{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.766.14", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Michael Havers)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.766.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "as now led to the resignation of a Cabinet Minister. Following his resignation, the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine), the former Secretary of State for Defence, repeatedly made the grave allegation that the Prime Minister had been systematically following one course in the privacy of Government, while insisting both in public and in the House that she was following the opposite course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ation, the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine), the former Secretary of State for Defence, repeatedly made the grave allegation that the Prime Minister had been systematically following one course in the privacy of Government, while insisting both in public and in the House that she was following the opposite course— [Interruption.] The implications of that for the House are grave indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "or Henley (Mr. Heseltine), the former Secretary of State for Defence, repeatedly made the grave allegation that the Prime Minister had been systematically following one course in the privacy of Government, while insisting both in public and in the House that she was following the opposite course— [Interruption.] The implications of that for the House are grave indeed— [Interruption.] They clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.9", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member, who is very experienced in these matters, and the whole House know that the matter that was raised is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.11", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not prepared to take any further points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.15", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Presumably the business statement is open to question. I should like to ask the Leader of the House whether he is aware that every newspaper, every radio and television programme, and every pub in the land is discussing the issues that have arisen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.15", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Presumably the business statement is open to question. I should like to ask the Leader of the House whether he is aware that every newspaper, every radio and television programme, and every pub in the land is discussing the issues that have arisen— [Interruption.] —from the resignation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.774.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"—cosh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that many of us from Scotland knew that part of the debate on Wednesday would be given over to the problem of the Gart—er", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Statement, the Home Secretary.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.777.2", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.777.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " a deal to be concluded quickly, the Government decided that from 13 December they would not be bound by the national armaments directors' recommendation unless Westland had by then received a firm offer from the three European companies, which the board would recommend to its shareholders.\"—[ Official Report, 16 December 1986; Vol. 89, c. 35.] When and how did the Government reach that decision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "In view of the profound interest in this matter throughout the nation and Europe, and the almost unprecedented attendance here on a Monday afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "Rolls-Royce has expressed an interest in this matter. However, in view of the commercially sensitive position, I should not discuss that matter before tomorrow. That could appear to favour one side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Check the record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "things were said during the course of the campaign implying that the sole interest of any United States involvement was to reduce Westland's status to low technology. Any suggestion to that effect is contrary to the expressed statement of United Technologies. It is entirely open to people to take one view or another as to which offer is to be preferred, but such allegations are completely untrue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "ance, because we are not sure what the alliance is saying. A few weeks ago the hon. Member said that the SDP was all in favour of this legislation. Then we hear that the Liberal party is not in favour. Evidently, from what we understand, the alliance, for what it is worth, is completely split asunder on this matter. For example, it appears that the Liberal party is against any form of requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "y the hon. Gentleman, I have already answered that point in reply to the hon. Member for Bolsover.\" Any reasonable person would have accepted from that sequence of replies that the Secretary of State did not know of any letter from British Aerospace. He has told us today that he did know that such a letter had been received by the Prime Minister. I think that the Secretary of State should now say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "t hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) could at least give me credit for that. As it happens, I do not think that the answers that I gave bear the interpretation that he has put upon them. If he thinks that they gave that impression, I am content to apologise and withdraw. On any view, I have unequivocally set the record straight tonight at the earliest opportunity that I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was not in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was not in the House—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he was.\"] I did not spot him. If he was there, he was there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "This afternoon I asked whether it would not be more accurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.874.8", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It would be impossible to have a complete re-run of what happened this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.874.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Seat Belts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "re than that, it has saved countless numbers of maimings, blindings and cripplings, which are the real human manifestation of the road accident statistics that are represented in the savings that have been put forward over the past three years. The hon. and learned Member for Burton made virtually the same speech tonight as we heard three years ago and in practically every other debate beforehand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Seat Belts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not alone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "riend will not accept them in a month of Sundays, but other independent assessors and a mass of evidence say that we have at least achieved that worthwhile and significant reduction in casualties on the road. After all these years, I should have thought that my hon. and learned Friend would start to see the sense of the argument. Even if he remains an almost lone and obstinate voice on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-13", "file": "debates1986-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d30972c625e5287b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Seat Belts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "preceding_text": " duty of the House, or of any Government, to legislate to force people to do that which the House or the Government believe will be good for them and them alone. The only person who can be helped, assisted or saved by a seat belt is the person who wears it. If we were debating measures controlling the design of motor cars and providing for safety for those with whom the motor car comes in contact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-13a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "While I understand my hon. Friend's point, the fact is that, because of our expansion of the Territorial Army and of the cadet forces, together with the development of longer-range weaponry, we are looking to add to the training land for the Army. Obviously, however, when suitable opportunities arise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.918.5", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "not now much difference between the cost of continuing with the present system and that of setting up a joint services' music school on the coast, will the Government examine carefully the report of the Public Accounts Committee when it is published, and reconsider the view of the previous Secretary of State for Defence, as the high standards of British Army bands, which are the envy of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.918.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitfield", "preceding_text": "at perhaps the most encouraging aspect in the otherwise sorry state of the Westland helicopter company is the fact that she and her right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry regard letters that are marked as private and confidential as being private and confidential? Will she also agree with me that, if the right hon. prima donna Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "They have come to light in the past two or three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I was asked whether I was satisfied that all was well at Lloyd's, and whether I was prepared to accept its assurances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.953.2", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I have given way extensively. I must be allowed to develop my argument, particularly in response to the Secretary of State's intervention. The financing of these bodies is important. I am not suggesting that the cost should be borne by the taxpayers. There are other ways in which those concerned could provide the money. The fact that it is done in its present way is bound to raise some suspicions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.953.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " investors entrust their savings. However, it has recently had its reputation damaged with talk of an infestation of corruption and shady dealings. Unlike some hon. Members, I do not say that everyone in the City and the City itself is bent, nor will the alliance, like the Labour party, succumb to the temptation of a blanket condemnation of the whole of the City as a wicked capitalist institution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "e Government is too weak arid in some areas seriously deficient. Lloyd's has been referred to by several hon. Members, in particular the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford, with many of whose comments I agree substantially. As a first reaction our view is that Lloyd's should be brought within the scope of the legislation. These are complex matters and we do not have a closed mind on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ould be drawn within the scope of the Bill, but we are prepared to judge that issue on its merits and as a result of the forthcoming inquiry, provided that inquiry is not used by the Government, as so often in the past, simply to shelve the matter. However, we are not prepared to sit idly by and do nothing while the reputation of Lloyd's continues to suffer from rumours of scandal and malpractice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": " little to do with the Second Reading of the Financial Services Bill. He used those 17 or 18 minutes to continue his sordid, scurrilous attack upon people in the City, although he is absolutely scared stiff to make those allegations outside the House. He is abusing parliamentary privilege. The only comfort that we can draw from this is that even hon. Members of his own party do not agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "t that doubt by going into the Lobby with Labour Members when it comes to the vote tonight. I turn now to Lloyd's and why it is excluded from the Bill. The reason why Lloyd's is not covered by the Bill is simple. The main business of Lloyd's is insurance, insurance that is written purely to provide protection and which is not the kind of long-term investment insurance which is covered by the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-14", "file": "debates1986-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "7c16ce58f45784a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Motor Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Minister misrepresents the position. That is not what I said. We are used to misrepresentation from the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-14a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1060.9", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recall negotiations with a couple of firms which are trying to sell refuse collection vehicles to Ecuador but which are running into some trouble?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1060.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1071.5", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I made it quite clear to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister that my door was open to see the representatives of the work force, as it had been for more than three months. It seemed unusual, to put it mildly, that they did not take advantage of that. My door remained open. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is well aware of the fundamental difference between Gartcosh and Ravenscraig—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is that not a comment on the political efforts of this Government at a time when apartheid in South Africa is grinding the whole of southern Africa into confusion? People are being shot down daily —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Cruelty to Animals (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen (Leyton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen (Leyton)", "preceding_text": "d sale of bull terriers and the advertising of fighting dogs for sale, including the advertising of qualities related to fighting; to regulate laboratories in which animals are bred; to reconstitute the Advisory Committee on Animal Experiments; and to promote alternatives to animal experiments. I stress that there is no connection between this matter and the next item of House of Commons business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "tion is that, far from allowing collective decision-taking to work through the Cabinet and through departmental responsibility, the Prime Minister became even more deeply involved. It is said that she did not direct Sir John Cuckney's letter of 30 December to the appropriate defence procurement department, but to the Department of Trade and Industry, and that she accompanied that directed missile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I have a limited knowledge of company law. That is a matter for the Department of Trade and Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.3", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ing all the arguments and after listening to Sir John Cuckney, a clear majority of my colleagues supported my proposals. The meeting ended with a clear statement that we would meet again on Friday at 3 pm, when the Stock Exchange closed. The officials of the Cabinet Office recorded the words. They are not in the minutes but I believe them to be in the notebooks from which the minutes are prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "or Trade and Industry implied that I was holding a pistol to Sikorsky's head. I did not respond to those words. On Sunday, he spoke on radio and recorded a broadcast for \"The World This Weekend\". The BBC informed me, and I agreed to respond only if I was convinced that he had broadcast. I heard the broadcast by the Secretary of State and agreed to go ahead. Efforts were made to stop the programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a scandal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ere was perhaps, realistically, nothing else to do once the board had made its final, and in my view ill-judged, recommendation. There were then selective leaks from the Law Officers' letters, which were used, wrongly, to damage my credibility. The Foreign Office instructed the British ambassador in Rome to ask the Italian Government to send no more messages of support for the European consortium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman for his courage in resigning. He will have a difficult path ahead of him. I do not believe he planned it, nor do I believe the Prime Minister wanted to push him out. It is one of those inevitable consequences of two stubborn people meeting and neither being willing to give way. When stubborn temperaments clash, we may well ask what the rest of the Cabinet was doing to try to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " of State walks out of the Cabinet and the Leader of the House has an uncomfortable half hour on television. The Solicitor-General has his letter leaked without his knowledge, the poor pathetic Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has to weave his way around half truths and evasions and then has to come back and confess. It has been a miserable week for the lot of them on the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ave his way around half truths and evasions and then has to come back and confess. It has been a miserable week for the lot of them on the Government side. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is not yet on the Front Bench but I am sure he will be one day if this lot go on as they are. The work force has spoken out strongly in favour of Sikorsky and the opinion of the work force should be respected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "sions and then has to come back and confess. It has been a miserable week for the lot of them on the Government side. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is not yet on the Front Bench but I am sure he will be one day if this lot go on as they are. The work force has spoken out strongly in favour of Sikorsky and the opinion of the work force should be respected— [Interruption.] I will not give way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "f smoothing over, in the end, the President and I recognised that the Americans were fighting their corner and that we were fighting ours. We both made a calculation of where our national interests lay. Surely the moral is that the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry should not have been so timorous as to pressurise British Aerospace to withdraw because he was afraid of American displeasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They would not dare.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ember for Henley has given them another chance. He is the sacrificial lamb, although he will be a pretty tough lamb to digest. They can now, if they choose, re-establish Cabinet authority, because the Prime Minister dare not risk another resignation on the same grounds. If the Ministers care to do so, they can now rein in these authoritarian instincts that they tell us they find so objectionable.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " by the inquiry as the source of the leak of the Law Officer's letter. This is the letter that I made such a fuss about at 3·30 this afternoon. If the news report is true—and apparently it is—upon whose instructions was a senior civil servant at the DTI asked to leak a letter from the Law Officers? Are we to believe that an over-zealous senior civil servant took it upon himself to do this?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "o be published. That account of the meeting which took place between myself and Sir Raymond Lygo is, of course, substantially different from that given by the minutes taken by my officials and confirmed by my recollection and the recollection of others. Although a close scrutiny of the document will show that there is great similarity in the accounts, there are material points which are different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "e successful days of Westland, that success was achieved by building planes initially designed in the United States—such as the Sea King and the Wessex — and then developing them with their expertise for other and specialist markets. That is the experience of Westland. It is not conclusive—it does not follow from that or from the fact that the work force virtually unanimously favours one solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Warn?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "d be right for the Government to intervene financially as well as by expressing a preference. My view in these matters is that it is perfectly legitimate for a Government to sponsor and assist British industry in certain cases by, for example, giving launch aid of some £250 million for the Airbus, the protection of which launch aid was a perfectly legitimate reason for me to warn Sir Raymond Lygo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1163.13", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "ately in defending British Aerospace's interest. Those who regard as unreal the prospect of America taking action against British Aerospace should know that it is only within a very recent period that I had to write to the United States trade representative, Mr. Clayton Yeutter, about that very matter. The position of the United States Government is that they do not like the success of the Airbus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1163.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "that stage the proposition being put forward by Westland in concert with Sikorsky was that, if the reconstruction went through, the Government should underwrite W30 sales. So I recommended that Westland should be encouraged to pursue discussions urgently with European partners. However, I did not express a preference on that occasion for any particular solution that might be developed by Westland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1164.7", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot seek to intervene all the time on the one hand and expect me to deal with all the matters which have been raised on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1164.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1164.7", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot seek to intervene all the time on the one hand and expect me to deal with all the matters which have been raised on the other. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] Are Opposition Members being honest in saying that they want to hear my answers or do they want merely to shout me down? The other matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1164.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "for as long as his period of entitlement lasts. This is so even if his average earnings—which are, of course, calculated at the start of his sickness—would put him in a different earnings band. Without this beneficial provision some employees could face a significant reduction in the SSP payable to them at the uprating date and I am sure hon. Members will welcome the fact that this will not occur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-15", "file": "debates1986-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0e99140f01fcd93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Statutory Sick Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "This has been a modest debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-15a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "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 have the precise dates with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Fairly soon after it was written, when it was sent to the Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1205.4", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. No one on this side of the House is accusing anyone of falsifying any document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1205.6", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The accounts are out. I fully accept that my right hon. and learned Friend's account is the correct version of the meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1206.10", "colnum": "1206", "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 yesterday, no meeting was needed and no meeting was agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1206.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1206.11", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is it not to the eternal discredit of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1206.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "Turning from Britain to Wales, to the £200 million cut in education forecast in yesterday's expenditure White Paper and the 13 primary schools in Powys that are doomed to close, will the Prime Minister instruct the Secretary of State for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "Turning from Britain to Wales, to the £200 million cut in education forecast in yesterday's expenditure White Paper and the 13 primary schools in Powys that are doomed to close, will the Prime Minister instruct the Secretary of State for Wales—[HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—to increase the proposed rate support grant in Powys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1209.8", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have already dealt with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1209.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1209.9", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask for your guidance? Is it in order for the processes of the House to be abused by the Labour party through the preparation of a document in the Labour party office containing 12 planted questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1209.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think— [Interruption.] Order. I am on my feet. I think that the Prime Minister has dealt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think— [Interruption.] Order. I am on my feet. I think that the Prime Minister has dealt— [Interruption.] I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think— [Interruption.] Order. I am on my feet. I think that the Prime Minister has dealt— [Interruption.] I think—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"] Order. It is not a matter for me. The Prime Minister has dealt very fairly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not taking any more points of order on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ent—will ask under which set of rules they fall. I am not making an appeal now, because you have made your decision clear, Mr. Speaker, and I would not ask you to reverse it. However, in the interests of the House, and as it is possible that the right hon. Member for Henley has overheard this exchange, he could rise on a further point of order and clarify precisely what he meant. Secondly, it may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Hong Kong (Nationality)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "preceding_text": "ut which so much has been said this evening. I would like to add to the plea that a particular concession be granted to the ex-service men. Those who have served king and country in this way have every right to our most sympathetic consideration, and I am sure that those words are unlikely to fall on deaf ears. I do not want to go over ground which has been covered very well throughout the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "I understand that it would be for the convenience of the House if the two orders were debated separately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " ask it again. Was there specific consultation with the Irish Government after the Anglo-Irish agreement? Secondly, in view of his statement now that consulting the Irish Government is just part of listening to everybody, will he say whether the new legislation in draft that he has promised to present to the House will be put on the agenda of the conference between the Irish and British Ministers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1320.4", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "mpatible things. First, it was intended to de-fuse opposition in the Republic by involving its Ministers. Secondly, it was intended to isolate the Republicans in the North by making them look as though they alone stood out against the Anglo-Irish agreement. Thirdly, it was intended to reassure the Loyalists. Of course, they are not here, because they are busy campaigning against the policy anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-16", "file": "debates1986-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "7fd0ab9c6496c48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ic community in Northern Ireland. It constantly has them in turmoil. It solves none of the problems that it was intended to solve. I shall cite two aspects, which I have mentioned already but which are worth repeating. First, on the question of detention without charge, I hope that the Secretary of State will tell me what has happened to the women in South Armagh. Are they still being dragged out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-16a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-17", "file": "debates1986-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "74a7f5d81a9faa38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-17a.1346.2", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "nd the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, which was introduced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris). The Bill is firmly based on what has now become known internationally as the \"Alf Morris Act\". I pay tribute, as I think hon. Members would wish me to do, to my right hon. Friend the Member for Wythenshawe for his unstinting work for the disabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-17a.1346.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "deposit was an unusual transaction from a commercial point of view and that it could not reasonably have been anticipated by the agency. The hon. Gentleman suggests that if he had been looking after matters he would have spotted what an eminent accountant believes he himself might have failed to spot. However, I am certain that the proper way to proceed with the questions which the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "t if he had been looking after matters he would have spotted what an eminent accountant believes he himself might have failed to spot. However, I am certain that the proper way to proceed with the questions which the hon. Gentleman— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) who asked the question, is not listening to my answer. Instead, he is jabbering away to his neighbour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "act that, in these two subordinate reports of the reports relating to this year and last year, the grants of local authorities are being changed as the year is progressing, or in the case of last year, when the year is over, shows how deeply unsatisfactory the system is. No treasurer either this year or last year has been able to know the exact amount of grant that his authority is likely to get.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, because I represent part of a shire county. Of course, it is a lower spender than I should like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "next year that have been made by various shire counties and all district councils and metropolitan authorities. Local authorities are estimating what their budgets will be. I received a delegation from Buckinghamshire last week. The meeting was attended by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sir. I. Gilmour). I shall give my recollection of the meeting. If it does not accord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.45.4", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "May I get just a little further on before I give way again? One of the foundation stones of the rate support grant system is called resources equalisation. That is why something like £1 billion each year is transferred through the grant system away from London and the south-east to the rest of the country. Few people appreciate how the grant system works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.45.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend might not have heard what I said earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.50.7", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Next week I shall bring out a Green Paper which deals with the fundamental question, which is as my hon. Friend said, the constitutional question whether we want more central control or more local accountability. I stand firmly on the side of those who want more local accountability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.50.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "ening in an area which I know best. What will happen to the impoverished rural councils which have a posture of low expenditure because their resources are so slender and because they have incomes so much lower than the national average and populations so dispersed? We were glad to see my hon. Friend the Member for Torridge and Devon, West (Sir P. Mills) recovering and back in the House last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": " are not compatible. The Government must face the fact that more money must be put into local government spending by the Exchequer if moneys are to be spent in the city centres. It is wrong to ask the rural ratepayers to carry the taxpayers' obligation. For that reason, and unless I hear things that I do not expect from the Minister tonight, I shall not support the Government in the Lobby tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "I wish to put a constituency point to the Minister for Environment, Countryside and Local Government and I hope that he will answer it. I do not intend to go over the ground that has already been covered by other right hon. and hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.111.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.118.6", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "xplain the disgraceful fraud that the Secretary of State has been trying to perpetrate on Opposition Members and on the House with the document called \"Grant Recycling 1986–87\". There are added reasons for the effect of this year's settlement and why the Government are now reaping a whirlwind from their policies. The abolition of the GLC and the metropolitan counties takes place on 1 April—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.118.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": "Did I hear aright? Did the hon. Gentleman mention me as approving the Government's settlement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " I well understand the problem. The rateable resources will come back in the subsequent year. My hon. Friend the Member for Ilford, South (Mr. Thorne) made a point about the distribution of balances, which is very important to outer London boroughs as well. The revenue balances are being distributed on the basis of population. Let me turn to the powerful speeches of my right hon. and hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "and restore accountability. It is one of our central policies, and is the right policy. The third crucial variable is spending. Actual spending is doubly crucial to rates in low-spending areas this year. We guessed the likely outcome for them in terms of rates by two measures—what would the low spenders do, and what would the Labour and Liberal high spenders do? As we all know, that is crucial to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "and there is every reason why ratepayers should expect all authorities to seek efficiency savings on their behalf. I have seen correspondence from the treasurer of Clwyd county council in the past few days. I would have rather more sympathy if it were not one of the counties which has increased rather than decreased the number of employees, as many other councils and even more districts have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-20", "file": "debates1986-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d3315f7c9b69347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "gan is part of the county council's provision for the social services, with high expenditure on free meals, education maintenance allowances and necessitous clothing grants. The social welfare expenditure component in the education budget has increased sharply over the past five years because of the industrial policies of this Government. One other factor, and we are all proud of this development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-20a.151.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-21", "file": "debates1986-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdba5f534ff4fd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-21a.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "rt grant settlement under which the Government are imposing a 35 per cent. rate increase upon Cumbrians wipe out at a stroke all the benefits of the enterprise incentives that have been introduced by the Government during the last few years? Are they not creating unemployment on the one hand and introducing on the other a number of palliative measures, such as job clubs and enterprise allowances?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-21a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-21", "file": "debates1986-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdba5f534ff4fd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-21a.181.3", "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 do not think that I made a promise to do that. As the hon. Member will be aware, we are at present considering whether we should give money to Bradford football club. In the exceptional circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-21a.181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-21", "file": "debates1986-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "bdba5f534ff4fd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-21a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Stanley Royd Hospital", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "preceding_text": ". The Secretary of State should identify the chairman who merits congratulations. The statement uses the words \"human error\" and \"prosecution\". The words \"lack of occur about five times, but what is never mentioned in all the references to the lack of administration, of supervision and of everything else, is the lack of adequate finance to run a proper Health Service. I refer you to paragraph 266—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-21a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-22", "file": "debates1986-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ebd6a700e6e4166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. Some Labour authorities, to do them justice, do care and are trying extremely hard to bring all the private resources that are available to bear and into use. The Oldham and Salford authorities are two examples. Unfortunately, Labour-controlled city councils in other areas seem unable sometimes to manage their own housing stock properly. Yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-22", "file": "debates1986-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ebd6a700e6e4166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.307.12", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Cabinet Minutes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. The day before yesterday, I raised a point of order, on which you ruled yesterday. You ruled in my absence because I was, unfortunately, in a Select Committee. In your ruling, you said that the passage in question in the Cabinet minutes, which I did not bring to the Chamber on that occasion, described what happened at a meeting on 17 October last between the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.307.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-22", "file": "debates1986-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ebd6a700e6e4166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Cabinet Minutes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " most reasonably based on all the facts and information that were placed before you by those whom you consulted. I put it you, Mr. Speaker, that there is one document which you did not see and which you were not allowed. to see, and that is the document that I have here. It is that section of the Cabinet minutes that precisely concerns the point of order. I have not been given the opportunity to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-22", "file": "debates1986-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ebd6a700e6e4166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Cabinet Minutes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The point I was seeking to make was that I am fully aware that this is a matter of high political controversy. What is disturbing is that Mr. Speaker is being drawn into some of these arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-22", "file": "debates1986-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ebd6a700e6e4166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rals—the so-called defenders of freedom and liberty —walk into the Tory Government Lobby and vote to curb the natural desires of local authorities, and Liberal councillors, to say their party piece. What a black day that was for the Liberals and the SDP. I sit on this Bench and hear all the stories, and I know that the truth was that the Liberals' so-called friends in the SDP told them what to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.319.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-22", "file": "debates1986-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ebd6a700e6e4166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "of the issue. Such use of the Government machine for propaganda purposes is likely to increase under our authoritarian Prime Minister in the run-up to the election. At the same time, the Greater London council produced an excellent document outlining the implications of a nuclear attack on London. It was an objective statement produced by objective scientists. It was not a peace movement document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.326.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-22", "file": "debates1986-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ebd6a700e6e4166f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Does the Secretary of State know what that means?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "s of distribution of needs element. Full implementation of the method would, however, mean substantial gains and losses for individual authorities. It is, therefore, proposed to set limits on the maximum grant gains and losses for any authority. These limits are 15 per cent. on gains and 7 per cent. on losses. The limits are symmetrical around the 4 per cent. increase in needs element generally. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-22a.400.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-23", "file": "debates1986-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c25b73a567b53ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Before the Prime Minister loses another member of her Cabinet to the Brittangate scandal, will she send a message to Mr. Rupert Murdoch of News International, one of the millionaire owners of Britain's undemocratic press, that he is not a first world war general filling the trenches outside his Wapping plant with rolls of barbed wire —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-23", "file": "debates1986-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c25b73a567b53ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "itor-General to contain material inaccuracies which needed to be corrected should become public knowledge as soon as possible, and before Sir John Cuckney's press conference. It was accepted that the Department of Trade and Industry should disclose that fact and that, in view of the urgency of the matter, the disclosure should be made by means of a telephone communication to the Press Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-23", "file": "debates1986-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c25b73a567b53ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as a possible inaccuracy, it was important to get accurate information into the public domain in time for the meeting at 4 o'clock. I agree, as I have said, that it should have been done by a more correct method. The fact is that I was not consulted, as I indicated in the statement. Yes, I did institute an inquiry and the right hon. Gentleman would have been the first to castigate me if I did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.452.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-23", "file": "debates1986-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c25b73a567b53ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "cial decision to close the Gartcosh plant.'. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) and his hon. Friends would have us believe that they speak in the debate as champions of Gartcosh and of the steel industry in Scotland. I would have been prepared to pay more attention to that claim if their hon. Friends on the First Scottish Standing Committee considering the Housing (Scotland) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.473.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-23", "file": "debates1986-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c25b73a567b53ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.474.5", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "cause it was a different Government, therefore the hon. Gentleman comes to that conclusion. Of course he claims that the circumstances were different, because he is embarrassed to be reminded of that event. I am entitled to point out to the hon. Gentleman that the Labour Government were not in the habit of intervening when plants employing 600 to 700 people were proposed for closure by management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.474.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-23", "file": "debates1986-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "c25b73a567b53ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": "the next few years there will be a further reduction of 750,000, yet in real terms there is a reduction of only 0·2 per cent. in resources? Against that background, it is up to the authorities, including Labour-controlled education authorities, of which my constituency, Stafford, happens to be one, to allocate priorities. In the constituency of Stafford the district auditor has just stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-23a.512.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " emphasised by the fact that out of 206 men dismissed for strike-related offences in Scotland, 75 have been reinstated. I have said that there was a revolution in the Scottish coalfields. It is not the sort of revolution that the hon. Gentleman's friend, Mr. Scargill, wanted. It is a quiet revolution in productivity, and it is about time Opposition Members recognised and paid tribute to that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.636.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.636.6", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "I was one of the hon. Members who said, \"cheat\". Is it not a fact that the National Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.636.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.639.6", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "That is quite a separate consideration from the parliamentary tier, but doubtless if the parliamentary tier were established it would be beneficial if it were the subject of as much widespread commitment as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.639.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.641.11", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "At present there are no uniformly applied bases for rating systems, and propositions appear to be very high. However, one of the objectives of the study is to identify this sort of problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.641.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ely small thing until it became a very big thing. It was turned from an issue into a crisis by the dishonesty of people in this Administration. That dishonesty infected the Government's whole approach to the affairs of Westland plc. There was a basic duplicity of their public dispassion about the affairs of that company and their private partisanship in the bids that were being made for Heseltine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.646.5", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I only withdraw allegations if the cap does not fit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.646.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.646.8", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "You have that guarantee, Mr. Speaker, and it will continue like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.646.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I said that hon. Members opposite have a cavalier attitude towards dishonesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "hip. There are also the standing charges that still exist about moved meetings and minutes that were incomplete, and now we have the differing versions still existing of the meeting between Sir Raymond Lygo and the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. We know enough of the truth about the connivings of 6 January to understand that the dishonesty has run right through this whole episode.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "detection or was it established for deception? Was it set up to obscure the issues and to provide an excuse for silence? Was it set up by a Prime Minister who knew very well who had leaked, why they had leaked, when they leaked and what they did it for? The Prime Minister must give clear and truthful answers to all of these questions. She must make no mistake. Today the Prime Minister is on trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.647.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, but before he accuses others of deceit, will he explain whether it was deceit that led him to falsify his age when he first put himself forward for political candidature or did he just forget how old he was?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "th by making a furtive phone call to the Press Association for the specific and carefully contrived purpose of discrediting another member of her Cabinet? We know that the right hon. Lady has not answered those questions. She has admitted that herself. Any statement, she said yesterday, is almost always a basis for further questions. That may be the understatement of the Prime Minister's lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ns with meticulous accuracy; just attempted excuses. All we have had is the propaganda about \"toughing it out\"—a phrase, Mr. Speaker, which you will recall first entered the British vocabulary when it came out of Richard Nixon's office. We are told that last Thursday the Prime Minister was sheltering the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The Home Secretary told Mr. Brian Walden yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": ", he went not without resistance. Even when the right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Brittan) wanted to do the right honourable thing and resign, the Prime Minister tried to talk him out of it and even invited him to apply for the next vacancy for \"high office\", as she put it. But what of the Prime Minister's excuses for the omissions from last Thursday's statement and questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Brittan) wanted to do the right honourable thing and resign, the Prime Minister tried to talk him out of it and even invited him to apply for the next vacancy for \"high office\", as she put it. But what of the Prime Minister's excuses for the omissions from last Thursday's statement and questions? [Interruption.] The Prime Minister said that the majority of the inquiry report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "But what of the Prime Minister's excuses for the omissions from last Thursday's statement and questions? [Interruption.] The Prime Minister said that the majority of the inquiry report— [Interruption.] Even the deliberate efforts, that will be heard by the nation, by Conservative Members to interrupt the House and to prevent someone from getting a fair hearing, will not stop the truth being heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ority of the inquiry report was new to her. She said that, until the report was available, she did not have the full facts—what she called an \"enormous number\" of facts. As I listened to her then and to the Home Secretary yesterday, saying how much they wanted to be able to give the full facts, I began to think that it was the Government, not the Opposition, who had got the emergency debate today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " and it was the fact which the right hon. Lady was forced to admit last Thursday. It was also the fact—the single salient fact—that the right hon. Lady was denied for over a fortnight. Who were these people who decided to keep the right hon. Lady in the dark? Who were these merciless people who made the Prime Minister, in her innocent ignorance, go through the charade of the inquiry into the leak?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.649.2", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Whatever anyone sees, the whole country will be able to hear what has been going on. Once again, Conservative Back Benchers have decided that, because they cannot take the truth, they will try to bury it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.649.2", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "uld not have consented, if she had been consulted, because she felt that there was a different way, a better way, to make the relevant details known. Despite their years of close proximity and despite the deep mutual trust that has to exist between the Prime Minister and her office, it appears that they did not know the Prime Minister at all. There they were taking important decisions in her name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.649.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "e Department of Trade and Industry and with the Law Officers. It had not. In view of the continuing need for accuracy and consistency in Government statements on this subject, I asked that a message be sent to my right hon. and learned Friend the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, as the sponsoring Minister for Westland, to suggest that he should ask the Solicitor-General to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the setting up of the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.654.7", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was the common purpose of all concerned that, at a time when difficult commercial judgments and decisions had to be made by the company, it was important that all pronouncements by the Government should be accurate, in no way misleading, and consistent with each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.654.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.655.14", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, not at the moment. This is very important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.655.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.655.17", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I must go on at this moment. This is vitally important. Although, clearly, neither side realised it at the time, there was a genuine difference in understanding between officials as to exactly what was being sought and what was being given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.655.17"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.656.18", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "fference of understanding, which is something that happens almost every day in normal life, and he tries to deny it. Officials, too, have the right to be heard and not automatically be castigated by the other side. In answer to the question which I think hon. Members will be asking, I did not myself know about the disclosure of the Solicitor-General's letter until some hours after it had occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.656.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was also told, in general terms, that there had been contacts between my office and the Department of Trade and Industry. I did not know about the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry's own role in the matter of the disclosure until the inquiry had reported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.7", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister telling us that, from the day after the leak, on 6 or 7 January, right up until after the inquiry had reported, her right hon. and learned Friend the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry did not make any effort whatsoever to tell her how he had authorised the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.8", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have indicated what the facts are and I have indicated the high regard in which I hold my right hon. and learned Friend the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.10", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ith the exceptions of the hon. Members for Yeovil and for Isle of Wight (Mr. Ross) are exploiting Westland and its employees, exploiting them for nothing more than their own narrow political advantage. It was the right hon. Gentleman the leader of the Labour party who told his party conference, and I quote: you cannot play politics with people's jobs … they have no time for such posturing\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.657.10"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.5", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman cannot stand is that I have given him the facts and he does not like them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.6", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.7", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Opposition. They would like first to divert public attention from the growing extremism of their own party—as we have all seen so unmistakably in Liverpool, Lambeth and Tottenham—and secondly, to divert us from vigorously pursuing our policies and plans for our country's future. We are not going to be diverted from the tasks we were elected to carry out. We shall gather with renewed strength—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.8", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Prime Minister, in retrospect, will wish that she had not made the latter part of her speech, because, whatever the House wants to hear today, it does not want a party political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.8", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "s warned would be distributed on the Monday. I must say to the Prime Minister that it is not unreasonable to believe that she would have discussed that with those two individuals or at least one individual. It is a reasonable assumption that it was in the knowledge of how she reacted to the whole series of events that they felt confident to give the cover that she herself claimed in her statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.8", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "lt confident to give the cover that she herself claimed in her statement— [Interruption.] I do not know. I am merely pointing out a major gap in the Prime Minister's account. I ask the Prime Minister now to clear that up and to tell the House. Did the right hon. Lady discuss the issue with Mr. Ingham and Mr. Powell on the Saturday evening, the Sunday or the Monday morning? Did you, Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.658.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They cheated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "far as to pick up the Mace. The House might not remember what occasioned his picking up the Mace. I remember it well. It was in May 1976. The House debated the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill, and the Labour Government lost the Division. The next Division was called and the Labour party either sent somebody through the Division Lobby twice or allowed somebody who had been paired to vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.667.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.675.3", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "way from the end of what has been a sad incident in the Government's life, but it is only an incident. What we have heard today from the Prime Minister, from my right hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) and last, but not least, from my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Brittan) has shown that at least if we made mistakes we are prepared to admit them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ernard Ingham was my press officer for some time and I know a little bit about him. He is a very tough customer, but he would never dare to agree to betray a Cabinet Minister without the authority of the Prime Minister. I do not believe for one moment the account given by the Prime Minister that Bernard Ingham and Mr. Powell assented to the wishes of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " State for Defence, and in some respects we believe it to be in error.\" She could have sent it with a motor cycle messenger to the place where the shareholders were meeting—it has been done previously—so that the shareholders would know the position. But she chose to do something different. The incident also throws light on the lobby system and all those people sitting there in the Press Gallery —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ight have important repercussions either in the foreign or the domestic field. The classic case for consulting the Law Officers is contained in that paragraph. Paragraph 23 of these instructions to Ministers reads, It is important to avoid giving any indication of the manner in which the Minister has consulted his colleagues before any decision is announced. The Prime Minister broke her own rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ieves in, was a myth. People are asking whether that myth is capable of leading the Conservative party to victory at the next election. The Conservative party is looking for a new leader. Members on the Government side will go into the Lobby tonight and the resigned Secretaries of State will be rubbing shoulders with the Prime Minister. The reality of the matter is that they are looking for a new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": " even from the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn). In addition, the right hon. Gentleman has spoken for so long, despite your injunction, Mr. Speaker, that I have had to cast aside a point a minute and shall confine myself to two aspects about which I must say a word. This House must deplore and condemn the cowardly attempts that have been made to implicate the Solicitor-General in any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "d us out of office, they have sadly misjudged the lady, her Back-Bench supporters and the great majority of people in the country. Now can we not get on with the job? Speaking both for myself and for all those who would have liked to have the chance to say it in this debate, may I say to the Prime Minister, \"Thank you for your courage, loyalty and integrity with which you set the lead for us all.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ight be founded upon that and that the Government could be liable if wrong judgments were made as a result of misleading information. It was to get that accurate information to the public domain that I gave my consent\"— [Official Report, 23 January 1986; Vol. 90, c. 455.] Why did the Prime Minister tell us last Thursday that she gave her consent to the leaking of the letter into the public domain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "e Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) and my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Brittan). My hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Sir P. Hordern) paid a very warm tribute to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks, which I thoroughly underline. My right hon. Friend the Member for Henley has given the clearest possible indication that he returns —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "learned Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Brittan). My hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Sir P. Hordern) paid a very warm tribute to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks, which I thoroughly underline. My right hon. Friend the Member for Henley has given the clearest possible indication that he returns — [Interruption.] — to the fray with tremendous enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "us enthusiasm. [Interruption.] The nervous laughter on the Opposition Benches shows how much they will be frustrated in their hope that they were to see some form of civil war within the Tory party over this matter. My right hon. Friend's speech this afternoon indicates that for the Government Benches and the Conservative party, this is no parliamentary Dunkirk, but rather a parliamentary Alamein.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "When I look at the hamster from Bolsover —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "e defined and realistic in its ambition, but effective in its operation. The doctrine of collective responsibility has been followed by successive Administrations, with the cumulative wisdoms that come over the ages and over the Parliaments, because of the necessity for strong and secure Government to operate within that discipline. Hence, despite what may be a certain amount of modish criticism —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "scipline. Hence, despite what may be a certain amount of modish criticism — [Interruption.]. Oh, yes. If hon. Members wish to dispute what I am going to say, we shall be happy to have their dissent on record. For I want to assert that the operation of the 30-year rule and the operation of strict confidentiality applied to Government papers are integral to the operation of collective responsibility", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "en a major political assault. It has not been an assault designed as a relentless search for truth. The disclosure of the Solicitor-General's letter, which certainly is an incident which contains errors enough, has been mentioned from the Government Benches, not least by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, but nonetheless it has been subject to critical comment elevated out of all proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.685.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Both the Crossman and Castle diaries are textbooks of the practice, and that has been referred to again and again by my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Those points have been dealt with by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.686.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "he traffic distribution powers, to which I shall refer, would not enable a positive policy to be applied, which I believe to be important in relation to domestic flights. We would be able to suggest a negative policy for containing excess demand. That is the point of all three measures. When Heathrow and Gatwick reach capacity, something must be done about that. One cannot just have more aircraft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "o do now the plcs will not be able to do either. If it is good enough for private enterprise to expand into non-essential airport activities such as hotels, why is it not good enough for the plcs, with a local authority base? The Secretary of State has presented himself in the guise of a swashbuckling knight of free enterprise who will liberate public industry from the chains of state bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "The situation remains as it is now. I thought that the hon. Gentleman would interrupt me because of what I said about Manchester city council. He feels that the ratepayers of Trafford will not get a fair deal. I am also a Trafford ratepayer, and it is because I want to ensure that Trafford gets a fair deal that I want —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "That is the point. Local government expenditure has always been controlled by this and previous Governments. If private capital is introduced, the situation will alter. Perhaps I can finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": " which I fully support, and perhaps discuss whether the golden share solution would be one way in which that could be done. That was certainly the answer for Jaguar, which is also an important local employer of my constituents and a most successful company privatised by the Government in exactly the same way as the airports will be privatised by the Government with yet more benefits being offered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": "g offered. [Interruption.] I am sure that the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape) will have a full opportunity to make his views known in a way in which only he can. I also urge my hon. Friend to do everything possible to ensure that wider share ownership, on which the Government have achieved so much, should be included for airports. I know that my hon. Friend is concerned about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "to be yet more successful in providing the friendly facilities that will encourage our tourist trade. My hon. Friend knows from the discussions that we have had about my concern for the future of Birmingham international airport. It is most important that municipal airports which become plcs should truly become private enterprises. I know that my right hon. Friend is concerned about the precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.732.4", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It has to be made into a plc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.732.