money actually coming. Obviously, however, especially on the industrial front where investment and jobs are needed, if America wishes to help in the creation of jobs in Northern Ireland and in the Republic it would be foolish and miserable to refuse that help. If 'Tip' O'Neill and President Reagan are delighted by that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Parental and Family Leave", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " years have been either neutral or harmful to employment. The third aim is to ensure that when Social Affairs and Employments Ministers come together in Brussels, they discuss the sort of things discussed in their national capitals, such as how to enable the spirit of enterprise and greater employment to overtake the increase in unemployment that has taken place in Europe during the past 12 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Parental and Family Leave", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "I accept the problem that the hon. Gentleman has raised. It is a choice between having a regular turnover, particularly of women because they will not return to jobs after having children, or retaining workers and letting them have leave for a number of months within the first two years of a child's life. That is a matter of balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.844.6", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Parental and Family Leave", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "If one believes that the only way to get good employment practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.844.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-26", "file": "debates1985-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b57bc2c8a90060e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Parental and Family Leave", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "No Conservative Member would miss his or her daughter's wedding to come to the House. They would put their top hats on and leave their nannies to look after their little children to go to the wedding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-26a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.866.4", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is right. The figure for the BOTB has been held broadly constant, and I hope that there will be no effect on trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.866.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.868.9", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is no commercial or industrial justification for the proposed privatisation of Rolls-Royce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.868.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's general comments about the economy. They are belied by the fact that we are entering our fifth year of uninterrupted growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is living in an unreal world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.873.7", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the candidate in the by-election is more than able to look after himself", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.873.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "hat I am delighted to know that he is visiting the Lister high technology park in my constituency, which was built by English Estates? Will he urge his ministerial colleague to travel to Bradford by train, rather than fly, as he proposes, so that he can see for himself the deplorable rail services which my constituents have to endure every day—a matter which I raised on the Adjournment last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "y had lost sympathy among the people of Great Britain, and they knew why. First, those people knew that they had not been well served by the immoderate language employed by some of their spokesmen. I do not include in that the hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson), who spoke with such passion in yesterday's debate. He is not the most vitriolic and uncompromising of Unionist representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": ". We must trust Members from Northern Ireland to take the lion's share—that is perhaps too strong an expression, but at any rate a major share—of representation from the United Kingdom in any parliamentary delegation to that council. I believe, too, that there must be proportional representation of Members from Northern Ireland in this Chamber, as there should be for the United Kingdom as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "liamentary delegation to that council. I believe, too, that there must be proportional representation of Members from Northern Ireland in this Chamber, as there should be for the United Kingdom as a whole. [Interruption.] There is proportional representation in the Assembly elections for the very sensible purpose of trying to ensure representation of the minority. We should take note of that here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.903.0", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ny election in the United Kingdom. I was told by one colleague that the Government Whips had said that my power in Northern Ireland had waned. I welcome an election. As soon as I can, I will come before the electorate again because I believe that the only discipline in a democracy is the ballot box. I have been defeated in elections, I have won elections, but I have always accepted the ballot box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.910.2", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCusker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCusker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman need not shake his head. This is more than a consultative role. He said that. If he wants to deny it, he can intervene. He said that on a BBC radio programme. When pushed to say why it was more than a consultative role, he said, \"It has to be more than a consultative role, because if it was not Dr. FitzGerald would have no power. Oh sorry, I did not mean to use that word.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "preceding_text": "her whether she had ever been to Dublin. She said that she had, so I asked her what she thought of it. She said that Dublin was a fine place. I asked, \"Are you really saying that coming under Dublin would be worse than all this?\" I did not talk about Dublin having a consultative status, but referred merely to \"coming under Dublin\". She replied, \"Put that way, I suppose we could work under Dublin.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "e, the Prime Minister, in her heart knew she did not want? If anybody doubts that, he had only to sit in this House yesterday afternoon and hear the presentation by the Prime Minister. He had only to watch the Prime Minister at the signing at Hillsborough to understand that here was someone doing what she knew was wrong and what she knew was contrary to her instincts and knowledge of the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " wrong and what she knew was contrary to her instincts and knowledge of the position.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] We speak in this House, upon our own responsibility and it is our business to say in this House what we believe and what we know. It is fair to ask what force it could be, what power was it, that could turn round the Prime Minister and the Government. What power could be brought to bear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.950.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anglo-Irish Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "How will the agreement contribute to political stability in the North when it simultaneously offers no solution to the national question, the partition of Ireland 60 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-27", "file": "debates1985-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "7f97bfffb6c60b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "ier for the Government ultimately to hive off the Province. That is a mischievous interpretation of the Bill. It is utterly unjustified by the facts. Above all, the Bill emphasises the commitment of this Government and this Parliament to the Province. The Bill once again extends the finance which this country and this Parliament give to Northern Ireland. It is a burden that we willingly undertake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-27a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The pursuit of fraud is not simply a reflection of the numbers involved. Despite reductions in the number of Inland Revenue staff over the past six years, there has been an increased commitment to Inland Revenue staff in that area. Specifically, 920 were committed to that work in November 1983. The key to the detection of fraud and evasion is better targeting and greater cost-effectiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1006.4", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What has that to do with the question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "As this year profits are expected to increase by 28 per cent. and wages by only 7 or 8 per cent. and as since 1981 profits have gone up in total by 96 per cent. and wages by 46 per cent., why does the right hon. Gentleman continue to demand cuts in wages to keep down inflation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1010.6", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has only just walked in, I might add—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1010.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Gas Bill is published today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1012.13", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not read that report, but I do not accept that there are 4 million unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1012.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "o-operation in the Community should enable us to achieve common positions on political matters more frequently, but one must not deceive oneself in respect of the Falkland Islands, because the United States, for example, has voted against us for three consecutive years on that, and by no means all of our Commonwealth partners have taken the same view. That does not mean that our position is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Farmers (Exceptional Weather Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say what help will be provided by his statement for the primary producers, fodder producers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to make a vertical proposition? He started his speech quite well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "All that I am saying is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ay about Labour party policy that is interesting. I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the success of the house sales policies introduced in 1979. Nothing is more important for the Scottish economy, the Scottish labour force and mobility of labour in Scotland than that we should radically increase the number of home owners. The Government set out to do that in 1979, with great success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1058.