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-27", "file": "debates1986-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2bf424d5adc1346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.751.4", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ugh to have a Labour Government, they would be keen to exercise those powers at airports other than Stansted. Of course, that prospect has receded after the performance of the Leader of the Opposition this afternoon. My second point relates to the London airport system and traffic distribution. I still disagree with the desire of my right hon. Friend to privatise the three London airports en bloc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-27a.751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that he is totally misleading the House by quoting the figure of 24 weeks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In my speech yesterday I set out the full circumstances —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In my speech yesterday I set out the full circumstances — [Interruption.] — of the establishment and the outcome of the inquiry. Its accuracy was checked with all those concerned. I have given the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "On 20 January this year, late in the evening, the Prime Minister, or someone acting on her behalf, telephoned Miss Colette Bowe while Miss Bowe was sitting in her London club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "On 20 January this year, late in the evening, the Prime Minister, or someone acting on her behalf, telephoned Miss Colette Bowe while Miss Bowe was sitting in her London club. [Interruption.] There was also a call from the right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks, (Mr. Brittan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister, or someone acting on her behalf, telephoned Miss Colette Bowe while Miss Bowe was sitting in her London club. [Interruption.] There was also a call from the right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks, (Mr. Brittan). [Interruption.] Bearing in mind that the Prime Minister told us yesterday that she knew nothing about the right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "erruption.] There was also a call from the right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks, (Mr. Brittan). [Interruption.] Bearing in mind that the Prime Minister told us yesterday that she knew nothing about the right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks— [Interruption.] —having authorised the leak of the Solicitor-General's letter until 22 January, will she tell the House what was said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.791.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I asked the Prime Minister questions about telephone calls to Miss Colette Bowe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.795.4", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The noise is coming from Conservative Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot hear the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.795.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today during Question Time, on a genuine point of order —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "int of order —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]— Oh, yes. At that time my hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson), the Opposition spokesman on health, referred to the Government misleading the House. He was subsequently pulled up by a Tory Member. You confirmed, Mr. Speaker, that my hon. Friend should withdraw any references to the Government misleading the House. I have to remind you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Local Government (Financing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "al average is struck. On that depends whether there will be more gainers or losers in the business world. The Green Paper proposes to strike the rate at the national average — 180p, in 1984–85. It further proposes that that should be reduced by 5 per cent. which would bring in many of those who are close to the national average who would have to pay more if it were struck at a higher level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The 2 per cent. is an incentive given over a five-year period. It seems to be in line with what the public want. If hon. Members study the social security review, they will find that we went to great trouble to find what the public's view was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "The Government's policy, plainly, is to phase out child benefit and to rely on benefits related to need, not to universal benefits. My hon. Friend tries to assure me that that is not so, but I am not confident that I can rely on his assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "n he sums up if I put some of the objections to the Bill Which ordinary loyal Conservatives would have put if that outbreak of loyalty had not occurred. As a Conservative Member I would have to begin by declaring self-interest. The self-interest would be that as each day passes the dreadful day of judgment, as the Prayer Book calls it, is approaching. In other words, the election gets ever nearer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "forward with a proposal to pay supplementary benefit scale rates for children to the mother instead of to the father, who is normally the claimant. In other words, we appear to be confronted with a proposition where what has been acceptable throughout the years in relation to child scale rates payable for children is unacceptable when applied to low-paid families in work. That is logical nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "liance are determined to push the legislation through to make life worse for the poorest people, ignoring the problems of poverty, instead of promoting a campaign to eliminate it. Self-satisfied Members could walk for 20 minutes and see people sleeping rough in Waterloo station, and other stations. That is the degree of poverty and deprivation in London. The Bill does nothing to eliminate poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-28", "file": "debates1986-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "9dd0616ac77aac5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": " way to run the system. We have also encouraged competition and contracting out. Recent announcements are excellent for the consumer and for future competition. The hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) said that fares have gone up. It is always a sad reflection on those who are meant to lead the community that they tend to pick statistics to try to prove their own sectional point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-28a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State take an initiative in this matter? When he was appointed to his present office he took the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.943.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the Opposition now accept that the right to vote will in no way be affected by these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct. The Labour party's desperate desire to defend the present system has been most noticeable today. It has not provided one proposal as to how single parents, pensioners and others who are unfairly treated under the domestic rating system would benefit from any Labour party proposals. It is wedded to a corrupt and out-of-date system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "That will make British membership more difficult for the European monetary system rather than for this country. In a way, we are lucky that it has been, and is still, willing to have a more volatile currency in full membership. We want to try to control the volatility of sterling as much as we can. In view of the fear of the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has saved you the trouble of calling him later in the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The number of questions that he put amount to a speech in themselves. No doubt my hon. Friend the Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Livsey) will deal with those matters in detail if he catches your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "farming constituency. Yet there was a total breakdown of confidence in the Government. The inadequate preparation and thought in the Government's handling of the undoubted crisis eroded their support and they got a bloody nose. The irony is that our farmers have been asked to produce more and more and they have done so. The success of their response to that request has created the present problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": " health authority criteria that force it to take those actions. I love the tremendous optimism behind the Government's amendment. The amendment says that an Act has been introduced that will check the decline in bus services and initiate new services. In many areas there are no services at all and it is difficult to believe that the Act could make that problem any worse. I accept that in totality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "hree opposition parties must answer an important question. Will the Liberal party introduce rating of farmland? Will the SDP introduce rating of farmland? Will the alliance introduce rating of farmland? I hope the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) will answer that question when he is winding up and I promise I will give ample time by finishing my speech at an opportune time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1031.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ry system, to which we devoted an earlier debate today. That is supported by the NFU generally and by the NFU in the Minister's own constituency — I was informed of that on Monday night — and the NFU in Scotland has publicly gone on record as advocating entry of the exchange rate mechanism. It is time that the Minister of Agriculture listened to the case being made for the benefit of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": " incomes. The present system of setting a single inflexible support price for an open-ended output is a direct inducement to increase production by all possible means. It exacerbates the imbalance between supply and demand and if it is set at a level to guarantee a fair return only for larger units it penalises smaller units and those in less-favoured areas. I put forward a preferable alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "wo parties which have shown themselves totally unfit to do anything as they have been unable to present any policy. Therefore, for five minutes of my speech I felt it right to acquaint the House with the policy that they actually have. I begin with the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan), who is in favour of quotas. He did not mention quotas throughout the whole of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1039.5", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ulture would go as far as distinguishing between the kinds of stocking. The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland goes further. None of us should miss the Social Democratic party document called \"Farming in the rural economy\", published in December 1985. There we discover another kernel of SDP agriculture policy, in that it supports the introduction of a statutory minimum weaning age for pigs\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1039.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ctly the same problem as I have had. The hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile) has not looked at his constituency closely enough if he thinks that that is not the case. We have to face the issue of rural schools. It is all very well to talk about rural schools, but we all know that in many areas, such as mine, there are small schools because there are fewer children in the villages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "had been a slight increase in the number of miles covered by rural buses. In surrounding areas where that freedom did not exist, there had been a marked diminution in rural bus services. That is the basis of our policy. My hon. Friend the Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Mudd) made some tough and clear points about his constituency. He will not expect me to answer those with which I have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1046.10", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " between those hours, direct any Member who has spoken for ten minutes in such a debate to resume his seat forthwith; (2) This Order shall apply to debates on: (a) the second reading of public bills; (b) matters selected under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 6 (Arrangement of public business) for consideration on allotted Opposition days; and (c) motions in the name of a Minister of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1046.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1049.7", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I would certainly have to consider how one would cope, given the limited facilities available and the considerable pressure upon them. We are in a totally non-market situation and cannot use the price mechanism in any way to regulate the use of facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1049.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1053.8", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "the recommendations because were he to read them he would see that it is possible to get what is called a temporary secretary pass and, as I think my hon. Friend knows, some research workers do have such passes. The only difference is that they will not be able to use the Library. They can work in my hon. Friend's room perfectly well. The problem arises because of the overuse of public facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1053.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1054.7", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " the Leader of the House. In July we said that there should be no more than 50 such students at any one time and 150 in any calendar year. My right hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) made a very valid point, reported at columns 1392-93 of Hansard. He said that we might be in danger of leaving the decision-making, as it were, to Back Benchers, and that that would be invidious —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1054.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1056.5", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "loy gentleman with cleft sticks to do the job for them. We are under pressure, and we should seek to discipline ourselves within its limits. Instead of that, the motion addresses a different and subsidiary problem — how to control the excessive supply of overseas research assistants; not the excessive demand for them, not the excessive parliamentary need for them, but the excessive supply of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1056.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-29", "file": "debates1986-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "ce1f7d7e82481f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am wrong, I am much encouraged, but on anecdotal evidence I am not prepared to take that risk. What I believe should happen is that the House should pass the amendments in my name this evening and that the Services Committee should come before us with a properly thought through and organised scheme to deal with this problem. The question of unfair dismissal does not arise with overseas students.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-29a.1057.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-30", "file": "debates1986-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "98a5610ab02e0169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d, we create more wealth and, therefore, more jobs, only by creating more goods which will sell competitively in world markets. That is the only way. With regard to what he said about the growth of jobs, the best indication of that is provided by the Department of Employment's official count every three months. He mentioned the Bank of England's adjustment, which referred to full-time equivalents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-30", "file": "debates1986-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "98a5610ab02e0169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "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 have details of that one. I have details of the reply, which I recall on Monday 19 January 1976, when the then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster had received an invitation from the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-30", "file": "debates1986-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "98a5610ab02e0169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": ". Lady aware that on this day, when the highest levels of unemployment ever known have been recorded, due to the Government's policies, it will not go unnoticed by the people that, when the printers' unions have taken a stand to protect jobs—6,000 more jobs are at stake—the Tory Benches cheered to the echo the mention of Murdoch, and, of course, the anti-trade union legislation that makes it more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-30", "file": "debates1986-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "98a5610ab02e0169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Sir Antony Buck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Antony Buck", "preceding_text": "sh—15 fined\". That sort of trouble seldom happens. There is seldom any disruption. Colchester has just lost the 2nd Royal Anglians who have now embarked upon a tour in Northern Ireland. I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House would wish them and all our services in Northern Ireland the best of good fortune. The Anglians' place has been taken by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-30", "file": "debates1986-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "98a5610ab02e0169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1148.5", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "words. I am not sure how safe his seat is. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept my word that I would condemn in equally round terms the use of troops by a Labour Government. Strike-breaking is only one aspect of the softening-up process. Some elements in the Conservative party and in the high command of the armed forces would not hesitate, in defence of the ruling class that they represent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-30", "file": "debates1986-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "98a5610ab02e0169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1148.5", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " Strike-breaking is only one aspect of the softening-up process. Some elements in the Conservative party and in the high command of the armed forces would not hesitate, in defence of the ruling class that they represent — [Laughter] —to call out the troops if they believed that capitalism was under threat from civilian unrest or even from the policies of a democratically elected Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-01-30", "file": "debates1986-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "98a5610ab02e0169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "As is usual on these occasions, we have had a very wide-ranging debate. May I thank the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Jessel) for his kind words of congratulations to mark my 20 years in the House. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the date when I first took my seat", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-01-30a.1172.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "There is no question of my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General being used —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": ", Sir. I strongly repudiate many of the points that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has raised in his question. As I have already explained, no decision has been reached in the talks between British Leyland and General Motors. When firm conclusions are reached, I shall make a full statement to the House. Were a deal to be reached, General Motors would give full undertakings that the majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I said yes. I shall look at what 1 said, but I think that the hon. Gentleman has misunderstood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Further to an earlier point of order, Mr. Speaker. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) said that I had said he owned a Japanese car. To correct the record, what I said was that he visited Ellesmere Port in a Japanese car. Perhaps he would like to clarify that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Teachers (Pay and Responsibilities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that his term of office has been characterised by a genuine desire to improve standards in our schools? Does my right hon. Friend not agree that in the light of the ACAS proposals the time has come to stop disruption in our schools especially in marginal constituencies such as mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Supplementary Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I apologise for coming in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.46.5", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Supplementary Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I repeat what I said a moment ago, that failure to pay in full would prejudice the United Kingdom's posture, and still more the United Kingdom's application for an interim order —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.46.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Museum of London Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ness vote, although it was abolished in the rest of Britain some years ago. It retains aldermen, who were abolished throughout local government elsewhere. What is more, those aldermen are elected for life. Can one imagine the uproar if I came to the House and said that GLC members should be elected for life? There is a good bunch of GLC members over there, and they deserve to hold office for life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-03", "file": "debates1986-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9f9621c54b9557a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Museum of London Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ondon. Another reason for our objection to the corporation's power of nomination being enhanced was our fear that a museum designed for all of London would become more limited in its scope and vision because one of its major paymasters was the City of London. A concentration on the square mile would not be in the interests of Greater London as a whole, nor in the interests of the museum generally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-03a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "The point of order I should like to raise, Mr. Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is as genuine as the series of misunderstandings that the Government have —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.146.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Right to be Self-Employed", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "gaged in the film, television and radio industry—I hope that the BBC is listening—were reclassified as employees, following reviews by the Inland Revenue. A further 100,000 people in part-time or occasional employment were also reclassified by the Inland Revenue. There are no cut and dried rules, and that leaves employers and employees vulnerable. I refer the House to the case of the umbrella man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "I would have to quarrel with some of that. I was not in favour of the abolition of the GLC, as the hon. Gentleman knows. But my Friday night advice surgeries would not bear out his point that everyone in Thamesmead was ecstatically happy with the GLC's management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ight. The Bill is another addition, cleverly introduced, to the counter-revolutionary process which has been going on in Britain since the Government were elected. All the values, the traditions and the accepted modes are now slowly but surely — sometimes fairly quickly — being destroyed. It worries me that some people have a strange idea about why we had and have local authority council housing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "preceding_text": "ing provisions. I begin by making a brief reference to the principle of simplified planning zones, which are of great concern to me. There has been a tendency in some parts of the Conservative party in recent years to throw much doubt upon the planning system. There are frequent calls to sweep away the delays, the bureaucracy and the decisions by grey, faceless bureaucrats in planning departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The idea of a building society managing a local authority housing estate is horrifying. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.232.6", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. If I may be of assistance, the Minister has refused to answer a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.232.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be better if I did not comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.234.2", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "We are taking this opportunity to close the gap, and mobilise the private sector further in the attack on urban dereliction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.238.8", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "d electricians—are condemned to life on the dole when they could be repairing, modernising and improving the decaying housing stock of cities such as Coventry. At current rates of house building, it is estimated that it will take until 2950 to replace the current housing stock. Nobody alive today will see that. Many generations will have to live in squalor if the Government's record is maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.238.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.238.8", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "ouse to live in. According to the report, 402 families in Coventry are at serious risk because they need to be moved, but the council is unable to move them. In Coventry there are 5,000 houses without an inside toilet. There are 2,428 families—that means kids as well—do not have a bath or a shower. Some 1,266 people share a bath and 3,500 Coventry citizens cannot expect to have a hot water supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.238.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-04", "file": "debates1986-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b045e478d687f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " Why have we not heard any statistics about the people on council house waiting lists whom the selling off of council homes condemns to further years of waiting before they can get a transfer or an application granted for a house or flat? When local authorities sell houses, those in greatest need, those who have been on waiting lists for many years, see their chances of a flat or a house receding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-04a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.279.7", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I welcome yesterday's communiqué by the EEC Foreign Ministers and the front-line states, although I do not think that it goes far enough. I note that the communiqué states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.279.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.282.10", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "While we welcome the Community initiative on international terrorism, may I ask the hon. Member to confirm that the Government continue to stick to their position that they will not take action against other sovereign nation states unless there is rigorous, objective and verifiable evidence to base it on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.282.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.291.7", "colnum": "291", "heading": "English Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend could almost have been quoting my words when I stood at the Dispatch Box five years ago announcing the privatisation of Cable and Wireless. I was asked what the advantage was in privatising Cable and Wireless, and it is recorded that I said that that would relieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.291.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Sellafield (Spent Fuel Discharge)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No.10, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the discharge of spent fuel at Sellafield causing danger to people.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour is anti-American.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "r. Brittan), gave us assurances on behalf of Sikorsky-Fiat, saying that the product would be British researched and designed and that there would be an independent British capability and British independent managerial influence. We have had assurance after assurance. Conservative Ministers find themselves continually coming to the Dispatch Box and giving assurances on behalf of American companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I have given way frequently already in what is a short debate. I am sure that many hon. Members on both sides of the House have received letters today from components companies in the west midlands. I shall quote from one which I received. I shall not name the company because I do not have its permission to do so, but —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "tell us was that £2 billion had been committed to the British Leyland Group. She kept telling us about the Varley-Marshall guarantees of £1·5 billion. The right hon. Lady knows perfectly well—if she does not, she should—that not a ha'penny has been paid under the Varley-Marshall guarantees. They would be called upon only in the liquidation of the company. The Prime Minister might have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "No discussions have taken place with European manufacturers. I do not think that any European manufacturer would be interested in the proposals which the House is discussing. They both have their European —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.319.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "No deal has been concluded. If the House will allow me to make my speech, it will hear the arguments that I think are important. No decisions have been taken. There are therefore no decisions for the Cabinet to discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ent and the like. No deal will go forward unless those assurances are forthcoming. The track record of Bedford is a proud one and should give everyone in the industry confidence in the future. Let me now deal with the other part of the Opposition's motion. As I said at the beginning, discussions between Austin Rover and Ford, which have the full approval of the BL board, are at a very early stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.320.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-05", "file": "debates1986-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "2d4de299746731be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "0 women—even though everyone knows that about 3,000 lives could be saved from breast cancer each year and a further 1,000 saved from cervical cancer if a properly resourced national screening programme were established now. The Minister talked about the Government spending £650 million on the National Health Service over the next year. I wish that he had talked about billions rather than millions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-05a.376.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-10", "file": "debates1986-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc9bee2165e0657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "preceding_text": " of employers. More thought must be given to how we can make equipment more accessible to more people. However clear may be the pattern of education and training in the future, and however much we commend individuals, the Manpower Services Commission, companies and teachers, we need the help of the Government. This Government, I believe sincerely, have shown that their heart is in the right place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-10", "file": "debates1986-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc9bee2165e0657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Channel Tunnel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will not mind if I do not give way; I promised to speak briefly. The economic advantages of the project will come overwhelmingly to the south-east of England, which is precisely the part of the country where we should not be spending money to provide such opportunities when there is devastating unemployment in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-10", "file": "debates1986-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc9bee2165e0657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner London Education Authority (Precept Limitation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"60 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "hat there will be a 10 per cent. cut in expenditure. ILEA spends roughly twice as much on primary school pupils as is spent upon primary school pupils in my constituency. My right hon. Friend has said that even allowing for London weighting this is 50 per cent. more than the average, and it is 30 per cent. more than is spent in Newcastle upon Tyne and 20 per cent. more than is spent in Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-10", "file": "debates1986-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc9bee2165e0657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner London Education Authority (Precept Limitation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "by approximately £45 million in about 48 hours. The question to which the hon. Member for Durham, North singularly failed to address himself—and whoever sums up for the Opposition must address this question—is: why does it cost 60 per cent. more on a unit cost basis to educate a child in an ILEA secondary school than it costs in Birmingham, and 40 per cent. more than in some outer London boroughs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-10", "file": "debates1986-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc9bee2165e0657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner London Education Authority (Precept Limitation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that point. Now that the ILEA is rate capped, it is difficult to justify the fact that it does not receive any rate support grant. The target and penalty system was designed to encourage local authorities to spend less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-10", "file": "debates1986-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc9bee2165e0657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.751.7", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner London Education Authority (Precept Limitation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "No. It is well known that job losses result from increased rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.751.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-10", "file": "debates1986-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8dc9bee2165e0657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.751.7", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner London Education Authority (Precept Limitation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "e a vigorous redeployment policy. Vigorous management will be necessary. I was asked to give examples of other education authorities that have carried out cuts of 6 per cent. in one year. Manchester has carried out a cut of 9 per cent. I have a list of authorities that have made cuts in real terms of 5 per cent. or more. They have made those cuts from a spending base that is far lower than ILEA's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-10a.751.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.763.11", "colnum": "763", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That leave be given to the Committee on the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill to sit with two Members to-morrow and thereafter. — [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.763.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.763.15", "colnum": "763", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That the quorum for conducting business in relation to the Committee on the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill remain as at present.— (Mr. Willie W. Hamilton.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.763.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.774.10", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "The fact is that 95 per cent. of the £8·5 billion procurement spend is spent within the United Kingdom and sustains our defence budget —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.774.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.792.6", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We must not go back over the events of last Friday, but I repeat what I said then: the making of a statement by way of a point of order is to be deprecated and should not be followed in future. As I understand it, the press release was given from the Prime Minister's office and not by the Leader of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.792.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "preceding_text": "tion in the late 1970s they managed to extract wage increases and increases in terms and conditions which have now become a serious restraint on employment? Therefore, whenever I have a job vacancy, I must think hard about whether I can afford to fill it. Will not the Government's action enable employers to take a much more realistic and perhaps flexible view on employing youngsters for vacancies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The European charter defines the decency threshold at a rate of about £109 a week for an adult. If that is the European standard, the proportionate wage for youngsters here is extremely low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should refer to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "ea, call out for different minimum rates. It is absurd to suggest, as clause 14(5) (a) does, that the wages councils should be obliged to consider employment and wages only in the more distressed parts of the United Kingdom. The wages councils should be obliged to consider prevailing wages rates, and living costs in all the different travel-to-work areas, thus taking account of reginal variations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "an-minded measure, which will attack the living standards of some of the poorest workers. It is unacceptable to the Labour party, and it is notable that far more Members spoke from the Opposition Benches, while the Tory Whips have gone around scraping up people who have clearly come in and prepared speeches a few minutes before they delivered them. It is not good enough for the Postmaster General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "It is as if the jobs were conjured out of thin air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.874.10", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "Much has been made in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.874.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.874.14", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a nerve, Mr. Speaker. I cut my wind-up speech from half an hour to 20 minutes to allow hon. Members such as him to get in, because every time the hon. Gentleman opens his mouth he helps our side. Much has been made in the debate of the different conclusions that have been drawn relating to the impact —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.874.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "referred to by the hon. Member for Sheffield, Central (Mr. Caborn)— and written by Henry Neuberger who styles himself the economic researcher to the Leader of the Opposition, estimated that 8,000 jobs would be created. Earlier today the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) pressed my right hon. and learned Friend the Paymaster General for a figure. We have now given that figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police, Fire and Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "e Home Secretary has the unique power to set the maximum precept. He will discharge that duty with thoroughness and efficiency. There are many competing sources of expenditure within local government and none more so than in the metropolitan districts. The hon. Gentleman will know that it is up to Government to ensure that the services are all funded properly and efficiently but not extravagantly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.911.5", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Passenger Transport Authorities'", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that it is not merely the district rate, but the amount levied by the metropolitan county, which has caused high rates and driven businesses away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.911.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Passenger Transport Authorities'", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "o fare increases since 1980; indeed, there have been decreases. No doubt that suits many people, especially those who do not pay rates, and I do not blame them for saying, \"For goodness sake, reduce the fares even further\". My constituents, who are not all wealthy people, bitterly resent—I agree with them—being forced to contribute money to allow others to travel at ridiculously uneconomic prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-11", "file": "debates1986-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0dd12d922c92086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Passenger Transport Authorities'", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "I am glad that he does not, because it proves that I am making a point. Last year, the council disguised this move by taking £8 million to £10 million — one cannot tell quite how much, because it is all covered up—out of reserves. That was done deliberately so that this year, following on abolition, the rates would have to go up by an equivalent amount. Let us cut the cackle and look at the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-11a.916.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "tly that his company had invested £50 million in the past two years and was prepared to spend more, but that the decision rested on the outcome of the MFA renegotiations? Will he also understand that what he has said will be seen as extremely disturbing throughout many constituencies, represented in some cases by the Minister's hon. Friends, and that if the British textile and clothing industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.947.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.948.7", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right on all those points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.948.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Waddington)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I understand that a press officer at the Home Office was rung up yesterday morning and asked about the question on the Order Paper. The questioner was told that an answer was to be given that afternoon. No answer was given to the journalist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.958.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.959.2", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "May I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that as the answer was given in the name of the Home Secretary, not the Minister of State, it would have been proper for the Home Secretary to come to the House to make a statement this afternoon and not to send his junior Minister? May I put it to you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.959.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.959.5", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I said that I shall have to treat this as a statement, so I cannot answer that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.961.8", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. If these occasions arise in future, is it necessary for my hon. and learned Friend the Minister to answer the questions put to him? He may want to answer them, but is he required to do so? Can you rule on that for the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.961.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not. The journalist concerned knew all this. He had approached me for a comment. I was unable to make one, having been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.962.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let the Minister answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.962.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "entleman has taken up this afternoon, that he should prolong proceedings any further. He started out with a point of order in which he must have known there was no substance. It followed a point of order he made yesterday and to which I understand a detailed reply was given through the usual channels. Therefore he knew, before he raised the matter this afternoon, that there was no substance in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.963.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not possible, but I balance it out in different ways. If the hon. Lady looks at Hansard tomorrow she will see that I did that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "e world perception of that economy was that our industrial competitiveness was constantly being eroded by inflation rates persistently much higher than all the other major industrial nations. Our industries were bloated by overmanning and crippled by restrictive practices that prevented our embracing modern technology and obtaining the benefits of the efficiency and high quality that they brought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "oses. I note that, in the many reams of words containing Labour party pronouncements on general policy in the past year, there is much about Government intervention and planning, national investment banks and huge increases in Government spending—all the old tried and failed remedies. There has not been a word about the customer and the key fact that products sell only if they best meet his needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "does mean that jobs go. The fact that this is only in the short-term and that on the evidence of the American newspaper industry more jobs, and better prosperity, are created in the long-term is not much comfort for those on the receiving end. I understand that. He continued: The inevitability of this change is essentially the most basic reason for co-operating with technology. That gets it right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with those matters during our public expenditure debate, when I will have time to do so in detail. We have, in fact, expanded road programmes with capital investment up by 20 per cent. in real terms since 1979. This year's public expenditure White Paper increased the housing renovation programme over last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "man of Ways and Means has been authorised by the House to adopt a procedure whereby, if his motion is accepted, we might have the prospect of the Bill going through Committee and its remaining stages by the co-operation of two Conservative Members. They would be sitting in cahoots upstairs deciding that a private company, which has made considerable financial contributions to the Tory party funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "t the juror is entitled to allow that to interfere with the discharge of his duty. That is the implication of the hon. Gentleman's remarks. Why is it that an ordinary citizen performing a judicial service, which it is his duty to do, can discharge that honourably and correctly, while a Member of this House cannot? Those are the bones of the matter—it has nothing to do with political contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "al contributions— [Interruption.] The Opposition appear not to want to hear what I am saying, for reasons that can only be disreputable. It would be as wrong for Members of this House to allow facts within their knowledge about political contributions to affect their behaviour on a Committee dealing with a private Bill as it would be for a juror to allow such considerations to affect his judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell the hon. Gentleman whether it is true or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1017.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1025.9", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "preceding_text": "I am certain that my right hon. Friend mentioned to a number of hon. Members, myself included —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1025.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1025.9", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "preceding_text": "I am certain that my right hon. Friend mentioned to a number of hon. Members, myself included — [Interruption.] That having happened, I was one of those present in the Chamber to support the Bill on Second Reading. Is it being suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1025.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "preceding_text": "ing day, which he did. An exchange took place arising from a line of questioning by the hon. Member for Leeds, Central. Exception was taken by the hon. Member for Cynon Valley to something that was said during that line of questioning. It seemed to me that her reaction went over the top. The way in which this debate has been conducted brings nothing but discredit upon the procedures of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": " I suggest that it would be far better to have a wide inquiry into the whole question. If the quorum is reduced to two, it will result in an absolute farce. At the end of the Committee's deliberations a vote may have to be taken. There will be only two Committee members. If one of those members votes one way and the other member votes the other way, the Chairman will have to use his casting vote —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1026.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman suggests that the cream of the stock will be sold and everyone will be disadvantaged, but that has not happened. Many houses have been sold. I can speak with authority only for my constituency, and I do not pretend to know what is going on in other constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-12", "file": "debates1986-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "860f44bbaf33adf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "On the matter of buying votes, the hon. Gentleman is well aware that I knew him in his boyhood when he lived on a council estate at a subsidised rent, which was less than six bob a week. Why did we fail to buy him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-12a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-13", "file": "debates1986-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ff2f165ad440c979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1089.7", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made clear, the three major ingredients of last year's Budget have not had time to take effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1089.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-13", "file": "debates1986-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ff2f165ad440c979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1092.4", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Lady is too reticent to offer an explanation of her own, might I suggest that the reason why the country thinks she does not care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1092.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-13", "file": "debates1986-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ff2f165ad440c979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister had time to read the Valentine card which was delivered to 10 Downing street this morning by the nurses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-13", "file": "debates1986-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ff2f165ad440c979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1099.5", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman arrange in the near future for the House to have an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1099.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-13", "file": "debates1986-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ff2f165ad440c979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "lly. I should like to set the debate in the context of free trade versus protectionism. I do not see them as mutually exclusive alternatives which preclude any other approach. I recognise that the attainment of a genuinely free trade society is an admirable long-term objective, but Governments must negotiate in the real world, and in the real world free trade, like unilateral disarmament, is fine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-13", "file": "debates1986-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ff2f165ad440c979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "an for textiles and for a decent industry and economic strategy. We need recognition of the effect of exchange rates. As de Zoete and Bevan has said in a recent letter to the Financial Times, the effect of the exchange rate is infinitely more important to the textile industry than the continuation of the MFA. I would not wish the MFA to be brutally or precipitately dismantled. That would be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-13a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-14", "file": "debates1986-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e90ff35bb5e90fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Surcharge and Disqualification of Councillors (Abolition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "r Government, some of the laws that were passed caused us concern and difficulties with which we did not want to deal. We would have preferred to have acted in some other way. But there was no thought that we should go outside the law and that should not be changed. Most people in local government do not want confrontation. It is mainly politically instigated policies which force such a situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1203.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-14", "file": "debates1986-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e90ff35bb5e90fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Surcharge and Disqualification of Councillors (Abolition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ite the opposite. However, the problem is what one does when one is faced with a local authority trying to introduce such a policy. This is a graphic example, in a smaller way, of the way in which, by the unreasonable exercise of powers, local authorites in places such as Liverpool and Lambeth attempt to use in the wrong way the powers granted to them by Parliament. When a local authority decides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-14", "file": "debates1986-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e90ff35bb5e90fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Surcharge and Disqualification of Councillors (Abolition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "inking that that was an act of political vengeance, with the aim of bringing in the district auditor and putting our councillors into mass trials in the High Court. The use of surcharge as a political act is quite wrong. This legislation must be passed quickly. After all, when the Secretary of State for Transport got it wrong and was found to have filched £50 million from the ratepayers of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1243.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-14", "file": "debates1986-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e90ff35bb5e90fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1255.27", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question —[7th February]—That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-14a.1255.26"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As usual, the right hon. and learned Gentleman is interested only in trying to cause the maximum amount of trouble, without considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "s usual, the right hon. and learned Gentleman is interested only in trying to cause the maximum amount of trouble, without considering—[ Interruption. ] The attitude of the Opposition, in laughing at that, proves my point. They are not trying to consider the commercial future of the industries and the people who work in them; they are merely trying to get the maximum political capital out of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.26.6", "colnum": "26", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Because, as I told the House last week, there are serious commercial problems in many of the companies. We must try to get them on to a basis of certainty for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.26.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have in no sense rubbished the achievements of Leyland Vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Exceptionally Severe Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The effect of what the Government have already done for pensioners is to give them help that is signficantly greater than any that they received from the previous Labour Government. In the case of supplementary benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.34.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Colliery Review Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ryman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ryman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It arises directly from a supplementary question answered by the Secretary of State for Energy, on question No. 9—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "News International Plant, Wapping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " workers have contributed directly to the making of millions of pounds of profits by Mr. Murdoch, money that he has then used to build a new printing plant and so deny them of any benefit from their labour. Finally, the police, instead of standing aside, have been instructed to give 100 per cent. support to Mr. Murdoch and to use violent methods to deny the print workers their right to go to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Gas Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "told to disregard the disconnection notice. But imagine the effect on a housewife of opening a thing like that. Hon. Members may think that is not an entirely serious point, but if evidence continues to build up, then it will be drawn formally to the attention of the Leader of the House. Although the Leader of the House is not present, I hope he will study the remarks that are made in his absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Gas Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Brown", "preceding_text": "have to say that the chairman of British Gas, since the proposition has come forward, has behaved rather like a neutered tom. I wonder why he has behaved like that. As I have said, it is intolerable that the gag should have been applied to British Gas employees. One wonders how such an outspoken man as Sir Denis Rooke could have suddenly become the proverbial neutered torn. He has lost his tongue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Gas Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "would do to the British Gas Corporation. It is just another nice, vague, flimsy idea. We admire the Liberal party for its consistently vague ideas about what should be done and also for being against all forms of guillotine. The right hon. Member for Salford East (Mr. Orme) criticised my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House for making rather a short speech. I never criticise Members for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "Man sometimes shows a surprising similarity to rats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "preceding_text": "rld of the most appalling diseases, owe much to the extensive testing of drugs on animals. Sadly, this is perhaps where some of us part company. In a great many cases that unnecessarily causes the most appalling pain and suffering. Great strides have also been made in the science of testing drugs. It is time that we redressed the subject of animal welfare in the light of these changes and advances", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-17", "file": "debates1986-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "018a2e35860b58e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "I should prefer to finish my speech. I have said \"finally\" several times and, each time, I have been greeted by greater cheers from the Opposition. If I may say \"finally\" again —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-17a.147.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "There has been a steady growth in employment since 1983 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend agree that one can make sense of the unemployment statistics only if one looks at the employment statistics? If one person in seven is unemployed, it means that 86 per cent. of the work force are employed, and that this country has a greater proportion of its work force in work than any other European country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s she not realise that a negotiated settlement is possible provided her Government stop aiding the counter-revolutionaries, which is now costing this country over £3 million per year—and it has not been rate-capped? More important, does she not appreciate that Karmal can use tribal power against Zia? The problems of Afghanistan will be small indeed compared to the problems of Pakistan. I suggest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.186.9", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.186.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.186.11", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "In the nauseating performance that we had to put up with on \"Panorama\" last night, was it necessary for the Prime Minister to make statements such as those that she has made today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.186.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Greater London County Hall", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I have received several letters, but I shall quote from this one which comes from someone in Basildon: Dear Simon, subject County Hall\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drug Trafficking Offences Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "sman and he has advised me that \"relevance\" could lead to unintended complications because of its technical meaning in relation to evidence. The hon. Gentleman will remember that that was the objection that sprang fully armed from my own brow as a former lawyer who some years ago hung up his wig and joined the human race. For those reasons, I am not proposing any amendment to the original version.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.243.5", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "ndate. Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, when you considered the application under Standing Order No. 10, you had to take account of whether there should be a debate in Government time. You turned down the application, for your own reasons, which might have been influenced by the statement and the subsequent questions that you heard yesterday. If there have been further developments—there clearly have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.243.7", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "revealed to the House. I have to tell the House that this was a matter of consideration through the usual channels. I am sorry that there could not be agreement. I want to assert, however, that there is nothing extraordinary about a Minister seeing lobby journalists. Moreover, those lobby journalists know no more than hon. Members. There was no question of policy commitments being carried forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.243.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milford Haven Port Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": " is designed simply to facilitate payment. It does not provide an obligation to make payment. It is simply an enabling Bill to allow the port authority to make payments to individuals as it sees fit. Most other port authorities which have a similar power exercise it to give some remuneration — usually a very small sum and nothing which could be regarded as a living wage—to those who serve on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milford Haven Port Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend wants to give me a demonstration of filibustering, he has just done so. He spoke for a considerable time about a small Bill and left many points which need to be cleared up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.291.4", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "he House after negotiations have been concluded but before anything is signed, sealed and sold off. We are anxious not just to know the result of negotiations but to have an opportunity to debate the result before the matter is finally signed. The hon. Gentleman should go a little further—as his right hon. Friend did not do yesterday —and give us that assurance. I should like two other assurances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-18", "file": "debates1986-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c24b98b99860c13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "facturers in this country. To a great extent, in some cases to a major extent, they source from United Kingdom component suppliers. My hon. Friends from the west midlands should remember that in west midlands terms it is dangerous industrially and politically to appear to be anti-American. If we appear to be anti-American the business and jobs that come with American investment may be driven away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-18a.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.299.4", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that the country will regard his replies as extremely complacent, just as they regard the attitude of the chief spokesman for the Labour party as completely hypocritical?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.299.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "thdraw the remark. The remarks made by the chief spokesman for the Labour party in public are entirely unacceptable, because if the House had followed the advice of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Liberal party and all of his colleagues, who unanimously and alone in 1978 opposed the extension of reprocessing, we would not have had the problems that we have had since then. Will the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.299.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "British Leyland Subsidiaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As for what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said about the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, I did not say that to the lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "British Leyland Subsidiaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As for what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said about the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, I did not say that to the lobby. [Interruption.] I did not mention the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. As for consultation with the work force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "British Leyland Subsidiaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "aid about the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, I did not say that to the lobby. [Interruption.] I did not mention the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. As for consultation with the work force— [Interruption.] I have never mentioned the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. As to the work force, the BL board told me that it intends to communicate with the work force at once, or as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "British Leyland Subsidiaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "rce, the BL board told me that it intends to communicate with the work force at once, or as soon as possible. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] That is a matter for the board, but I think at once. As for secret discussions with General Motors, I do not think that anybody can say that they were very secret. The discussions have been going on for quite a long time, as I have explained to the House many times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "British Leyland Subsidiaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the letter of 14 February.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "British Leyland Subsidiaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall bear that in mind. I reject the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question. Some of the major component suppliers to this industry, and I have permission to quote Guest Keen and Nettlefolds —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what the Russians argue about Krasnoyarsk: that its purpose is to track objects in space, not to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I shall by and large follow the line of the hon. Member for Perry Barr and give way as little as possible. I shall give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) on many occasions in Standing Committee tomorrow, just as I gave way to him yesterday in Standing Committee and shall no doubt do so on many occasions in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-19", "file": "debates1986-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "c55f41e0b738fc98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "I have been rather depressed by what I have heard today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-19a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.477.7", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Now that the Prime Minister, as she showed in a recent broadcast, has become deeply concerned about the low-paid and levels of taxation, will she take the necessary steps to abolish the poll tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.477.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Unemployment Figures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "on figures with the earnings and employment figures, or does he want separate treatment of the inflation figures? Can he confirm that the new method of calculation will reduce unemployment figures in absolute terms by more than 60,000 people, making it the eighth adjustment, effecting a reduction of more than 500,000 in the unemployment figures, since 1979? Is the Minister aware that the changes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Unemployment Figures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) on turning hypocrisy into an art form. Will he come to the Dispatch Box this afternoon and deny what he told a television interviewer this morning: that, had he been confronted with the same figures from the Government statistician, he would have done the same?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Unemployment Figures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "rary the methodology, with the assistance of those who advise the Government and who compile our figures. I have never heard of such a figure and I regard it as fanciful. I agree with my hon. Friend that we should he devoting our efforts to what we can do to speed up the rate of job creation and tackle the real problem. Last year's Budget contained significant measures which will boost employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.494.7", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Unemployment Figures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We do not postpone these things. It is not a question of when we dare to produce things like the labour force survey results. We publish them when they are ready and when the statisticians are prepared to put their professional reputation on the line. I quite accept —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.494.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Unemployment Figures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eighth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the country will see this as the fourth cosmetic attempt —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.506.5", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "nd the National Health Service has brought a net saving of £50 million a year. All these figures sound impressive, but it is when one gets down to what they mean in terms of increased goods or services elsewhere that their true impact becomes clear. The net saving in the reduction in the number of civil servants employed to administer public spending equals the building of 20 new hospitals a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.506.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "e Black report stated that it was important not only to look at the expenditure on the National Health Servce but also at expenditure on other social programmes such as housing. If we are trying to improve the health of British people, we need to improve the housing stock. The greatest failure of the Government is housing, and the Government's provision for housing deserves the greatest criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman made an important point and my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley made a good speech. We transferred resources from other programmes to fund a further 5,000 higher education places on high-tech courses under the engineering and technology programme. The research councils are continuing to develop relations with industry, and to encourage financial associations with the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "igher than in other parts of the United Kingdom. The unemployment level of 21 per cent. in Northern Ireland is higher than the average for the rest of the United Kingdom. Therefore, it is not surprising that the per capita spending to support employment is higher. It is even less surprising that per capita spending on law and order is higher. I have now covered all the points raised in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-20", "file": "debates1986-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "cb496329dc754215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "g that the per capita spending to support employment is higher. It is even less surprising that per capita spending on law and order is higher. I have now covered all the points raised in the debate— [Interruption.] I appreciate the help of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook. Perhaps he would like to extend his help specifically to answer the question of my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-20a.572.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-24", "file": "debates1986-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "86777c8d440b19fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.660.11", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that cheap air travel cannot come quickly enough? Will he take every possible step to liberalise the cost of flying in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.660.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-24", "file": "debates1986-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "86777c8d440b19fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the hon. Gentleman the precise figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-24", "file": "debates1986-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "86777c8d440b19fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "5 per cent. It is the second of three upratings between November 1985 and April 1987. Between May 1985 and January 1986, 1·1 per cent. was the measure of inflation. An autumn uprating statement will follow, based on the period between January and September. We are spending an extra £410 million, which will take social security spending to more than £43 billion. For pensioners, the increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-24", "file": "debates1986-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "86777c8d440b19fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the major cause of the synthetic indignation shown by the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) is the Government's massive achievement in keeping the rate of inflation at only 1·1 per cent. between May 1985 and January 1986?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-24", "file": "debates1986-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "86777c8d440b19fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is on to the right point, and to judge from the reaction of the Opposition, they also recognise that. I shall seek to set out in the Official Report the detailed figures that my hon. Friend seeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-24", "file": "debates1986-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "86777c8d440b19fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Children in Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "f joint funding lies with local authorities. Similarly, the preventive aspects emphasised by the Government and the Select Committee, which would command full support, will be an early casualty when there are excessive financial pressures. I am in no way defending those local authorities which have tried—even if they have backed down at the last minute — to behave illegally by not setting a rate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-24", "file": "debates1986-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "86777c8d440b19fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.732.7", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Bishops (Retirement) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "notably the link between the Church of England and Parliament. There are many other Christian denominations. Other people call themselves humanists and atheists. People from other countries who come to live here have a range of different beliefs. I refer to the Hindus, the Sikhs and the big Jewish community. The hon. Member for Wokingham performed his function with commendable parliamentary skill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-24a.732.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Nuclear Waste (Disposal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dr. David says no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure what the policy of the Liberal party is on this matter. The policy of the Social Democratic party is clear and robust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.821.5", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Nuclear Waste (Disposal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "tleman will not recall, because he was not the Secretary of State at that time—but I am sure that the Minister for Environment, Countryside and Local Government will tell him—the impact of the announcement on Billingham and its effect on property values and on prospective industrial development. Will the Secretary of State tell us whether he has in mind any form of subterfuge à la Francais—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.821.8", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Nuclear Waste (Disposal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "eas competing to have a nuclear installation or a dump. I have set in hand various examinations as to advantages that could accrue to local areas. Our rating system is such that, when an installation of this nature, which it is difficult for the local community to accept, is running, it adds to the rateable value, but the money is creamed back again. I am looking at ways in which that can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.821.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " week —doing nothing because of \"blacking\" by the National and Local Government Officers' Association which the council will not resist. There was a £200,000 overspend by Islington on the publicity budget, and £20,000 was spent on subsidising council employees to brew real ale. Lambeth was paying people £2 an hour for the delight of coming to hear Mr. Knight and his colleagues make their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.849.3", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Then we must encourage them to circulate more information. The district council should concentrate on mastering the provision of the services for which it is responsible before interferring in other areas. I shall now demonstrate my point. From 1 April, Essex county council will abolish home help charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "I am amazed that the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) can be so naive. Of course it has. That is why I said that this is happening at a time of financial stringency. One would have expected a rational and sensible county council to control the level of expenditure, not to go in for excessive new expenditure. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.865.6", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "at we have gone through, the rates were being kept down. But in Liverpool the rate limit, which has been set at 232·09p in the pound, is an 18 per cent. increase next year for the ratepayers of the city, and indeed for the business people that hon. Members on the Government side seem to be so worried about. It means an 18 per cent. increase even to reach the limit decided by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ped last year. The House will recall that last year the Government proposed that Leicester's rate should be cut nearly in half. They claimed — no doubt they were whipped on by the two temporary Conservative Members for the city, the hon. Member for Leicester, East and the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, South (Mr. Spencer)—that Leicester could live off its savings and balances. Having said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "preceding_text": "ll and good that many Conservative-controlled authorities have organised and run expenditure effectively and efficiently. They serve the local people without trying to increase rates by huge sums year on year. My hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Mr. Amess) made an excellent speech, setting out clearly some of the iniquities of the council by which his constituency has the misfortune to be run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-25", "file": "debates1986-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2337b47796f60382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.900.8", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Under-Secretary of State will now explain how the total budgets of rate-capped authorities can show whether they are high or low spenders. The figure that I gave was the total of their budgets. Any conclusion that she can draw from that figure about whether they are high or low spenders would be interesting for the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-25a.900.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-26", "file": "debates1986-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "44f273410c02a910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Over four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The £125 million is new Government money which the Government are prepared to provide for local authorities to help finance increases in teacher's salaries above that which would be negotiated in the normal way. It would represent an average of about £1,000 in the salary of a teacher in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-26", "file": "debates1986-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "44f273410c02a910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Severe Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "est yesterday as the coldest February for years, it is essential that we have the opportunity to debate this subject. I plead with you, Mr. Speaker, to allow this application so that tomorrow we can have the debate which my hon. Friends and I have been seeking. We can then raise these matters and try to persuade the Government to allow far more money for those so desperately in need of assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-26", "file": "debates1986-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "44f273410c02a910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Severe Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "use, under Standing Order No.10, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration, namely, the need to provide adequate heating assistance for pensioners and others on very small incomes in view of the continuing exceptionally severe weather in all parts of the country. As the hon. Gentleman knows, and as I mentioned to him yesterday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-26", "file": "debates1986-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "44f273410c02a910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "This has been a wide-ranging and interesting debate, as is usual on such occasions. If the dramatis personae are the same, we can usually expect the same themes to emerge. The themes this year were similar to those of last year—Nimrod. the EFA and Tornado, with a sub plot made up of the Tucano, Westland and SDI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-26", "file": "debates1986-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "44f273410c02a910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "t his hon. Friend omitted. The most interesting part of the speech of the hon. Member for Ynys Môn was the fact that, he had been at the controls of the Hawk trainer. The Opposition did not know whether to welcome that or to shudder at it, because while we might welcome a by-election in that constituency, we would not be certain about whether that should be at the expense of a Hawk trainer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-26", "file": "debates1986-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "44f273410c02a910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.1031.3", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "r short-range air-to-air missiles. It is now being modified to carry four Sidewinders. We plan to replace those missiles with advanced weapons in due course, and we are studying the feasibility of increasing the weapon load at the same time. I can assure the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North that all aircraft in operational squadrons will be fitted with Foxhunter when they are operational.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-26a.1031.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is not the Anglo-Irish agreement's concentration on security undermined by the comment of a Mr. Peter Clark made last night on Border Television during an interview? He is a Downing street adviser and a Conservative candidate in Scotland. He said that one side has to win and he would fancy changing the border by retaking county Donegal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1062.9", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "nd Excise is investigating as much as £7·25 million in gold bullion which, it appears, may have been smuggled into the country, and that the Bank of England has confirmed that Johnson Matthey Bankers is co-operating with Customs and Excise? In view of the fact that the Prime Minister on 2 August 1985 refused my request to set up a tribunal of inquiry on the very issue of the unsoundness of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1062.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1062.9", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "? In view of the fact that the Prime Minister on 2 August 1985 refused my request to set up a tribunal of inquiry on the very issue of the unsoundness of— [Interruption.] Some £185 million worth of this country's money has been given to Johnson Matthey Bankers. In view of the fact that the Prime Minister refused to conduct a tribunal of inquiry at the Governor of the Bank of England's insistence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1062.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1066.3", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman has such faith, he must know that there are many pension funds, with enormous assets belonging to the unions, which could purchase into that company. The right hon. Gentleman wants British Leyland to be a permanent pensioner on the pockets of his constituents. We do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1066.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Women (Retirement Age)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "How is the judgment likely to affect the decision of one of my constituents, who, in 1972 at the age of 46, claimed to have changed from a man to a woman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Johnson Matthey Bankers", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "nto the country from April last year until 11 days ago. It goes much wider and deeper than that. There is reason to believe that the smuggling and purchase of gold at a below market price by JMB has been continuing for a considerable time. It is on the issue of the bullion market of JMB that I have been probing the Government, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " three-line Whip upon Ministers and their Parliamentary Private Secretaries later this evening. If my right hon. Friend's arguments were so strong, why cannot he leave them to the House on a truly free vote? It was implied earlier that the members of the 1983 intake did not count in the House. They have probably had more than their fair share of work on Committees which have had to be guillotined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": ". Members than to know in advance that, when they have gained the Second Reading of a Bill, by a definite date that Bill will be out of Committee and by a definite date it will reach the statute book. To have the map of the Session laid out before them like a chart, controlled if necessary by a Committee on which they are in the majority, is exactly that paradise to which Governments look forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will realise that I did not support that particular aspect of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1147.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-27", "file": "debates1986-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d3b380588a240f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1161.7", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "COSLA obtained those figures and facts from answers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-27a.1161.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-28", "file": "debates1986-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a3fd0e8952a2e0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "The Arts (Business Sponsorship)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "receives credit disproportionate to its level of arts funding. To cap it all, most of what companies spend on the arts can be claimed back as legitimate business expenses. Business funding represents good business propositions for companies, which is why most of them become involved in it. In about four weeks' time the Greater London council and the metropolitan county councils will be abolished —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-28", "file": "debates1986-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a3fd0e8952a2e0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "The Arts (Business Sponsorship)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "t flowering of artistic and creative talent, echoing the first Elizabethan age. We have magnificent theatres, great museums and art galleries, a tremendous range of wonderful historic buildings, we have first-class opera and ballet and, if you will allow me, Mr. Deputy Speaker, we have the finest military bands in the world whose high standards of excellence are one of the glories of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-28", "file": "debates1986-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a3fd0e8952a2e0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "The Arts (Business Sponsorship)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Sims", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear —give us a song.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Sims", "preceding_text": "smoking and young people not to begin, while at the same time encouraging tobacco companies to encourage the arts. I hope that my right hon. Friend the Minister will take to heart the points made on that matter. I want to relate my comments to the two areas of which I have some experience—an amateur choir and a local theatre. I have been a member of the Royal Choral Society for more than 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-02-28", "file": "debates1986-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "a3fd0e8952a2e0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "The Arts (Business Sponsorship)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite right: there is no such thing as a free museum. We already pay for the museum through our taxes and rates and I object to paying for it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-02-28a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.13.7", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I do not accept a word of what the hon. Gentleman has said. The arts function will formally be passed back to the Lord President of the Council, to whose Department the present Minister for the Arts is technically attached. That was the case between the summer of 1983 and late 1984, before my noble Friend Lord Gowrie was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.13.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Nuclear Waste (Disposal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "d have urgent consideration, namely, the anxieties, potential financial loss and planning blight caused by the announcement that Fulbeck airfield is a possible site for disposing of nuclear waste. I regret that I have to give the same answer to the hon. Member as I gave to the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw). I do not consider that the matter that he has raised is appropriate for discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ote of what the right hon. Gentleman says. As I said, we have allocated massive additional funds to start this training programme, which, regrettably, was not started when the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot) had responsibility for such matters. We had to catch up with other countries and I am pleased with the progress that is being made to introduce better training for young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service at Trawscoed. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will charge farmers for its services. It is a dismal story. The Secretary of State jumped up to deny that the university college of Wales was to be closed. I wonder if he would jump up to deny that Cartrefle teacher training college is to be closed. I understand that it is to be closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "preceding_text": " which it certainly espouses, have never created or preserved jobs. They merely serve to lose jobs and make the position worse. Inflation, whether of promises or expenditure, wrecks confidence, undermines investment, is socially ruinous, and ultimately spells less work and employment. That is why we are looking forward to the Budget on 18 March and to a continuation of the fight against inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "preceding_text": "oposed 28 per cent\"— the figure has gone down to 25 per cent. since then, thanks to my right hon. Friend's actions— rate increase by S. Glamorgan. What you can do about it, I really don't know, but I feel I really must let my feelings be known, in the hope that others like me will put on enough pressure to reverse this diabolical situation. Let me say I am, and always have been, a Socialist, but\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " not confine this to south Wales or west Wales. I would like to give the Liberal party full credit for its temporary place in the House. The hon. Member for Ceredigion and Pembroke, North (Mr. Howells) made a contribution earlier. He is not here but he has a small majority that will come our way. The hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile) waves his pen at me and returns to his notes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-03", "file": "debates1986-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "69910e9e25376950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ynicism so cyclically applied? Where is the caring Labour party, constantly referred to by the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside? He seems to talk about the caring Labour party in every part of Wales but Alyn and Deeside. I wonder whether he has now given up any forlorn hopes of defending his own marginal seat in Alyn and Deeside? Is there still such a thing as a safe Labour seat anywhere in Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-03a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-04", "file": "debates1986-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "71323e9afa4658c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.137.7", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Government's policy appears to be that students will be able to attend universities only if they have rich fathers or if they have made sufficient earnings in the vacation? Is he aware that very few students have these options available?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-04", "file": "debates1986-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "71323e9afa4658c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "When will the Secretary of State admit that school standards are now higher then they have ever been?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-04", "file": "debates1986-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "71323e9afa4658c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I was aware that I could not interrupt my hon. Friend in his Standing Order No. 10 application. I very much regret that he chose to raise the matter in that way. In no sense did I inferentially imply a lack of confidence in the RUC. What I said clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-04", "file": "debates1986-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "71323e9afa4658c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "which affects housing associations in England and Wales. There is no reason, therefore, why different discounts should not apply in England and Wales compared with Scotland. I shall explain briefly why my Labour colleagues on the Standing Committee voted for the amendment of the hon. Member for Northampton, North. It was a wrecking vote. It was designed to wreck the clause and make it inoperable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-04", "file": "debates1986-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "71323e9afa4658c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Salmon Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ern is that in the north-east of England it is not a question of fishermen fishing by the traditional methods; they are not. If they were, the probability is that their catches would be the same as they were by the old traditional methods. We have banned monofilament nets, properly, in my view. I should like this ban to be extended to England. This is equally true in the case of estuarial netting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-04a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.300.6", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that where there is no democracy in a country and where the officially enshrined policy of the Government is racialism and apartheid, there is bound to be, at some stage, a fight back from those who are being oppressed? In view of a question asked earlier by a well known racist on the Back Benches of the Tory party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.300.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.301.10", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "In view of the recent re-invasion of Lebanon by Israel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.301.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the difficulties that Mr. Shapua Kaukungua had in September last year, but what happened then was something that could happen under the prevention of terrorism order to anyone passing through that airport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what the Prime Minister said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " talks with Ford or Austin Rover; and any rumours to that effect I disown and reject. I am satisfied that bidders had adequate time to put in a firm indication of interests. We shall study them carefully on their merits, and there is no question of any member of the Government having made up their minds before these careful considerations have taken place. I assure the House that that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.310.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.326.6", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "I think that it is difficult for someone to say that the proposals will have a negligible effect when it is certain that Cumbria will receive nearly £4 million extra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.326.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "d to look forward to what the Community could or should do for the people of Europe and for the people of Britain. All too often, our debates on the EC are dominated by its chronic budget problems. The Minister of State, Treasury, is here as an observer of the debate. No doubt he is relieved that the massed ranks of the Tory anti-marketeers are, surprisingly, absent today, leaving the Floor free —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "It is true that I have not dealt with agricultural policy. One cannot deal with everything, and I have already spoken at some length. I have discussed the CAP previously. It must be evident to the hon. Gentleman that much discussion is necessary when two different parties work out policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "course, it is an enormous and very ambitious task. The conditions that we have to achieve must be clearly foreseeable over a long span of time so that business men can take ambitious investment decisions, in the confidence that they will prove to be right. Capitalism is not working in western Europe in the way that we hoped, because many business men are unable to look ahead for even a few weeks.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": " while. I was not expecting some of the comments and contributions that we have had. I accept that it has not been an exciting debate, but it has been interesting. I should like to ask the Minister some questions. I hope that I shall receive some answers tonight, but, realising that this is a complicated issue, I shall understand if I do not. The Minister and I are becoming regular correspondents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-05", "file": "debates1986-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1123a7f59d6a3bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.392.5", "colnum": "392", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": " and insurance and the liberalisation of financial services. What does that mean in relation to control over the City and Lloyd's? There will also be changes in public procurement policies. What does that mean in terms of safeguarding United Kingdom industries? There will be European directives on radio and television—not, I hasten to add, that that will mean \"Coronation Strasse\" for the Germans —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-05a.392.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-06", "file": "debates1986-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "58a071b5c4b868a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.442.9", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister draw no lessons from the last couple of months from the way that many pensioners did freeze in the very cold spell when heating allowances were shown to be inadequate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.442.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-06", "file": "debates1986-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "58a071b5c4b868a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not been asked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, that is not exactly true. Unlike all the other people, LEL has not signed a confidentiality agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-06", "file": "debates1986-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "58a071b5c4b868a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.446.7", "colnum": "446", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister now answer this question directly? As the giant American consortium General Motors has had 18 months to put its bid together, will he give the House a clear indication that this bid, which is British and local, will not be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.446.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-06", "file": "debates1986-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "58a071b5c4b868a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " healthy during the remainder of this and subsequent winters. It is often said that the measure of civilisation in a society lies in how it treats its elderly people, and that is a yardstick which the Tory Government, with their record, must rue. We have just been through a long period of intense and exceptional cold; indeed, the coldest February for 40 years and the second chilliest this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.470.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-06", "file": "debates1986-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "58a071b5c4b868a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman may find this attractive. I have it in mind that in the income support scheme there may be a case for winter premiums which would recognise in a more straightforward way the extra winter needs of certain vulnerable groups. I am certainly prepared to examine the case for that. I shall also be considering the role of the social fund. Even those who are not supporters of the social fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.478.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-06", "file": "debates1986-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "58a071b5c4b868a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Member for Ilford, South, who began by asking for the leave of the House does not have the leave of the House, he cannot speak. Does he have the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-06a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-07", "file": "debates1986-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3bbc483c9fb08c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.568.7", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "of the House if these motions were tabled earlier. There are countless occasions when this Government table motions within a few minutes—not at 7 o'clock but a few minutes before the rising of the House. There have also been a few occasions when the Government have demanded on the same day a switch from Committee stage to Report stage and we have had to table manuscript amendments within an hour —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.568.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-07", "file": "debates1986-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3bbc483c9fb08c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.578.7", "colnum": "578", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not expect me to say that we shall launch a series of tea dancing classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.578.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-07", "file": "debates1986-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3bbc483c9fb08c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "n the Standing Committee on the Wages Bill — and so we should. That is fair enough, but in introducing this new legislation we must constantly remember that we must strike a balance. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East never mentions the word \"balance\". He talks about co-operation but he never in any speech refers to the burdens which may be on the shoulders of business men and employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.630.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-07", "file": "debates1986-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3bbc483c9fb08c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.639.3", "colnum": "639", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.639.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-07", "file": "debates1986-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3bbc483c9fb08c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.639.7", "colnum": "639", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e and a half hours after it has been entered upon, whichever is the later, and if proceedings thereon have not been disposed of by that hour Mr. Speaker shall put the Question on any Amendment which may have been moved, and shall then put forthwith the Question on any other Amendments selected by him which may then be moved, and on the Main Question or the Main Question, as amended.— [Mr. Biffen.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.639.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-07", "file": "debates1986-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3bbc483c9fb08c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.639.9", "colnum": "639", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "unity Shipping Policy or to the Motion relating to the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; and (2) Mr. Speaker shall put any Questions necessary to dispose of the first Motion not later than three hours after it has been entered upon, and shall put the Question on the second Motion not later than one and a half hours after it has been entered upon.— [Mr. Biffen.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-07a.639.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. It would make commercial and technical nonsense of North sea oil production, given conditions in the North sea, if the companies concerned were not left to take their own decisions in the light of their experience. I find it extraordinary that there are calls for a depletion policy, which we hear many times, especially from Liberal Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "In 1984–85 the House sat for 1,566 hours—an average of nine hours and six minutes a day. Does my right hon. Friend think that we should finish earlier in the evening—perhaps going back to 10 o'clock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "In 1984–85 the House sat for 1,566 hours—an average of nine hours and six minutes a day. Does my right hon. Friend think that we should finish earlier in the evening—perhaps going back to 10 o'clock? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Does he agree that the cost of providing all these taxis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that there are some very strange people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "We have a duty to deal properly with the agricultural production of the Third world, and I do not believe that we could effect substantial savings on some of the commodities that we import from the Third world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.690.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.692.4", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. Many hon. Members wish to take part in the debate. I am sure that brief speeches will be appreciated. Sir Peter Mills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "me. It is not enough to say, \"Leave this to arbitration,\" because arbitration can be wholly inconsistent in different parts of the United Kingdom unless the criteria are laid down in advance. If those criteria are not quantified as to maxima within the total formula, again there can be completely distorted assignments of compensation as between landlord and tenant. Therefore, it is most important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-10", "file": "debates1986-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "037d3a066998176d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ed from a landlord's land a milk quota, thus leaving the landlord with land worth much less than it would otherwise be, the landlord also has some interest in the quota. If it was easy, as the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich suggested in her rather typical anti-landlord speech, as if somehow landlords could be discounted entirely, because, according to Labout mythology all landlords are wicked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-10a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-11", "file": "debates1986-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b613d4259414ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-11a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Local Government)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ension. The Minister would also understand why, having done that, my right hon. Friend the Member for Lagan Valley and some of my other hon. Friends thought it would be more in the interests of their constituents in Northern Ireland and of the Union that they should be in the Province today and this evening, rather than in the debate. He would also have understood—this is what the debate is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-11a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-11", "file": "debates1986-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b613d4259414ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-11a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "ted anything that has happened in the Province. No one realised until now that an error had been made. Sometimes one wonders what other clerical errors have occurred. Indeed, there may be some in what I am saying tonight. Next year I, if I am so honoured, or some other Minister may have to correct the figures that I have put forward tonight. So far as I know, there are no clerical errors in them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-11a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-11", "file": "debates1986-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "6b613d4259414ad5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-11a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": " time bears thinking about. In 1979–80 we gave by way of subvention to Northern Ireland the sum of £944 million, 25·8 per cent. of the gross domestic product of Northern Ireland. In the United Kingdom as a whole it was 0·55 per cent. In 1985–86, the figure has risen to £1,573 million, a quite substantial sum of money to go from our Exchequer to that of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-11a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman quoted me a little out of context, but I am grateful to him for the compliment. I pointed out the figures between 1981 and 1985, which showed a significant improvement. I am sure he will have noticed that there is enormous confidence by international and domestic investors in terms of the stock exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.930.5", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Certainly progress so far has been disappointing. That is natural in a Council where there are varying interests and opinions. We have agreed an action programme with the Dutch presidency. I shall be chairing the Council —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.930.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Indecent Displays (Newspapers)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": " The same reasoning applies: we should not all be forcibly exposed to them. The argument and precedent are exactly the same. During the debate on the private Member's Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Davyhulme (Mr. Churchill), I said that I intended to introduce a Bill such as this. Since then I have received about 150 letters from all over the country. About one third of them are from men —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Indecent Displays (Newspapers)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "r came from a young woman who worked in an office. She was writing on behalf of quite a few young women. They considered themselves to be young and attractive, but every day they were subjected to men reading such newspapers in the office, and to them tittering and laughing and, making rude remarks such as, \"Show us your page threes then\". Such women feel strongly that this Bill should be enacted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Indecent Displays (Newspapers)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "d. [Laughter] . Conservative Members display their attitudes for everyone to see, and will be judged accordingly. Many of the letters that I received came from mothers with small children who said that they felt that page three undermined their efforts to instil decent attitudes in their children. Many of them commented time and again on the front-page stories of nasty newspapers such as The Sun —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting question. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that the failure rate is too high, it suggests that in many cases the banks were probably right not to lend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "involved. The Government have rigged the City by giving it many privileges. There are no ballots in the City. Trade unions must conduct ballots on almost every subject under the sun, but when it comes to Lloyd's, the Government say, \"It is only a betting shop. We cannot have laws in there. We will have a system of self-regulation. They are all honest men, like Members of Parliament.\" What a laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "e to make money more easily. With real interest rates over and above the inflation rate and the highest that we have ever experienced, the City has made money hand over fist. Hon. Members have talked about insider trading. Let us suppose that workers could play about with insider trading. Can one imagine a trade union being involved in something like that? The Tory press would hammer at it daily —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ties of the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch? Do they approve of his refusal to comply with the request of the head of the fraud squad? Do they really want to see criminals brought to justice? Will they publicly disown the hon. Gentleman's activities? Will they persuade him to co-operate with the head of the fraud squad to ensure that those who have committed offences pay the penalty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.998.2", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Student Support", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "This is rather technical stuff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.998.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Student Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where are they then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "We are tonight debating the Government's policy on student grants and student benefits, if \"policy\" is not too strong a word for what the Government have in mind. The official Opposition, from the good motion on the Order Paper, are obviously unhappy about what the Government are doing, and we in the Liberal and Social Democratic parties totally agree with the official Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Student Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": " expense rather than eliminate the payment. It seems that the number of claims has increased because the grant has fallen and students are in need. This is the direct result of Government policy. However, we believe that to maintain the present system by putting more money into it, which is the Labour party's approach, will not solve the problems or meet the new demands of the 16 and 19-year-olds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Student Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Gentleman copped out in his speech once or twice. The alternative to increased taxation would be to increase borrowing, which leads to additional inflation or to cuts. Labour Members know a great deal more about cuts than we do. Let me refresh their memory about an extract in Barbara Castle's diary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "European Community (Coal and Steel)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The decade has to be taken as a whole if we are to see the true outturn. The Germans have been building up capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "European Community (Coal and Steel)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "preceding_text": " produces cheaper steel? As for the Americans, they have a few lessons to learn about restructuring an inefficient and out-dated steel industry. I suggest that they get in touch with my hon. Friend the Minister of State. Perhaps the President will have him over and he can tell him how to do it. I welcome the European Commission's decision to promote imports of certain semi-finished steel products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-12", "file": "debates1986-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f38364189660c521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "European Community (Coal and Steel)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "preceding_text": "When we get rid of the quota system, perhaps that will not be necessary. One reason why we are in this position is the quota system. My hon. Friend the Minister was not congratulated on bringing home a quote of 385,000 tonnes for the British steel industry. Who got that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-12a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "preceding_text": " the problem of unemployment where it was most acute and that it was a Budget for jobs? Since that time, unemployment has increased by over 114,000 in this country, over 9,000 in the northern region, over 1,300 in my constituency and by 259 in Fulham. When the Chancellor sits down on Tuesday—I know he will not tell us what measures he will take—but, in language that the unemployed will understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1074.11", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I did not quite catch what my hon. Friend said, but I think that what is absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1074.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1077.9", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e away from the taxpayer. It is far better for most people, who are able to do so, to take crime prevention measures themselves. As for the elderly, who cannot afford to take such measures, it is very proper use of money and labour from, for example, the community programme, to assist with a crime prevention scheme. I will stand comparison with any Opposition Member on personal care and provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1077.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Exports of manufactured goods are doing very well and have increased by 8·5 per cent. in volume terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1080.4", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I regret that in this incident two demonstrators at Wapping suffered injuries, and I am glad to report that neither was seriously hurt. Two police officers also suffered minor injuries. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will express sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1080.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Nuclear Waste", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. The core of our argument is our grave doubt whether near surface disposal facilities are safe for the purposes of keeping intermediate level nuclear waste. We are at one on that point because we do not believe that it is a safe system. I recognise that some people will say that we are making narrow constituency points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Nuclear Waste", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "ities with regard to Billingham and Elstow is very unhelpful and can only fuel the public's anxiety and distrust. In addition, NIREX's rush risks the loss of what might be geologically prime sites. Those of us who have lived with this for two and a half years probably realise that it has lost possibly the best geological site, at least for low level waste, in the country—the site under Billingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1154.5", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Welfare Services (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Dry.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "We are overstaying our welcome, but the Minister accused me of wanting it both ways. He then gave us a big lecture about decentralisation and said \"On the other hand, we are expending vast sums of taxpayers' money and must have responsibility\". Will he come off the fence and tell us whether he is wet or dry? What is he saying? Does he believe in devolved powers or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1154.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Education (Parental Choice)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "all their curriculum. The 1985 subject entries for the CoE numbered some 17,000 and candidates were being prepared in every school in the county. I could go on at some length about this question of education in Mid Glamorgan and its effect in Wales, but I know that there are quite a number of Members on the Conservative Benches who wish to speak. It is a pity that this was not a three-hour debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Education (Parental Choice)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "grammar school product—I hope that its product will incline hon. Members to approve of the system—I very much regret that the advantages that I enjoyed, coming from a modest background, are now denied to many people who come from the same kind of background. They are imprisoned in a system that will blight their lives. I fail entirely to understand the arguments of those on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Education (Parental Choice)", "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": "at the subject interests my hon. Friends only because they want to strengthen the independent sector of education or undermine the mainstream sector. I have read carefully what they have written and I have listened to them on the subject on more occasions than tonight's debate. I dare say that I shall have to listen to them on more occasions still, and that will be to my benefit, if not to theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-13", "file": "debates1986-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f6c666b7b60f0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Hospital and Ambulance Services", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ct Health Authority, in order to cope with health cuts, faced a difficult choice. A paper from the administration suggested giving over more beds to private health\". That is another sad aspect of what has been happening under the Government. They have been putting in their own people, trying to privatise the NHS. The article continues: the authority rejected the proposal. The chair then resigned\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-13a.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-14", "file": "debates1986-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8617570cd6136a2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-14a.1343.2", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "National Health Service (Management)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ords used by the Secretary of State are far removed from what we see happening all round the country—crumbling hospitals, peeling paint, inadequate maintenance, closing wards and hospitals—all these things are happening, and everybody knows it. The specific point of the debate is the Griffiths report. The House knows that I am sponsored as a Member by the Confederation of Health Service Employees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-14a.1343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-14", "file": "debates1986-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8617570cd6136a2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-14a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "National Health Service (Management)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "ources and of a doctor making a difficult clinical decision on the allocation of his resources. The buck stops somewhere. It may well be that the NHS needed greater emphasis to be placed on line management and on sharpening responsibility, especially in regard to the allocation and use of scarce resources. There is no question about that. That point unites us across the Floor and across parties. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-14a.1371.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-14", "file": "debates1986-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8617570cd6136a2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-14a.1384.6", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-14a.1384.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-17", "file": "debates1986-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "432fc473a47ee0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Alleged rape.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. Further to the point of order so lucidly put by my hon. Friend the Member for Rochford (Dr. Clark), may I point out that this tragic case of the rape of a child took place in my constituency and that the child is the daughter of one of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-17", "file": "debates1986-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "432fc473a47ee0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "Mr. Rost) was right to say that this is a marvellous opportunity for wider share ownership. The Government have made it clear that they intend to ensure that the ownership of British Gas is widely spread throughout the British public, and specific proposals will be made to ensure that those who manage the industry and are employed in it can have a direct stake in the industry for which they work.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-17", "file": "debates1986-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "432fc473a47ee0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "l not add insult to injury on this occasion. However, I do not apologise for leaving the Minister of State with only a short time in which to reply because the contributions of Ministers on the previous two amendments were of inordinate length. It serves them right if they are caught out by their guillotine. I trust that on this occasion the Select Committee will not be treated with the arrogance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-17", "file": "debates1986-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "432fc473a47ee0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "vice. It is no good telling people that, however sophisticated their markets are, the growing surpluses in Europe can be dealt with, especially the surpluses in perishable goods, such as butter. The hon. Gentleman suggested that we should give butter to the Third world as a means of overcoming the problem, but that is surely contrary to all reason. Many parts of the third world do not want butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-17a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.160.4", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take time to consider the extraordinary behaviour of the leaders of the Opposition in their attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.160.6", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "What is my right hon. Friend's response to the Opposition's behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.160.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Liverpool (Delegation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. We also confirm that it is the job of any Member of this House when representations are made to take up grievances which concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "—is the dramatic and unprecedented fall in the world oil price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "—is the dramatic and unprecedented fall in the world oil price. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] But the Government's objectives remain unchanged: the conquest of inflation and the creation of an enterprise culture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I start with the economic background. The strength and durability of the current economic upswing continues to confound the commentators. We can now look back to five solid years of growth at around 3 per cent. a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Record unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Despite a marked slowdown in the growth of world trade from the heady pace of 1984, the current account of the balance of payments was in surplus for the sixth year in succession—this time by some £3 billion. Inflation ended the year at around 5½ per cent. and falling. Employment continued to rise, although still not fast enough to reduce the distressingly high number of people out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We need to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ted by a modest but welcome reduction in interest rates overseas. Meanwhile, let me repeat that there is no question whatever, and never has been any question, of the United Kingdom cutting back its oil production in an attempt to secure a higher oil price. In the first place, the whole outstanding success of the North sea has been based on the fact that it is the freest oil province in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rtainly, it will be put to the test sooner than anyone expected. The United Kingdom is likely to remain an oil producer, of a gradually diminishing volume of oil, for the next 25 years or so. If we can survive unscathed the loss of half our North sea oil revenues in less than 25 weeks, the prospective loss of the other half over the remainder of the next 25 years should not cause us undue concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.167.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "will be put to the test sooner than anyone expected. The United Kingdom is likely to remain an oil producer, of a gradually diminishing volume of oil, for the next 25 years or so. If we can survive unscathed the loss of half our North sea oil revenues in less than 25 weeks, the prospective loss of the other half over the remainder of the next 25 years should not cause us undue concern. [Laughter.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "nge rate. Their effect on braod money is more complex and much more delayed. As explained in the Red Book, there is thus an important difference in the operational significance of the targets for narrow and broad money. Needless to say, I shall continue to monitor the evidence of other financial indicators, of which the most important is the exchange rate. I will say no more about monetary policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.173.4", "colnum": "173", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "o find a job. This will provide for a payment of £15 a week for a year to any employer taking on an 18 or 19-year-old at up to £55 a week or a 20-year-old at up to £65 a week. The new workers scheme should provide a worthwhile incentive for employers to create jobs for young people. Finally, I have agreed to a substantial enlargement of the proven and highly successful enterprise allowance scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.173.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.173.6", "colnum": "173", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that all about jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I now turn to the taxation of business and enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.173.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.173.6", "colnum": "173", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I now turn to the taxation of business and enterprise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that all about jobs?\"] Hon. Members opposite would do well to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.173.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " high-risk areas for which the scheme was always intended into areas where the risk is very much less. Accordingly, I propose from now on to exclude from the scheme all companies holding more than half their net assets in the form of land and buildings. I also propose to exclude companies whose main purpose is to invest in objects, such as fine wines, whose value may be expected to rise over time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "will provide new opportunities for investment in shipping engaged in the coastal, short sea and offshore trades. I propose to take power to make further changes in the ambit of the scheme by order. Finally, having taken steps to target the business expansion scheme more carefully, I propose to improve it. BES shares issues after today will be entirely free of capital gains tax on their first sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tations from the Charities VAT Reform Group, I am prepared this year, exceptionally, to make a number of specific concessions on the VAT front. I propose to relieve charities from VAT on their non-classified press advertising:, on medicinal products where they are engaged in the treatment or care of people or animals, or in medical research; on lifts and distress alarm systems for the handicapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And it will be\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " certainly maintain the real value of the revenue I get from the motorist, I will not increase it. But I do believe it makes sense to look again, in the light of the radically changed circumstances, at the relative weight of petrol tax and vehicle excise duty. Accordingly, I propose to increase the duty on petrol by an amount which, including VAT, would—if it were wholly passed on to the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t increase it. But I do believe it makes sense to look again, in the light of the radically changed circumstances, at the relative weight of petrol tax and vehicle excise duty. Accordingly, I propose to increase the duty on petrol by an amount which, including VAT, would—if it were wholly passed on to the consumer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And it will be\"]—raise the price at the pump by 7½p a gallon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hich, including VAT, would—if it were wholly passed on to the consumer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And it will be\"]—raise the price at the pump by 7½p a gallon. [Laughter.] This is 2p more than is needed to keep pace with inflation, and that 2p enables me to keep vehicle excise duty at last year's level of £100 for cars and light vans, leaving the overall burden on the motorist unchanged in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Next, drink. As the House will recall, I was obliged in 1984 to increase the duty on beer by slightly more than I would have wished, as a consequence of the judgment against the United Kingdom in the European Court. I now propose no increase at all in the duty on beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t he has backed off from acting effectively. That makes it the fudge-it Budget of a Government who during the past seven years have worn away the industrial base of the nation and wasted huge sums of wealth in a rake's progress financed by oil revenues. The Government have taxed ordinary people more than any other Government in history. They have borrowed more than any other Government in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "et as his Rubaiyat. The slogan is, live for today: \"Take the cash in hand and waive the rest,\" or, take the cash in hand and wave the Order Papers, as Conservative Members did earlier. I remind them and the Chancellor that there is still the brave music of a distant drum beating out the toll of what is to come as the oil contribution fades away and vanishes entirely. What do we do then to survive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": " employment opportunities not only in Edinburgh, but in the whole of Scotland. The hon. Gentleman and the unions will agree that exactly the same number of jobs would be created by the same amount of investment in a similar length of road in other parts of Scotland or, indeed, elsewhere in the Lothian region, or in other areas where it is desperately needed and where there are no objections to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "created by the same amount of investment in a similar length of road in other parts of Scotland or, indeed, elsewhere in the Lothian region, or in other areas where it is desperately needed and where there are no objections to it— [Interruption.] Will the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton) accept that, and will the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. McQuarrie) shut up", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "On the matter raised by the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Fletcher)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "oint Committee of both Houses of Parliament. There was another set of objectors. There were 38 of them, including the Cockburn association. It prayed along similar lines to the prayer of the Edinburgh district council. Page 5 of the petition says: Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Hon. House may see fit to refer the confirming Bill to a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-18", "file": "debates1986-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e743f9dcaa53691d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.240.5", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a trade union.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": " the Construction Industry at present. As you know my colleague from the T&GWU listed various figures showing the unemployment situation in our industry. I trust we can count on your support in Parliament next Tuesday, 18th March, 1986. The Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors also sought support for the passing of the Bill. It points out the problems faced by the construction industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-18a.240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will not be pleased when he sees the figures. Rates rises in hung counties amount to 20 per cent., on average. Time and again—in Cumbria, Cornwall, Devon, Oxfordshire and Somerset, where there are hung councils—that leads to higher spending and higher rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.281.8", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ommodation for the last few years of their lives? Is it not a scandal that when millions of bricks are being stocked, when at least 250,000 construction workers want to do some work and when there is much homelessness in our large cities, the Government refuse to do anything because they would sooner have a massive dole queue than allow Labour authorities to build houses? It is like the pensioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.281.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Although GCHQ comes under a civil Department, is it not in reality an essential arm of the national defence? That being so, and although I am a trade unionist myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.298.9", "colnum": "298", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.298.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opportunities for Young People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ther way of making their opinions and priorities known. Many of the young people whom I meet feel that they are shut out of the process and thinking of Government and that their views and needs are ignored. This youth charter, which is similar to that which my hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) introduced last year, would make sure that young people are fully represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I really cannot give way again. I have already given way a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "urances that all the other programmes in the list of commitments which I sent him have been dropped. We shall be watching like hawks to see that they do not start ringing up the promises on the cash register again. I shall be interested to hear what his right hon. and hon. Friends on the Back Benches think about the pledges which, on what he has said today, he does not now intend to carry through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.327.7", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I do not have time to give way. Had the hon. Gentleman kept the hon. Member for Winchester (Mr. Browne) a little shorter, I might have been able to give way. We then have the Chancellor glorying in the fact that we have lost half our oil revenue in less than 25 weeks and we are still well on our feet. The sterling-dollar rate has stood up better than I would have expected", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.327.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.327.7", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Something?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "le difference between a loss of revenue through falling price, which brings other benefits to the economy and to other economies, and a loss of revenue because the oil has run out, which does not bring any corresponding benefits. We have not done much with the oil during that period. We have built up some overseas assets, for which there is something to be said. I am not against that by any means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.327.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "key personnel \"rave gone to the USA. The Glasgow School of Art is losing its brilliant director to Chicago. In addition to the overseas brain drain, losses to industry in the UK are reported by all universities. A technological university in England recently held ten professorships vacant—a deliberate decision by the vice-chancellor, who couldn't get good enough candidates. Sir Kenneth concluded —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hirst", "preceding_text": "r increasing the tax burden, as the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) did, and then condemn our efforts to reduce that burden in the Budget. My constituents who are happily in business will be encouraged by the Budget's incentives. I welcome the abolition of capital transfer tax on lifetime transfers. From professional experience I have seen how that tax has borne down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "ted management to our industry, we shall be unable to compete with American and German industries. That is the kind of investment that is essential, yet the Chancellor does not even begin to understand that. Such investment is important. Without it, we fall behind. The Chancellor and the Treasury rely far too much on the importance of price competitiveness for exports. Of course that is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "s a consultation debate and we will not have the opportunity in Committee to discuss what is obviously an important issue. It is critical to note that the liberal nation in western Europe which has the highest percentage of married women in work is Denmark, with transferable allowances. I think that we have to consider that carefully. I should like to look seriously at mandatory separate taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-19", "file": "debates1986-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "dfa7166de14f3736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "e logic of a tax system ignoring marriage. The first, I imagine, is the need to abolish married women's retirement pension and widow's benefits. The second is the setting up of an anti-avoidance system, discriminating specifically against marriage, to ensure that under MST in one-earner families, the transfer of income between couples, via covenanting, trusts and other settlements could not occur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-19a.380.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend on promising to review the immigration rules relating to child brides coming into Britain. However, does he accept that there is a major legal loophole in the Sexual Offences Act 1976? Will he consider carefully the legislation which will be coming before the House soon to prevent this outrage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Of course, and that is one reason why the Opposition make so much noise about it. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.424.6", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster General and Minister for Employment (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General and Minister for Employment (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "I always believe, in my simple way, that it is possible to get some agreement on objectives on both sides of the House. I hope that there is broad agreement, certainly in the county, that the main aim of the Budget has to be to maintain the present excellent performance of the economy in such a way as to speed up the number of new jobs which will be created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.424.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has got that off his chest. I said at the press conference I attended that many of the schemes under YTS are cheap, exploitive and skivvy schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not so much of an audience.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ial changes are being made. From 1 April, those who provide places will have to be approved training agencies. However, that does not appear to be leading to any abatement of the hon. Gentleman's attacks upon the scheme. I believe that it should. The way in which he attacks the scheme is clearly designed to put off young people. He is playing up to the audience behind him, which he knows contains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "se our 1p reduction in the basic rate. If the shadow Chancellor and his right hon. and hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench seek to assert that £24 billion is not the case, I cannot help thinking, as I did yesterday, that I hope they have had a word with the shadow spokesmen on social services, on education and on health who have been going round the country showering promises like confetti—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "t the debate has been helpful to him to get to know the facts. In 1978–79, 280,000 houses were built, but in 1985 only 190,000 were built. Where did we get the skills so many years ago to run such a big building programme? Where did they go? The skills must still be there. They may have gone into the black economy. I have no doubt that there is a good deal of that going on in that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Thurrock (Dr. McDonald), who is beating a retreat at this moment, and who promises my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary hard times in Committee. We in the House and people outside are entitled to have carefully costed proposals from the Labour party. It may be that the Labour party is resiling rapidly from the figure of £24 billion, but I will not go into the details of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-20", "file": "debates1986-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7d002b2835083faf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Well, we have been waiting a very long time. The Labour party has been in opposition since 1979, and there may be another general election sooner rather than later. The Labour party owes it to the country to spell out in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-20a.455.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Evelyn Glenholmes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The matter concerns the police and the prosecuting authorities in this country, so it seems sensible that I should make the statement today. No doubt the right hon. Gentleman will have ample opportunities for asking questions of my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General if he wishes to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.616.6", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Evelyn Glenholmes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had been listening to my reply to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds, South (Mr. Rees) he would have realised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.616.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.628.8", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": "should not we be prepared to accept a little more inflation to create more jobs? Memory should not be so short. It is not that long ago that, in that graphic phrase of the day, Britain was drinking in the last chance saloon, and yet even now there are those who would dash straight back in and call for another round—a round of spending and borrowing that would give us another inflationary hangover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.628.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "worked its way through and the pound has stabilised, we can expect a period when the inflation rate is going to move down again. We are on course, but we are travelling more slowly than we would have wished to\". Thus it would be back to the consideration of the price of potatoes by some wretched board and some other unfortunate Minister spending more time on that than ministerial duties warranted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.633.9", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I have explained more than once that jobs can be lost very swiftly and that they take a long time to regain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.633.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are the wrong jobs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "On the contrary. To an extent they are—680,000 new jobs have been created since June 1983. That is better than the rest of the Community put together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ent. growth in real earnings per annum compared to less than half of 1 per cent. during the period of the Labour Government. However, although those pay increases must be related to productivity and competition, as taxes are cut and inflation reduced, low pay rises can still mean a sharply improving standard of living. Moderation in pay helps, above all, the unemployed to be priced back into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "joining in the task of providing the capital to build our industry, and determining its future and theirs. Under this Government the number of those owning shares has more than doubled, and this Budget will mean that more can do so. It means more people owning a stake in the firm in which they work, sharing in its risks and its rewards. More than 1 million employees now take part in share schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " \"thank you\" to him for instituting the political fund ballot? I think that all the ballots have now been held, and every single one of them has confirmed by a large majority the decision of British trade unions to have political funds. Indeed, some trade unions, which had failed to get political funds before, were able, in the wave of opinion generated by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Talk about the Budget.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding me about that. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is always saying that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, so now that he is chairman of the Tory party perhaps he will tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman appears to concede that I quoted him correctly. I am not being accused, nor could I reasonably be so accused, of misquoting him. I said, \"not so much low-tech as no-tech\" and in his intervention the right hon. Gentleman quoted the very words I used. His excuse is that he did not say all the jobs would be low-tech, just many of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " people! Let us give them high-tech jobs. Would not that be a better ambition for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government? As many as possible of our young people should be obtaining high-tech jobs, and we would be going in that direction if the Government were not turning them away from technical colleges and polytechnics and universities and were encouraging them to stay on at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "erms of balance of payments and our overall balance of trade and Government revenue. To this Government it has meant tens of billions of pounds and yet they have wasted most of that money. They have had those funds in a way that no other Government have ever had them. They have had that money without having to go through the complicated business of raising it by taxation or by cutting expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "g to go through the complicated business of raising it by taxation or by cutting expenditure. [Interruption.] It was taxation which the Government inherited. North sea oil was on stream in 1980 and the Government inherited the revenues. What point are the Government seeking to make? If they are saying that they did not have a marvellous windfall of North sea oil revenues, no one will believe them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "rmany, a billion pounds was invested in small and medium-sized businesses by KFB, an admirable bank to which the House of Lords report paid particular attention. Why should not this country have mechanisms to ensure that there is investment in the wealth-creating sectors of the economy? Why cannot the Conservative party have the intelligence to appreciate a good idea when it is presented with one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " high employment at home. Different economies, at different stages of development and in different circumstances, will differ in that respect. What I cannot believe is that the Japanese have succeeded in achieving in one and the same year a surplus on current account and also a surplus on capital account, which means importing capital at the same time. In fact, they have been buying assets abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "f British politics to the right. I predict that the Labour party is fearful lest our new plans for encouraging share ownership should prove to be as popular with the people as was our policy of offering them choice. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor, in extending the opportunities for share ownership, wishes to extend opportunities and choice ever more widely. This is really the people's Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Comrades?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "mployment. That was not the case. We did not have mass unemployment. The Government dealt with the problem and they did not drop their policies such as public ownership. They took into public ownership a whole series of industries, introduced a National Health Service and created the welfare state. They laid the basis for the society we have had since 1945. I say to my comrades on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "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": "nding the Budget's conception have shown that our economic performance is in no way dependent on North sea oil. North sea oil is an important but marginal issue. I should like to turn the point on which the hon. Member for Hodge Hill ended—the £24 billion programme which, as my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary has rightly pointed out, is the sum to which the Labour party's commitments add up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "dn't want to change income tax very much. What I would want to do is remove some of the other tax perks that they've been given; capital gains tax, capital transfer tax and particularly the tax on unearned income. Let us look at that. There would be no change in income tax at all, or at least not very much, but changes in capital gains tax and capital transfer tax. Let us see what that adds up to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " measures that were introduced to encourage giving to charities and the charities themselves. I refer to the basic concession for corporate giving, the brand new concession for payroll giving by employees, the removal of the ceiling of £10,000 on covenants and the selection of value added tax reliefs. Certain abuses were also stopped. The Institute of Charity Fund-Raising Managers had this to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "hemes in operation under the Finance Act 1978. Through improvements of that Act and through the Finance Act 1980, enacted by my predecessor, we have today not 30 schemes, but well over 1,000 schemes, involving 1¼ million employees in all-employee share schemes. There are now 1,375 share option schemes in operation, and that scheme only started in 1984. There are also workers' co-operatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "s, involving 1¼ million employees in all-employee share schemes. There are now 1,375 share option schemes in operation, and that scheme only started in 1984. There are also workers' co-operatives— [Interruption.] I think that Labour Members are interested in worker co-operatives. When we took office the number of worker co-operatives in this country was 300. Today there are more than 1,200.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "eve that the new personal equity plans, which provide the possibility of investing small sums in equities year in, year out, totally free of all tax—tax on the dividends and on capital gains—will profoundly change the nature of our society. The people's capitalism is on the march, and there will be no stopping it. It will further foster the spirit of enterprise upon which economic success depends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "the International Monetary Fund, and the then Labour Government had to have an about turn of their policies. Let us contrast the situation today. Inflation is at 5 per cent., which is the average since the last election, and we are heading for 3·5 per cent. by the end of this year. We have a growth rate of 3 per cent. We have had 3 per cent. a year steadily since the last general election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-24", "file": "debates1986-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bd92f83fe217ed0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " for manufacturing industry, they are recommending that we should enter into talks with the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to ensure that the oil price is higher than it is now. That is what was said by the hon. Member for Thurrock (Dr. McDonald) on behalf of the Opposition. I hope that Labour Members will tell manufacturing industry how much higher they would like oil prices to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-24a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.774.2", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that compared with the position under the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.774.4", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "I was giving not averages but medians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The same kind of restrictions apply to the advertising of Skoal Bandits as to the advertising of cigarettes in general. We are considering the evidence provided in the BBC's \"That's Life\" programme on Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall her words in the Budget debate on 19 April 1961 and her outright condemnation of share speculation? Do not those words ring hollow today in view of the arrogant disregard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.781.6", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In reply to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.781.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Then why flog it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "uld-be buyers, as was made clear to the House some time ago. General Motors' original interest arose out of talks about mutual problems over trucks. It was always clear from the start that any interest in Land Rover/Range Rover might raise such difficulties. I think that the whole House would like to pay tribute to Austin Rover's progress, and to congratulate the company on its increasing exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.790.7", "colnum": "790", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If an hon. Member said that, I would ask him to withdraw it, but I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "British Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What role are you playing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is not the lesson of this unhappy whole episode that the Government must never again try deceptively and surreptitiously, behind the backs of the British public and behind the back of Parliament to dispose of such a vital part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "rkets, is that these will be taking place in years to come. I hasten to add that I do not necessarily share that prediction. One matter about which I have remained ardent in my time as Secretary of State for Energy is that I will never make any prediction of a future oil price. If any future Secretary of State for Energy decides to join in that game, I will consider that he has been badly advised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr.MichaeClark", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr.MichaeClark", "preceding_text": "uously available to gas users. There is a danger that there will be a gap in the supply of gas in the early 1990s, but I am sure that the director general will take that into account. The main regulator used by the Director General of Gas Supply will be price. The price is being fixed by a formula which is now well known. It seems complicated, but careful study reveals it to be not too bad at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.876.5", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Easter and May Day)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I thought that I might have talked the debate out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.876.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "ay in the city of Leicester there took place a ceremony at which the Welford road recreation ground was renamed Nelson Mandela park. Throughout the area the Labour party had on display stickers promoting the change, and we must pick up the bill, amounting to £13,650—more waste of the citizens' rates. It is clear that all the campaigns—be they on behalf of gays, CND, the prevention of terrorism or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-25", "file": "debates1986-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "09f3fbd9b2d688d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party has a substantial built-in majority in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-25a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "We consulted right hon. and hon. Members on the basis of the first draft; that is how we arrived at the second draft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman because he will know that those of us who are sitting around here are immediately and intimately connected with these particular problems. I very strongly support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "he old Commonwealth and the United States on the one hand, and the new Commonwealth and Pakistan and the other. That differential has widened. However, it is not simply statistical. It is subjective as well. British citizens whose origins lie in the new Commonwealth and Pakistan feel that they are being treated differently and worse. They believe that that difference is due to racialist attitudes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.960.4", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "es if I were not able to name names. The Minister of State's letter listed six alleged abuses, none of which actually was an abuse and some, if not all of which, have at one time or another been employed by hon. Members on both sides of the House who deal with these cases. Indeed, in his letter, the Minister of State missed out the practice of one Conservative Member who actively touts for custom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.960.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I have seen a copy of the letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I am glad, therefore, that the hon. and learned Gentleman has now said that an hon. Member who was on his list of 23 guilty men takes an honourable and proper interest in people from Sri Lanka who wish to come to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": " am submitting to the House that the right hon. Member for Gorton was wrong in intention and wrong in fact in his interpretation of the guidelines. One realises that some hon. Members would like the gates of Britain to be opened wider so that more people could come in with less difficulty. Other hon. Members would like to see the gates taken off the hinges so that there was no control of any kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.976.3", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "I have frequently refused, when I did not think that the case was powerful enough. For instance, when a person has been told to leave at a particular time, there may be special pleading from the Gravesend community relations council. The essence of the matter is that if a Member of Parliament, even one who I understand is not contesting the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.976.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "man will know, since they were introduced in 1971. I think that the right hon. Gentleman was totally wrong, in giving the statistics which he produced, to ignore the intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow), because immigration officers are bound to look at those from disadvantaged countries much more closely than at those coming from more prosperous countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.1005.9", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ensington town hall on last Sunday. He was asked why he had been to see a Member of Parliament who had been to Russia and Afghanistan many times. I was that Member. I have never been to Russia or Afghanistan and I resent the way immigration officers should criticise and penalise individual arrivals in this country because they have chosen to seek assistance from an individual Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.1005.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-26", "file": "debates1986-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "70f988c7212f91f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Immigration (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "private office and the immigration officers as extremely valuable to both communities—those who come in and those who receive them. It is a false assumption to think that immigration officers set out to be unduly difficult. Now and again, an officer may have had a busy day and not be so sympathetic as he was when the day began. That happens with everyone, even those who come to Members' surgeries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-26a.1008.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-27", "file": "debates1986-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f76cbdd1c5e77b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1068.9", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Now that, after the Budget, the Gallup poll has shown—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Totnes.\"] I am not going to speak in the House, Mr speaker, against a constant barrage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1068.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-27", "file": "debates1986-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f76cbdd1c5e77b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Totnes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman has as much right to be heard as have other right hon. and hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-27", "file": "debates1986-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f76cbdd1c5e77b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is not the Government's job to give away private property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1070.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-03-27", "file": "debates1986-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f76cbdd1c5e77b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Those figures are wrong.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rrange, soon after the recess, a debate on the Government's attitude to the introduction of a poll tax, which the Prime Minister favours, especially in view of the evidence from the Institute of Local Government Studies that in an average inner London borough such as Hammersmith and Fulham the average rate bill of £277 per head would rise under a poll tax to £510 per head—an 84 per cent. increase?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-03-27", "file": "debates1986-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f76cbdd1c5e77b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Scottish Tertiary Education Advisory Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "many of them apply equally to the other colleges. I am in favour of all seven staying open. But if one final argument was needed to convince the Minister and the Secretary of State about the foolishness of closing any college, it would be that they should look at those which have already been closed by the Minister or his predecessor. In a written answer to me on 3 February the Minister confirmed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-03-27a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Madden", "preceding_text": "When will the Secretary of State respond to the calls of those on the Burnham committee and elsewhere in education, and resign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend earlier described the so-called cuts in polytechnics as rubbish. I do not think I can do better than that. I am sure the hon. Lady knows that it would be wrong to lend her name to a campaign of alarmism about so-called cuts in polytechnics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.14.5", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister endorse the actions of \"Rambo Ronny\" who, at this very moment, is exploding a nuclear device in the Nevada desert? Does she agree that that is against the spirit of world peace?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.14.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.14.5", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister endorse the actions of \"Rambo Ronny\" who, at this very moment, is exploding a nuclear device in the Nevada desert? Does she agree that that is against the spirit of world peace? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".] If the Prime Minister is in favour of a comprehensive test ban treaty, will she say so? Will she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.14.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.14.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.15.6", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I saw the right hon. Gentleman sitting in his place when I heard my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Walden), the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science, who is chairman of the National Advisory Body committee utterly repudiate that report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.15.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Anglo-Hungarian Conductive Education Project", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "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 matter of public importance that should have urgent consideration, namely, Government financial assistance for the Anglo-Hungarian conductive education project. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Anglo-Hungarian Conductive Education Project", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "It is impossible in such a short application to convey the full impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "preceding_text": "new dockyard company, with the exception of some aspects deriving directly from Crown service, their terms and conditions of service will be the same as if they were in the Civil Service. This has led some hon. Members to see TUPE as something of a qualified blessing. It provides protection on the first day but offers no kind of guarantee thereafter. I do not think it should. That would be absurd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.103.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-08", "file": "debates1986-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "85a58a7da09f7a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Minister is right to say that the document asks what work will be taken out and what work will be brought in. Of course, the assumption behind the whole manoeuvre and behind the costings, which have not been properly brought to the House, is that jobs will be lost as a result of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-08a.127.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-09", "file": "debates1986-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac535f86701871ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.180.9", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "he BAA has been one of Britain's major foreign currency earners and has consistently reinvested its profits in new facilities that have brought widespread benefits to the British economy. We fear that if the new clause is not accepted and foreign operators decide to take a strategic stake in a privatised BAA, they could use that to stifle developments in London so as to enhance their own position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.180.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-09", "file": "debates1986-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac535f86701871ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "What an overweight berk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.184.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-09", "file": "debates1986-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac535f86701871ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.189.5", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "sh interests because it might be contrary to the treaty of Rome.\" I do not know whether the new clause in my name and the names of my hon. Friends is contrary to the treaty of Rome, but, to be honest, I do not much care whether it is. I make no apology for that. If I am, in the words of the hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Couchman), an unlikely standard bearer, in many ways he is an unlikely Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.189.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-09", "file": "debates1986-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac535f86701871ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "I shall detain the House only briefly. To judge from what my hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. Haselhurst) said, it is clear that this is his last stand on the issue for some time. This is, indeed, the last battle by those who are against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-09", "file": "debates1986-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac535f86701871ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Mandalay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "ht hon. and hon. Friends supporting that proposition. They know that I am not a rebel; I am not one who goes into the Lobby for the fun of it or to get my name in the newspapers. However, I shall go into the Lobby tonight because I do not think that the fate of the Government hangs on this issue. I wish that they would come with us and say, \"We are persuaded, too, like some others on the road to\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.260.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-09", "file": "debates1986-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ac535f86701871ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Airports Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": " particular thing which it has power to do or refrain from doing a particular thing, if the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to give such directions. It is difficult to know what the Government have in mind. They may be contemplating the abolition of aerodrome licences and perhaps that is what the Secretary of State is intending. Does he intend to do that and restrict matters of safety?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-09a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-10", "file": "debates1986-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "e48ecae05f6c8ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-10a.339.10", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When it comes to expressing concern for the disabled, this Government have an extremely good record—better than that of any previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-10a.339.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-10", "file": "debates1986-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "e48ecae05f6c8ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-10a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " had the first of the classic examples of that. We are talking about one or two or perhaps three cases at the most in a year. We are talking about putting children before service courts and incarcerating 15-year-old boys for up to one year. I leave aside the question of girls because there are no places for them. If there were, however, I am sure that this Government would try to incarcerate them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-10a.407.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": ", the House of Commons is to hear nothing. Would not any visitor consider it extraordinary if we were to spend eight and a half hours debating Sunday trading and yet, as a Legislature, be told nothing about the United States or Soviet position or to have a statement on the crisis? You will know, Mr. Speaker, that I have thought for a long time that you are a very superior Speaker to George Thomas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.579.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "for women. It is because of this special disadvantage that for much of this cenury Governments of all parties have agreed that shop workers should be given special protection. The reasons for that special protection were eloquently stated by Winston Churchill just before he became Home Secretary when, in 1909, he moved the Second Reading of the Trade Boards Bill, which launched the wages councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.594.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "dered view of the Association of Chief Police Officers that Sunday opening will increase crime. Mr. Brian Hayes, the chief constable of Surrey, and the secretary of that association, states: police presence on Sundays might need to be increased and the current practice of minimum manning would need to be reassessed. Parking regulations would require major revision to incorporate Sundays, as many\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.599.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. and learned Friend; I stand corrected.\"The British people\" is not the correct description; it would be more accurate to refer to the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will not be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": " the church has all that much to grumble about. One can say that people are attracted away from church by those pursuits, but there is competition between activities and we must cope with it. I do not think that the \"new Sunday\" is detrimental to family life. Many pastimes are undertaken as a family. Despite all that activity, Sunday is a quieter day than others. Towns are much quieter on Sundays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.607.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "I bow to the hon. Gentleman's superior knowledge. In England and Wales we are in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Arnold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Arnold", "preceding_text": "is owned by the city of Manchester which is Labour-controlled. Many shop workers work there on a Sunday. Moreover, there are now very few things that one cannot buy at Manchester airport on a Sunday. One can buy men's clothes, women's clothes, food of many descriptions and many other goods and services, ranging from books, publications of all kinds, gramophone records and goodness knows what else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "on. If there is complete deregulation, further social problems will arise. It is said that one multiple retailer has stated that it will be employing women just for Sundays. This will surely mean that many homes will not have a mother at home on that day. It could be that the children in those homes will never sit down to have a meal with their parents at home. Such things cannot be brushed aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "een suggested that, if the Bill is defeated, hon. Members should tramp around their constituencies reporting those who trade on Sundays. I have never thought that snooping was my job as a Member of Parliament. We have many choices about what to do. For example, we could allow opening when there is a clear demand. Garden centres have been mentioned. They are usually quite distant from town centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "hat God works seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and that one can worship Him at any time. Any time I have been in a church in England there have been fewer people in the pews in corporate worship than hymns on the list. Therefore, I am not impressed by the argument of corporate worship. Those who oppose the Bill suffer from the postbag fallacy. They imagine that because they receive many letters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.669.9", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross, who suggested that those of us who oppose the Bill do so because of weighty mail bags and the post that we have received, considerably insulted the integrity of many hon. Members who hold strong views against the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.669.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": " country and, I am satisfied, a majority of hon. Members in the House, would have liked there to be a free vote. I should like to repeat the Labour party's attitude to this. We have said all along that if the Government Whips give their Members a free vote, we will give ours a free vote. It is too much to expect the Government to have a three-line Whip and for the Labour party to have a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "ome hon. Members referred to the position in Scotland, and the Auld report mentioned the position there. In paragraph 243 it stated: The most frequently cited example is Scotland…But the pattern of Sunday opening in England and Wales under deregulation would not necessarily be the same. Scotland is a predominantly rural country, with few large shopping centres outside Edinburgh and Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.689.11", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ne Whip. Then we shall adopt the Special Standing Committee procedure, which, as the hon. Member for Battersea conceded, is the first time that that has been done for a Bill of this controversial nature. We have given the clearest undertaking that amendments in Committee will be subject to a free vote and by that I mean a free vote for all Members of the House, including members of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.689.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.689.11", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " nature. We have given the clearest undertaking that amendments in Committee will be subject to a free vote and by that I mean a free vote for all Members of the House, including members of the Government. [Interruption.] I am asked why we impose a three-line Whip at this stage and to ensure that it is necessary to remind the House how we got here. First, the Government began with the proposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.689.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.689.11", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ity from time to time to vote for repeal of the Shops Act. I do not need to tell hon. Members on either side about the present state of the law under the Shops Act 1950 and I shall not spend my time, certainly given the number of interruptions I am getting, reminding people of the fact that fish and chip shops can sell any food but fish and chips; they can be brought only from a railway station. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.689.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We are presenting a Bill which represents a measure of deregulation which has so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "matters. If this Second Reading is rejected we shall be stuck with the unenforceable 1950 Act, with a steady increase in Sunday trading throughout the country. It will be many a long year before we have this chance again. How are we to handle the timetabling of the Bill? Unless we have some structure and order in our debates it is possible for a handful of hon. Members to protract any legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " [Interruption.] A Bill in favour of muddle could be talked out by an hon. Member who was determined enough if there were no rules of procedure or conduct. The Government's undertaking is that they will allow a free vote for their supporters—members of Government and Back Benchers. Of course the Opposition will also allow a free vote. However, that freedom has never extended to procedural motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "o was determined enough if there were no rules of procedure or conduct. The Government's undertaking is that they will allow a free vote for their supporters—members of Government and Back Benchers. Of course the Opposition will also allow a free vote. However, that freedom has never extended to procedural motions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It has never extended to procedural motions such as closures.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have already given the undertaking that the Government have no plans to introduce the guillotine. That is the position from which we started. We obviously trust that the guillotine will not be required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.693.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-14", "file": "debates1986-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c740deeb2a4e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.694.12", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will the Government give us a statement on their future views on what was a central piece of their legislative programme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-14a.694.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-15", "file": "debates1986-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "74a1c1c51edf0506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We, of course, have direct evidence of Libyan-based terrorism in St. James's square. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will not forget that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.732.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-15", "file": "debates1986-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "74a1c1c51edf0506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Publish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is aware that, since that time, terrorism has escalated further. We have evidence of Libyan complicity in that state terrorism and we have evidence that more acts are planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-15", "file": "debates1986-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "74a1c1c51edf0506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that double standards are applied to the type of action we are discussing? If it had been carried out by the Israelis, the Syrians, Iraqis or Iranians, for the purpose of prosecuting their interests, it would barely have made the front page of the news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-15", "file": "debates1986-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "74a1c1c51edf0506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "long overdue. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and his team of Ministers deserve credit from the House and the Committee for all their work on the Bill. The contributions in Committee have been constructive and the Government have listened to the arguments put forward by the Opposition. While the debates in Committee have been impressive, far too much time has been spent on each clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-15", "file": "debates1986-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "74a1c1c51edf0506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "ement to work overtime because the subsequent loss of benefit may mean that a family is worse off. This is a reforming measure. It is not about cutting benefits or reducing expenditure, as the Opposition would have us believe. It is constructive and progressive. It is about cutting out bureaucracy and waste. It has one guiding principle—to give the right help to the right people at the right time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-15", "file": "debates1986-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "74a1c1c51edf0506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " of headings that needed to be fleshed out, and it was inevitable that Ministers would have to speak for some time. Nobody in the House should be misled into thinking that time was wasted to any extent at all. My objection to the guillotine motion is not one of principle. I understand that Governments will require to resort to guillotines in some circumstances. I am a veteran of two Finance Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-15a.757.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.870.13", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": "hemes, has provided over £17 million of financial support to schools to promote the use of computers and related activity. Most recently we have made available £1·5 million, enough to supply each secondary and middle school in the country with a modem. Further support for computer software is being provided in the next two financial years and we continue to keep the situation under review.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.870.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Unfitness to Plead", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "nsane and dangerous person the law is logical, because those sections of the Mental Health Act make it clear that a hospital order can be made only in the case of an insane person if very strict criteria are met. For example, two medical reports have to be furnished to the court, and the court has to be satisfied that the mental disorder is of such a nature that it warrants detenton for treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Unfitness to Plead", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "urprise that while my constituent was detained indefinitely as if those criteria applied to him, the court did not and could not consider whether in fact they did apply to him once it had found that he was unfit to plead. As two psychiatric reports and one psychologist's report showed later, Glen Pearson was not insane and he was not a serious danger to the public, but he was treated as if he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "This House is united and firm in its view that terrorism is evil and cowardly and a completely unjustified and unjustifiable way of advancing any cause, whether it be political, religious, or any other cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ism. Indeed, the use of such force is much more likely to provoke and expand terrorism. In any case, the strategy of using military force for the purpose of teaching Gaddafi a lesson is fundamentally flawed for, as the Daily Telegraph said this morning, it presumes a degree of rationality in Tripoli about cause and effect, which is palpably lacking\". There are some who would say that the evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. It is important to give attention to the evidence, but I caution people who allow their judgment to turn solely on the evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.882.7", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for belatedly giving way. I have no desire to destroy his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.882.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.882.8", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I know what the President said, I know what he implied, and I also heard the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.882.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "is a country 80 per cent. dependent for its resources, and 100 per cent. dependent under its leadership, on oil, and with oil prices plummeting Gaddafi will be looking for credits. Those credits can and must be denied him until such time as the pressure of commercial, economic, financial, diplomatic and political sanctions squeezes the very life out of the Gaddafi regime. That is the way to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "now been made much more difficult by the decision of the Prime Minister to be a compliant accomplice rather than a candid ally of the United States President. The right hon. Lady has not shown solidarity with our ally; she has shown subservience to the United States President. She was, as the Financial Times pointed out this morning, wrong to give in to US pressure on this occasion. She was wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is a very important debate and the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ent on Monday when she was asked for it. There may have been other obligations on her, such as the obligations of friendship and those of an ally. There may even have been an obligation in view of the assistance generously given to us by the United States during the Falklands war—an obligation which I wish had never been incurred, because I have always held the view that it was an unnecessary war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"In East Berlin\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": " would have been greater and the number of civilian and military casualties larger. None of us could have wished for that through our fault, as it would have been. There is a peripheral question about which I hope my right hon. and learned Friend can say something. We know what the Libyan people's bureau in Berlin has been up to. We should like to know what action is likely to be taken against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": "de to the proposals for economic sanctions. Terrorism will in my view be ended only when the countries of the western world can work together, which they have failed to do so far. Have we not learnt the one lesson of recent years, which is that appeasement never pays? I fear that the Labour party has not learnt that lesson. It did not realise it in 1939 and there has been little change since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Hafer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Hafer", "preceding_text": "kening terrorism, this military action risk provoking explosive reactions of fanaticism and criminal and suicidal acts. Not only are the Government putting British people at risk; they are putting the whole of Europe at risk. We are on the brink of the possibility of a further explosion, and, ulitmately, the final act of complete madness, the utter destruction of our civilisation by a nuclear war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "rime Minister with the perception to see the dangers and the courage to stand by, and with, our only ally fighting this terrorism.\" Once again we owe a debt to the Prime Minister and to the Foreign Secretary and their colleagues. In the debate there has been plenty of criticism and suggestions that there should be some other way, but I have yet to hear any positive suggestion about that other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": "rime Minister was necessary. I have little inside knowledge, but I doubt whether it was necessary. My right hon. Friend's decision was appallingly difficult, and I do not say that merely to defend the fact that I shall not vote against the Government tonight. I have voted against the Government on odd occasions when I have felt strongly about a matter, indeed, perhaps too frequently for my future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": " British or American people. That is an important and principled position to take. Whatever one thinks of the Libyans, they have taken no reprisals against any British family in Libya. Many things can be said against Gaddafi. He can be called mad, ill-advised, and so on, but it cannot be said that he is personally corrupt. He does not have a personal fortune, and he is not a drunkard or womaniser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "ective. That is something that we should have pursued strenuously in terms of the international community. One of the disturbing features of this whole episode—and I take a different view of its genesis from that taken by other Members who have spoken this evening—is that our Government have over a long period, with the United States, eroded the concept of international law and the law of nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Had I time enough, I would have enlarged on President Reagan's capability and on the Prime Minister's culpability. Perhaps it is as well that time prevents my doing either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "s not clearly defined, and certainly not defined in article 51. The point of that article is that, although it does not define, it recognises the inherent right of states to self-defence against attack. The existence of that right is not in doubt. My right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford put the matter clearly when he said that the motivation for what has been done was not lust for reprisal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Our consent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "so that the lesson is that there is no relief and remedy down that road. It was in those circumstances that the United States decided that the time had come to resort to the use of force in self-defence. In the circumstances described by my right hon. Friend, the United States sought our agreement to the use of aircraft based in this country. In the face of that request, our consent was necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which colleagues?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "country for her self-defence against state terrorism, which threatened us as well as her. So that parallel is not the same. However, in every other respect the position was the same. It was for the Prime Minister, in consultation with her colleagues, to decide, in the interests of the British people, whether or not to agree to the United States proposal. It was in consultation with her colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "ting with General Walters. The consultation was proper and it was for my right hon. Friend to decide, in the interests of the British people, whether or not to agree to the United States proposal. There was no obligation to say yes, there was no coercion to say yes, and there was no undue influence to say yes. We had to engage in a full consideration of British interests. Those interests included—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Libya", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "nd duty to secure the defence of our people against terrorism. They also included the defence of our people against Libyan state-directed terrorism. To answer the question of the hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke), the action had to be proportionate to the threat. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence explained in his interview on Monday, it was a difficult question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "General Certificate of Secondary Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "ty's inspectors put out an annual report which shows a great lack of cash in schools, a shortage of books, and buildings in a mess. The Secretary of State went round my city and described the schools as \"crummy\". That was after he had ratecapped the city. The Minister has said that he wants the best. Let it be made clear that the teacher unions have been asking for this examination for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-16", "file": "debates1986-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "76d70bb7435f01d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "General Certificate of Secondary Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "preceding_text": "The Minister is making a persuasive case, but it is clear from his past few remarks that he assumes that he will receive the full cooperation of the teachers. That is manifestly not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-16a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.994.9", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — World Debt", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "tion between the IMF and the World Bank. There has also been agreement in those committees that lending by export credit agencies should follow much more closely upon agreement of a programme with the IMF. That initiative was proposed by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor at the 1984 meeting. I am glad to say that the agreement on the multilateral investment guarantee agency, which was initiated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.994.