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "rom a social point of view, but it goes beyond that, because of the behaviour of some of the tenants, with bicycles, motor cycles and oil on the stairs. I receive frequent complaints about such people, and I am extremely sympathetic towards the problems that can arise in those circumstances. It was for that reason that I asked my right hon. Friend to consider licensing the activities of landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ovision of rented accommodation, especially in urban areas. If we are to help people in need, the Labour party has an important part to play. Private rented accommodation is scarce because no one thinks that it would be a good investment. People think that as soon as any move was made in that direction the Labour party would say, \"We shall nationalise and take it over if we ever return to office.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1089.4", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "ituency we had the highest tuberculosis rate in Europe at the turn of the century. We inherited that legacy from private enterprise in the 19th century. It was said that Glasgow had the worst slums in Europe outside Vienna. People voted Labour in Glasgow and the west of Scotland simply to get rid of the slums, and to be fair to the Labour party, that is exactly what we did—we got rid of the slums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1089.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "he Government's housing policy that we shall be reversing when we come into power. I can assure the hon. Gentleman of that. Conservative Members have an obsession with our housing policy and what we are going to do after the next election but the question is worth asking only if they believe that we will win the next election. It does not have any meaning if we do not win. I know that we will win—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1099.4", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "hip of tenemental properties in cities such as Glasgow. There are such properties in my constituency. They are not owned by housing associations but by individuals. Some parts are owner-occupied while others are privately rented. If there is a major structural fault in the roof those who suffer are those who live in the top flat. It might be five years before the dampness reaches the ground floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1099.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-11-28", "file": "debates1985-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c58ea4a0e66744f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "mpletely, not that a Bill is needed. The period during which the discount must be repaid has been reduced from five years to three years. There are flats in Glasgow, in Mosspark and Knightswood, that could sell for their market value of £27,000 or £28,000, but which will be sold for under £10,000. Within three years, those houses could be sold for almost £30,000 if inflation is taken into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-11-28a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.2.5", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend explain why this investment has meant the inevitable closure of the Swindon railway works in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.2.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.19.7", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Liverpool City Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "preceding_text": "r the crisis in Liverpool is the Government's policy? Over a period of time the Government have deliberately refused to meet the city council to discuss the matter and have tried to bankrupt the city for political gain. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that if the Liberal party's proposals had been accepted last Friday Liverpool would have been back to square one and would have run out of money?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.19.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Liverpool City Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that his steadfastness in not becoming involved in the internal Labour party political squabble is much welcomed? Will he confirm that the only way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Liverpool City Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The question is not just one of £25 million. It was a deliberate and sustained attempt to undermine the whole of the local government finance system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.22.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Liverpool City Council", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "t £400 million in rate support grant and gained just under £80 million in urban programme, which is a net loss to the city's income of £320 million? It is untrue to suggest, as the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting, that somehow the Government have been bringing resources to the inner cities, when consistently they have been taking them away. In view of the report of the Archbishop of Canterbury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Liverpool City Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman's point on housing is that one of the most distressing aspects of the whole Liverpool saga of the last year has been the way in which Liverpool city council has conducted a vendetta against the housing co-operative movement in Liverpool, a movement which we have strongly supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Liverpool City Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which leader?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "he whole Liverpool saga of the last year has been the way in which Liverpool city council has conducted a vendetta against the housing co-operative movement in Liverpool, a movement which we have strongly supported— [Interruption] —with resources. We shall be providing resources for the development in Eldon street. The hon. Gentleman asked whether I would meet the leader of Liverpool city council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dockyard Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "y do SO. Clause 1 allows the Secretary of State to transfer the ownership of each of the companies that he sets up to a third party, the contractor, who then operates the dockyards on his account. Clearly the selection of the third party concerns the House, and I shall describe the approach that the Government will adopt. No commitment will be entered into until the Bill has received Royal Assent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dockyard Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "he Government's commitment to Rosyth is clear from the massive investment that they are making in the dockyard to carry out Trident refits. I would take the Opposition's concern about unemployment at Rosyth far more seriously if they were not firmly committed to abandoning our only independent deterrent. If I were a worker at Rosyth dockyard, contemplating the future, I would be much more worried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dockyard Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about Gartcosh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " live in a world of make believe. All the experience shows that when programmes are cancelled, servicing jobs are put at risk. That always happens. The hon. Gentleman suggests that he cares about jobs, but I want to protect jobs and ensure that high technology remains in Scotland. I do not want the jobs and experience to disappear, which will happen if a future Labour Government cancel programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dockyard Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "abour Members should not let their fears run away with them in regard to running a dockyard on a commercial basis. There is a shortage of skilled people at Gibraltar as a result of the large amount of work generated by the commercial operator. There is a rig from Brazil in the dockyard. Foreign vessels have come in from Germany, and even Russian vessels have been seen in the dockyard in Gibraltar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Sugar and Starch", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "well we have done, and it is right and proper that we should, for those countries need the markets which we can give them, and it is a market and a responsibility which we shall continue to support. The proposition is that we should continue the system which was perhaps best expressed in 1981 in the letter which was written on behalf of the Community to say that we should try to get a parallelism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.108.4", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Sugar and Starch", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "o predict which way they will go. Whichever way, it is necessary that the United Kingdom provides a continuing secure market for ACP cane sugar—provided that the price remains competitive with Community beet sugar. That must be basic to any decisions. I do not believe that those who seek an improved quota for British beet sugar would want it to be at the cost of the ACP support that we have given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Sugar and Starch", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "equested, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and speak briefly now and then reply to the points raised in the debate. When the amendment is moved the House will no doubt wish to comment upon it. When I have listened to the case for the amendment, I can make my recommendations on what the House should do. It would be original and unusual if I were not prepared to listen to the speeches in favour of the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Sugar and Starch", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "h Sugar Corporation about an increase in the beet sugar quota to meet the expanded demand. If I were satisfied about the justification of it by statistics and assured that it would not go indirectly into the food industry, thereby destroying hundreds of jobs in the Westburn refinery of Tate and Lyle in Scotland, I might find the argument persuasive. But on the arguments I have given, I cannot see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Sugar and Starch", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Into what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "etter. From a political point of view, we should remember that the staple crop of an ACP country is cane sugar. It is all very well for people in the United Kingdom to say, \"Let them diversify,\" but in many instances such countries cannot grow something else because the agronomy is not good enough. Beet sugar is grown in a temperate climate, where there is far more opportunity for diversification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-02", "file": "debates1985-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2f3091c711071b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Sugar and Starch", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "ugh. Beet sugar is grown in a temperate climate, where there is far more opportunity for diversification—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Into what?