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1004.7", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that her own Secretary of State for Defence, while recording an item for Radio Clyde on Monday of this week, said: My colleagues and I are very dubious\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1004.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I am in any mood today to be lectured about expediency in relation to last Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was here:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman may have been out of the Chamber when the matter was raised by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Lebanon (Terrorism)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the Truth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I hope my hon. Friend will not mind if I do not go into further detail this afternoon. I do not wish to say anything that might affect the safety of those who are held hostage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1049.7", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "The important point is that in all such calculations it must be borne in mind that by providing the land, the landlord has clearly provided one of the ingredients in the quota.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1049.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"God forbid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hicks", "preceding_text": "s in my new clause, they are equally uneasy in their minds about my right hon. Friend's proposals, not least because they are so complex. 5.45 pm Furthermore, it is important that Parliament should get it right today, because this may be the forerunner of other parallel situations in the event of quotas being introduced in this country and in Europe in respect of other crops that may be produced.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "a wrong too. I awaited with bated breath to hear what the hon. Member for Dorset, West (Mr. Spicer) would say when he rose to be the last speaker on the Government side. I wondered whether he would perhaps give some support, or even wholehearted support, to the Government, because we have gone through the five hours of this debate without any hon. Member giving unequivocal support to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "at the tenant who has reduced the value of his landlord's land, having taken over a dairy farm, should pay some sort of direct compensation on outgoing. That seems to be to be the exact corollary of 100 per cent. for the tenant in some cases, and therefore we have set our sights against both of those conditions. I turn next to the points made by the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Corrie).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "r, and I am afraid that I cannot help him. However, I can help in relation to the 20 per cent. I am perfectly prepared to look at it again. My hon. Friend said that this would be less helpful than it ought to be, and I shall see that we do something about it. If I have not covered other points that have been raised it is because they are detailed and I shall have to deal with them at a later date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": ",893 million that is spent upon CAP market support in the United Kingdom they are very small indeed. They are being made at the expense of the dispersal of and, in many cases, at the expense of the redundancy of highly expert advisers and research specialists. Their dispersal means that never again will there be collected together such an expert body to advise agriculture in a position of travail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": "I intervene briefly towards the end of the Bill's passage—my hon. Friend the Member for Meirionnydd;ant Conwy (Mr. Thomas) having been involved in earlier stages. I cannot accept the comments that have just been made, particularly the slur on people working in ADAS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "It is a little late in the evening for the hon. Gentleman to enter our debate and then to lose his temper so rapidly. He should look after his health a little better. It is synthetic anger. The House should honestly be able to say that ADAS has done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-17", "file": "debates1986-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "e885e8593cd07939", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1121.5", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "sponsible for that, we cannot discuss alternative means of providing advice, and it is not sensible to suggest that ADAS cannot charge for some of its services. Many of us would say that by charging for some of its services it would get closer to the market and, perhaps, tailor some of its services more to what people need rather than what they think they should need. There is always a temptation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-17a.1121.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-18", "file": "debates1986-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "b95f031969f98b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-18a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "akes it attractive to the young. The main reason why young children smoke is because they know that adults and teachers dislike it intensely. We have little alternative but to forbid it, but it produces the major disciplinary difficulty in schools of overcoming children's attraction to smoking because adults object to it, for all the good reasons. Children smoke in lavatories and behind buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-18a.1190.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State tell Richard Benson, who is one of my constituents, and his fellow travellers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "t attention will he give to providing the additional resources which are implicit in his statement this afternoon? Will he also accept that an expanding role for the community pharmacist is welcome and that there are those of us on this side of the House who reject completely the nonsense which was spoken by the Labour Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "Most of my constituents will welcome the Green Paper announced this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a failure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman probably does not know that I have spent the last four days trying to bring both sides together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.52.4", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They can be brought together.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I have said that we must first tackle the pay issue. Once we have done so, I believe that it will be easier to introduce the whole issue of duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.52.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "If one believed the stuff to which we have just listened, it would indeed be a lyrical world. One could almost set parts of the speech of the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) to music. The amendment standing in the name of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have got that wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "osition could not do. There is a hiccup in the struggle, but hon. Members should not be fooled. This struggle, the longest in the history of the teaching profession, will continue. Teachers' wages are pitifully inadequate. They get less after training for four years than a young policeman in uniform gets after three months. What kind of an attitude is that to adopt towards the teaching profession?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ernment. The policy of comprehensivisation was attacked by the shire counties because it was an intervention in local democracy; an interference with the rights of local authorities. Now we hear the Minister, in Cardiff of all places, making his famous \"yob\" speech in which he attacked the notion of a local education service and threatened local education authorities with a central state takeover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.125.4", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to speak on Third Reading, but having heard the sanctimonious cant from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-21", "file": "debates1986-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b9d0ce3105cfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "e of this it is legitimate for any Member of the House to continue to oppose legislation, even at this late stage. Surely we have a legitimate right to oppose something which we do not believe has fulfilled the ambitions that many of us wanted to see realised. I am amazed that so many Conservative Members should refer to speeches made in Committee. Regrettably, I could not serve on that Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-21a.128.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.167.11", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I indicated in statements and speeches last week, we set down certain criteria for the permission. The Americans selected the targets within those criteria. It was for them to choose the weapons which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.167.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.170.6", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a perfectly clear answer. We set down the criteria for targets which we believed were within legitimate self-defence. We were advised that the use of F111 aircraft was the best means of striking those targets. The precise methods that the United States uses is a matter for the United States within the criteria set down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.170.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Libyan Nationals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "consulted in advance about the internal security implications for this country of the decision to allow the use of British bases for the bombing of Libya? If so, did he say that it was in the British interest? Is it not a fact that it can be easier for certain overseas nationals to enter Britain to commit acts of terrorism than for an Indian grandmother to enter Britain to attend a family wedding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "If the Government dispute that, are they saying that the houses should not have been refurbished? The creative accountancy took the form of exploiting loopholes left in the Government's restraints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.228.5", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "Not yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.228.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": " the market place. Public transport is an integral and necessary part of the nation's social provision. For most of the country, Sunday 26 October will be the day that the clocks are put back one hour. For the bus industry and its passengers it will be the day that the Secretary of State turns back the clock 56 years. British summer time ends on 26 October. The public transport winter replaces it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "employment. There is not the slightest risk of anybody being made redundant or the slightest difficulty in ensuring that everybody is employed. The 100 people that the new plc will not employ will mean lower costs. On the matter of socially desirable routes, it sounds as if there is only 3 per cent. to subsidise. To be fair, some of the 97 per cent. of registered routes may have a lower frequency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "kground, I deplore the deliberate misrepresentations of the facts by the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Stott). Every Member in the Chamber heard him refer to west Derbyshire. I had to drag out of him the fact that the list of services that he read out with such relish, implying a huge cutback, was only of registered services. The hon. Gentleman ought to be ashamed of himself for behaving in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-22", "file": "debates1986-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa30894ab3d755a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "There is a great deal of difference between route miles and the amount of miles run by vehicles on the routes. We do not have the figures for which the hon. Gentleman asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-22a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.293.6", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "vant to ask how much of the weekly domestic rate bill is attributable to the late setting of rates last year? That figure can now be worked out. A private letter has been sent by the district auditor to the chief executives of the offending London boroughs. The information should be made public. The figures show that one borough suffered a £50 million loss. My borough of Southwark lost £25 million", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.293.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.294.6", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that most local authorities have played the game by selling council houses in accordance with this Government's policy and wish? The Labour party has now taken that policy on board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.294.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "by the right hon. and learned Gentleman as \"vigorous and appropriate\" and by the Prime Minister as \"passive and supine\". Can the right hon. and learned Gentleman tell us how far these decisions represent a step forward, and from what base? Secondly, why did the right hon. and learned Gentleman not press on his colleagues some economic or financial sanctions such as the withdrawal of export credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "So far as flags are concerned, I was content to endorse the sensible proposition that on European occasions the Council of Europe flag should be worn—should be displayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ccept the rebuke with which the right hon. Gentleman closed his question, I plainly endorse the need for more effective European co-operation. That is why this country promoted the political co-operation treaty which we are discussing later today. I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. We have been in the van in pressing our European partners for collective effective action for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "the Bill now before the House. However, during that six months we also received the first of the abatements due to us under the Fontainebleau agreement. The Commission published its proposals for reform of the common agricultural policy, which emphasise the need for policies that we have long advocated, including sustained action on prices to bring about a better balance between supply and demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.316.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "y the less important because it is called an assembly rather than a Parliament. We heard earlier about the drama of the European flag. Apparently it is not to be the stars and stripes—as we might have expected—but merely to be the stars. It is to have 12 yellow stars on, no doubt with some appropriateness a blue background. Some very important and serious points have been raised during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "demand that would be made on her by President Reagan— By common action of the Community and the Ten, Europe must impress on the United States that unilateral American action … will put the success of Alliance consultation and co-ordination at risk. The Prime Minister said that. Where did we hear an expression of that when she agreed to the illegal bombing of Libya from United Kingdom bases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": " of foreign policy, in relation to central America, about which President Reagan is currently putting forward a distorted and twisted view of the political reality, the Government will take the European view and not act as Reagan's poodle as they have done in other areas. Some hon. Members on the Government side describe the Opposition view and the view of some European countries as anti-American.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-23", "file": "debates1986-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3213bfff46a68a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Pensioners (Canada)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Farr (Harborough)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Farr (Harborough)", "preceding_text": "I want to raise the plight of British old-age pensioners who are living in Canada. At the moment there are about 41,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-23a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.411.6", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman has previous convictions on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to find another basis for his outrage, because some 500 extra preventive staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.415.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the 30 or more Labour councillors were disqualified at Lambeth they left a rump of three councillors to run Lambeth council? Is she aware that a meeting tomorrow night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.421.9", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, that is not correct. Of course, terrorism itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.421.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the points made by the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.428.4", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "Can we have an early debate on the extra cost of the Labour party's election bribes so that we can find out whether it will cost the taxpayer another £24 billion, £39 billion or £46 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Yes. I think that there will be much entertainment during the next few weeks and months as the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition leads his party towards the ground he wishes to share with social democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.443.9", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Land Rover-Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State realise that this latest Government climbdown represents a humiliating and total reversal of their misguided policy to sell off the Austin Rover Group, Leyland Truck and Land Rover? Does he appreciate that, were it not for the exposure of the Government's furtive negotiations with General Motors and Ford and the forceful expressions of parliamentary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.443.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.445.4", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Land Rover-Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman is complaining about foreign investment or welcoming it—I expect that it depends on the company about which we are talking. I am trying—I hope that the Opposition will not try to change the position—to remove the uncertainty. Therefore, I have nothing to add to my original statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Land Rover-Leyland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to give such a guarantee. I shall ask the new chairman of British Leyland to consider all the options available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.488.4", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "ent will take to speed up the process. That is what the new clause is aiming to do. I think we must congratulate the Government in selling off the land and producing the orders, but it is all too slow and somewhat bureacratic. Perhaps I could be excused if I mention the splendid book—which I am sure all hon. Members will have read—which I wrote about four years ago called \"New Life in Old Cities\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.488.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-24", "file": "debates1986-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "af704d60384225cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Assured tenancies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "t we shall not get agreement about it. I fear that it will be impossible to encourage people to invest in that approach because it is a matter of considerable political difference between the two sides of the House. Therefore, we should be trying to build on the steadily emerging consensus of trying to find new forms of rented housing which do not have the connotations of the old private landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-24a.497.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-28", "file": "debates1986-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "297638478f0baeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-28a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Harwich Parkeston Quay Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rlpar company to the freeholder, British Rail, in the light of successive letters of intent. Sea Containers Ltd. has so far ignored Earlpar's offer to sell the company's assets and the benefit of the studies as well as introduce a user, both to make a firm commitment and to help fund the development. Instead, Sea Containers has chosen to seek to obtain these benefits for nothing by a private Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-28a.720.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-28", "file": "debates1986-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "297638478f0baeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-28a.757.6", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10, Downing Street (Chief Information Officer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " position did Mr. Ingham imagine that he was putting Miss Collette Bowe into when he required her to phone Mr. Chris Moncrieff with the selective contents of the Solicitor-General's letter over Westland? Can one imagine Sir Donald Maitland, the late William Clark, Sir Tom McCaffrey or any other holder of the office deeming it proper or ethical to make any such request of a civil servant colleague?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-28a.757.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Price", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that that quite admirable home is in my constituency and that I have looked after it for the past 31 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.778.5", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "cause this is a serious accident at a Soviet nuclear power station, and because the Americans themselves have refused to build a pressurised water reactor in the United States for nine years due to anxieties about their safety, will the Prime Minister give the House an absolute assurance that there will be no decision about building a PWR at Sizewell until the full report on the American accident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.778.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recognise that the concern expressed following the accident at the nuclear power station in the Soviet Union obviously expresses the concern that everybody feels about such accidents? Will the Prime Minister recognise that international action is required, and will she initiate action under principle 21 of the United Nations declaration on the human environment of 1972—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Soviet Nuclear Accident", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "toring in the United Kingdom be required and what liaison is taking place with other European Governments on the nature of the contamination? Will Her Majesty's Government join other European Governments to request international inspection of the site and the consequences of the accident? Does the Secretary of State know whether there are any British citizens in the vicinity of the plant? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Prison Officers' Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I always hope for better from the right hon. Gentleman but I am always disappointed on occasions like this. The neglect that the whole prison service suffers from is the neglect of previous Governments to do anything about prison building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Prison Officers' Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "I accept that the problem of running the prisons has been with us for a long time. It goes back to the Administration in which I was Home Secretary, but also goes back beyond that, to previous Home Secretaries. An approach in narrow party political terms, suggesting that it is all the fault of the Labour Government, will get the Home Secretary nowhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ure him that we shall seek to amend clauses 21 and 25 in Committee to enable such an extension in genuine employee share ownership to be promulgated, propagated and encouraged. The Committee will also discuss the proposal for tax relief on contributions to charities, which are obtained in clauses 26 to 31. They are in part the result of the Chancellor's desperate search for a sympathetic headline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "ng on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill is that one does not necessarily have to join the chain gang on the Finance Bill Committee. I suppose that some of us have either been granted parole or even full remission of sentence. I should like to refer to an omission from the Bill. One of the pleasures of being a Back Bencher is that one does not have to agree with everything said by one's party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": " British Industry and to Peter Welch for mobilising British industry. As my hon. Friend rightly said, the Government have fought against unitary tax in every way possible. Those of us who were privileged to hear the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell) regarded it as lucid and fascinating. I listened with great care, as I am sure all right hon. and hon. Members did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": " ensuring that all the people involved in the by-elections will be well aware of the nature of that vote. The alliance parties are again sadly without representation, except for the hon. Member for Stockton, South who was unable to be with us for the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton). He gave a devastating analysis of the conflicting nature of the alliance's programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": " I meant, for the way in which he has consistently argued for the interests of his constituents throughout his long and distinguished career in the Palace. The remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Forman) were especially welcome. As always, he made a wise and balanced contribution. I was especially interested in his remarks on wider share ownership for employees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": ", that burden has been reduced from 14 per cent. to 9 per cent. Income taxes have fallen. In 1978–79, income taxes were approximately 32·7 per cent. of total taxation. They have now fallen to 26·9 per cent. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook specifically asked me what that has meant to taxpayers generally. What has the pattern, which has continued in the Finance Bill, meant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Sparkbrook specifically asked me what that has meant to taxpayers generally. What has the pattern, which has continued in the Finance Bill, meant? [Interruption.] To help the right hon. Gentleman's supporters, I shall compare the income tax and national insurance contributions paid by a married man under the Conservative Government, with his position if Labour were still in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": " real take-home pay. Under the category of those on half average earnings I can quote any group—single, married with children, married with no children. Under the category of those married with no children, there was a 2·4 per cent. improvement in a couple's real take-home pay after five years of Socialism, but after seven years of Conservatism there was a 14·8 per cent. improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I will give way only to those who have participated throughout the debate. The figures continue, and they get better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ing in manufacturing. That was raised by three or four other hon. Members. I would remind the House that manufacturing profitability in 1984 was at 6·5 per cent., which was the best since 1973. Manufacturing exports went up by 6 per cent. in 1985 and are expected to rise by a further 6 per cent. in 1986. Manufacturing industry is expected to be a major beneficiary of the fall in oil prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I listened with the utmost interest to the Financial Secretary's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I listened with the utmost interest to the Financial Secretary's speech— [Interruption.] —but he did not address himself to several points that formed the basis of his own argument. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the very high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "The Minister referred to the point that people were better off taxation-wise in relation to earnings, but he did not relate that to the fact that earnings have increased over a period of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "hat to the fact that earnings have increased over a period of time. [Interruption.] He did not refer to what those earnings were. It is a pity for the House that he did not do so. The Minister also failed to meet the point that the Budget had been predicated on the price of oil being $15 a barrel, whereas it is now $12. Those are all important factors in relation to the Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "rnment policy. Instead, he produced a series of spurious calculations that involved a sleight of hand to show what a Labour Government might do, some seven years after the Labour Government were last in office. It is a pity that the Financial Secretary refused to spend any time saying what this Government would do, and instead concentrated on what the Labour party would do if it was in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-29", "file": "debates1986-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "e1fea90500c4b7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "m the country's point of view, it is a pity that those points were not clarified. How can the Government put forward a Budget that is based on oil costing $15 a barrel, when the price has fallen to $12? The Opposition want to know how the Chancellor can predicate his Budget on the price of oil when he has lost a further £3,000 million in Government revenue since the Budget statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-29a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.918.5", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has hit the nail on the head. AIDS is a totally self-inflicted illness, and it is so much more morally reprehensible when it is inflicted on children. It is wrong that some people are inflicting AIDS on their unborn children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.918.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is going into the question again. I am sure that the point has been well taken by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I shall read carefully the record of what I said, but my recollection is that I did not suggest that the hon. Member was condoning illegal activities. I did suggest that he was condoning drug abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.935.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "preceding_text": "I have made it quite clear that I shall check the record. If I said anything that I ought not to have said, I shall withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.936.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.936.7", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker:", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.936.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.942.4", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Soviet Nuclear Accident (British Citizens)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Freebie.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Lewis", "preceding_text": "The whole House and the country will appreciate the speed with which the Foreign Office and the embassy in Moscow have moved on the evacuation and advice to those with immediatly pending travel. May I take the Minister in another direction and remind him that this summer, many thousands of tourists, myself included, will hope to go to Minsk and Kiev?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.942.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.942.6", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Soviet Nuclear Accident (British Citizens)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Warren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Warren", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend make it clear to the Soviet ambassador that, as one of those who is going to the Soviet Union next month under the leadership of Lord Whitelaw, on the Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.942.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Soviet Nuclear Accident", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "em. Many British people, not only those with relatives in Russia but those who live near our nuclear power stations, want an opportunity to have the matter fully discussed. We should discuss how far it is true that Britain has been candid about its nuclear industry. For eight years I had responsibility as a Minister, and on many occasions information was not made available to me. This is a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "the Scottish Office had dreamt up this matter, hanging on to the coat tails of the Home Office. The arguments have been well made about the procedural objections to reforming the law of Scotland via a side wind. I realise that some hon. Members from Labour constituencies in England are not concerned about this measure. Fortunately, they do not represent the views of the majority of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "ool, the other in the country town of Newtown. It was a very unusual occurrence in each of those towns. They were peaceful assemblies and, judging by the newspaper photographs, extremely respectable and respected citizens took part. They assembled to protest against the British Government's error of judgment, as they perceived it, in allowing American F111s to fly from bases in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1024.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1028.5", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "he situation is not in hand by them, we shall expect the Government to bring about another debate right away. If the Government do not do that, we shall be seeking your agreement for such a debate, Mr. Speaker, under Standing Order No. 10. This is a very grave situation and it is right that the Home Secretary has given this statement this evening. It is on the record that we warned the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1028.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1028.5", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That's right—give in to anarchy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "uld be contingency plans. However, Mr. Jarman of the executive of the Prison Officers' Association said this evening that at Northeye prison contingency plans were not brought into operation. Can the Home Secretary confirm that, and can he explain it? Before there are further disturbing developments, I appeal to the Home Secretary to abandon the preconditions for talks that he laid down yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1028.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1028.5", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"It is called blackmail\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "cted with disdain. The prison officers at Northeye prison this evening have shown their sense of duty by returning to duty, to try to remedy the situation despite the dispute. Let the Home Secretary respond in the same spirit by accepting the offer of the Prison Officers Association, to suspend industrial action while talks take place. That would be the proper response in this dangerous situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1028.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "In the face of this further breakdown in law and order and this dangerous state of affairs, may I say from past experience that in no way should any hon. Member support insurrection, arson and what has just gone on? My party does not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that those who are faced with the difficult task of restoring order in the prisons will not thank any hon. Member for making their task more difficult by stoking up the emotions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-04-30", "file": "debates1986-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "d45e753571e5483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1032.6", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows a great deal about the subject and has consistently advanced the view that, in some way which is not clearly specified, we should prevent the courts from sending to prison people whom they think should be sent there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-04-30a.1032.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-01", "file": "debates1986-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2363cdc730eef07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-01a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I am glad to reassure my hon. Friend on that matter. Enterprise Ulster is highly regarded by all communities in Northern Ireland. It is one of the best links that we have to bring people together in Northern Ireland. There is no doubt that a major building programme such as that in the Belfast view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-01a.1080.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-07", "file": "debates1986-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8601b0d4d23ebb13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.156.6", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "It may help the Committee — [Interruption.] I thought that the alliance was anxious to get on with the debate. The Labour party is certainly anxious to debate the increase in petrol tax and the abolition of capital transfer tax on gifts. I make it clear that there was no question of the Labour party and the Conservative party getting together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.156.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-07", "file": "debates1986-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8601b0d4d23ebb13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.156.6", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "clear that there was no question of the Labour party and the Conservative party getting together. [Interruption.] I do not usually divulge what happens through the usual channels, but on this occasion I shall. It was a matter not of the Conservative party and the Labour party getting together but of the Government responding to a perfectly proper request by the Opposition about the order in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.156.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-07", "file": "debates1986-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8601b0d4d23ebb13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should wait and see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-07", "file": "debates1986-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8601b0d4d23ebb13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": ". The amendment relates specifically to petrol duty. I understand that, because we are dealing only with clause 2. It would be helpful if the Committee could understand the bizarre nature of the alliance's amendment as seen in isolation. I try to spend my time, as do other Committee Members, reading the alliance's literature published outside the House as well as what its Members say in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-07", "file": "debates1986-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8601b0d4d23ebb13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mr. Speaker's Ruling (House of Commons Crest)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I first express my surprise that, contrary to the well-established courtesies of this House, I was given no notice that this matter was to be raised on a point of order this afternoon, and again early this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-07a.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-08", "file": "debates1986-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e993733ed1db6488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.239.8", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.239.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-08", "file": "debates1986-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e993733ed1db6488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "The Community intends to take action to promote organic farming by introducing a legislative framework that will ensure free movement for organic produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-08", "file": "debates1986-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e993733ed1db6488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.256.8", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Food Imports (East Europe)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "Under the Community procedure, the ban cannot come into effect until all the countries have given their agreement. We expect that agreement to be given tomorrow, with the ban coming into effect on Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.256.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-08", "file": "debates1986-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e993733ed1db6488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.257.7", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Food Imports (East Europe)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I am unaware of the acrimonious discussions to which the hon. Gentleman has referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-08", "file": "debates1986-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e993733ed1db6488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.270.6", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "bt that the right hon. Gentleman will join me in expressing sorrow at the death of Manny Shinwell. It can truly be said that Manny used the House of Commons in the most robust fashion and that he enhanced its standing as the democratic forum of the nation. I am sure that the whole House will join me in paying tribute to Manny and to his remarkable parliamentary career in both Houses of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.270.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-08", "file": "debates1986-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "e993733ed1db6488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Crime Prevention", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "There is some evidence of a connection between youth unemployment and crime. It is hard to prove a direct link, and I do not argue that such a direct link exists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-08a.288.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-09", "file": "debates1986-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "712332d696a24417", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-09a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Safety at Sea Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "ely, and more than once, the debates on Second Reading and in Committee. I hope that the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan will allow me one small word of regret. I read with interest and some amusement of the various demonstrations that he gave, not only upstairs but in the Chamber, of the lifejackets whose use he was advocating. I am sorry that he has not come to the Chamber in an immersion suit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-09a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-09", "file": "debates1986-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "712332d696a24417", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-09a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Safety at Sea Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "t is to get agreement on these matters. I believe that the best thing for us to do for the sake of fishermen is not to delay, but to insert the provision in the Bill. The Bill will go to another place for further consideration, and there will be other opportunities for consultation before it receives Royal Assent. As I said in Committee, the initiative taken by the hon. Member for Bumf and Buchan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-09a.374.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-12", "file": "debates1986-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "63b1f13301097bd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-12a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "North-West (Investment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Derek Hatton\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "s we have heard today, that all they had to do was harness the private sector and all would be well. Look at the fact that Inner City Enterprises, an institution set up to harness entrepreneurs and big institutions to the inner city, has managed to produce only £3 million to £5 million and the National Westminster bank, a key backer of ICE, has pulled out. That is the record of the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-12a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-12", "file": "debates1986-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "63b1f13301097bd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-12a.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Of Privy Councillors\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "rocess of being commissioned in East Lothian. Both hon. Members deserve to be warmly congratulated on their ingenuity in using this evening to make speeches that will look just as good in the Haddington Courier whether they are made today or tomorrow. The hon. Member for East Lothian was listened to in attentive silence. If he had spoken tomorrow he would have had to wrestle with the massed ranks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-12a.531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that the life of those important capital ships is fast coming to a close?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Surely the Prime Minister must know, since everybody else does, that London's loss has not been anybody else's real gain. When she offers that litany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.554.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.564.3", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Shops (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "t small shops, it is fear of losing trade to the big stores that would drive them to open on Sundays. Without that fear, it is unlikely that many would open except to meet existing local demand. The Bill defines small shops as those with no more than three persons engaged in the business of the shop present at any one time. Obviously, this and other details would be open to amendment in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Nuclear Energy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that there are many incidents of a minor nature in nuclear installations. I hesitate to use the word \"trivial\", but they are of a minor nature. As I have announced in relation to these incidents, they will be reported to Ministers within my Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.572.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Nuclear Energy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": ". Cunningham) has dismissed the report without seeing it. He is not only criminalising British nuclear engineers, but rubbishing the people who have put much work into PWR development. On the basis of other reports, I agree that we should not go ahead with it, but my hon. Friend should say that he has every respect for the engineering work that has been done by Professor Bill Hall. Secondly, I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Nuclear Energy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "In case there is any misunderstanding, I shall repeat what I said. We envisage no case for ordering any nuclear power stations in the prevailing circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.585.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.591.13", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Nuclear Energy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should be interested to know how the Government Chief Whip manages to reconcile his position on nuclear waste with that of the Government. At least the position that we are adopting is consistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.591.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Nuclear Energy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "Committee that went to the United States were shown the costings for the military and civil nuclear programmes. They were shown where the plutonium was produced for military purposes and they were given the facts and figures that were denied to them in Britain because of the Official Secrets Act. The Government would not tell us the truth about what was happening at Sellafield. Those who doubt me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.620.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.645.8", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Nuclear Energy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Can I say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Give way.\"] That element has been absent from this Debate. Naturally we have considered the immediate effects of the incident in the Soviet Union and its impact upon public opinion. But can I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.645.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-13", "file": "debates1986-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "77fb4c59ac4f6682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has anticipated precisely what I was about to say. It is right that I should state what the next Labour Government's policy will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-13a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.697.5", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "t real interest rates in Britain are still higher than in competitor nations? Is he aware that our inflation rate is still the second highest in Europe—ahead only of Italy—and that wage rates here are much higher than in competitor countries? Does he accept that unless he does something more effective—for instance, by joining the European monetary system and imposing more effective wage restraint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.697.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "sked the Manpower Services Commission to explore urgently new ways in which the resources of the community programme and the enterprise allowance scheme can be used in order to lead to permanent jobs in the north-east. In addition to these measures, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment has reviewed the derelict land reclamation and urban programmes in the areas affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that the chilling and desperate news contained in that statement will cause not only dismay but deep anger throughout the shipbuilding areas? Is he not ashamed to come to the House to announce 3,500 redundancies? Why did he not tell us about redundancies in particular yards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend shows graphically the real problems that face shipping and the shipbuilding industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the right hon. Gentleman doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have already explained the position in relation to the China and Cuba orders. We are doing our utmost to win them, and the Government are helping to the maximum extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Are you viable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " treated in the same way as people in the casino economy? What about the viability of the Common Market, which received £250 million of British taxpayers' money because it went bankrupt last year? What about the Export Credits Guarantee Department. Last year, £250 million went down the Swanee and the Government bailed it out? That was not viable. Is the House of Lords viable? Is this place viable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.716.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) said when he had responsibility for this industry, Shipbuilding industries all over the world from Japan to Sweden are accepting the inevitability of contraction, and Britain cannot be insulated from this world trend.\"—[ Official Report, 24 February 1977; Vol. 926, c. 1653] That is the truth of the matter and it is hypocritical to pretend otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "ong before it will bring the whole Bill into disrepute. I do not want that. In his intervention, the Minister made it clear that in reply he would seek to justify this element by saying that it gives additional benefit to employees by making industrial tribunals available—I promise that we shall talk more about industrial tribunals later—and by staggering repayments over two, three or more months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "to justify this element by saying that it gives additional benefit to employees by making industrial tribunals available—I promise that we shall talk more about industrial tribunals later—and by staggering repayments over two, three or more months— [Interruption.] Did I hear something about 10 o'clock tomorrow morning? We cannot expect the country to support Conservative Governments and Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.770.6", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am open to correction, and if the hon. Lady has found an authority, obviously I shall look at it. I understand that the whole provision depends on the definition of manual and non-manual workers. Clerical workers or shop assistants are not protected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.770.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.774.9", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Minister said that my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Ms. Short) was in error. I corroborate everything she said about what is happening in Blackburn. The information came from me. I am certain about it. Whatever the Minister says about a particular national firm—I shall not name it because the employees fear for their jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.774.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.775.6", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I am not wrong. I do not know why the Paymaster General seeks to heckle. I think that it is because his case is so bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.775.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Opportunities", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "y useful, and discover what low pay is all about. The policies of the European Commission can be effective only if national Governments have the will to implement them. I believe that organisations and individuals have a role in putting pressure on their Governments. The United Kingdom Government are the only Government, of course, planning to exercise a general veto on the parental leave measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Opportunities", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to hear Conservative Members say how much they approve of blocking measures for equal treatment for men and women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Opportunities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I endorse many of the thoughtful and correct comments of hon. Members whatever their party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Opportunities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman. It may be an unfair reflection on public schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Opportunities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "e exception rather than the rule in terms of their sex and their membership of the House. In considering in detail, as the documents do, the need to change not only attitudes but Government policies to provide fairer treatment and opportunities for men and women, we need look no further than the House of Commons, which is one of the most drastically unrepresentative institutions in western Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equal Opportunities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "When I first became a Member, I may have been a little naive and a little simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Board and Lodging Regulations (Midlothian)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "in some—although. of course, not all—areas. We were also concerned that, with the easy availability of high boarder payments, the benefit system was, in effect, acting as an artificial stimulus to the market, resulting in some cases of exploitation and waste. I emphasise \"some\", because I am not making a more general charge. It is not a matter of dispute between us that that was a genuine problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Board and Lodging Regulations (Midlothian)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "te and voluntary homes has been declining although the numbers in homes have tended to increase. That picture is mirrored in Lothian. In 1980, there were 544 people sponsored in the Lothian area. By 1985, that figure had fallen to 427. I understand that this trend is likely to increase in future. I should reiterate that local authorities still retain their rights and responsibilities in this area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-14", "file": "debates1986-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a8ec08874fdcdde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.832.6", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Board and Lodging Regulations (Midlothian)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "tly, but people do retain the same level of protection if they move to another home, although no one can receive more than the actual charge that they are required to pay. The logic of the hon. Gentleman's position can only be that any fees that proprietors choose to impose should be met, whatever their level. I am pleased to put it on record that the hon. Member for Falkirk, East shakes his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-14a.832.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.839.5", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The last Budget was not very long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.839.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that, once again, the right hon. Gentleman misrepresents the figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that, once again, the right hon. Gentleman misrepresents the figures? [Interruption.] He knows that a Labour Government would increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in regretting today's announcement by British Caledonian of nearly 1,000 redundancies, many of whom are my constituents", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lly, he will see that the proportion of public funds spent is not different. The difference occurs because, in many of those countries, people choose to spend far more of their own money on health, on top of state provision. Some of the countries with the top figures spend enormous sums on health privately. Far more is spent on health in Britain than a few years ago. Far more patients are treated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. Many people were pleased to have the Torness reactor built in Scotland, and many people in Scotland have great faith, as we have, in nuclear power as a way of generating electricity. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will have great faith in our most excellent Nuclear Inspectorate, which does a tremendous job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames) made a serious point to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister about many of his constituents who are being made unemployed today. You may recall that several Opposition Members responded by cheering and laughter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.852.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.855.5", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Official Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Occasionally. I have now been here a long time—more than most hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.855.5", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Official Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ore years to come. I recall, and I am sure that you will endorse my argument, Sir, that in those earlier days, frequently sedentary interventions were recorded, whether there was a riposte or not, and they very frequently enlivened the debates, often made valuable points, and were very germane to the debate. I am open to correction, but I understand that you were the one who introduced the change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.855.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-15", "file": "debates1986-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe0ef9f8e9db1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.921.16", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "d the postal questionnaire. The Minister has an opportunity to make the wages inspectorate a truly effective policing body, but he intends to cut that body by 40 per cent. At present, an employer in the wages councils sector can expect, on average, to have a visit from an inspector once every 12 or 14 years. Even then, the employer is forewarned. It is no wonder that there are so few prosecutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-15a.921.16"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-16", "file": "debates1986-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ce309fe8ded6970d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-16a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "at the majority of people now buying property in docklands had hoped, when they left school or university, that they would spend the majority of their family lives living in the suburbs or the country. Because of the initiative that we can see at docklands, again a partnership between the public and the private sectors, that rundown place, an area which we have all neglected for the past 20 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-16a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-16", "file": "debates1986-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ce309fe8ded6970d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-16a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": " Some of the local authority-owned houses have been empty for six, nine, 12, or more months. Today 26,000 houses that are under stewardship of local authorities have been standing empty for more than 12 months. That is a scandal and a scar on the face of a so-called caring society. If one looks above the fascia boards of shop fronts in towns and cities throughout the country, one sees empty rooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-16a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-16", "file": "debates1986-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ce309fe8ded6970d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-16a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "nder stewardship of local authorities have been standing empty for more than 12 months. That is a scandal and a scar on the face of a so-called caring society. If one looks above the fascia boards of shop fronts in towns and cities throughout the country, one sees empty rooms. [Interruption.] Local authorities will not let these rooms, for the very reason that the hon. Member for Fulham mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-16a.972.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-19", "file": "debates1986-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "472588bf5d630db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "d. We wish to bring about an early end to apartheid in South Africa. We wish that to be brought about by peaceful means, and the Eminent Persons Group is the most effective instrument devised so far for achieving that. As I said in my statement, it is for that reason that we regret this series of attacks. I have described as particularly deplorable the fact that they are taking place at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-19", "file": "debates1986-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "472588bf5d630db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "The whole House will join the Foreign Secretary in condemning this attack —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-19", "file": "debates1986-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "472588bf5d630db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ho would be independent of ordinary line management, in order to bring this additional element of independence to the review of social fund decisions. 4.45 pm Essentially that is what we have sought to provide in the new clause. We have provided for a further review by this body of social fund inspectors. They will be officials of the Department, and the new clause provides for their appointment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-19", "file": "debates1986-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "472588bf5d630db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": ". I recognise the strong feelings aroused by the changes in the state earnings-related pension scheme. It was reflected, although in a lower key than we might have expected a few months ago, in some of the speeches this evening. Our original proposition was for greater changes. Our current propositions are substantially different from those which originally saw the light of day in the Green Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-19", "file": "debates1986-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "472588bf5d630db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best (Ynys Môn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best (Ynys Môn)", "preceding_text": "d way so perhaps one can discount that and I can certainly live with the opposition of the Institute of Directors. However, I am in grave difficulty with the National Farmers Union because of all the farmers in my constituency and I am in grave difficulty with the opposition of the National Federation of Self-employed and Small Businesses Ltd and with the National Federation of Women's Institutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-19", "file": "debates1986-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "472588bf5d630db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "proposals go through in their present form, there will be interference by employers in the social benefits that their employees get, which is serious. Much more serious is the proposal that the benefit should in most cases be paid to the man who is likely to be earning the money. Therefore, it is unlikely to get to the woman, and it is even less likely to get to the children at the end of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-19a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister investigate the likelihood that one major deterrent to trans-Atlantic visits this year is the persistent and depressing reports of the vile English weather?