\"] Cereals, barley and so on. Temperate climate countries have a better opportunity of diversifying than have Third world countries. If cane sugar comes under attack and there is an erosion in production, there is the possibility of the closure of the Greenock refinery", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-02a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.139.10", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is this not appalling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.139.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.149.12", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has been here long enough to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.149.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that as a member of the General Synod I would hesitate to approach him and his right hon. Friends in the Cabinet at Downing street for spiritual guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ion seriously. As to the first point about the composition of the commission, that certainly helps to explain the quality of the report. It is neither smear nor innuendo to observe that many of those people have long and distinguished careers in the public service, where they have never hesitated to indicate where the balance of their judgment lay. As to the point about the appointment of bishops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The House has the opportunity of knowing of this matter, which sounds thoroughly disturbing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.152.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I do not know what mandate the hon. Gentleman has from the people of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "No, there is no such calculation. Indeed, the number of people in local government has increased in recent years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.166.6", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "preceding_text": "ds for the north. I shall be so bold as to anticipate two points with which the Minister will regale us. He will tell us that organisations in the north have responded positively to the youth training scheme and that the Manpower Services Commission plans to provide more than 25,000 places for young people in the north this year. He is perfectly entitled to report such progress, if progress it be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.166.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman knows, I am an innocent fellow and such thoughts cross my mind occasionally, but I accept entirely that I was wrong. I accept entirely that unemployment in the region is far too high at more than 18 per cent. I hope that the Opposition will acknowledge, although there is a political debate about it, that unemployment remains very much at the top of the Government's priority list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "local initiative. That is a demonstration that there is confidence in the region and in its industry. The result will be more competitive practices and processes and the promotion of the take-up of new technology. This is good because it has been born out of its own. The north-east is becoming increasingly less dependent on the old industries and more attuned to the growing sectors of the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.174.5", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "yment has risen. The largest single increase was on the Solway estate at Maryport, where over 370 jobs have been created. This was due to the expansion of existing firms and the fact that new firms have moved into the units offered by the English Estates as well as by private investors. There are many examples. The CADAM centre in Middlesbrough could provide about 5,000 high-tech jobs by 1995 and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "One of the major problems of the northern region is that it dwells too much on the past and does not think enough about the future. There is one way in which the region could help itself more than in any other—by snapping out of nostalgia about the old industries and directing itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "rn region is that it dwells too much on the past and does not think enough about the future. There is one way in which the region could help itself more than in any other—by snapping out of nostalgia about the old industries and directing itself— [Interruption.] Labour Members might listen to what I am about to say. Excellent work is being undertaken in Newcastle polytechnic on fashion design and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your Government created it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": " culture. We do not want that enterprise culture stultified at the end of the day by the dead hand of Socialism, which has been the ruination of the north-east for too many years. Let me say something about Cleveland. Cleveland is a bureaucratic nightmare. Those who represent my part of it wish that they were still in Yorkshire and those who represent the other part wish they were still in Durham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Northern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": ". Housing investment has been slashed. The hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Mr. Merchant) talked about housing. In Gateshead, the housing budget has been cut by £82 million, and in Newcastle it has been cut by £130 million. In 1979, when I was chairman of the housing committee of south Tyneside council, its HIP allocation was £14·7 million. This year, it is £6·2 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Silentnight plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady says in a quiet voice, \"They did.\" She cannot deny that the question on the ballot paper called for support for action up to and including a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Silentnight plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to the hon. Gentleman in two ways. First, I think that he must have been listening to what I have said with his mouth rather than with his ears. I hope that he will refresh his memory tomorrow by reading the Official Report. Secondly, I acknowledge that the building and organisation of a union is seldom easy and that building a business is never easy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Silentnight plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": " any trouble until they got the union in. The strikers will tell you that. That comes from 7 Days, which is a new Communist party newspaper. It was prepared to say that, and to examine the dispute carefully. The most balanced account of the dispute may well come from that newspaper. It is important to recognise that the matter is not one-sided, and that there are problems across the company floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.244.2", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Silentnight plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " Olympics before last. If the hon. Gentleman provoked me really far, we might discuss our behaviour in a car at Battersea power station on an occasion or two. It is just as relevant to the debate as what the hon. Gentleman is alluding to, but I might be able to keep quiet about it, unless I had his permission to speak in public. I return to the point that I was trying to share with the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-03", "file": "debates1985-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "41ff33791b090054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.247.5", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Silentnight plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "endale and Darwen (Mr. Trippier). I have not made a great song and dance about the absence of the shadow spokesman on employment, who presumably suggested this subject for debate, going, presumably, to Newcastle, and leaving it to others to speak for him. During the debate we heard a good speech from my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Watson), who raised the issue that the union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-03a.247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-04", "file": "debates1985-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "569d9495578fc7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Agreement (Secretary of State's Speech)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend. I stick firmly by my own beliefs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-04", "file": "debates1985-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "569d9495578fc7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Spanish and Portuguese Accession) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Was the right hon. and learned Gentleman there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "of Rome, which are to: strengthen peace and liberty …ensure economic and social progress …lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe\". Accession will serve, too, to enhance our bilateral relations with Spain and Portugal. Next year we shall celebrate the 600th anniversary of our unbroken alliance with Portugal —the Treaty of Windsor dates from 9 May 1386.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-04", "file": "debates1985-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "569d9495578fc7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Spanish and Portuguese Accession) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "The generosity of the Foreign Secretary, appearing an hour into the debate like Santa Claus with the finally deciphered documents, hardly assists the ability of the House, and especially the Opposition —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-04", "file": "debates1985-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "569d9495578fc7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Spanish and Portuguese Accession) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parris", "preceding_text": "Bristol, South (Mr. Cocks), who until recently was the Labour Chief Whip. Both belong to a great Socialist party. Spain is being led into the EC by Senor Gonzales, one of the greatest Socialist leaders of his time, with great courage because his party was originally opposed to membership of the EC. The debate is an opportunity for the Opposition to encourage Senor Gonzales and Socialists in Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-04", "file": "debates1985-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "569d9495578fc7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Lothian Region (Edinburgh Western Relief Road) Order Confirmation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that people living in Gorgie and Etalry are in no way from an advantaged or privileged background, and that the Bill will alleviate the intolerable circumstances in which they live, which can only get worse when the outer city bypass is built?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-04a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The ending of the routine use of police cells has already occurred. In the seven weeks from the beginning of October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.415.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.419.6", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the Minister answers, I say to the hon. Gentleman that it is unworthy to talk about unpatriotic Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.422.7", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "We are well aware of the Prime Minister's reputation of being extremely reluctant to withdraw from any opinion which she has expressed. I ask the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.423.5", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.425.8", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, wholeheartedly. The latest antics of Mr. Grant show how very much the Left is still against the police. I think that is a tragedy. I understand that the Commissioner's view is that the police are entitled to be present in the numbers they think necessary. He believes it right that the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.425.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.425.8", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tand that the Commissioner's view is that the police are entitled to be present in the numbers they think necessary. He believes it right that the police—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Opposition Members will try to prevent from speaking anyone who stands up in support of the police. The Commissioner believes it right that the police should be free to decide what is needed to provide the local people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.425.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.426.4", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should be grateful if you would allow my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to answer my question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.426.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. How can it be ruled that the Prime Minister is not responsible for the question when the question was written before the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.433.4", "colnum": "433", "heading": "European Council (Luxembourg)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The meeting would have taken place anyway because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.433.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "European Council (Luxembourg)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Assembly, not Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend expect the European Parliament to consider the proposals at its meeting next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "preceding_text": "ll of dedicated teachers who felt deeply angry about the Secretary of State's actions. It is not our job this evening to discuss the dispute. However, the Bill comes before the House with the background of the dispute behind it. There has been no consultation with the trade unions. One would have thought that it would be normal for the Government to consult trade unions on a matter of this kind. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-05", "file": "debates1985-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "160e2903efd7323f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "I am conscious that I am trespassing on ground that is the province of my right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor. Regarding the duty solicitor scheme, the figure of £50 was fixed after consultation between the Lord Chancellor and the Law Society, which believed it to be far and reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-05a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-06", "file": "debates1985-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "e734c433e3c8f375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-06a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Young People (Violent Crime)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "o and a half years as a Member of Parliament. I shall convey to the House the views of my constituents, because they have asked me to do so. No issue disillusions ordinary people more with the political process. To them, the solutions are clear. They cannot understand why politicians find it impossible to deal with the problem. Ordinary people feel that the pendulum has swung too far in education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-06a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.605.7", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Patients (Statistics)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "n. Friend agree that that enormous increase represents an extra strain on the National Health Service, which the Government have been able to fund? Is he aware that a Lloyd's Bank survey recently showed that public identifiable expenditure in Wales had quadrupled in the past 10 years and that a higher proportion of people living in Wales own their own television sets, refrigerators and telephones—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.605.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Strategic Defence Initiative", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman clear up one of his answers? Will the fundamental results of the research be available only to the American Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Strategic Defence Initiative", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "There will be no inhibition of the proper and full exploitation of research developed in British facilities. I hope that it will not be misunderstood if I tell the House that it is not 100 per cent. true that in pure research all the bills will be paid by the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Channel (Fixed Link)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "t Bench of the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape), who we know is strongly in favour. Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that the Labour party must make up its mind on this issue? Will he, before the end of his speech, make it clear whether, dependent upon the decision of the House tonight, the Labour party will accept the decision of the House, or whether he will subject the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Channel (Fixed Link)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Osborn", "preceding_text": "g and perhaps the Freight Transport Association whether a 50-km tunnel is feasible. Similarly, the spiral of the Euroroute project would be a hazard to tired heavy vehicle drivers plying between Paris and London. I support a fixed road-rail link. With the hon. Member for Carlisle, I hope that the Channel Tunnel Group will succeed, although that goes against the assessment of the Sunday newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Channel (Fixed Link)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "I heard the right hon. and learned Gentleman's speech. Representing the port of Dover, which employs 11,000 people, for him to say what he said was a disgrace to his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Channel (Fixed Link)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "that there are several examples of large civil engineering projects over the past decade or so, although not quite as large as those that we are discussing tonight. I will refer to several of them. The Thames barrier was originally estimated to cost £23 million. The actual cost was £461 million. The NatWest tower was supposed to cost £15 million. It ultimately cost £115 million. The Humber bridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Channel (Fixed Link)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "e studying the assessment to discover whether it has been met adequately. Assessment teams deal with programme, capital and operating costs, project management and third party insurance. I was asked earlier what would happen if the scheme had to be aborted. I can add that promoters are required to put up a bond or insurance to cover the cost of removing any structure that has been erected by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-09", "file": "debates1985-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "2ab5889ea58d2e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Hormonal Growth Promoters", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "is questions with tremendous rapidity so, if I do not answer all of them, I shall ensure that after a close study of Hansard I provide answers to those that I have omitted. The hon. Gentleman told us that Farmers Weekly said that the Minister was out of touch and asked whether farmers wanted a ban. Farming News took quite the opposite view and asked, \"What hormones?\" It went to Balham high street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-09a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-10", "file": "debates1985-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c53fd5852643258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.748.7", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "It would be more useful to do what we are already doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.748.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-10", "file": "debates1985-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c53fd5852643258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "At a later stage, I shall come to what a Labour Government would do, when I shall answer the hon. Gentleman's question. If there is no competition, there must be public accountability. That is the argument that the Opposition have always advanced when faced with measures to privatise nationalised industries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-10", "file": "debates1985-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c53fd5852643258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "That is 3·6 per cent. more than before. I have no doubt that many of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-10", "file": "debates1985-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c53fd5852643258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "ar.\" I hope that those who are particularly interested in Portugal will forgive me if I do not say anything about that country, partly for reasons of time. It will be an economic challenge to this fascinating and interesting new member of the European Community, Spain, to see what happens. Nobody can quantify that and provide a sensible assessment. By definition the future cannot be ascertained. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-10", "file": "debates1985-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c53fd5852643258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "ate products; it will not be for the north European products; it will be for the Mediterranean products, as Spain, Italy, Portugal, France and Greece gain the balance of power in the European Councils. I am glad that I have no farmers in my constituency. I feel sorry for my colleagues who, if this measure is passed, will soon feel the cold chill of their farmers' wrath breathing down their necks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-10a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.906.7", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BSC Ravenscraig", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. friend aware that many people in Scotland believe that the real guarantee of the future of Ravenscraig is the word of the Secretary of State and of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.906.