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "preceding_text": "Very briefly, Mr. Deputy Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.293.7", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "It may help the House if I outline the general background to this matter and the basis on which the Privileges Committee has made this report. But first I should make it clear that this matter is for the House of Commons and the House of Commons alone to decide in the same spirit of free voting as the debate on televising our proceedings last November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.293.7", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " the Committee also reported that, in its view, this leak had caused serious interference with the work of the Committee, this special report stood automatically referred to the Committee of Privileges under the new procedure subsequently approved by the House on 18 March. The source of the leak has not been indentified. despite searching inquiries of all its members by the Environment Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I am sure that it would be a happy issue to most of our afflictions if any hon. Member who had leaked the document were now to make that evident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.300.5", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree about breach of trust, but I am not entirely clear about the relevance of that interruption. We are discussing whether or not there has been a breach of trust by an hon. Member. Whoever leaked this report did wrong. The Times and Mr. Evans did not leak and did not do wrong. They published, as it was their right and duty to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e. I understand his argument, but I disagree with it. He says that the solution to the problem is to make all the Committees open and not to insist on confidentiality. Just as I disagree with my right hon. Friend on that matter, so I disagree when the argument is applied to the Cabinet itself. The trouble about having so many leaks from the Cabinet—this is the leakiest Cabinet in British history —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.303.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "gerous to the British people. Moreover, there is in addition much more of an organised system of leaks although I am not saying that there were not signs of it in years gone by. [Interruption.] Day by day and week by week, we have an organised system of communicating to the press the decisions of the Government and the decisions of many Government and Cabinet Committees, and that system continues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "to the effect that Mr. Richard Evans be not suspended from the Lobby for six months. That is very much for the reasons expressed in amendment (a) in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg). It goes against the inherent sense of fair play of the House that a young, well-liked journalist should be punished while the real villain, possibly a Member of the House, escapes censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "le. The danger of that is that individual Members may be asked to comment, which would make it even more difficult to reach a unanimous consensus view. The advantage would be that the document would join all the other official press releases as an unleakable document. Another course would be to enable the House to enter into exclusive publication rights and recoup some of the Committees' expenses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "lect Committees. They are an exciting development, still in their infancy, through which Parliament is seeking to re-establish its traditional role as a check on the Executive. During the past 100 years that role has been eroded by the party and whipping systems. Question Time has become a ritualistic game, and apart from occasions such as this, setpiece debates in the Chamber are poorly attended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "ime has become a ritualistic game, and apart from occasions such as this, setpiece debates in the Chamber are poorly attended. [Interruption.] On the other hand, Select Committees summon Ministers and, equally important, their officials, and cross-examine them persistently and in depth in a way which is impossible under any other procedures. Having heard all the evidence in open court, as it were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-20", "file": "debates1986-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "543ad57a4400162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "preceding_text": "t is a much more serious interference in the work of the Committee than any journalist reporting the draft report. I wonder why we are not debating that as well. In no way do I condone the business of leaks. It is an acutely damaging procedure and one which, over the past few days, I have had good reason to be reminded is extremely dangerous and damaging to trust between one colleague and another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-20a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.354.5", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " it is the case that a British official in the International Atomic Energy Agency received an inquiry from Russia on 29 April about how to deal with a graphite fire, why was that information not communicated immediately to the British Government? Would it not have made a major difference to the preparedness of the country and of the emergency services if that potential warning and been acted upon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.354.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ible system between all Departments of Government that are involved in the exercise, so as to ensure that there are no difficulties such as the one the hon. Gentleman mentioned. I have already tried to describe to the House the position on orders, not only in the United Kingdom, but throughout the world. The Manpower Services Commission will work closely with British Shipbuilders Enterprise Ltd. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "to ensure that there are no difficulties such as the one the hon. Gentleman mentioned. I have already tried to describe to the House the position on orders, not only in the United Kingdom, but throughout the world. The Manpower Services Commission will work closely with British Shipbuilders Enterprise Ltd. — [Interruption.] I should have thought that the House would be interested in learning this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am telling the House of the measures which I believe will be of substantial help to the north-east. I hope that that will prove to be the case. I have already described the position on orders that have been made and are coming, including Ministry of Defence orders and merchant orders. I have already announced two further orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have already answered my hon. Friend's question and I think that he is satisfied with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have already answered my hon. Friend's question and I think that he is satisfied with it. [Interruption.] Let him speak for himself. BS Enterprise Ltd. will also operate in Scotland. My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland is urgently considering additional help for the areas affected north of the border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.5", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "About £230 million was spent on the intervention programme, and the other £1,100 million is the main part of Government help for BS during the past seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.5", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "S during the past seven years. [Interruption.] Let me tell the House the exact position. BS has received nearly £1·5 billion from the Government since 1979. Public dividend capital of more than £1,100 million has funded BS's general operations. Intervention fund money amounting to £236 million has been spent as a subsidy on contract prices to help BS win orders against far east competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.417.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have told the House the answer perfectly clearly. Incidentally, the total support for shipbuilding under the Labour Government was £130 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Indeed, the taxpayers are. We are keen to inspire the confidence of owners in the industry's ability to compete, build and deliver on time. The House knows how vulnerable confidence in a business can be in these circumstances. It will not help if hon. Members in any part of the House—I make no allegation of this—talk down the industry at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "preceding_text": "industries. The idea of leaving everything to the free market and free competition and then we shall somehow survive is absurd. When the Government announcement was made last week they thought that the problem would go away; that it was a seven-day wonder and that no one would care. Ministers said on television that we must look to the future, and that the industry was clapped out and out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "at about £350,000 a year can be saved per ship by flagging out. Leaving aside the defence issue, do we actually need any more British ships? It makes no difference whether a vessel coming up Southampton water is flying the red duster or the Panamanian flag. There is no shortage of ships to bring in the nation's raw materials and basic commodities. What is happening is widespread throughout Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about shipbuilding?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "French and the Germans to agree about a proper system of cabotage if we lose what little leverage we have by proceeding on the other three regulations. We must also protect ourselves against unfair competition from, say, the Russian fleet. That is why regulation 1 is so important, because it will give Europe the power to respond to the unfair Russian competition that we are currently experiencing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stop filibustering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "t their hands on 12 vessels without paying a penny, and that results in a constant over-supply and consequently a reduction in freight rates. That has crippled British shipowners. Opposition Members will remember the subsidies for Polish ships in the mid-1970s, and while they welcomed the jobs that that created, they should also bear in mind that it put a British shipping company into liquidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Waste (Disposal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "nt made by my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes? When you were elected, Mr. Speaker, you stressed the importance of representing Back Benchers. My hon. Friend and I, who represent constituencies deeply touched by the special development order, stand alone because the payroll is against us, the Labour party, in substance, is against us, and the Liberal party has not made up its mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-21", "file": "debates1986-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "f556aadea2213f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Radioactive Waste (Disposal)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "site at which it is now proposed to store low-level nuclear waste. What nonsense. The road and rail communications do not satisfy the criteria laid down by NIREX. They are almost non-existent. As I have said previously — this would be laughable if it were not for its tragic implications—the site is adjacent to a fault line which, since the 17th century, has seen four earthquakes, the last in 1884.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-21a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-22", "file": "debates1986-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa71543147855a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ablish those facts, because those concerned repeatedly condemn themselves out of their own mouths. What is inadequate is the response of the Leader of the Opposition, who thinks that it is enough to give an occasional gentle rap over the knuckles, when it should be made clear that the people taking this line will not be supported in their efforts to be elected to this House on the next occasion. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-22", "file": "debates1986-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa71543147855a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.526.5", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Holland decided to accept cruise weapons. In fact, the party that was for cruise weapons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.526.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-22", "file": "debates1986-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa71543147855a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.531.4", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Ministerial Statements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not heard it yet\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "Lords is hearing a Government statement now at 3.30 pm. The point which my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) made is that it would have been perfectly possible for both statements to be made, as normal, at the same time. I hope the Leader of the House will return to that matter. On the business statement, could I ask the right hon. Gentleman to note that at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.531.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-22", "file": "debates1986-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa71543147855a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree that there is need for a debate on a matter that is worrying many hon. Members on both sides of the House — the infiltration of Militant Tendency into local government affairs? It is especially worrying in my constituency in Southampton where, at the last election, several Militant Tendency candidates took key positions on various committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-22", "file": "debates1986-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa71543147855a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.537.3", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Yes, well …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-22", "file": "debates1986-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa71543147855a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sex Discrimination Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elizabeth Shields", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elizabeth Shields", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Ryedale, the late Mr. John Spence. He was a modest, conscientious and well-known constituency Member. His sudden death came as a great shock to us all. I met him on several civic occasions, when he was unfailingly pleasant and courteous. He will be greatly missed in the constituency and I am sure that all hon. Members will join me in extending deepest sympathy to his wife and family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-05-22", "file": "debates1986-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "fa71543147855a16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sex Discrimination Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the special situation is with regard to the hon. Lady's education authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-05-22a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.730.2", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, matters such as vehicle registration are wholly matters for the police. He asked about the benefits that these people receive. So that there should be no possibility of fraud or of people appearing at one benefit office having received benefit from another, there is a social security officer attached to them to see that duplication does not occur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Hippy Convoy (New Forest)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Dorset police on the splendid job they did peacefully to contain the damage, disturbance, fear and the threat to farmers and jobs that were caused by the hippy convoy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Hippy Convoy (New Forest)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark) and I, with limited support from the hon. Member for Salisbury (Mr. Key), came close to getting an agreement by which the Department of the Environment would negotiate with the Department of Defence to have suitable land set aside for the group to provide sufficient time to arrange a long-term solution for both a festival and the travellers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "referring, are concerned about the physical conditions of their environment. All of them know that the National Health Service, the education service and the environment have deteriorated over the past seven years and they know that unless we begin to spend money on rebuilding dilapidated Britain now, in five, 10 or 20 years the nation will not be able to afford the cost of escalating deprivation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "y, no less for those in work than for those who are unemployed, to allow money to be wasted and to allow the waste to continue when the money now spent on unemployment and the workers could combine to build a better Britain. I ask the Chancellor a simple question and I shall keep on asking it until he has the courtesy to answer. I know graciousness is not a characteristic that is most noticeable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "preceding_text": "During the past seven years I have listened to a good many debates on this subject, and certainly the message from the Opposition does not change. They seem to be infected by amnesia about unemployment before 1979, including its existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "preceding_text": "st seven years I have listened to a good many debates on this subject, and certainly the message from the Opposition does not change. They seem to be infected by amnesia about unemployment before 1979, including its existence. [Interruption.] They are long on lamentation, short on analysis and bereft of any constructive proposals other than the usual custard pie approach with the taxpayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "preceding_text": "h the taxpayers' money. [Interruption.] I shall concentrate on one or two constructive points rather than bewail the position as the Opposition have again done. There are understandable short-term political reasons for harping on the high number of unemployed, and 3·3 million is a large number. However, it seems extraordinary that we do not know who those people are and what they are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "preceding_text": "that we do not know the answers to some basic questions. Observation of people in the south of England confirms an impression that some claimants are working the black economy—part of the best job start scheme there is. It is a sign of the civilised nature of our society that concern about the high level of unemployment is felt not only by people in the north where the problems are perhaps worse —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.772.7", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": " May'. There have been allegations that the Prime Minister sought to prefer the bid of the Al-Fayed brothers in relation to some £5 billion which was allegedly deposited in this country during the financial crisis in early January last year. There have been allegations about the Prime Minister's son and there has been extraordinary conduct on the part of a journalist. I submit to you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.772.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The increase in jobs that we have been seeing in the economy since early in 1983 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.782.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is a toy railway\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "n which one person was killed. I understand that there was another crash at an automatic open level crossing a few days ago in Ammanford. Thank goodnes nobody was killed in that crash, but it was still another accident. I have heard of a number of accidents on the automatic open level crossing outside Aberystwyth which carries the Aberystwyth to Devil's Bridge line across one of the A class roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-03", "file": "debates1986-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "d75822bbefdda05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": " the next Session. Thus the legislation could be taken in a proper way. The Government are attaching an urgency to the matter that could deny many potential petitioners the right to be heard. One cannot tell whether the project will go through; the track record is not encouraging for the Bill's supporters. I suspect, judging from experience, that we shall not see a Channel tunnel in our lifetime —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-03a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-04", "file": "debates1986-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8854625445cc4af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The Government are in no haste to do anything —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-04", "file": "debates1986-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8854625445cc4af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.888.5", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "That was a rather predictable question. The hon. Gentleman might like to reflect on the figures produced by Strathclyde regional council, which estimated in the early 1980s that by 1991 a fall in school rolls would result in a surplus of no fewer than 230,000 school places. The hon. Gentleman is intelligent enough to be aware that if there is a surplus of 230,000 places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.888.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-04", "file": "debates1986-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8854625445cc4af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.888.9", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Secretary of State would not expect me to say that he is much loved in the district of Kilmarnock, but he is respected as an intelligent and sincere man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.888.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-04", "file": "debates1986-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8854625445cc4af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Legionnaire's Disease (Badenoch Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "ccur in air conditioning systems in other public buildings, unless proper maintenance of the systems is carried out. The remit of any committee that the right hon. Gentleman sets up should include aspects of air pollution through air conditioning systems and its effect on health. More people are recognising the link between air conditioning systems and absenteeism from work, with more infections —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-04", "file": "debates1986-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8854625445cc4af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "This is the third occasion on which I have taken part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-04", "file": "debates1986-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8854625445cc4af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Rail Engineering Limited (Springburn)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "an to undertake any further major overhaul work there. The hon. Gentleman also asked some specific questions. He mentioned that the press had been refused access to the Springburn works. That is not quite the position. The press had access to the conference room, but wanted to tour the works. There were about 40 journalists, and I think that the hon. Gentleman will realise that for safety reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-04a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Is not an unhappy aspect of the boycott—I use the word deliberately—the fact that the Unionist Members are absenting themselves from this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister compounds her dishonesty and only demonstrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said the last time I answered questions, we received advice from the United States and from this country to that effect. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1114.4", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could now turn to clause 26(2)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1114.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I do not know what city centres we are talking about. The brochure talks about London and Paris. I do not think that people would make that journey by tunnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "It is usual for them to be either tied down individually or for the first and last vehicles of every row to be tied down so that they are all immobilised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"East Kent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "on. Members from Kent say that the scheme will be disastrous for employment and would have a severe effect on the economy of west Kent. The hon. Member for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) graphically outlined what he saw as the economic disasters that would result from this project. He will not like me saying this, but he made one of the finest arguments for socialism in west Kent that I have ever heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1178.4", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I concede straight away that my hon. Friend has been here a lot longer than I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I have at last prevailed upon my hon. Friend to give way; I was getting exhausted with waiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": " consultative committee elected representatives of the Kent county council, the district councils that will be affected, British Rail, the Department of the Environment, the promoters and the Department of Transport. I am chairman of the committee, it meets approximately monthly and it is already hard at work trying to minimise the disadvantages and maximise the potential advantages of the tunnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ossibilities with Eurotunnel. When a decision is taken, I shall bring it to the House. The hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Ross) made a robust and honest speech as the official spokesman on transport for the Liberal party. He gave his unrepentant support for the Channel tunnel. I note that he laid it baldly on the line that he would take the same view as the Government if he were in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " that view to the Liberal spokesman in the constituency of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard), who, as always, is in his place. My hon. Friend the Member for Harwich (Sir J. Ridsdale) made some technical points, about which I shall write to him. My hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Mr. Wardle) made a series of local points affecting Folkestone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "about which I shall write to him. My hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Mr. Wardle) made a series of local points affecting Folkestone. [Interruption.] I shall write to him and to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe. I recognise that this is another example of my hon. and learned Friend's ingenuity in raising points in the House on behalf of his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " Hythe. I recognise that this is another example of my hon. and learned Friend's ingenuity in raising points in the House on behalf of his constituents. [Interruption.] My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Rees) made, as always, a valuable contribution to our debates and stressed the need for clear competition. He assured the House that the ferry operators can hold their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1185.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill (Committal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I was addressing those present in the House —the hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friends. It must be said that, with five exceptions, the Labour Party— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1209.10", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill (Committal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "n which the Bill can be shaped so as to reflect the private interests is through the mechanism of a Select Committee. If the Select Committee is narrowly drawn, if it does not have within its number people of sufficient independence and of critical mind, the Committee's report to the House will not reflect the true interests of the people of Kent. I know that I have spoken for a long time tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1209.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill (Committal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has spelt out clearly what he and the rest of us feel about what we judge to be discourtesy to the Chair. Opposition Members have not been here, although their amendments were selected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1261.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1266.7", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill (Committal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman was asleep when I explained that the proceedings of the committee were not secret and that its minutes were sent to local authorities and the press. Indeed, I sought to spare the hon. Gentleman any embarrassment when he was snoring. I did not want to give way to him on the assumption that he wished to intervene. The hon. Gentleman asked when the committee would complete its work —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1266.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1266.7", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill (Committal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " is being done and a great many studies are under way. Later on there will be more monitoring of the effect of the arrangements that have been agreed by the committee. The impact study is being conducted in two parts. In the first part, we anticipate that a report will be before the committee at its next meeting. I hope that it will be approved then, but that is up to the members of the committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1266.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-05", "file": "debates1986-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8cbc730c76f3c7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill (Committal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Press-ganged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nsideration of amendments (a) and (b) and he should have addressed his request to me when I was contributing to the debate on those amendments. We are now concerned with whether it is right for the Select Committee to have power to be able to continue its sittings beyond the adjournment of the House. I cannot believe that the nine members of the Committee will be volunteers. They will be selected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-05a.1310.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Official Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that if the hon. Gentleman looks at Hansard of 5 June he will find that that did happen. The hon. Gentleman should look in column 1194 None of us in this place should ever destroy our speeches. I am sure that his admirable remarks can adequately be made on Friday of this week and will he in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Time is getting on, and, if I may say so in the context of this debate, most of the arguments have been made ad nauseam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many ex-Labour Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend next tables that question, will he consider asking the Minister how many friends of Tory Ministers, how many solicitors and professional people employed by Tory Ministers and how many people connected with the Conservative party have been appointed as chairmen of health authorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.47.10", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Speaker. I always knew that the Chair would protect an hon. Member, and this is genuine protection. As I said earlier. the hon. Lady has only just walked into the Chamber and she does not know what has been said. I suggest that she hangs on a while and listens to some real debate. Only the Opposition are providing that. I wonder what is going on on the Tory Benches. Are they interested in the NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.47.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Labour Members who take a particular interest in the NHS. It seems that Conservative Members are interested in the NHS only when they want to borrow its equipment for use in private practice. The Labour party has a strong vested interest in the NHS because not only do we have a political and social commitment to it, but we participate in it. These are the only hospitals that our children will use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a Labour area.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "? The hon. Gentleman referred to hospitals generally as being filled with cockroaches and vermin. That may apply to England and Wales, but it does not apply to Scotland. Nurses are trained not only in patient care but in hygiene. I saw a classic example of that only last weekend at the Royal Alexandra infirmary in Paisley. Ward 8 was spotless and the food that arrived from the kitchens was superb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.57.5", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"Who is opening it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "he conditions that one finds in National Health Service kitchens to apply to the kitchens in the Palace of Westminster. The Government say that they are spending more money on the National Health Service. I have been invited to the opening on Wednesday of a new hospital in Bridgend. We have fought for that hospital for 18 years. It will replace a number of hospitals in Ogmore and in Mid-Glamorgan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.57.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " whole area will be subject to the food legislation. After the food has been eaten, the swill and refuse have to be taken away. My hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton) said that cockroaches were no respecters of boundaries. They may primarily eat food that they find in hospitals, or they may find a living in rooms where drugs are kept. The legislation will not cover those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.65.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.75.10", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ne. I say at once, since I do not believe in suspense, that the applicants succeed in their arguments before me, and thus the Secretary of State may not in my judgment recover the relevant sums. It would have been nice to see a sentence in the Bill saying that the Department would not recover any sums by primary legislation at this stage. I know that the Minister gave that assurance in Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.75.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand why we have had to wait so long for such a clear statement of intent. Over the past month, there have repeatedly been articles in newspapers and trade union journals setting out the great concern among the membership of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "I shall make a brief contribution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be distracted by the hon. Gentleman, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I accept your stricture. I shall return to the amendments. 10.45 pm I should like to address myself to two points. First, when the Minister replied to the opening speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Dr. Marek), he said that the provision would apply to the entire National Health Service estate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "vention board for agricultural products, and so on. I add those examples in an effort to convince even the most conservative of Members that there are sound precedents for our proposal. I hope that even if the Under-Secretary of State cannot accept the exact wording of our proposals, he will accept the principle that lies behind them and our desire to improve performance and to increase publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.126.4", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.126.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.130.6", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I rise merely to welcome the Scottish Minister to the debate. This is the first time that he has been in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.150.6", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Members' Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": " it was to be a most satisfactory statement. If necessary, these discussions will have to proceed with the utmost dispatch, because I am sure that there is a limit to the time that you will allow me to make such points of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I believe that the usual channels have now been unblocked and that some communication is being made to the Leader of the House. I hope that, even now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.150.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-09", "file": "debates1986-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "2cce63afc94d1df6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rural Bus Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "vernment are past masters at introducing sound legislation, I was not at all sure that they are past masters at selling some of it to the general public. I often feel that we have lost the propaganda war on rural bus services. Littleborough and Saddleworth is a collection of small towns and villages nestling in the Pennines on the outskirts of Rochdale and Oldham. These villages rely very much on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-09a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.163.8", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have confidence in some.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.163.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "Now that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.173.7", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minster", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would quote my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment accurately, which he did not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.173.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Appeal to what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " damage to all its work. Under the Bill as drafted the governing bodies have a right to exclude a pupil, which can be overridden by the LEA. I intend to strengthen the position of the governing body in such a case where there is a difference of opinion between it and the local education authority. I intend to introduce an amendment to propose a right of appeal for the governing body or the parent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.195.2", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "—even though, wait for it, authorities such as Gloucester and Devon — hardly burning Socialist areas — are now pressing to be allowed to become comprehensive. There is nothing about assisting more young people to stay on at school after 16, although the percentage in full-time education has fallen significantly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A free vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "The Opposition will vote for abolition, as we did on Second reading of the Corporal Punishment Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": " guide because they have been repeated on university and polytechnic campuses in this country. The guide included thoughtful recommendations such as: Always be provocative. Remember you are not here to persuade the closed minded leftists, you are here to wind them up so much they lose control and disrupt the conference\" It is suggested that they should shout out things like \"You red fascist scum.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "ing them. My hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) had to put the hon. Gentleman right. The hon. Gentleman spent 99 per cent. of his speech on that subject and never dealt with anything in the Bill. Only one subject came out of the speech of the hon. Member for Luton, North (Mr. Carlisle). We have had two one-subject speeches. Meanwhile, the whole Bill is under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "uld be caned and others could not. So the teacher would have to say to a child, \"You are misbehaving. Can I cane you or can't I?\" What utter nonsense. I served on the Committee of that Bill and the chaos was unbelievable. It was similar to the chaos that the Government have produced in our education system. The Government are worried that the electorate has now seen through it all. The game is up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "tion service or starving it of funds. The Conservative party does not understand the state system of education. It deplores in its very bones the fact that the system is educating our children to higher levels than ever before. That is why Conservative Members try to rubbish the examination results achieved through state education which are massively higher than they have ever been in our history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-10", "file": "debates1986-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2798c1491cb16293", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "d's clear commitment to retaining corporal punishment, and I was delighted to hear him say that we would have a free vote on this issue. That compares favourably with the attitude of Opposition Members who, despite questioning, have still failed to say where they stand on the question of a free vote. Will the Opposition allow their hon. Members a free vote or will they be whipped into the Lobbies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-10a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.314.7", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cambell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cambell-Savours", "preceding_text": "What is the Foreign Secretary's response to the comments of Sir Robert Geldof, who described the right hon. and learned Gentleman's speech at the United Nations illustrating Britain's position on help for those in need in Africa as a lot of old crap?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.314.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of the alliance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. It is absolutely clear that the dual track position of NATO —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.323.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.324.5", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Every hon. Member must take responsibility for what he says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.324.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1986, which was laid before this House on 8th May, be approved. I understand that it will be for the convenience of the House if we take with this order the four following motions and the prayer in the name of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.359.6", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Through family income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.359.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.366.5", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were you there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " our pensioners who want their savings protected and who rely on the little extra that building society interest gives them. As my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) pointed out, it is foolish to talk as though squeezing the rich will be sufficient to deliver all the fancy promises that we have heard from the Labour party. I think that it was at the Labour party conference in 1976 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.374.5", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me, but I must respond to a large number of points and I want to deal with as many as I can. The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire invited the Government to re-examine the retail price index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "the protection of investors is to be upheld and the law is to be complied with, but whether it is right that a private organisation should be able to exercise such powers in our society. I know of no precedent for this. It is important to establish for those outside that the SIB is a private company. A private company which is no different from Securior or a private policeman will police the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "ange in 1983. I was opposed to the Parkinson-Goodison deal because I thought it wrong to take pending litigation out of the ambit of the courts. The restrictive practices of the stock exchange should have been considered by the Restrictive Practices Court. Plenty of people share that view. Perhaps I am wrong, but it appears politically unwise to grant to the stock exchange another great privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-11", "file": "debates1986-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2661df65b0fe923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "dual members of SROs work, rather than in the interests of the public or the market as a whole. 9.45 pm I am well persuaded, as I believe my hon. and learned Friend the Minister was, that the practical reality is that. SROs will be blockaded or rendered impotent by the threat of suits or damages of an order substantially greater than the hon. Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham) imagines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-11a.421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-12", "file": "debates1986-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "77df1a7dc0cd3c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-12a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "I am glad that, however reluctantly and truculently, the Government have decided to restore last week's hijacked private Members' day. Does the right hon. Gentleman recollect that last Friday was not only a Labour Back-Bench day but specifically the day of my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-12a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-12", "file": "debates1986-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "77df1a7dc0cd3c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-12a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his opening comments. Some hon. Members seek no initiative, but to preserve the status quo. I find it unsatisfactory to have nothing between the Secretary of State and local authorities, the powers of which are not much in excess of a parish council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-12a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "That is right. I welcome my hon. Friend's intervention. Our proposals on health and safety are based on the report of a special study to see whether the law on health and safety at work and its administration causes difficulties for employers, especially small ones. I am glad to say that the study revealed that the great majority of firms contacted had a strong commitment to health and safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "bers will be here then and perhaps the Under-Secretary of State will be showing his enterprise in stockbroking—will cooperate with companies in a planned way to ensure that investment, training and research and development take place and that there is investment in this country, not in other countries. Such developments will ensure that we can compete effectively with our rivals, by deregulating —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister believe that it must be good sense and good value both for our country and people to pay people to work, to get them into the taxpaying bracket and to create real assets to hand on to our children? Surely that must be good value, even if it means an increase in taxation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "st published. Was that the Government's intention when they decided on deregulation? The Government's deregulation policy has had a serious effect on other parts of our industry. The Government admire what goes on in the United States. Some might say that there is more than admiration in the relationship between the Prime Minister and the President of the United States. It is almost hero worship —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman supports—high demand for labour is created in some sections of the country at the expense of others, as well as massive distortions in the rest of the economy as false signals are set up by artificial demand. The most damning aspect is that when roads are finished and sewers are ultimately repaired, the jobs will no longer be available for those brought off unemployment benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's smugness is appalling. Has he not heard of people such as Andrew Carnegie? Is he not aware that some of the great charitable works that have been carried out in this country and in the United States are the results of entrepreneurs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "es promulgate. No one is better at it than the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth). That myth is a belief that the Labour party is anti-enterprise, anti-business and anti-wealth creation. Nothing could be further from the truth. I tell the hon. Gentleman and other Conservative Members that, as I go round the country, business men and managers say, \"Please let us have a Labour Government again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-13", "file": "debates1986-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "320d4e8d5d3dee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ise, anti-business and anti-wealth creation. Nothing could be further from the truth. I tell the hon. Gentleman and other Conservative Members that, as I go round the country, business men and managers say, \"Please let us have a Labour Government again.\" [Laughter.] Up and down the country, manager after manager says that. Conservative Members may laugh at that because it is an uncomfortable fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-13a.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-16", "file": "debates1986-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7981d1cc49147cd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: -No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "preceding_text": " disproportionate share of resources for its population and, even taking account of London weighting, unit costs for the provision of particular items of service can be as much as 30 per cent. higher than in other parts of the country. In effect, the Opposition's motion is saying that the provinces should subsidise London and the other conurbations underwriting and ingraining those inefficiencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-16", "file": "debates1986-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7981d1cc49147cd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "ial baby care units, but they should be distributed so that they can he easily reached. That is the point. Indeed, I understand that there may be; some developments in that area. There is a distinct possibility that other hon. Members on both sides of the House wish to speak, so I shall be brief. Let me ask a few questions. There was a specially leaked news item in today's edition of The Guardian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-16", "file": "debates1986-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7981d1cc49147cd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.804.2", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "e past year hospital waiting lists have gone down, but there was a huge increase between March 1982 and September 1982. I have a chart, which clearly cannot go into Hansard , but it shows that there was a sharp narrow plateau of high waiting lists during the winter of discontent—no one would want to get away from that—but since 1982 waiting lists have on average reached an unparalleled high level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.804.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-16", "file": "debates1986-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7981d1cc49147cd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " set up its powers were extended enormously by its own decisions. Because of the volume of work, additional courts have been set up to deal with points of law and matters of first instance which are explained in the Single European Act. One of the reasons for extending and creating a new court is to deal with additional work. The Act itself will impose a great deal of additional work on the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-16", "file": "debates1986-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7981d1cc49147cd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "y except Britain levies VAT on electricity. Every member state, except two, including Britain, puts VAT on food. If we harmonise on VAT, the people of Britain will have to pay VAT on gas, electricity and food. When we have raised the question with the Government they have said, \"Do not bother about that, because that is one of the few areas where we still have unanimity and limited power of veto.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-16", "file": "debates1986-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7981d1cc49147cd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ossibility of a plurality of courts. By legislating by an amendment of treaty we are legislating in a fog on matters of substantial importance. It is a matter of substantial importance whether we as members of the European Community have to support the bureaucracy and top-hamper of one court, two courts or an unlimited pullution of junior courts or courts attached to the European Court of Justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-16a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "replaced but that Polaris should be allowed to linger on as an increasingly decrepit and hopeless system, and if his deputy leader believed that Polaris should be replaced by cruise, would people not say that the Conservative party's defence policy was a shambles? is that not precisely the policy of the alliance? Does it not bear less resemblance to the real Alliance that protects our freedom and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend meets King Hussein today, will she describe to him her extremely successful visit to Israel —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Remands in Custody (Compensation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": " prior to an acquittal; and for connected purposes. The Bill is designed to overcome some injusticies which we may have in our system. Reaction to the Bill during the past few days from various journalists and members of the public has been one of surprise that in English law a person accused of a crime where there is a presumption of innocence who is then brought to court and remanded in custody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.913.6", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "d in its breach than in its observance — that if a Member of Parliament has interests he should declare them. Is it not incumbent on right hon. and hon. Members who have benefited from trips to the Republic of South Africa within the last year under the auspices of that Government to declare in this debate that they have done so, so that the House and the public can know why they speak as they do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.913.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.913.8", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "dramatically deteriorated in the past few days. South Africa 1986 is the embodiment of the world of George Orwell's \"1984\". We have in South Africa today a police state in which the Government's agents have a licence to arrest without explanation and to kill without being called to account. South Africa today suffers from a news blackout far more complete than any Communist country has ever known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.913.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I agree that that is an objection, but we have to take account of the fact that those black workers, not just their leaders, are saying loud and clear that they want sanctions to be applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ta. The same can be said of many other African countries as they went from a period of armed struggle and violence towards the transition to independence and democracy. It may be different democracy from what we have here. I should like to see much better democracy. But let us remember that little Botswana, which was taken out by the South Africans, is one of the best representatives of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "a boycott of the tricameral elections and received much effective support. That shows that the blacks and the coloureds were not prepared to accept the further departmentalisation written into the constitution by participating in such an election. The fundamental point about South Africa is not about messing around at the edges, or the cosmetics, but about whether there will be universal suffrage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Zimbabwe is a tyranny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "conomic sanctions against South Africa. People in South Africa have heard about those policies and they complimented me on the position which the Liberal party has been taking for many years. As an example of bringing about reconciliation we ought to look at Zimbabwe. It has a non-racial society. It does not have a Westminster-style democracy but people are beginning successfully to live together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Pike", "preceding_text": "e second world war, who are celebrated as heroes, and the ANC, whose violence is condemned without question. I am totally opposed to violence and hope that we can achieve a settlement in a negotiated and sensible way. One must remember that that country has been occupied by colonial powers for many years. I do not dispute that the colonial powers developed the country but the country is occupied —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary said in his opening remarks, and as I have said, we shall consider the report of the Eminent Persons Group, the suggestions made in the House and all measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-17", "file": "debates1986-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "bf2306cc29313a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "hasten that real change. The House is united in praying that all South Africans, black and white, will find a way to emerge together and in peace from the present crisis. We must not contemplate any alternative. We must lead all our potential partners in the EC, the Commonwealth and the seven members of the economic summit to an effective solution which will persuade the South African Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-17a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Royal Ordnance Factories", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "—for the many reasons on which our original plan to do so was based, which are that, to have a successful future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Royal Ordnance Factories", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State not understand that when he refers to a successful future for the Royal Ordnance factories, thousands of ROF employees, including hundreds in my constituency, have paid for the privatisation policy of this Government with their jobs? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1055.4", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman understood the means whereby —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1056.5", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " that that should be emphasised. It seems not to be understood, even by some of those who have been lobbying on these matters over the past month, that the proposals are confined to short vacations and not to long ones. I must remind the House that we are spending £5 million in housing benefit that goes to halls of residence. The administration costs of paying that £5 million is £3 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1056.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Students (Support)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "As I said in my statement, the review will be cross-departmental because other Departments are involved, principally the DHSS but also the Scottish and Welsh Departments. The review will be wide and thorough. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State will be starting on it later this summer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Students (Support)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I think that it will be completed before that. I should think that it is likely to be completed in the course of the next year. Then it will be a public consultation document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Supplementary Benefits (Board and Lodging)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "e is allowed for the special category of senile dementia, although 22 per cent. of people over 80 fall into that category. If the Minister claims that the new limits are adequate, why is an increase being proposed for transitional protection? Presumably transitional protection is above existing limits and, indeed, new limits, so if the new limits are adequate, why is that proposal needed? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1074.4", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Supplementary Benefits (Board and Lodging)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman's first point is that I am not sure that I understand the connection that he makes with Simon Cotton, because the issue of exemption categories was separate from the Cotton case, and we adjusted the regulations in November —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1074.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ition does not amount to unilateralism, hut with respect that is disingenuous. A credible British deterrent in the 1990s means modernisation of the British deterrent now. By trying to put off that position, the leader of the Liberal party and the Liberal party are seeking to achieve unilateralism by obsolescence—obsolescence through inertia, a fate similar to that of the Liberal party in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": ". Finally, only SWAPO has permanent observer status at the United Nations. Of course, United Nations observers would be neutral, but the result would be likely to be an overwhelming SWAPO victory and that would be due to the bandwagon effect often seen in Africa, because the Namibian voter would believe that SWAPO had the official backing of the United Nations and was therefore most likely to win.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": "e implemented, which will give the new Government time to put the constitution to a referendum, to implement their legislative programme, which I hope will gain support, and to call elections by the end of next year. There could be independent observers, perhaps from the Contact Group or the Common Market, and SWAPO could be invited to take part in the elections. So far, SWAPO has always refused —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-18", "file": "debates1986-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "7a8e2dd2b4a0476f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "uture hopes of mankind. Today we have had discussions with ambassador Issraelyan, and shortly my right hon. and learned Friend will have important discussions with Foreign Minister, Mr. Shevardnadze. Yet, it is strange that while the issue of arms control is of such paramount importance, it is the issue on which our political opponents are at their most perverse. The Social Democrats and Liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-18a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " the Health Service—quite the reverse. There has been a substantial increase in expenditure on the Health Service. Under the RAWP formula, introduced by a Labour Government, there is a provision to switch some resources from areas of high resource to areas that have been under-resourced under that formula over the years. That formula is now under review. It is one of the factors that is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1195.6", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Do the Prime Minister and her Government represent the people of this nation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1195.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1214.5", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is entirely correct, but is it the wish of the House that these two orders be debated together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1219.4", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "time because we have other orders to debate. My hon. Friend will accept that I have given way on several occasions. I want to set out the way in which the Government wish to proceed. The Government want to see devolved government in the Province on a basis that commands widespread acceptance. We want a basis on which elected people from the Province can again have a real say in its administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1219.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "ked. Whatever is lacking, it is not constitutional ingenuity. The question is not whether some different constitutional plant could grow and flourish. The question is, what is it about the soil which causes every plant to wither? Like the Secretary of State, my visits to Northern Ireland are not always confined to the corridors of power. I go to places which would surprise you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "king to meet the needs about which, apparently, the conference talked. They are people who live on the same island, whose needs are common needs. The enemies are want, squalor and idleness. All those people are fighting in that battle on the same side, as allies. If, whenever we ask the Secretary of State what has been achieved by the agreement, he speaks only of security, that would be a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "chinery with any democratic input from the people who were governed. The right hon. Gentleman is quite right and he is right in saying that there cannot be British rights for British citizens, in the connotation which he gave to that phrase unless there is in Northern Ireland, as there is in the rest of Great Britain, representative local government in the sense of representative administration. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-19", "file": "debates1986-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca22d25c662b4f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": " me how a terrorist is caught as long as he is caught. I want the RUC to be given the best possible powers so that they can maintain a free society in Northern Ireland. Too many lives have been wasted already and too many lives have been lost. If section 11 gives the power of arrest without warrant of any person suspected of being a terrorist, so be it. That is taking the terrorist off the street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-19a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-20", "file": "debates1986-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "a17cf12054f08e67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-20a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "The reputation which the hon. Gentleman has achieved since he became a Member of Parliament is entirely in keeping with such foolish remarks. If the hon. Gentleman would care to listen—clearly he has not been listening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-20a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-20", "file": "debates1986-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "a17cf12054f08e67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-20a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "gible for public investment by local authorities and regional arts associations. Therefore, it is essential to keep moving the frontiers of definition within the arts. There is little doubt that Mozart and Bach would have composed film and television scores and used electronic keyboards and synthesisers. Shakespeare would undoubtedly have written plays for television — indeed, posthumously he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-20a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I do not have in my head the precise percentage of rolling stock that has been constructed over the past decade. If the hon. Gentleman cares to table a question about that, I shall be happy to answer it for him. I can —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is not that remarkable increase in the number of passengers using buses and underground trains in London a matter for great congratulation? Does my hon. Friend recall how the GLC—not lamented—which in 1981 doubled the fares as well as Londoners' rates, said that, with the removal of London Transport from the GLC, there would be massive accidents on the roads, race riots and all the rest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "t they intend as the last big asset sale before the general election, they may discover that they are dealing with the service that the country and individuals are most reluctant to hand over away from local and Government control. The Government will be making a mistake. They have five months in which to reconsider. If they introduce a Bill in November, we will oppose every clause and every line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "discipline for the water services plcs. To keep within it, they will have to maximise their efficiency. Let me deal with another myth, that water is somehow a free public good. Although it was not reflected in what the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey said, it is in the back of many people's minds that somehow water comes out of the atmosphere and should be free. It is nothing of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "gh it was not reflected in what the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey said, it is in the back of many people's minds that somehow water comes out of the atmosphere and should be free. It is nothing of the sort. [Interruption.] I am afraid that, as I am suffering from a summer solstice sore throat, I am easy game for those who want to shout me down. I cannot make myself heard above all that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.42.5", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ay, and most people around the table seemed to be drinking it with evident enjoyment. It is no use the hon. Gentleman saying that he never touches a drop, as he once told me that he was a teetotaller. I am sure that he has no objection to water being supplied by privatised water companies. I shall be pleased to give way if he will tell me what Labour party policy is towards the 28 water companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.42.