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Gartcosh Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": " the Secretary of State is not to pay an official visit to Gartcosh or Ravenscraig. I give the warning that those areas should be the last ones that he should visit. Is he aware that in spite of the determined attempt by myself as Chairman of the Select Committee and Opposition Members to reach a compromise that would not be averse to our principles and would be agreeable to Conservative Members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Gartcosh Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": ".] Despite my determined attempts as Chairman to achieve a compromise agreement — an agreement which I thought was accepted by the responsible Government Members of the Select Committee—it has been decided that no report will be published. Had the Secretary of State any say in the decision that was reached by the Tory Members of the Select Committee? Did he interfere at the end of the discussions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.909.7", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Gartcosh Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If I must withdraw the word Quisling, may I substitute the word treacherous?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.909.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.929.6", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "fessions, industry, voluntary bodies, the Church and all shades of political opinion. Sadly, in the latest example of orchestrated Government abuse, the trickery has partially succeeded. Having had the report of the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission for at least 10 days before publication, Ministers cynically connived in breaking the embargo with the sole intention of discrediting the report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.929.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to be able to say that I agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. What have those councillors done? Do they have such a marvellous record of success?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "gration and co-ordination, on which two or three years later Lord Scarman placed much stress but on which there has been little, if any, action since. The Department of the Environment was the lead Department in seeking to co-ordinate at partnership and programme authority level in respect of all the inner city areas that had been designated. It was taking a lead with other Government Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that while there is moral sense in giving one's own money to try to help people there is no moral content in the Government giving away other people's money? It is for individuals to make the effort. The command of our Lord was take up thy bed, and walk and means to put individual effort into something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will reply to the debate. Other hon. Members have only a few minutes in which to speak. He should content himself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.964.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "hall not argue about tenure. People should be allowed to choose whether they want to own, rent or share. They cannot have that choice unless there is a good supply of homes with every type of tenure. At present there is no coherent policy for housing. Home ownership is an aim, but cannot of itself constitute a policy. We would argue for the Socialist themes of choice, variety, freedom and control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "d: local authority provision has resulted in a product that no-one wants. Certainly there is much to be criticised, particularly in the style of management. We have been told how councillors in the past would regard council housing as 'theirs' to distribute. ('Come along to my surgery next week, and I'll see you right.') That is paternalism, not Socialism. We reject that sort of management style —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Can we forget the purge so soon? Will there be a purge in other cities, not least in Birmingham and Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Can we forget the purge so soon? Will there be a purge in other cities, not least in Birmingham and Manchester— [Interruption.] Did not the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Howell) know about Militant Tendency in Birmingham —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I notice, Mr. Speaker, that the Opposition claim that this is a debate upon a serious issue, yet since the Leader of the Opposition came into the Chamber they have done nothing but giggle. The right hon. Member for Small Heath said that he did not know about Militant Tendency in Birmingham. I am going to tell him.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "bate upon a serious issue, yet since the Leader of the Opposition came into the Chamber they have done nothing but giggle. The right hon. Member for Small Heath said that he did not know about Militant Tendency in Birmingham. I am going to tell him.— [Interruption.] If he will not listen, I shall have to write to him and tell him what is going on in his own back yard. According to Labour Briefing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The whole House wants to hear this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker, they do not want to hear it, because they do not want to know about Militant Tendency in their own ranks. I shall quote from Labour Briefing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.6", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Let us have Jeffrey Archer instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.8", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ive briefing groups. On top of that, we are now co-ordinating an effective briefing caucus at district party level. The right hon. Gentleman said that he did not know about this. I shall take him a bit further. How much more would the right hon. Gentleman like of it? I shall quote Mr. Mullins. The right hon. Gentleman knows Mr. Mullins. He was expelled from the Warley, West Labour party on 1 May.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.999.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr, (Mr. Rooker) had a fair hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "We have seen how they behave in the council chambers and we see how they behave here. We see the people who are determined that there should not be a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.10", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that I need any help. This Chamber is about free speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.10", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that I need any help. This Chamber is about free speech — [Interruption.] Order. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has as much right as anyone else to be heard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.15", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "I hope that you, Mr. Speaker, will protect my constituents. I have raised some serious points about problems in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1000.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "In my own good time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Having dealt with the right hon. Member for Small Heath, I return to the main theme of the debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " the debate — [Interruption.] Despite the agreement over the nature of the problem, we differ, as usual, over the methods. It is interesting to notice that the Opposition did not want to hear about Militant Tendency. They wanted to shout that down. There is a wide diversity of views about the methods that we should use, but I wonder whether there might be enough dignity on the Opposition Benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "over the methods. It is interesting to notice that the Opposition did not want to hear about Militant Tendency. They wanted to shout that down. There is a wide diversity of views about the methods that we should use, but I wonder whether there might be enough dignity on the Opposition Benches — [Interruption.]— for us at least to unite in total rejection of the views of extremists. I see no point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "tant Tendency. They wanted to shout that down. There is a wide diversity of views about the methods that we should use, but I wonder whether there might be enough dignity on the Opposition Benches — [Interruption.]— for us at least to unite in total rejection of the views of extremists. I see no point— [Interruption.] When the Leader of the Opposition has managed to gain a little dignity himself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.8", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I see no point in, for example, simply blaming the immigrants in these inner-city areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1001.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I can join the House, including many Government Members, in condemning this despicable parody of a response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1002.7", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " disintegration have wrought havoc. So I believe do many on the Opposition Benches believe that, though not all of them. Worse, an increasing number of them seem to believe that the police, not the criminals, are the enemy of order. The hon. Member for Copeland made a great speech in support of the police, but what he says is not what Mr. Bernie Grant says. He began with a great deal of sympathy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1003.7", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I would eat the right hon. Gentleman for breakfast, but not after his display of trying to get me shouted down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1003.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1003.7", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "would eat the right hon. Gentleman for breakfast, but not after his display of trying to get me shouted down. [Interruption.] We had an interesting speech from the hon. Member for Copeland, every word of which was heard in silence. He expressed a great deal of sympathy with policemen injured on duty, but he did not say by whom they were injured, such as by mass pickets, by Left-wing demonstrators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1003.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1003.7", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "e vital role of the private sector in providing jobs in cities as in London's dockland. We do not want to see the Liverpool Labour solution of employment only by the council and housing solely in the control of the council. We, as our amendment says, welcome the growth of home ownership. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery) said, people do not burn their own homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1003.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "We believe in extending personal ownership where we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "We believe in extending personal ownership where we can. [Interruption.] We have seen the attitudes and tactics of Militant Tendency tonight. As I say, we believe in extending personal ownership where we can, even by what the right hon. Member for Brent, East called, by some old Socialist tag that I think I recognised, and with some sympathy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "at the right hon. Member for Brent, East called, by some old Socialist tag that I think I recognised, and with some sympathy — [Interruption.] — co-ownership, where we cannot achieve personal ownership. We shall do all we can to promote responsibility on the part of councils. On all those issues, but above all on the issue of free speech, we part company with the Opposition Front Bench, and even —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Select Committee on Scottish Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "stances that have led to four of my Labour colleagues, including the Chairman of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs, the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South (Mr. Lambie), to ask the Leader of the House to withdraw from the Committee. As you know, Mr. Speaker, there are strong feelings about the apparent breakdown of confidence and mutual trust, without which a Select Committee cannot operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Select Committee on Scottish Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As a member of the Select Committee, I am astonished. The Committee did not come to a conclusion, because the hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke), whose constituency is affected, in common with the other members of the Labour party, voted down the Chairman's draft report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "It is not necessarily rubbish. I have written to the Solicitor-General and he has been very helpful. We have already had two talks. Solicitors in the prosecuting service believe that, although the starting salary is not bad, compared with the Civil Service, their future prospects are not good. Their concern is that in future they will be unable to provide an adequate service. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-11", "file": "debates1985-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "198e4aee0c19304f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "European Regional Development Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e, we expect that formal Commission decisions will be made shortly in respect of three national programmes of community interests. In the Mersey basin areas there will be a £67 million programme that will be part of the campaign by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment to regenerate the Mersey basin through river quality improvement and the development of reclaimed land —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-11a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1070.7", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": "Thank you for calling me, Mr. Speaker. I am aware that you cleverly pretended to forget my name last week so that you could get a bit of publicity on Radio 4. Does the Leader of the house recall that for the past few weeks I have raised the subject of the imprisonment of members of the Turkish Peace Association, and the appeal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1070.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas(Dunfermline, West)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas(Dunfermline, West)", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that he has missed out the fact that we are also a substantial oil exporter thanks to the fact that we are currently producing as much as the Saudis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "uch to expect, but I pay the Opposition the compliment of expecting it. Let me help the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook by giving him a point of reference. In the Red Book published at the time of the Budget last March, I indicated a provisional figure of £7.5 billion. Does the right hon. Gentleman consider that figure too large, too small or just about right? Which is it? I am happy to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "With great respect to my right hon. Friend, for whom I have great respect, that is not a view on what the 1986–87 PSBR should be. That is the only answer which would have been of assistance to me in trying to reach my conclusions. I am confident that inflation will continue to subside. No one seriously doubts that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "st to the new situation. He can mean only that the economy will learn to live with 3 million unemployed. The right hon. Gentleman gave one answer to that question, and the Prime Minister gave another. The Prime Minister said that when oil revenues were no longer available the nation would be subsidised and would live partly off the interest obtained from foreign investments made during the years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1102.4", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "l and gas enterprises have provided major employment in some of the most hard-pressed areas of Britain. They have provided the major technical advances that have enabled a number of our industries to be in the forefront in their areas. Above all, they have sustained the unemployed through a difficult period while we begin to re-enter what I hope will be opportunities for virtually full employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1102.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1114.2", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "It is incredible that the Chancellor stood at the Dispatch Box for exactly 30 minutes at the start of the debate and not once did the word \"unemployment\" cross his lips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " which they have marched and have led the country so confidently, when their policies do not work, their true natures come out. We have the Prime Minister running round the world like Reagan's clucking hen, clucking wherever she is able; last night we had the semi-housetrained polecat routine from another whose true nature was coming out; and in the autumn statement we have the politics of deceit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "try, which stands him in good stead. I am also sorry for the right hon. Member, and I am sorry for two reasons. First, I am sorry for the right hon. Gentleman because he has been appointed to his new role at a time when, after six years of Conservative Government, the people will increasingly be asking to see the results of the sacrifices that they have been asked to make in terms of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "er cent. of those who answered said that the reason was overmanning compared with our competitors. That was a striking feature of the 1970s and caused much of the hidden unemployment. Opposition Members do not like listening to this, because it tells them what employers are saying now. The answer third from the top, given by 16 per cent. of those who answered, was poor productivity and efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "hat he was putting forward a red herring. It is difficult to know what to make of the Opposition. It was interesting to note that the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook refused to answer the two questions that my right hon. Friend put to him this afternoon. I put them to him again. What broad level of public sector borrowing requirement does he think is appropriate in the current economic situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "stions that my right hon. Friend put to him this afternoon. I put them to him again. What broad level of public sector borrowing requirement does he think is appropriate in the current economic situation? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] He has absolutely refused to set any level. Secondly, when will he say what the Labour party would do about the renationalisation of companies that have been privatised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " of public expenditure he would think appropriate? No wonder the right hon. Gentleman will not answer any of those questions. He knows that his present policy would mean higher taxation, higher borrowing, renationalisation and, above all, higher inflation. If the right hon. Gentleman is too coy to give the country a straight answer, let me remind him of Labour's plans at the last general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ew with the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith), who, I notice, has not been in his place. In that article he talked of an enormous expansion, by at least 50 per cent., in the Department of Trade and Industry budget. He talked about releasing financial constraints on local government for economic development. We know the type of local authorities to which it would go and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I do not have time to give way to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Autumn Statement 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Those words of the right hon. Gentleman are quoted in Lord Barnett's book. The right hon. Gentleman was asked this afternoon what he would do about monetary policy and he answered by using one word —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-12", "file": "debates1985-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d5183b254d5f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman thinks that, I would hate to be here when he was not doing that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-12a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-16", "file": "debates1985-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d2deb443cf0192c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Social Security White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "er. As for cost, the purpose of the exercise is to make better use of resources. The hon. Gentleman said that the figures are only illustrative. They can, of course, be only illustrative. It is impossible to work out the effect of changes following the uprating in April 1988. One cannot work out the changes. For example, without rates reform one is unable to show the effect upon single pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-16", "file": "debates1985-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d2deb443cf0192c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Westland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "On the right hon. Gentleman's first point, I assure him that my statement was made on behalf of the Government as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-16", "file": "debates1985-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d2deb443cf0192c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.76.4", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Peterhead Harbours (South Bay Development) Order Confirmation Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon,. Friend for making that point, but he must accept that, in the past few years, the work in Aberdeen has been carried out with sole purpose of extending the harbour facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.76.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-16", "file": "debates1985-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d2deb443cf0192c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.76.4", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Peterhead Harbours (South Bay Development) Order Confirmation Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": " the fishing vessels, there should be no need to prove the case further. In addition, it was clear from Mr. Turner's evidence that fishing is responsible for only 10 per cent. of the revenue at Aberdeen harbour. That must be a serious loss-making operation, and it proves the evidence brought out during the public inquiry that the fishermen are voting with their feet and staying away from Aberdeen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.76.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-16", "file": "debates1985-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d2deb443cf0192c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Peterhead Harbours (South Bay Development) Order Confirmation Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "eterhead in accommodating the fishing vessels that use the harbours. Mr. Turner in his evidence stated that half a million tonnes of traffic would be at risk if the Peterhead order is approved. That is the total traffic passing through Aberdeen, and it is farcical to make such a suggestion. In cross-examination, Mr. Turner accepted that that was all guesswork, scaremongering and had no foundation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-16", "file": "debates1985-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d2deb443cf0192c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "I shall take careful note of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-16", "file": "debates1985-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d2deb443cf0192c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.111.6", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mr. Chris Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mr. Chris Patten)", "preceding_text": " doing so. I do not want to traverse once again all the arguments with which we dealt on Second Reading. On that occasion, I dealt with the argument put by the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish about provocation and the other words that are generally regarded as synonymous with provocation, most of which he trotted out then and has trotted out since. Were I to do so, I should be repeating myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-16a.111.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.139.7", "colnum": "139", "heading": "NEW WRITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye. Ordered, That, on Friday 3rd January, Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the County Constituency of East Antrim, in the room of Roy Beggs, Esquire, who since his election for the said County Constituency hath accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of her Majesty's Three Chilt", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does that course have the agreement of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman wants to do is to accept all the increases that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services announced yesterday, and to forget that there might have to be some losers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman wants to do is to accept all the increases that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services announced yesterday, and to forget that there might have to be some losers— [Interruption.] There might have to be some losers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.154.7", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Once again, the right hon. Gentleman has gone over the top—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, no one has done more for youth training than have this Government. The one millionth youth trainee has now entered the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will have noticed that, during Question Time, once again the tactics of the Labour party were to shout down my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at every opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Banking Supervision", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "dequate, is wholly and completely untrue, but we shall, no doubt, have an opportunity to discuss that in the context of the forthcoming Bill. The right hon. Gentleman asked some specific questions and made allegations about the Bank of England, allegations which I wholly reject. The JMB affair was a lapse, but a lapse from a very high supervisory standard which the Bank of England has carried out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Banking Supervision", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "There has been a great deal of talk about fraud of one kind or another. Fraud must be rooted out wherever it is found. Fortunately, it takes place only in exceptional circumstances in the City of London. It is wrong to imply otherwise. The biggest fraud so far exposed is the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore). He poses as the man who got things moving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": " of the market. This year the United Kingdom has donated a record low amount—0·33 per cent. of gross national product—to overseas aid. The Government have not made the slightest attempt to achieve the 0·7 per cent. United Nations target which many other countries, less fortunate than us, have already reached or exceeded. That tells us everything about the Government's aid objectives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "rested in the fact that 55 Tory Members of Parliament are moonlighting by working here when their real interests lie outside the House? The right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) holds the chairmanship of 29 companies and a further three directorships. I do not know how he manages to attend the House at all. Remarks about secretaries and research assistants pale into insignificance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "de obligatory. That declaration is in danger of being reduced to the level of a farce if it is not made obligatory by some means or other. I listened with care to the interesting, though slightly Byzantine, speech of the hon. Member for Workington, (Mr. Campbell-Savours) and although I would have preferred the amendment in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "e curious sophistries from the Labour party about how union funds which are passed not into its hands—not into individual hands or members' hands—but to constituencies in no way need declaration and that they do not intend to corrupt a Member of Parliament's judgment and need not be declared. What a curious piece of sophistry. The British School of Motoring fund was a contribution not to a Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I have one salary which I receive as a Member of Parliament and I have neither pension nor any other outside remuneration. Furthermore, I wish to make it clear that I have to spend more than £6,000 of my parliamentary salary for my research assistants and the resources that I need to do my job effectively. We need —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Weekly\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I understand that nowadays the register is filled in monthly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "icted myself to so disciplined a time because I felt that the best service that I could pay would be to give rise to the widest possible debate from the Back Benches and for the Front Benches to be suitably disciplined. Therefore, I want to construct my remarks around the four amendments called for possible Division. The amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I am no philosopher, just a simple politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I am no philosopher, just a simple politician. [Interruption.] I welcome the support of my right hon. and hon. Friends. Should water privatisation go ahead, the integrated river basin management system would be vital. That system is one of this country's great achievements. It means water in and water out, water supplied, and sewage out. People who might be interested in the", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which authorities?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William O'Brien", "preceding_text": " made more than once—I also made it in the Public Accounts Committee—that domestic consumers pay twice for waste water. We could save 25 per cent. of the cost of energy used to pump and raise water from the ground or reservoirs if we could arrest the waste of water. I hope that the Minister will take that important point on board. Finally, water authorities have said that they oppose privatisation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-17", "file": "debates1985-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "07634e5fede812d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1985–86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "water collection. That is why there was a rate equalisation system for water charges from the previous Administration across the country. We now have water authorities alternatively exhorted to behave as if they are businesses and then forbidden to do so. No business would use current earnings for a capital investment programme of the kind necessary to replace the rotten water distribution system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-17a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "It is a question not of honesty, but of a great number of scientologists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "nterests. There is something to be said for looking favourably at the scope and scale of activity in the regional and social funds, but that can be sensibly achieved only within a framework of effective budget discipline and, above all, effective control of the previously burgeoning expenditure on the CAP. That decision does not require treaty changes but a sustained application of political will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.311.2", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "n (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) seemed to be saying, that what he has announced today is that he intends to maintain pressure on authorities spending below GRE, that is, below what is required to maintain even average services in education, highways and social services and thereby denying people, particularly in those shire counties, the benefit of a decent service, even under Conservative administrations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "r for Westminster, North (Mr. Wheeler), will the Secretary of State tell the House whether the report in today's Financial Times that at least £100 million of Government grant is to be switched from England's rural areas to London for the 1986–87 settlement, in advance of the 1986 borough council elections, is correct? Is that not a Government bribe to stop the disastrous consequences that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.322.6", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "ut I wish to know about somewhere nearer home. It is like walking through a sea of treacle to get to the figures on Birmingham. Am I right in assuming that Birmingham will get a little more, at least for the grave problems that it faces, or have the targets been drawn so hard that the noose will be so tight on an authority which, although regrettably Labour-controlled, has been pretty responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.322.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "I was here yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "), in whose name last night's motion stood, did not vote; neither do I ask where the leader of the Labour party or the leader of the Conservative party were. The hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) has given the game away. They are consumed with jealousy because my right hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) and I were at 10 o'clock last night appearing live on ITN—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "I would never challenge your judgment, Mr. Speaker, as you know. I wish only to ask for your humble guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.344.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "iend the Patronage Secretary. I come finally to the debate that we would all love to have about Government defence policy, nuclear policy and, above all, the delightful way—I accept his candour and sincerity—in which the hon. Member for Leyton. (Mr. Cohen) says that we must disavow our reliance on nuclear weapons. Does that mean that we have to disavow any alliance which relies on nuclear weapons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Fixed Link", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "yell) helpfully sought to give an airing to several matters affecting the Channel fixed link, if any, and the decision that the Government have to make. I am grateful to him, for reasons that will come out during my remarks, for having initiated the debate, even at a later hour than both he and I thought it would be. The hon. Gentleman drew attention to an experience that he had had while driving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Fixed Link", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "ave to make. I am grateful to him, for reasons that will come out during my remarks, for having initiated the debate, even at a later hour than both he and I thought it would be. The hon. Gentleman drew attention to an experience that he had had while driving— [Interruption.] —through the Dartford tunnel. It is helpful that that was imprinted on his mind so clearly that he was able to describe it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Fixed Link", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "experience that he had had while driving— [Interruption.] —through the Dartford tunnel. It is helpful that that was imprinted on his mind so clearly that he was able to describe it— [Interruption.] I do not think that the hon. Members for Rhondda (Mr. Rogers) and for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) wish me to give way, but they keep interrupting from a sedentary position. I shall give way if they wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Juries (Practice for Challenge)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. and possibly learned Gentleman because I have been tussling with that very point this evening. If people are being jointly accused of a single crime, they may have a kind of joint attitude towards their defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "City of London (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": " and the like unmolested. But we also have a fraud boom all of our own. Any firm you talk to will have its own in-house tale of woe. But it will probably remain under wraps. Exposing crooked employees in court is a rarity. That is the City speaking of itself. In the relatively superficial research that I have done for this debate I have been impressed by the scale and number of frauds perpetrated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "City of London (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are catching them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "ame. I bow to their superior knowledge of the criminal world. In my innocence, I was frightened rather than impressed by the volume and number of frauds perpetrated. In 1981 the City of London police fraud department had 80 cases under investigation. In 1984 there were 117. New matters recorded were 536 in 1981 and 621 in 1984. In 1981 there were 35 arrests. By 1984 the figure had increased to 77.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "City of London (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "en it was called the guarding of institutional solidarity, and today's instant electronic manipulations make it much more difficult to detect fraud. There has been an enormous increase in City activity. It is no longer a square mile of honesty and integrity. Reputations mean nothing to people whose God is money, who travel fast and who can easily put their money and that of others beyond the law.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "City of London (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is called Robin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " an eye on Johnson Matthey bank? Should not someone have asked Ronald Leigh-Pemberton—appointed by the Prime Minister because, as she put it, \"He is one of us\"—\"By the way, are you watching Johnson Matthey bank, because we think that it is a bit dodgy? We have a crisis nationally and internationally, and we have funny borrowers who are not likely to pay back. Are you keeping an eye on it, Ronald?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "City of London (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "hey are making money. The moment that they run into trouble, the Government are there to bail them out. It is the job of Labour Members to expose these double standards when we see them. There has not been enough of that. We have been under attack for the past six years. We have tried to defend our friends in the trade unions and local government while others have been making money hand over fist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-18", "file": "debates1985-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f0ed66c20d56953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Industrial Tribunals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "at is something new which has not been widely expressed previously. One man came to see me, who, for obvious reasons, has to have anonymity, because he was concerned at the pressure being put upon him through the new militancy within his trade union which said that it would not support him any further as a so-called independent member of a tribunal if he kept on finding in favour of the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-18a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.566.6", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If we were to bring in what the Labour party has plans for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.566.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.566.9", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ough, as I hope it does, will the Prime Minister ensure that there will be no question of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence discriminating against the Westland company or any of its excellent products? Will she convey to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment the thanks of Southend borough council for the most favourable rate support grant settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.566.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This Government have protected those most in need—(HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and have increased, over and above prices, the retirement pension, supplementary benefit rates and benefits for the sick and the disabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "You, Mr. Speaker, will be the judge of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Cynically.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "entleman aware that the Secretary of State for Scotland has today written to the stewards at Gartcosh, effectively tearing up the Select Committee report and glibly accepting British Steel's rather unconvincing view that the future of Ravenscraig is unaffected by the closure of Gartcosh? Does not the Secretary of State for Scotland owe the House an explanation of the way in which he is abandoning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ade and Industry, I can confirm that that statement was confirmed at a Cabinet meeting this morning. I do not think that there is anything devastatingly novel about such a revelation, but I shall have the matter considered further through the usual channels to see whether it is to feature in our business before we retire for the Christmas recess. I say in all sincerity to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that there is an urgency which is comparable with the pressures which exist for many other subjects to be debated. As I was the Chairman of the Select Committee which produced the report, I have all the pride of paternity, but that does not mean that I think it has to exclude other items that should be debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "nd the fact that they have gained from the arrangement a fairly creditable amount of the available stock, that would be better. We have all had to take a cut because it is necessary to protect the hon. Gentleman's constituents. It would do the hon. Gentleman and his constituents more good to fight for an understanding by fishermen of the need for conservation and thus for smaller quotas this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-19", "file": "debates1985-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd935611561cfcdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Building Societies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " the restriction proposed by the Lord Chancellor. Competition by the building societies is necessary to maintain pressure on conveyancing prices to keep the prices coming down, to keep the market covered and to provide better service for the consumer. That provision will come with the same Lord Chancellor. What we are seeing now is a rearguard action and nothing more. Lord Hailsham is not eternal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-19a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-20", "file": "debates1985-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "b61accd8593c02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-20a.697.4", "colnum": "697", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " root and branch. But as, on the evidence presented to me by the shop stewards committee, I am not so convinced, I have to think of the future of Ravenscraig. It is clearly the opinion of the BSC management, and in the light of the shop stewards' evidence it is my opinion, that Ravenscraig is certainly no worse off, and is probably slightly better off, if Gartcosh does, regrettably, have to close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-20a.697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1985-12-20", "file": "debates1985-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "b61accd8593c02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-20a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "ds in some of that accommodation were most unsatisfactory. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is consulting local authorities and other interested bodies about a draft circular memorandum that will draw the attention of local authorities to the already wide-ranging powers that they have for securing improved conditions in bed and breakfast hotels and other houses in multiple occupation. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1985-12-20a.705.1"}