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "I am deeply fond of the hon. Gentleman, but he cannot divert me from his sedentary position —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": " and at a cheaper price than that provided by the statutory companies, the latter will deservedly disappear. But while the new companies prove themselves, the statutory companies should be allowed to retain their present arrangements. What is the snag? It can only be that two different sorts of undertaking would be providing water in England and Wales. That is the case now, and vive la difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Rate Support Grant Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "decision on a multiplier in, for example, the fourth supplementary report for 1983, to be laid at a future date, could enable a local authority to challenge the original determination of the multiplier in the main report for that year. I was asked about the London borough of Greenwich. That error arose from a misallocation in the RSG settlement for 1986–87 of inherited highways expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Rate Support Grant Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "lement for 1986–87 of inherited highways expenditure. [Interruption.] We have suggested that a safety net of 2p at ratepayer level would be appropriate—the equivalent of about £290,000 for Greenwich. No final decision has been taken on the level at which the safety net should be set and we shall consider all representations, including those from Greenwich, before reaching a final decision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Lord Chancellor (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that. Nothing that happens tonight should detract in any way from the warm tribute that we all wish to pay to the revolting Back Benchers of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-23", "file": "debates1986-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "54008041583babe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "Under-Secretary and the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Corbett). I agree with the hon. Member for Lewes (Mr. Rathbone) about the electoral system. Regulation 100 contains the clear proof and manifestation of the snug cartel which exists between the Labour and Conservative parties as they attempt to outwit the electorate with an outdated and outrageous electoral system—and they know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-23a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-24", "file": "debates1986-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "1bc4d3d3e1ae6574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.169.5", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a number of points. First, I should have thought that no American ever came to this country because of our climate. I think that we can dispense quickly with that reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-24", "file": "debates1986-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "1bc4d3d3e1ae6574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The south Yorkshire area —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-24", "file": "debates1986-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "1bc4d3d3e1ae6574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "We are all used to the combination of prevarication and bluster that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-24", "file": "debates1986-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "1bc4d3d3e1ae6574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.175.4", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "On this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.175.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-24", "file": "debates1986-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "1bc4d3d3e1ae6574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Famine Relief in Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "d they will almost certainly get worse in future. That represents only one of many contributory factors to the difficulties experienced in Africa today. The stark fact is that Africa's ability to feed itself has been steadily diminishing for more than 20 years. Food self-sufficiency decreased by about 12 per cent. from 1960 to 1980. Food imports increased by about 9 per cent. over the same period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-24", "file": "debates1986-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "1bc4d3d3e1ae6574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Famine Relief in Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is three to five times higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-24a.235.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-06-25", "file": "debates1986-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5b0472e4531a027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Send him off!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not consider that I am giving him the elbow, but housing in this country is considerably better than much of the housing that I saw when I was in Mexico. Of course, the Government of Mexico are much more closely associated with the party opposite than they are with the party of this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-25", "file": "debates1986-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5b0472e4531a027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "d effrontery of the motion on this subject from that source. It is effrontery because, as my hon. Friend the Minister of State set out at the commencement of the debate, our proposals are still at the consultation stage. The Social Security Advisory Committee is still considering them. No report has yet been received. No consultation has yet been considered. No final decisions have yet been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-25", "file": "debates1986-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5b0472e4531a027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Higher and Continuing Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": " or students. I am especially glad that my right hon. Friend has announced an increase of £36 in the maintenance grants to students living away from home from the beginning of the next academic year. It is a small but useful addition to the 2 per cent. announced last December. It is an overall increase of 4 per cent., which with falling inflation will be more welcome than it has ever been before —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-25", "file": "debates1986-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5b0472e4531a027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Higher and Continuing Education", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Wyn Roberts)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Wyn Roberts)", "preceding_text": "ituent colleges that urgent action is needed to find ways to rationalise the present pattern of provision. The new approach should be seen as an incentive to build on existing strengths and to improve the management of the resources available to the colleges. If that is done, I do not doubt that the colleges will be in a stronger position to attract higher levels of funding from the UGC in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-25", "file": "debates1986-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5b0472e4531a027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Firearms (Fees)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "rder 1986 (S.I. 1986, No. 986), dated 9th June 1986, a copy of which was laid before this House on 16th June, be annulled. The debate, which is on firearms certificates, is one in which we want some clarification from the Government on what their intentions are. At one level, the order looks innocuous enough. The fees are being increased for certain categories of firearms and for certain purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-25", "file": "debates1986-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5b0472e4531a027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.427.5", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Firearms (Fees)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": " published since 1984, so my hon. Friend should understand the minutage required for renewal. As laid down in the Firearms Act 1968, the renewal is required to be on exactly the same terms as the grant under the 1968 Act. The grant and renewal have been costed on the basis of a standardised procedure, which is what the British Shooting Sports Council would wish. The time arrived at is 145 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-25", "file": "debates1986-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d5b0472e4531a027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Firearms (Fees)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "est and it is rare that the user is obliged to pay the full commercial cost. I challenge the basis of that. In any event, I also challenge the calculation because it is passing strange to think that one has to take up 145 minutes of a chief inspector's time. I assume that it is a chief inspector, because of the high fee charged. One matter that I am pleased about is that the Minister of State has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-25a.435.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.461.11", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "preceding_text": "ductions in nationalised industry prices for the first time in living memory? Should they not emphasise the soundness of the economy, when, in the face of a dramatic oil price reduction it has reacted with hardly a murmur? If the Opposition had been in power they would have been scurrying around like headless chickens looking up the International Monetary Fund and issuing a series of mini budgets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.461.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I preface my reply to the right hon. Gentleman by saying how much I enjoyed almost all or his remarks about South Africa on the radio this morning, which clearly puts him with us, if not with the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I shall reiterate my point. If the Leader of the House wishes to associate with the policies of these Benches, including a ban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.464.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.464.6", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " line. Mr. Speaker, you would not allow any other hon. Member to answer a question in the way that the Leader of the House sought to do. I am putting it to you that that was an abuse of Question Time. It should not be allowed. There are rights in the House for minorities and we expect you to uphold them. We would have expected you to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman when he abused Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.464.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "May we have an early debate on the need to protect the interests of children against Labour authorities such as Ealing which is putting children for adoption with gays and lesbians —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "All power tends to be associated in human experience with corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ort of change. Even the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot) mentioned change. I have participated in these debates for approximately 14 years and I have never observed anybody changing his opinion. The House should take that into account. The more that the hon. Gentleman and I listen to each other, the more we are convinced that we are right and the other is wrong. That is a plain fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "of so many things that are going on, and so many things are set out in such a way that we are expected and supposed to be unaware of them. People do not want us to know what is happening. They want a fait accompli. They want things to be forced upon us that we cannot control. How will the Bill, without these amendments, affect our democratic control? First, it will give more power to the Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.575.4", "colnum": "575", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ts of the House of Commons, as you do, Sir Paul, you will realise that I would not have been in the Chamber had it not been agreed by the Whip that I could be here. I have no knowledge of any events taking place in the Committee, and I shall not comment, other than to say that if I had been present in the Committee I probably would have made some contribution, as I am trying to do in this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "ction is an interesting story. We recall what Lord Stokes said in 1970 and 1971. I do not believe in capital punishment, but he should have been taken out and shot at dawn. In view of the poor performance of British Leyland over the years, one can say, \"Pour encourager les autres,\" as was said of Admiral Byng in the mid-18th century. A more disastrous entrepreneur it would be difficult to imagine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "me— I did not need much convincing—that the combined effects of the development of a third London airport at Stansted, the completion of the M25 ring road and the prospect of the Channel tunnel will make the south-east of England even more of a magnet for British industry. The north-south divide will get worse, and our industrial decline will accelerate. 12 midnight I turn, finally, to the impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "er whether the Government accept those remedies. I have not seen a reply by the Government in the House of Lords. Perhaps they have not bothered to reply. I do not know how they treat reports by Select Committees in the other place. They are pretty cavalier in their attitude towards reports by House of Commons Committees. When the Government reply, they tend to dismiss most of the recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-26", "file": "debates1986-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "41108ed86c9c4384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "t to one's friends or contracts For British firms. It must all come out in the open. That is the type of competition which some right hon. and hon. Members may welcome. Good luck to them; that is their philosophy. I shall not argue the point with them now. I am merely pointing out the policies of the next Labour Government. We shall certainly have such a Government after the next general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-26a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.599.7", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Armstrong. Since you were not present last night, may I explain that the Government obviously were in great difficulty in keeping at least 100 hon. Members in the House to move a closure successfully? The Whips were running round the building and on to the Terraces trying to get Tories out of bars, and it became apparent around midnight —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.599.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not doing that and I am listening carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.640.6", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Normanton", "preceding_text": "That is the way in which I would urge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.640.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.640.7", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I am trying hard to follow the line of the hon. Gentleman's argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.640.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "No. I cannot give my hon. Friend an answer, because I have not asked my husband yet, so he will have to be patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "o interrupt the debate, but I wish to raise a matter of great importance to one of my constituents. I refer to the guidelines of the Home Office about the rights of Members of Parliament to stop removals of relatives and friends of constituents. It is an urgent matter, otherwise I would not have interrupted the debate. I have just spoken to the Home Office on the telephone. Under the arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.653.9", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Walker. I would not have dreamt of intervening in the proceedings of the Committee if it were not a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.653.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-27", "file": "debates1986-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "dfc49def18600a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "at we are dealing with a constitutional measure— a measure which, at the very heart of it, to a greater or lesser extent, according to Members' judgment, transfers power from this sovereign Parliament to alien institutions in Europe, and which diminishes the sovereignty and the rights of the British people? Is it not extraordinary that we should be subjected, after such short and cursory debates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-27a.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-30", "file": "debates1986-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f882621c4d3c2e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-30a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "European Communities (Amendments) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not responsible for the selection of amendments at Committee stage. That is a matter for the Chairman of Ways and Means. The Leader of the House has heard all that has been said about this matter. I think that he appreciates the anxiety expressed about the question of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-30a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-30", "file": "debates1986-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f882621c4d3c2e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-30a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "preceding_text": "g fed up with constantly being told by Europe that everything that it does is wrong. We were told by one professor that a survey showed that attitudes in the United States were changing and that there was definitely a mood that Europe was a thoroughly tiresome place a long way away that cost America a great deal of time and effort. There was a question mark over whether it was really worth saving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-30a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-06-30", "file": "debates1986-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f882621c4d3c2e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-30a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "h every hon. Member must know are now exercising his mind. The reaction of the Government's supporters to the Defence Estimates, for example, is one of alarm. On 13 May, the Daily Mail, looking at the figures, concluded that they would not work and wanted the cancellation of Trident. The Times on the same day was similarly alarmed and wanted the Rhine Army to be brought home. The Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-06-30a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider, in the course of the day, adding to the respect and affection in which she is widely held in the country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a little confused. We are not talking about a battle in defence with South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Ah—so the hon. Gentleman is against general economic sanctions as well. We are getting somewhere. The hon. Gentleman is against general economic sanctions, but he may be in favour of selective sanctions. A number of selective and particular sanctions are already in place, as the hon. Gentleman is aware, through the action of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.829.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " would have noticed that there have been some movements that deserve his applause. I refer, for example, to bringing to an end forced resettlements and getting rid of the morality laws. The hon. Gentleman goes on about Nicaragua, but he knows that the Nicaraguan Government have decided to implement the existing state of emergency more severely, and have just closed the main independent newspaper.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Transport Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister recognise that there is a potential conflict between civil aviation deregulation and safety standards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The point of order is a sartorial one, which I hope you will feel well qualified to judge. I make no complaint this afternoon of the attire of the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you mean, deal with?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "May I deal with the two points of order that have been raised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Couchman) will be aware that the questions asked by my colleagues, who are not here to answer, were asked in their capacity as spokesmen for the party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.861.5", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ha, ha!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "d effective supporter of these efforts and played a key role in the Saudi order. In the nearly three years that I have been in post I have visited many contries in support of United Kingdom defence exporters. I have been to Brazil, Ecuador, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe, and, of course I have visited a number of NATO countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.861.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruptioni", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "legally taped those matches, even between England and Argentina, and have got them out there to their service husbands or boyfriends. If they can do that, the Ministry of Defence could probably get them out there more efficiently. Sir Harry Secombe has been to the Falklands and was much appreciated. The type of entertainment that is required is what I would call a night club type of entertainment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "ernoon. When it was seeking control of the privatised yard the firm stated in its prospectus that it was confident that a Labour Government would find work for the yard. I am sure that the managing director would not mislead the people to the extent that has been suggested. It may be that the hon. Gentleman does not understand the answers that have been given repeatedly, but the position is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "n the midst of his remarks about the desirability of a complete test ban, the hon. Gentleman did not say whether the Liberals would have a successor to Polaris and would go along with the right hon. Member for Devonport. If they are to have a successor to Polaris, would it be tested? There must be a new kind of device which does not need testing, one which will work the first time that it is used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.915.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "the NATO nuclear planning group that our strategic deterrent is fully supported by our NATO partners. The Labour party's commitment to scrap our Polaris force immediately is completely irresponsible in defence and economic terms. I turn to the position of the so-called alliance on this issue. I do not believe that the Liberal party's position is any different from that of the official Opposition —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.934.3", "colnum": "934", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "In this instance the word scandal is on the lips of the speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " now in July. As I said earlier, and as has been said by right hon. and hon. Members throughout our consideration of this measure, these are important matters, but we have many other matters of significance to discuss before we rise for the summer recess. It is not an ignoble consideration to take into account the desire of the House to adjourn for the summer recess no later than early next month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend is dealing with the Leader of the House and the fact that the Leader of the House has brought in the guillotine motion, is my hon. Friend aware that for some strange reason—and we know that the Leader of the House has an anti-Common Market past—his name is not on the Bill that is before us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-01", "file": "debates1986-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "b8279ff9eccabf95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mrs. Lynda Chalker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mrs. Lynda Chalker)", "preceding_text": "Many right hon. and hon. Members have sought to fight again the accession battles of 1972 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-01a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.995.6", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Manufacturing and Service Jobs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Manufacturing output is up by 10 per cent. on 1983.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.995.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Electricity Generation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says no more than the truth. The Opposition must come to terms with the fact that, if they wish to discontinue the use of civil nuclear power in Scotland, they are saying to their constituents and to Scottish industry that electricity costs will go up by between 25 and 30 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The extent to which statements are first made in one House or in another depends on the procedure of both Houses. This statement was delayed in this House by the vital matter of Scottish questions. I was able to sit on the throne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "rage of £90 million a year over a 10-year period. During that period, it will steadily increase as the applications come in and the benefits of the initiative are spread throughout our school system. It will be up to individual local authorities to determine exactly how that money is to be distributed within the schools put forward, but on average it should work out at about £30 extra per school —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's statement and his continuing commitment in supporting technical and vocational training in schools. Does he not agree that one of the major problems is that careers guidance in schools has failed dismally and that the Government have to pick up the tab and give genuine advice? Does he not also agree that the successes of the YTS —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "bsurd to have a £1 million administrative cost for delivering £3 million of unemployment benefit and to have a £3 million administrative cost for delivering £5 million of housing benefit for halls of residence. That is not a worthwhile use of the limited resources that any Secretary of State has to hand. I think that the hon. Gentleman would recognise that if he was in charge of these regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ear they have been in the house—sorry, I mean flat. I must get it right or the Minister will complain. As my hon. Friend the Member for Shettleston said, many people consider those four-in-a-block flats as houses because many of them are on the ground floor and have a garden, a drive and a garage and all the things most people would consider to be highly desirable. Of course there are other flats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "complain. As my hon. Friend the Member for Shettleston said, many people consider those four-in-a-block flats as houses because many of them are on the ground floor and have a garden, a drive and a garage and all the things most people would consider to be highly desirable. Of course there are other flats. [Interruption.] The Minister says that they are selling increasingly. Yes, they are selling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-02", "file": "debates1986-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d64a18333b5b343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " in favour of the right to buy. If I remember correctly, the Liberals have always voted against any extension of the discount system. In the exchange between the two hon. Members to whom I referred, it seemed to me that the hon. Member for Garscadden was implying that the people covered by this part of the Bill are particularly favoured, but surely we are talking about flats—large blocks of flats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-02a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1159.2", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister explain why the minority Catholic community so widely distrusts the RUC? Has he done any research into that, and can he give us any reasons why members of the Catholic community do not want to join the RUC? In fact it is very similar to black people in certain sections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1162.12", "colnum": "1162", "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": "It is up to us to get the facts over more effectively than we have. I shall try to do that now. As the hon. Gentleman knows, more in real terms is being spent per pupil in the education system than ever before and there is a bigger proportion of teachers to pupils —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1162.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Lady to take the advice of Her Majesty's inspectors, who have a non-partisan interest in these matters, and to inquire of them whether they believe that the way to repair the grave shortages in the education system is to pay premiums to some teachers, with all the consequences of demoralisation that will occur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "As it has now been disclosed that the Leader of the House could not bear to put his name on the European Communities (Amendment) Bill, despite the fact that the names on that Bill are headed by that of the Prime Minister and various other biased members of the Cabinet, including Dumpling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1176.4", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "It is an interesting proposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1176.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1176.6", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is the first cuckoo.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "Leaving aside the need for a debate on South Africa before the recess, will the Leader of the House give an assurance that if the threat to Commonwealth unity worsens, especially after the events of 2 August, he will not hesitate to recommend that the House be recalled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "One thing is certain: if we have a debate on the Peacock report in good time, which would be during this month, it will make it more difficult —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1216.4", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment needs no compliments from the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1216.9", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. I never let any question on the water industry pass. That is why I listened intently to the Leader of the House. I do want more than an assurance that this matter will be dealt with through the usual channels. On the night of the Liberal party's debate on the water authorities—a Monday—I said that there had been banditry, but it was not even recorded in the Official Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1216.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was stationary\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "a torpedo. Every hon. Member would agree with that. It is a national scandal that we, as a maritime nation with a long history of naval warfare, can spend such a sum of money over 25 years. What do we get at the end of it? I spoke to Marconi today and was informed, with great pride, that the Tigerfish fired at the moored HMS Lowestoft, with a single hit, managed to sink it in less than 17 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "With —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Apparently, at least for once in a while—judging from the noise coming from the Conservative Benches— this is the news that the Conservative party, like the rest of the country, wanted to hear. Is the Secretary of State aware that this is a scandalous way for him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": " of State also make it clear that his friends in the City have told the Government that there is no way in which the water authorities can be sold effectively for any realistic price, given the pending prosecution of Her Majesty's Government by the European Economic Community, because the quality of bathing water on dozens if not hundreds of British beaches does not match the minimum requirements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ow light Conservative Members are making of the retractions. They will not be laughing when they start looking for money for the tax cuts in the next Budget. Is it not clear that the creation of private monopolies would fail completely to provide any realistic safeguards for consumers? In that respect, among others, the Government have failed to provide any convincing rationale for their proposals", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-03", "file": "debates1986-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "b60ad1120f6e6363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Water Authorities (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will the most arrogant Minister in the Government now talk reality to us and tell us what has dragged him kicking and screaming at 10 o\"clock on a Thursday might to the most monumental climb down we have heard for years? Will the right hon. Gentleman finally admit that the Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-03a.1272.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-07", "file": "debates1986-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "b8725bc2932f36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Future of Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nd I have heard them all. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have told us how we can solve our problems. If I remember rightly, one of the solutions was the Common Market. The EEC was the panacea. We were told that if we got into that we would become more competitive and be able to deal with the problems of our people. We were told that we would have a new market and so on. We joined the NEC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.53.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-07", "file": "debates1986-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "b8725bc2932f36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Tin Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "stry is at risk, teetering on the edge of a precipice, but the Government are not even willing to tell us what they intend to do or allow us to have the debate when we could discuss their decisions. The Government seem oblivious to the fact that another 2,500 people may be made unemployed in Cornwall, although the cost of keeping them unemployed will be lower than the cost of keeping them at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-07", "file": "debates1986-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "b8725bc2932f36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Tin Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "ence predict that the price of tin will increase. It would be interesting to ask the Minister—clearly the Government must have studied this by now in great depth, since a number of us have been shouting at them for about eight and a half months—what percentage of the current world tin output the Department of Trade and Industry believes is being mined profitably at the current international price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.90.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-07", "file": "debates1986-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "b8725bc2932f36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Latent Damage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "wo hours and it took place after midnight. I tried to obtain a copy of the Committee proceedings, but I did not succeed. It was impossible to obtain a copy from the Vote Office. I was abroad during the Committee proceedings, otherwise I should have liked to be on the Committee. The Bill has been rushed through this House. The lawyers are trying to push it through, and we shall end up with bad law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-07a.127.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-09", "file": "debates1986-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e904cde6f9a8303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-09a.293.4", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for withdrawing her earlier imputation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, she did not\"] Yes, she did. The Minister will be aware that I met Mr. Oliver Tambo before I left for South Africa and strongly encouraged him to meet the hon. Lady. He was minded not to do so, as I am sure she knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-09a.293.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-09", "file": "debates1986-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e904cde6f9a8303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-09a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "ESTIMATES 1986–87", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " existing assessment arrangements to assess the need of supplementary benefit payments for residential care. That point was raised specifically by the hon. Members for Birkenhead, for Caernarfon (Mr. Wigley) and for Oldham, West, and my hon. Friends the Members for Macclesfield and for Eastleigh. The report is in hand. We are also seeking to examine the position of local authorities advising DHSS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-09a.352.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-09", "file": "debates1986-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "8e904cde6f9a8303", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-09a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "ESTIMATES 1986–87", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "preceding_text": "ller) I must say that Bradford city council is an exception. Bradford, along with Sheffield and some other councils, has recognised the importance of tourism and is doing something about it. I am pleased that other councils are beginning to catch up. I do not pretend for a minute that tourism can compensate for the appalling loss of jobs in areas such as mine, although it can make a contribution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-09a.373.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-10", "file": "debates1986-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7b5f74c360801d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1986–87", "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": "e Committee put forward the matter for debate. It does not depend on the size of the European budget because it relates to the collection of levies and duties. This debate happens to coincide with the day on which budgetary procedures are taking place in Europe. No doubt my hon. Friend the Minister of State, who is taking part in them, will report to the House after the completion of that process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-10", "file": "debates1986-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7b5f74c360801d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.465.10", "colnum": "465", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1986–87", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. I wish to remind you, Mr. Speaker, of the pertinent question which was put on 22 October by my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing: can he\"— that was the then Minister of State— give us a categorical assurance that the Government will not in any way increase the sums available to the Common Market before those negotiations take place? The Minister replied: I repeat\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.465.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-10", "file": "debates1986-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7b5f74c360801d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.504.7", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": " to make in our earlier debate was to ask whether the House of Commons was content that, in future, a non-elected commission should decide British taxation levels rather than the elected representatives of Britain. If that is so, it therefore follows that a vote against the amendment is tantamount to deciding that, in taxation matters at any rate, we no longer wish to be masters in our own nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.504.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-10", "file": "debates1986-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7b5f74c360801d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "s that exist in the system, including the horse trading that goes on every year on agricultural policies and farming support. That produces a great deal of unnecessary aggravation, simply because we are unable properly to come to terms with the difficulties. My hon. Friends and I shall continue to get aggravation from NFU members and hear about their ever-increasing disenchantment with the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-10", "file": "debates1986-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "7b5f74c360801d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "reform of the CAP to ensure that it is better adjusted to the market situation with the result that the share of public expenditure claimed by agriculture can be reduced. Those are not my words. They are words taken from the European Council meeting at The Hague, upon which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister reported only 10 days or so ago. There is no simple solution. It is a global problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-10a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-11", "file": "debates1986-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "beb918f3f8c209a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonah McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonah McDonald", "preceding_text": "can he not report all those figures properly to the House instead of this absurdity? The statement says that the 1·4 per cent. limit will be completely used up by the budget, plus a surplus carried forward from 1985. What is that surplus? What will the Minister do, since the harvest has not yet occurred and we do not know what dollar fluctuations will take place during the rest of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-11", "file": "debates1986-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "beb918f3f8c209a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "They have helicopters, but they are not yet armed. They are fitted with lighting equipment with which they can illuminate whole areas at night and that will be part of their techniques.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.623.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-11", "file": "debates1986-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "beb918f3f8c209a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.653.8", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Standing Order No. 6 (Arrangement of public business) shall have effect for this Session with the following modifications, namely, in paragraph (2) (b) the words 'not more than two' shall be substituted for the word `one' in line 20 and the word 'four' shall be substituted for the word 'two' in line 22.— [Mr. Peter Lloyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.653.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-11", "file": "debates1986-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "beb918f3f8c209a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.654.6", "colnum": "654", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Further to the earlier point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sure that you understand the frustrations of London Members on such matters. Can you advise the House by what means we can obtain a vote on an important statement made by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis through the Home Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.654.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-11", "file": "debates1986-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "beb918f3f8c209a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " and a half hours after it has been entered upon, whichever is the later, and if proceedings thereon have not been disposed of by that hour Mr. Speaker shall put the Question on any Amendment which may have been moved, and shall then put forthwith the Question on any other Amendments selected by him which may then be moved, and on the Main Question or the Main Question, as amended.— [Peter Lloyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-11a.654.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.664.7", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but if the hon. Gentleman reads my remarks he will see that I avoided mentioning a particular case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.664.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e people or employed in the service industries that support our ports industry. What is their view? The TGWU in East Anglia, including those who democratically represent the dockers of Felixstowe and Ipswich and the rest, are clear that they want the Bill to be passed. They have said that their local Member of Parliament's objections to it are frivolous and malicious. That is their view, not mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.761.6", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "It certainly is not meaningless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.761.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "We can now get back to the even tenor of our ways after the excitements of the Division. I am sure that hon. Members, particularly on the Conservative Benches, are grateful to the Liberals for calling that vote, as it has proved that they are alive and well and doing their duty—all 40 of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "w get back to the even tenor of our ways after the excitements of the Division. I am sure that hon. Members, particularly on the Conservative Benches, are grateful to the Liberals for calling that vote, as it has proved that they are alive and well and doing their duty—all 40 of them. [Interruption.] Government Back Benchers have duties as undistinguished and unromantic foot soldiers in the Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "-partisan way, and I hope that the Minister will consider it favourably. When we discussed it in Committee he was unable to give any satisfactory answer to the simple question of how, if one does not have legal representation, one goes about preparing a defence from prison? The things that must be done in preparing a defence, not least taking prerecognitions from witnesses, all involve some degree", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.807.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "d be. I give him that insight into the real life of the legal profession. I went to Stroud to discover what an adjournment was. I came across the first and hopeful sentence — 1Interruptionl I cannot engage in this badinage. Let me give just a suspicion of the argument: The word 'adjourn' must be construed with reference to the object of the context, and with reference to the object of the enquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-14", "file": "debates1986-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "679f999508db3c0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "e burden. If it is in the interests of justice that they should be given that burden, let them carry it out. If that obligation is placed on them, I trust them to do it with the delicacy one would expect of them in the circumstances. The Minister has come up with a dog's breakfast. I do not know why he has gone to such efforts to avoid the simple solution to deal with the exceptional circumstance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-14a.819.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Is this a question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding his answer, will the Minister say whether the CI30 frame might be used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is well aware that the question is not one-person, one-vote —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t was the Government. Perhaps he will listen to what Chief Buthelezi said in a letter to The Guardian recently: My forefathers fought British imperialism; today I am prepared to die for democracy, and I will not rest until apartheid is dead. But I am not prepared to lead my people into a battle where they will be decimated. South Africa cannot and will not be liberated with the blood of children.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.852.8", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?, Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that there are other Commonwealth Heads —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.852.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "e Minister has frankly admitted to the House, the United States Government have sought this Government's agreement to visits by Department of Commerce officials in order to audit the books of British companies. I asked the Minister whether he had conceded that principle, but I am not sure what his answer was. He seems to be confirming that no such concession will be made by the British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "l be facing no less than a £9 billion deficit on our balance of trade in information technology products. What are the Government going to do about it? We do not expect an answer from the Minister, because the harsh truth is the Government do not know what to do. If the Government wanted a plan, they are forbidden one anyway and above all, whatever is done must not involve any further expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.892.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the clause be read a Second time. As many as are of that opinion say Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.952.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.952.5", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of the contrary, No. I think the Ayes have it. The Ayes have it. The Question is, That the clause be added to the Bill. As many as are of that opinion say Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.952.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-15", "file": "debates1986-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "426933b269c3d1a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "European Community (Drivers' Hours)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conal Gregory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conal Gregory", "preceding_text": "sition should seek to make strident party political points when we are dealing essentially with matters that go to the heart of our transport system. As one who does not depend upon a research assistant—as the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Stott) did—but who has been involved in industry and seen much of the distribution system, I know that there is a major fallacy in the hon. Gentleman's arithmetic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-15a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"High employment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not accept what the hon. Gentleman says about the prospects for the future, nor do I accept what he says about the past few years. Britain now has stable growth, low inflation, high manufacturing output, high productivity, high manufacturing investment and high manufacturing exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "the past few years without batting an eyelid. Her display of compassion has deceived no one. As Foreign Minister Botha has said, her policy is determined not by political or moral considerations but by commercial consideration—no doubt a reference to the fact that nearly half the Conservative party's funds, or more than £1 billion, is contributed by firms with operations or estate in South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "d by the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey). He has roamed far and wide in his reminiscences about my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, with whom he seems to be continually and astonishingly fascinated to the point of hyperbole. He found himself drawn into anecdotage of every kind, finally embarking upon the proposition that we were committed to £1 billion from South African funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "s that apartheid must end is an important step in the right direction. We have had just such explicit recognition from the President of the South African Government himself. What the world now wishes to see—and there should be no difference between both sides of the House on this — is a decisive movement towards a system that will command the approval and consent of all the people of South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e that the purpose of the visit is to secure a negotiating position and, if it fails, further action will be discussed and taken. In saying that further matters will come under consideration, the Foreign Secretary opens up the gravest doubts among everybody as to whether the Government are serious. The Government can say that after consideration they will decide what further action they will take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "nd also in the Commonwealth, is the worst possible situation in which we could find ourselves. My hon. Friend the Member for Luton, North (Mr. Carlisle) raised the question of those who are already starving. Of course, I know about that. It has been on every television screen, as have the poor whites who are unemployed as well. That is the consequence of having a Government who behave in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that staggering comparison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Poverty (Elderly Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "hat the Government did in 1980, the effect of which still continues and will increase, contrary to the Secretary of State's claims. The Government in 1980 took a clear and unequivocal decision not to give pensioners a share in the rising national prosperity. They decided to uprate pensions only in line with price increases and not, as the previous Labour Government had done, in line with earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1073.5", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Poverty (Elderly Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Poverty (Elderly Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "it is rumoured, on the day of the royal wedding? We had some interesting information and examples recently of the Government's costings. The Minister had the gall to take the credit, in the face of the decision by the European Court, for the decision to extend the invalid care allowance to married women, something that they were forced into and have steadfastly been refusing to do for seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Poverty (Elderly Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Not immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": " appear on the pesticide label but will be free to use any from the MAFF list, provided there is no restriction or contra-indication on the adjuvant label. Agricultural departments have recently issued a draft code of practice on the agricultural and horticultural use of pesticides for public comment and discussions. Copies were made available, both in this House and in the other place, on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "cultural use of pesticides for public comment and discussions. Copies were made available, both in this House and in the other place, on Monday. [Interruption.] The code would be made under section 17 of the Act and has as its purpose the provision of practical guidance to agricultural arid horticultural users of pesticides as to how they can comply with the obligations imposed by the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "rs are required where necessary. Pilots of aircraft carrying out spraying operations must maintain a minimum height when flying over occupied buildings, gardens and roads, and they must maintain a mimimum horizontal distance from occupied buildings and their gardens, playgrounds, sports ground or buildings containing livestock and they must contain the pesticide to the land intended to be treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "rder. But the remaining SSSIs and national nature reserves are covered by section 28 of the Act. That is an omission and it is our intention to make use of the power granted by regulation 6 (c) (ii) of these regulations to include as a condition of the consent to the use of pesticides for aerial application that prior consultations are also required in relation to SSSIs covered by section 28. Thus", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "The Department's original intention is also fully covered in the requirement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "The Department's original intention is also fully covered in the requirement— [Interruption.] referring to section 29(1). We wish to ensure that that level of concentration also applies to those SSSIs and nature reserves covered by section 28 of the Act —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "e of information on pesticides to the public. In regulation 8 we have taken up the power provided in the Act to set out the ground rules for a disclosure of information system that will achieve that fine but essential balance between as much public access to data as possible and the need to protect from exploitation by competitors information which has a genuine and considerable commercial value —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "hat we wasted our time on matters in which the Government have no serious interest and to which they are not deeply committed. The Opposition will oppose the regulations. They do not deserve the approval of the House, and we shall try to ensure that they do not obtain it. That is not because we do not believe in effective pesticide regulations, but because these regulations will not be effective —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I have less hope and confidence than the hon. Member for Harborough (Sir J. Farr). My hon. Friend the Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Livsey) has pointed out to me that it is significant that whereas the Liberal and Labour parties have agricultural and environmental spokesmen in the Chamber, no Minister from the Department of the Environment is present on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Livsey) has pointed out to me that it is significant that whereas the Liberal and Labour parties have agricultural and environmental spokesmen in the Chamber, no Minister from the Department of the Environment is present on the Front Bench. [Interruption.] There is only an Agriculture Minister. There is nobody from the Department of the Environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Pesticides", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ith that matter. The Opposition spokesman was a little grudging in his remarks, because at least the Government have tackled the problem that their predecessors did not. It is a matter for congratulation that this Government have at least done something about pesticides, while Opposition Members have talked about it but achieved nothing. That having been said, I must say that I am not happy with —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1119.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Members' Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " 6 per cent. represents the general pay increase in the Civil Service, and, I believe, is valid on that basis. As I have already said, I will, however, draw the specific attention of the TSRB to the arrangements we have made this year, so that it can be considered as one of its immediate priorities and it can report accordingly. I have brought forward this motion in a spirit of equity and realism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-16", "file": "debates1986-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1536194b4673f43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Members' Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "nds of topics. Many of these letters are typewritten, as are Members' replies. I often think that the typewriter is a curse, as is television. In the days when all communications were written by hand and had to be copied by hand, as in the time of Lord Palmerston and after, people were careful in writing only what was strictly necessary and avoiding the ceaseless verbiage from which we all suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-16a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1169.6", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We try to influence the policies of nations with which we disagree. We seem to have taken a different view of South Africa —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1169.6", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We try to influence the policies of nations with which we disagree. We seem to have taken a different view of South Africa — [Interruption.] —although we do wish to try to influence its policies to end apartheid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1170.6", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o not have the press release with me — that the numbers in employment have gone up, although the right hon. Gentleman is right in saying that the unemployment figures are deeply disappointing and that the seasonally adjusted unemployment figure has gone up by 15,000, so that it has risen to 3·2 million. As the right hon. Gentleman is aware, we have done a very great deal for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1170.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1184.4", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. As it is not recorded in Hansard, how would anybody know? I must say to both hon. Gentlemen that this is old hat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1184.11", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "If you did not hear what went on, Mr. Speaker, many of my hon. Friends and certainly the Press Gallery did. An article appeared in The Sun newspaper the following day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1184.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1186.5", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Leader of the Opposition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Yesterday the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) quite correctly made some complimentary remarks about the good spirit of the regatta. Let us proceed today in that same good nature —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1195.4", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Tertiary Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where is the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I welcome the tribute that the Secretary of State has paid to Jordanhill. Can he be a little more explanatory? When he speaks about the minimal disruption that he hopes will follow consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1195.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-17", "file": "debates1986-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f28d706091fb9ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "to the procedures and to deal with alternatives. I welcome the motion, but I hope that my hon. Friend can elaborate on one or two points. May I take up some points that were made earlier in the debate—since they were made, they were presumably in order — by the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes). Some of us view with considerable — one uses one's language carefully —abhorrence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-17a.1322.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ognised that because Ministers would often be doing work within the Ministry, no votes could take place during morning sittings. Therefore, they were all left over to the evening, when some quite esoteric subjects suddenly found that they had the most extraordinary turn-out because of their proximity to a three-line Whip. I refer to the future of the Oswestry market, which was under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.17.2", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "That point is, of course, frequently considered by those who are responsible for looking after such visits", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.17.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Single Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "In view of the glowing terms in which the hon. Member for Oldham, West referred to the take-up campaigns of local authorities, I should tell the House that I have in my hand the \"tick list\" that was submitted by a claimant in the Strathclyde region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.22.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Single Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "In view of the glowing terms in which the hon. Member for Oldham, West referred to the take-up campaigns of local authorities, I should tell the House that I have in my hand the \"tick list\" that was submitted by a claimant in the Strathclyde region. [interruption.] If the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) will listen for a moment, he may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.22.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Single Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "is wrong, and they object. Why do Government Back Benchers not stand up and represent middle-class opinion? Those people feel deeply ashamed of what the Government are doing. They know that the Government are wrong, and in all conscience they often write to their Members of Parliament and tell them that they object. They go to Conservative conferences to object, and yet the Government ignore them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "uthorities involve residents in the planning of security and safety measures in homes and in the surrounding streets or courtyards. We shall encourage the provision of safer public transport. We believe that security should be improved by providing alarm buttons and closed-circuit TV at bus and train stations and by closing off little-used passageways, especially on Underground systems. We shall —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The needs of security and the fears of passengers on public transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will it be a glossy one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "it has expressed today, it will have to do something to restrain and reverse the policies of those Labour authorities—fortunately, a minority—which are taking exactly the opposite line to that taken by the Labour Front Bench. We intend to maintain and boost the momentum behind the neighbourhood watch schemes and we shall be launching a new national magazine in co-operation with the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": " organisation of greater significance than the trade union movement representing consumers in Great Britain. Many millions of consumers are members of trade unions and both lay and full-time officials are perhaps more familiar with the concerns and anxieties of ordinary people than any other organisation in Britain. We are not asking a great deal. The Minister said that he was eager and grateful —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "We seek to give those trade union members the opportunity to voice the anxieties of the hon. Gentleman's constituents as well as our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "We seek to give those trade union members the opportunity to voice the anxieties of the hon. Gentleman's constituents as well as our own. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman wishes to intervene, I shall be glad to give way. If not, perhaps he will recognise that we are putting forward a valid and reasonable argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-21", "file": "debates1986-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "53dc13b97746e03f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "d further confusion into the rate support grant settlements, both those that have been made in the past and will be made in the future. I am grateful for the support given by my hon. Friends in Committee and on the Floor of the House. The Opposition have probed the Bill properly and introduced a number of powerful arguments, in particular relating to Birmingham, if I may mention that dreaded city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-21a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "said that we may have to consider legislation if the pilot scheme does not work, but that could be hazardous. Many people in various small firms organisations have made representations to me that on some occasions small firms do not pay the bills of other small firms on time and that sometimes small firms do not pay the bills of large firms on time. If legislation were introduced some small firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I wholly agree with my hon. and learned Friend. It is our aim to end apartheid as soon as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.177.8", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.177.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "My constituents in West Derbyshire will be sorry to hear that my right hon. Friend has no plans to visit West Derbyshire at present. If she were able to visit West Derbyshire, they would tell her of their pleasure about yesterday's announcement by the Post Office of record profits and about the recent announcement of the profits of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.180.4", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am in favour of the process decided and described in the Nassau accord about apartheid. The Eminent Persons Group was sent to South Africa. The accord said — I shall read the whole paragraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.180.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "South Africa (Sanctions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "re 4 million people unemployed in this country and there are even some doubts about how the unemployment figures are calculated. The Tory Benches must take note of the major companies in the United Kingdom, which, in response to the slogan \"Buy British Last\" have said that not imposing sanctions could be extremely costly for the United Kingdom, if not in the short term, certainly in the long term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "South Africa (Sanctions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "Because we understand that, we do not normally wish to waste too much time on them. Indeed, we often let them pass on the nod. This practice is not so generally understood outside the House. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Central (Mr. Caborn) is a member of the national executive committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. His arguments are familiar to us and I do not need to spend time on them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "rental representation on governing bodies. It would therefore seem logical that parents should have a considerable say in the discipline of their children. Parents want their children to have an education which is relevant to work. They want their children to obtain worthwhile qualifications. They do not want a casual, sloppy or do-as-youplease attitude in schools. They want discipline in schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": "ng that Britain has always had corporal punishment and that it is a tradition. Imagine the House debating slavery and advocates of that practice saying, \"We have always had slavery in this country and it is a tradition.\" Imagine our predecessors in this place saying, \"We have always denied women the vote, so why should we now allow women to vote? It is a tradition that they have not had the vote.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "corded instances of corporal punishment each year. For instance, in Mid Glamorgan there were 9,994 recorded instances in secondary schools in 1979–81, and 516 in primary schools. In Cleveland, 12,369 were recorded in secondary schools from September 1980 to May 1983. In one comprehensive, Dyke House comprehensive in Cleveland, 1,260 canings were recorded between September 1980 and May 1983.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley) honestly believe that an analogy can be drawn between corporal punishment and slavery and votes for women? On reflection, he may agree that he went over the top and was less than fair. My hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North made a speech full of conviction. He spoke with knowledge that is based on long experience as a teacher —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "for Ealing, North made a speech full of conviction. He spoke with knowledge that is based on long experience as a teacher — [Interruption.] He rightly emphasised that corporal punishment was used only in the most exceptional and severe cases. As he correctly said, corporal punishment is the backstop that is used in our schools. I come to the speech of the hon. Member for Falkirk, East (Mr. Ewing)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I am afraid that I am slightly overcome by the victory. It is right that, in a Bill which has considerable pretensions, we should he able to debate important education issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.6", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "In the 1970s, the case for educational maintenance allowances was argued in terms of widening working class participation in full-time and higher education. The staying-on rate in Britain is extremely low and compares very poorly with our continental rivals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.8", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "that lack of money is the only deterrent. Clearly, there are other factors, such as the kind of institutions that schools are, the prospect of other kinds of work and the youth training scheme. Nevertheless, there is plenty of evidence that the financial considerations are important. The case for educational maintenance allowances is even stronger in the 1980s with the growth in youth unemployment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.8", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "s a strong case for educational maintenance allowances. I accept that there are cost factors and that in the first instance we may need to target such allowances towards regions or local authorities that are worse off or individuals who are most deprived. We recognise that this Government, particularly in their dying hours, are not likely to accept the case for educational maintenance allowances —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.279.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " one representative on the governing body, there will be occasions when that individual will be unable to be present at meetings. Teachers will then be completely unrepresented. It is an advantage if somebody is present at meetings, not necessarily formally to second a resolution, but to nod agreement, thus signifying that that is the view not just of one person but that it is supported by others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "They were therefore given —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "They were therefore given — [Interruption.] It is easy for the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg), who has two jobs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "e therefore given — [Interruption.] It is easy for the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg), who has two jobs — [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Grantham, who seems anxious to prevent hon. Members from being heard in the debate, has two jobs and therefore has an adequate income on which he can come here and abuse his position as a Member of Parliament and try to destroy the school meals service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "erruption.] The hon. Member for Grantham, who seems anxious to prevent hon. Members from being heard in the debate, has two jobs and therefore has an adequate income on which he can come here and abuse his position as a Member of Parliament and try to destroy the school meals service. [Interruption.] If he has anything to say, he could stand up and say it, but he will not prevent me from speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ent hon. Members from being heard in the debate, has two jobs and therefore has an adequate income on which he can come here and abuse his position as a Member of Parliament and try to destroy the school meals service. [Interruption.] If he has anything to say, he could stand up and say it, but he will not prevent me from speaking. [Interruption.] As much as he drones on from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-22", "file": "debates1986-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "94f1ce41a6a0dc9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, the hon. Member for Grantham has an adequate income from his two jobs, and perhaps he could spend his time doing some of his job as the hon. Member for Grantham rather than his lucrative legal practice elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-22a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.338.8", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recall the answer that she gave to me on 11 July regarding the timing of distribution of balances from the London Residuary Body to the London boroughs? She said: The timing … is a matter for the\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.338.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.346.6", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "preceding_text": "ining on 30 September? Why is no allowance made if the rateable value is subsequently reduced unless the reduction is greater than the figure which has been determined by the Secretary of State, which is at present 2.5 per cent.? Is the right hon. Genteman aware that, in many cases, substantial reductions in rateable value take place? Is he further aware that, in the case of the borough of Neath —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.346.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the Scottish share of United Kingdom expenditure has been falling? There will be no great celebrations because the rate support grant has been kept static.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who is always a fair man, will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.357.7", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "The Minister stated that he is looking for more cuts from authorities such as Strathclyde and Glasgow district. The Minister must know that, in communities such as my own, youth unemployment is very high and that the only people who seem to be trying to tackle that serious problem are the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.357.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": "It is not the Government's money. It is the taxpayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.359.6", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "May I return to the answer given to the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston)? The Secretary of State talked about concentrating educational provision and mentioned an 18 per cent. drop in the number of pupils. Is the entire package conditional upon the closure of schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.359.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I had expected to take on my hereditary position of sweeper, but I hand it over to my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson). Two things are clear about the settlement from an initial consideration of the statistics. First, it is clearly political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where are all the Labour Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, the Tory Benches were packed, mainly by those who wished to retain corporal punishment. They are showing much less concern today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.379.7", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman Godman", "preceding_text": "ople, live on or below supplementary benefit level. I protest most strongly on their behalf at the way in which the Government have treated the Bill and deliberations on it by introducing this guillotine motion. Tory Members claim that the Government are a caring, compassionate Administration. If that is so, why is a large part of the electorate outside the deep south so hostile to the Tory party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.379.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "Many of these amendments are drafting or technical changes to ensure that the Bill works as intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. If the hon. Lady is insulting enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "preceding_text": "should be an internal review procedure. That meant the possibility of social fund officers reviewing their own decisions, passing those decisions on to other social fund officers and having an inspectorate to monitor the decisions and to which people could appeal. That allayed some of the fears. It meant that there was a second opinion. That was an important concession. When one looked at the new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "resent in the House on Monday when I had hoped to use one of my most interesting examples of what has been going on, in view of his well-known dedication to Strathclyde social work department. If he has read my statement or talked to some of his hon. Friends, he will know that I am concerned about the tick list which was filled in by a claimant who had been visited by a Strathclyde social worker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " view of his well-known dedication to Strathclyde social work department. If he has read my statement or talked to some of his hon. Friends, he will know that I am concerned about the tick list which was filled in by a claimant who had been visited by a Strathclyde social worker — [Interruption.] I can understand that Labour Members do not wish to listen. They do not like this, do they? This list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "A lady who left her husband on Thursday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "absence. In another case, a claimant washed in excess of 60 items of clothing, bedding, towels, a dozen nappies, and other items, and put the wet washing into a bin bag to take it to the launderette. The bag vanished. The only explanation the claimant could give was that she had mistaken the bag for one of rubbish, had put the remnants of the family's tea in the bag and put it out for the dustman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "There is the case where items were stolen from outside a launderette. The items were on top of the claimant's push chair. The mind boggles —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.452.9", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "tions are being abused. If the examples which were read out are true, the claims should not have been accepted. The adjudication officers can rule them out of court. That is the way to deal with that problem. The SSAC is not composed of wild and extreme leftist councillors or whatever. It accepts that, if used responsibly, check lists can assist claimants through these bewilderingly complex areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.452.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": " was making any effort to get a job and, my goodness, did they scoop the pool? They got a brand-new home, while the widow who had scrimped and saved for years in the most extraordinarily difficult circumstances had to go round the second-hand shops. She resented that, and there are many others in the same position. Most people, when they need clothing, furniture, carpets or curtains, have to save.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "s and repay them. That is fair. The hon. Member for Oldham, West, who has unfortunately left his seat, said that anyone who was unemployed could not afford to pay for something which at the moment is subject to a single payment. That is patent nonsense. Millions of people during the summer of this year saw people going to Mexico with, emblazoned across their chest, \"We're here thanks to the DHSS\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "at, said that anyone who was unemployed could not afford to pay for something which at the moment is subject to a single payment. That is patent nonsense. Millions of people during the summer of this year saw people going to Mexico with, emblazoned across their chest, \"We're here thanks to the DHSS\". [Interruption.] They were bragging that they were there as a result of the welfare benefit system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.460.10", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief, because I am conscious of the time. I shall try to deliver my speech at a slightly lower level of synthetic indignation than did my predecessor, the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden). It seems that two issues have not been emphasised adequately. The Opposition have rightly argued that there is a comparison —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.460.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "grants, that they will not be affected by the regulations that we are discussing tonight. That is good, and of course we are pleased about that. but what it means is that those who can get a grant at all will he able to have a well insulated room with a bed, a cooker and a heater, but no curtains, no carpet, no cupboards, no chairs, no tables, no cooking utensils, no plates, no towels, and so on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.463.2", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Prove it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the House frankly that I have never seen anything liberal or progressive, or indeed sensible or capable of any other reasonable label, about allowing abuse in a system —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.463.5", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I shall give the Minister an answer if he wants one. The causes of the huge rise in single payments are the continuing enormous rise in unemployment, the rapid growth in long-term claimants whose needs are greatest and the inadequate rate of weekly benefit. Our answer is not to tackle the symptoms but to tackle the cause by reducing unemployment by 1 million in two years. That is the real answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "That is very interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": "f breath, and would like to ask your advice on how I should make representations regarding the procedure of the House. I made representations first to the Deputy Serjeant at Arms that a bus and about seven taxis were blocking the entrance to the House. He told me that today was wedding day and I got the impression that we took second place to those participating in it. We all support the wedding —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": "nt at Arms that a bus and about seven taxis were blocking the entrance to the House. He told me that today was wedding day and I got the impression that we took second place to those participating in it. We all support the wedding — [Interruption.] Some hon. Members may not support it. This is a charade. Tonight we have had a running Whip, some of us have been entertaining our wives and families —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.471.5", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to comment, he can do so under his own steam. He should give me a little quiet while I am finishing my comments. We were not able to consider those amendments until this morning because they were not tabled by the Government until 8 o'clock yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "r had great difficulty in finding illustrations of cases to support his arguments. When he did find examples, in nearly every case under pressure they proved false and he had to abandon them. He has given as an example that cash collected by somebody for an office party falls within the definition of the manuscript amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Ms. Short).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.481.10", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "As the Minister appeared to have the leave of the House to speak for a second time without asking for it, may I assume that I have similar leave and put a point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.481.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Wages Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": "ve the advantage of being able to understand the law. That is therefore all the more reason why it should be less complicated. I speak as one who has taken a considerable interest in trying to reduce the obscurity and complexity of the law. In a previous incarnation I had some responsibility for drafting legislation. Indeed, I helped to draft the Small Business Bill, and it took only two clauses —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.496.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.546.4", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-23", "file": "debates1986-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c738fa4943be94a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Dockyard Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " later. I shall come to the timetable later in these overall comments. As the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) said, Brown and Root is a wholly owned subsidiary of Halliburton Holdings, which was formed in December 1984 as a holding company for the United Kingdom interests of its American parent company, Halliburton Holdings Inc. There are three contenders for the Devonport dockyard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-23a.554.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.588.7", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that at Whitwell in my constituency the Coal Board has just closed a pit even though it has made a profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.588.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.592.5", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already indicated that the Government will be replying in due course. I have nothing further to add this afternoon. I am delighted that on this occasion, the last day when I am answering questions, the Opposition appear to be satisfied with health, education, social security, the welfare state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.592.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "I am seeking not to argue with you, Mr. Speaker, but to raise a point of order. Only the Chair can answer the point of order. Surely it is unfair if, after promising to co-operate with the inquiry, the Prime Minister forbids civil servants to give evidence to it, and if a junior Minister is asked to shuffle off excuses and to take the blame for what the Prime Minister said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"October.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May we have the business for the week beginning 21 August —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The recess is just a touch longer than the average recess at this time of the year, but there is not much in it. I think that most hon. Members find it valuable to have a reasonably lengthy break. I know that the hon. Gentleman would be deeply saddened if he could not attend the Labour party conference. Such considerations stretch the days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Severn Crossing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "e and, in that sense, I have been backed up by my right hon. and hon. Friends, by county councils like Gwent and by Newport borough council. Will the Secretary of State appreciate that this is the culmination of several years of campaigning that commenced with the famous Adjournment debate on 28 October 1983 when I was alone in the Chamber with the hon. Lady the Member for Wallasey (Mrs. Chalker)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Royal Ordnance plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "preceding_text": "I shall resist the temptation to take issue with my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) about the relative merits of the work forces in Leeds and Newcastle. I assure him that, although my constituents work for a private company, they are nevertheless a highly skilled work force —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "out who told her to do it, and she will not tell me unless she is assured that she will not be prosecuted.\" Let us suppose that this is what happened —and it is a scenario that I have seen myself as a Law Officer. There is nothing in the evidence to suggest that the scenario was any different from that. The House must remember that immunity means only an assurance that she will not be prosecuted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "unity means an assurance that there will be no prosecution. Sometimes that is a very difficult assurance to give, because sometimes it means that one is agreeing not to prosecute somebody who is guilty of a very serious offence. In such a case, as in the Blunt case, it is a serious step to take to give an assurance that one will not prosecute somebody who has been guilty of a very serious offence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is now trying to escape the point. I am dealing with the right hon. Gentleman's direct accusation of the Attorney-General of disgraceful conduct. He has no grounds on which to make that accusation. He knows perfectly well that my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General has no opportunity today to defend himself. What he will do later, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We wish he would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend will speak for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.673.4", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "preceding_text": "e is affected. The conditions prevailing as a result of the cuts are already been seen in the Liverpool area. [Intervention.] In the Olive Mount psychiatric hospital, I have spoken to cooks and ancillary staff, some of whom are female and are the sole breadwinners of their families, who are suffering a £32 a week reduction in their wages plus a cut in the hours that they work within that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "ed by the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore), who suggested in an amendment that we should perhaps defer the proposed recess arrangements to all intents and purposes to enable an instant debate on the fourth report of the Select Committee on Defence. I note the right hon. Gentleman's speech. It seemed to me that his anxiety was that if we went away this topic would wither—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.680.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "t is possible to do something about speeding up the letting of public sector properties. The Audit Commission suggests three weeks. I do not understand that and, of course, I am told that I know nothing about the subject. If it is possible for ower-occupiers to move out in the morning and for someone else to move in in the afternoon or on the next day, why can that not happen in the public sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-24", "file": "debates1986-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4d961258301e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "British Rail Engineering", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conal Gregory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conal Gregory", "preceding_text": "f hon. Members will excuse a pun, on the right tracks, but they are sadly let down by those funeral directors, the union shop stewards. I have to say, because words spoken in this House are clearly monitored by the appropriate ambassadors, that the greatest disservice to BREL has been and continues to be done by one J. Knapp. Mr. Knapp has been touring the country and whipping up the 40,000 staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-24a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-07-25", "file": "debates1986-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "ad2839f3c2b78097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-25a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Privy Council Office (Mr. Richard Luce)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Privy Council Office (Mr. Richard Luce)", "preceding_text": "hat he loses his balance and objectivity. One obsession he has is that there is a continual conspiracy in Government against the nation. This impression that he gives, that he lives in a world of illusions, does very often diminish the credibility of his case. Indeed he is notorious for raising issues which fascinate a part of Westminster and the press but which bore the rest of the country stiff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-07-25a.858.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "f this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to he upon the Table; That no further fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which fees have already been incurred during the present Session: That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.937.4", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Lady aware that the DHSS under-fives initiative ends in April next year? Will she make a statement about the future of projects financed under that scheme? Is she aware that a number of projects providing services for children under five are at risk because they are located in council areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.937.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I say exactly what has happened with regard to spending on roads —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.943.10", "colnum": "943", "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 answer questions about party political matters from this Dispatch Box —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.943.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Visas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members will know that almost the first thing seen by people arriving at Heathrow airport is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Visas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "countries? The number of visitors to Britain from those countries is less than one third of those from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and it has risen proportionately much less during the past three years than has the number from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The Home Office cites the growing refusal rate, but it is not some act of God. Rather it is a deliberate policy of the Home Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Visas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What problems?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "iend the Foreign Secretary has that in mind. My hon. Friend, who speaks from long experience, has it exactly right. One of the groups which has suffered most from occasional pressures at Heathrow has comprised the friends and relatives of bona fide visitors to this country from the sub-continent. This group has had to wrestle with uncertainty and delay, and the problem of Members' representations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ti-sports policy isn't carefully thought out at all … Let's leave aside the fact that the anti-team sports, anticompetitive polices are actually rather racist because they prevent activities which a lot of black children are especially keen on. He concludes: That is a truly pernicious approach and no education authority worth its salt ought to pander to the stupid teachers who support it. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " on consensus, but that is now breaking down. The consensus is simply that children are placed in schools in loco parentis and that teachers do not have a right to inculcate their political viewpoints into their education. When most of us were at school, current affairs classes were usually confined to a Friday afternoon. I do not think that any of us knew the political viewpoint of our teachers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": " though there are pitches on the school campus and outside the school's front door. They lie unused for weeks on end, despised by local authorities and some school governors. That just will not do. It is unfair to children. There is a traditional and substantial motto in education —mens sano in corporo sano—which means \"a healthy body produces a healthy mind\". I think that this has been accepted—,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "lowed an outlet for their physical and mental energies and their determination to compete. If that is not allowed in sport, there will be aggravation of a type we do not want. Sadly, we are losing as a nation because of the weakness of sport in schools. Mike Gatting, the England cricket captain, who made a fine innings this week, probably would not play cricket if he were in a London school today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "The only description of the moral framework which one can talk about is the well-understood view of family life—a loving and sharing relationship within the confines of family life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "y have no experience whatever and do not even wish to teach in the first place. I should have thought that parents rather than teachers knew best their children's needs and requirements and the final say is certainly best left to individuals. Naturally they will need to find out about what is going on in their life and in their social life, but they must not be subjected to the risk of corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "ur children. It is clear that such organisations have launched an evil war on marriage and the family and what I and many other hon. Members value deeply. We must never support publicly campaigns for lesbian pupils, as there have been, or action against heterosexism, which it is said is a sexually transmitted disease, or positive promotion of lesbianism. We must not destroy the faith of our young.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": " here in London who make such remarks, doing a lot to corrupt our children. That kind of sex education is unacceptable and is running rife. Parents must always have the opportunity to withdraw their children if they disagree with that kind of filth because they know it corrupts and they know that it is unacceptable to today's society. Every hon. Member in the House who is a father will know well —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1074.4", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "My first inclination was to support the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Mr Bruinvels) who spoke to it with his customary mix of honesty and enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1074.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "noble Viscount tried to befog the issue of what was happening to the schools due to a lack of money, he worded the amendment to stress regard to moral considerations and the value of family life. The Government could not resist using such lovely words, having tried to persuade us over the years that they were the party of morality and family life, as though nobody else and no other party could be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-21", "file": "debates1986-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "277643055b0c0966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1124.10", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I regret that I cannot be brief in moving this amendment, for reasons which will emerge in the course of my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-21a.1124.10"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-22", "file": "debates1986-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "376e0d8b05844f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1145.10", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ommittee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table with the New Clause as added on Consideration of the Bill as amended. That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1145.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-22", "file": "debates1986-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "376e0d8b05844f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am always happy to accept advice from the right hon. Gentleman on questions of verbiage. We were seeking to highlight those aspects of the situation in the United Kingdom that would maximise our prospects for achieving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-22", "file": "debates1986-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "376e0d8b05844f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1155.9", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pollock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pollock", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. and learned Friend next meets the general council, will he draw its attention to the highly successful job creation work of local enterprise trusts? Is he aware that last Monday at the annual general meeting of the Moray local enterprise trust it was announced that several jobs had been created or saved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1155.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-22", "file": "debates1986-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "376e0d8b05844f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "British Rail (Subsidy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I do not believe, although it is a matter for British Rail, that this necessarily means changes in job levels. However, I did not rush to congratulate the chairman of British Rail about the standards. I have been a regular traveller on British Rail for many years. Some of us actually travel in other parts of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-22a.1173.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1311.5", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "mer colleague, Mr. Kilroy-Silk, to go to the pastures that you described, Mr. Speaker, in place of his previous occupation. The electors are landed with a by-election that they did not want, and they are now being landed with a candidate whom they say they do not want. I know of no precedent for a by-election writ to be moved in the House before it is known who the candidate will be for the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1311.8", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "It is a legitimate matter of public interest that the candidate should be known and that the decision of the courts should be made before the writ is moved. Therefore, I ask whether the leader of the Labour party will agree that until the court's decision is made the writ should not be moved. One other reason is that it is a little unfair to the alliance candidate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1311.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1312.2", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The patient.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "onport (Dr. Owen). At considerable danger and distress to my constituents, disturbing the elderly voters, the very people whom the Liberal party claims to champion, the right hon. Gentleman travelled by helicopter. It arrived in London, and he waited upon the right hon. Member for Devonport. I was not present, and nor were you, Mr. Speaker, when the doctor received the leader of the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1312.3", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not stray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1312.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A great deal!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "What has this got to do with the issue of the writ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1314.8", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No. It is clearly set out in \"Erskine May\" that unparliamentary words may not be used about another hon. Member, even by attribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1314.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1315.2", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here. Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "I was reminding the House about the decision of the National Executive Committee of the Labour party, of which the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) is a distinguished member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "ed. At the request of many trade unionists, including my own union, the Transport and General Workers Union, and members of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers who had been sacked and who had lost their jobs in Kirkby, I spoke to Mr. Kilroy-Silk. He had not raised one finger to save the jobs of those thousands of workers. I asked Mr. Kilroy-Silk, if he was democratically deselected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1323.5", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "New Writ (Knowsley, North)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "t he was going to resign or stand as an independent Labour candidate against a selected member, so I put it to him that he should not split the Labour vote and should not resign or stand as an independent member. There was no mention of west Lancashire, of Mr. Tony Mulhearn or of anyone else. Mr. Kilroy-Silk has been one of the most disgraceful Members of Parliament for Merseyside for many years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sex Discrimination Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Paymaster General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "ex discrimination.\" Contrary views have been expressed by hon. Members on both sides of the House about the purpose of and motivation for the Bill. The Government's argument is that it will sweep away old-time legislation and, in certain circumstances, equalise the conditions of women and men. That was the line taken last night by the right hon. and learned Gentleman — I have forgotten his title —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1369.2", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Salmon Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "gh most of the debate has been about Wales, it must be admitted that there are far more salmon in Scottish rivers than there are in English and Welsh rivers, more is the pity. It would therefore be wrong to deny the Scots a proportionate share of representation on the committee. Of course we do not want on the committee people who are landed proprietors and who take no interest in their fisheries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-23", "file": "debates1986-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b148c7ee086b02d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Salmon Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "preceding_text": "Let me first, Mr. Deputy Speaker, set your mind at rest in case the hon. Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) presents you with a salmon. I think you would have a very reasonable defence if you said that the hon. Gentleman was a large estate owner on the banks of the River Tweed. Therefore, if he does present you with a salmon you can take 1t without much fear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-23a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-24", "file": "debates1986-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "032111267c701928", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-24a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Overseas Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "a real agricultural development. Another point is implicit in that which the hon. Member for Stafford said. One of the limitations about the World Bank approach is born-again marketeering, which we see not from Burki's international division within the World Bank, but from its economics division. The United States Administration assumes that only market forces can achieve agricultural development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-24a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-24", "file": "debates1986-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "032111267c701928", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-24a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Overseas Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "ope that the Minister will make that commitment from the Dispatch Box today. If the spraying programme is undertaken, the Relief Society of Tigré has given an assurance that it will co-operate with any measure taken to save crops and lives. If the Minister ignores this matter, he may find that it hangs around his neck for the remainder of the relatively short time that he holds his office —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-24a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Artificial Limbs (Supply)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "nstituency Roehampton is located. He has made repeated representations to me about this dispute and has voiced his anxiety about patient care. We have identified, and are identifying, patients whose appointments have been delayed. We are arranging fresh appointments for them and, as I said in my statemen t, we are seeking to arrange for the alternative manufacture of limbs where that is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "BBC (Court Case)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) had hoped to point out that as many as 17 out of 20 witnesses may have been persuaded to withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "and there are signs of more to come. The inflation rate is starting to move up again. There is a deficit in trade in manufactured goods and a more persistent deficit in our overall balance of payments. With the Government's policies our country is heading for disaster. By contrast we have the imaginative proposals of the Labour party that are contained in the new publication \"Investing in People\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": " structural unemployment because its local economy was too narrowly based, too over dependent on just two industries—textiles and steel. We in Delyn realised fromthe start that we had to create a much more widely based local economy if we were to make a significant impact on the unacceptably high level of unemployment in the area. We could not have had more support from the Government in so doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": "e for Wales and his team — and to Delyn borough council — for their tremendous achievement in bringing about such a significant turn around in the industrial fortunes of my area. But we must keep the momentum going. The enterprise zone approach has proved how effective an intensive localised response to the problems of unemployment can be. The problems that we now face are the problems of success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.80.5", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will probably take years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ly continues: If the entry clearance officer maintains his decision, he prepares an explanatory statement which is forwarded to the independent appellate authorities in this country.\" — [ Official Report, 24 October 1986; Vol. 102, c. 1006. ] So there will be a procedure for people who simply want to come here on a short visit and who are refused visas for reasons that will take months to resolve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.80.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.88.4", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "n visitors and would-be settlers. In each case there is a procedure, and in 1969 the Labour Government decided that the procedure in respect of settlement, precisely because of the pressures building up, should be conducted overseas, and we have taken an identical decision in respect of visitors. The Opposition clearly want the control, in one way or another, to be relaxed and a higher proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.88.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.88.6", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "o remain in this country to exercise his right of appeal. No other passengers have that right, and it was deliberately intended to emphasise the special position of visa holders. Therefore, anyone who is refused a visa overseas has the right of appeal overseas. Anyone who is given a visa, but is nevertheless refused entry in the circumstances that I have talked about, has the right of appeal here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.88.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "It has been said by the right hon. Member for Gorton, and even by the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Gandhi, that the introduction of visas is a racist measure because it applies to black people from the Indian subcontinent and Africa. I have to reject that view. Why is it racist for Britain to demand an entry visa from, for example, an Indian citizen when India demands one from every British citizen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "At least my hon. Friend is doing his job, which is more than the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) is doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": " from a wealthy background. We can build corrective elements into the system which will avoid that problem. The Government are advocating the implementation of the postal application system. That will be much better for those applying for visas. Some hon. Members have talked about long journeys but it is not our fault that some of these countries are large and people have to travel long distances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "preceding_text": "he world to apply for the stamp somewhere else? For these and other reasons it would be a denial of justice to take away from us the right to act on behalf of our constituents and the people that they wish to have visit them. I have to make it clear yet again, because Government Members do not wish to listen, that, in government, the Labour party will continue to exercise firm immigration control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "han in 1985. Between 12 and 20 additional staff were on duty at terminal 3 until 14 October and on 14 October no fewer than 54 additional staff were in post. Even so, they could not cope, for obvious reasons, as any sensible person could recognise. The problem facing immigration control over the past year could not have been solved by extra staffing. There is insufficient detention accommodation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-27", "file": "debates1986-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "2d33c4dc9e5c2fbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "as entirely right. He recognised that it is for every individual country to decide how best to operate the mechanism of immigration control and that if we felt it right to use the mechanism of visa control we were perfectly entitled to do it, in order to weed out genuine tourists from those who are pretending to be tourists. We have never imposed visas on the basis of colour. Before these changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-27a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The cost of fuel and light has remained stable, so there will be no change in the heating additions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.164.9", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes. Would you agree, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.164.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer questions in detail about existing arms contracts with the French Government or any other Government. I am making it clear to the House that the French representative made it clear yesterday that France was ready to agree on the spot to the suspension of all arms sales to Syria —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.178.5", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Availability for Work (Test)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Yes, Can you start work today?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.178.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.178.7", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Availability for Work (Test)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No he is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Paymaster General is seeking to give information to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Availability for Work (Test)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Archer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of any colleague, certainly not one for whom I am responsible, who has ever referred to a majority or a significant proportion of the unemployed as scroungers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Availability for Work (Test)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "is not a change in policy. However, the briefing note that went out to all staff in unemployment benefit offices — but not to hon. Members—stated: The experiments are showing that using the UB671 questionnaire … has reduced the number of claims made and increased the number disallowed. That is what it is about and that is what the Minister told his staff it was about — reducing the numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Availability for Work (Test)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Come to the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "o hon. Members—stated: The experiments are showing that using the UB671 questionnaire … has reduced the number of claims made and increased the number disallowed. That is what it is about and that is what the Minister told his staff it was about — reducing the numbers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"] Let me explain to Conservative Members who do not understand anything about the processes that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Availability for Work (Test)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No, they do not—of course they do not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is genuine, if you will allow me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.190.8", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "One of the problems that was pointed out yesterday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.190.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "he Measure, the House will warmly approve. So that the matter may be clear and without any doubt, I draw attention to the specific provision in section 1(4): Nothing in this Measure shall make it lawful for a woman to be ordained to the office of priest. I commend the Measure on a number of grounds. It seems to be acknowledged by scholars—of course, as the House well knows, I certainly am not one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "properly a distancing between the Synod and Parliament and a greater formalisation of our relationship. But it is the Prime Minister who appoints the bishops. Anyone who has read the recent scandalous stories about the Archbishop of Canterbury must know that it was hoped that he would resign because of those stories, to pave the way for a more acceptable archbishop appointed by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.202.7", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": " in the United States and elsewhere. It might fatally injure the Church. In saying that, I am not opposed to women in general of women in public life. Everyone with a knowledge of church history must know the tremendous part that women have played in the Christian story. Furthermore, I fully recognise the value of the work done by deaconnesses. I also salute those women such as our Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.202.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.226.6", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly do so but if I may just read the first sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.226.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "mera was invented by a Communist professor, whose son is a friend of mine. That is slightly off the track so I will return to the subject. We are waiting to see the photographic prints to determine what these birds were. I do not suppose there are any kestrels or peregrine falcons in this area, but many other birds will be at risk, and many people from the royal society will be worried about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "here and warn other hon. Members of what local people are saying. The problem with the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds is that he represents a certain high-powered establishment sectional interest, the moneyed interest, but not the other groups who are complaining about the Bill. He asked me, and I have already told him, the names of some of the people who are opposed to the Bill, the yacht club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "ra container capacity be necessary when the Channel tunnel will have a greater impact on the carrying of containers in future? Every time the Minister was asked those questions he refused to answer. How could people sitting in judgment reach a proper conclusion at the end of the day that the Bill should be supported, when an essential part of the evidence was not before them? In no way could one —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.250.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "I was about to conclude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "t Tendency in his part of the country, the Liverpool dock and harbour system is not merely crumbling into the River Mersey; it is falling into it. It would be sad if the people of Felixstowe had to face a similar catastrophe. Conservative Members would resist it at all costs. We wish the hon. Gentleman's area to be prosperous, just as we wish the area that is now under discussion to be prosperous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is a filibuster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might just finish my sentence. The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch describes himself as a practising barrister, but if ever there was a case of the hon. Gentleman demonstrating that he could not handle a dock brief, this is it. I hope that by that slight aside I have demonstrated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.254.8", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Filibuster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. I believe that I am making a relevant point about the carryover motion. I can do no better than refer to that part of \"Erskine May\" which specifically deals with the suspension of Bills. I cannot think of anything that is more germane and relevant to the proceedings in question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.254.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, he did not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to accept that, because I understand that the proposer of the motion has not yet spoken, although he moved it formally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.255.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-28", "file": "debates1986-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a94c1678d0118d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.255.9", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths) moved the motion formally, as I understand it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-28a.255.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "We obviously are determined to assist the Secretary-General in his efforts to achieve a peaceful solution within Cyprus —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "No-Smoking Areas in Public Houses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": " in the fresh air rather than in the smoke-filled interior. Customers regularly vote with their feet. They buy their beer at the supermarket and drink it at home rather than put up with pollution in the pub. If a pub customer tries to open a window or keep a door open, as I have done, he quickly finds himself evicted. This is not an attempt to ban smoking; it is merely a Bill to segregate smokers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "able, and EH101 went ahead as a separate programme. Meanwhile, it remained fully open to the Ministry of Defence to reassess the military requirement if new evidence came along to warrant it. This is precisely what happened. The experience of Exercise Lionheart in the autumn of 1984, and the new thinking it stimulated about the army's helicopter needs, are well described in the Committee's report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "sh to procurement of hardware at any cost. This would have been fair neither to the services nor to the taxpayer. The Committee has also raised the question of service responsibilities for helicopters and has said that it believes there is a strong case for giving the Army, as user of support helicopters, full responsibility for them. I think that the Committee has raised an interesting question.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "ivy to Cabinet minutes—\"It is very odd that a campaign is being conducted in the press by the right hon. Member for Henley. It is extremely embarrassing to me. I am the Minister. Will you. Prime Minister, call us together and sort this out?\" That approach would have been direct and honourable. I do not know why that was not done. I have never been a member of a Government, and I am unlikely to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "the debate and the considerationof the many aspects is how many facets are contained in this single topic. In those circumstances, the appropriateness of debating the motion for the Adjournment has been illustrated. Nobody doubts that a motion for the Adjournment can be devastating in its consequences. Neville Chamberlain managed to win a motion for the Adjournment and resigned shortly afterwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that point, because it is the Government's view that paragraph 44 is intended to sustain what they believe to be the existing position —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Westland plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I assure the right hon. Gentleman that he is putting an entirely different interpretation upon it. I hope that by the end of my speech I will have convinced him either that he is mistaken or that it is still a matter that we can discuss.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-29", "file": "debates1986-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "54e5c836c18ed9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Commercial Agents", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I will, but before I do I should like to say that we are dealing with something the technicality of which makes it essentially arid. I am always delighted to engage in an exchange of views with my hon. Friend, but I hope that my giving way to him will not be regarded as a general precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-29a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.445.5", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. We have been holding constructive discussions at an official level in the Community. I have made it clear that several of the beef proposals are unacceptable to us because of discrimination. I shall continue to resist them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.445.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.447.10", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rch but that if research led to the possible deployment of new defence systems it would be, in her words, a matter of negotiation under the treaty\"? Is that still her position in view of the much less clear and less positive view expressed by the Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence last week? Can she tell us, specifically, what is the Government's position on star wars and the ABM treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.447.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.447.10", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ve view expressed by the Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence last week? Can she tell us, specifically, what is the Government's position on star wars and the ABM treaty? [Interruption.] If we had had a statement, this request would not have been necessary. Can the Prime Minister also say, specifically, what is her attitude to the adoption of the zero/zero option as discussed at Reykjavik?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.447.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.447.10", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "the ABM treaty? [Interruption.] If we had had a statement, this request would not have been necessary. Can the Prime Minister also say, specifically, what is her attitude to the adoption of the zero/zero option as discussed at Reykjavik? [Interruption.] As I said, if we had had a statement, this would not be necessary. In view of President Reagan's clear reassertion yesterday that he will persist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.447.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In view of President Reagan's clear reassertion yesterday that he intended to persist, very sensibly with his proposals on ballistic missile systems in future negotiations, will the Prime Minister tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I repeat, had we had a statement from the Government, these questions would not have been be necessary. In view of President Reagan's clear reassertion yesterday that he wanted to pursue his proposition to get rid of ballistic missiles over 10 years, is the Prime Minister prepared to reconsider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.449.8", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the importance of the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.449.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I hope I am wrong, but I thought I saw you reading from a list of names of Conservative Members and calling them to ask supplementary questions of the Prime Minister. Is that because representations are made to you —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.450.5", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have the opportunity to clear up the matter. I must say to the hon. Gentleman and to the whole House that if representations are made to me beforehand that an hon. Member wishes to be called during Prime Minister's Question Time, that hon. Member will not be called. I make that absolutely clear. As to what goes on here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.450.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.450.7", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is nothing secret about it. The hon. Gentleman can have a look for himself. Against those names is marked the number of times that hon. Members have been called to put a supplementary question. I seek to ensure that every Member who seeks to put a question to the Prime Minister during a Parliament has an equal opportunity. I hope the House will agree that that is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.450.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "le time to debate this proposal, which we understand the Prime Minister is resisting in some peculiar luddite form? The chairman of the Conservative party today issued a press release, which is couched in typically authoritarian terms, demanding that the vice-chairman of the BBC make, in the right hon. Gentleman's words, a thorough reappraisal of the managerial and editorial standards of the BBC\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "As the person responsible for my party's health —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. On the basis of what I have announced today, more than 66 per cent. of teachers in Scotland, over two thirds, will be earning over £12,000 a year and nearly one third of teachers in secondary education will be earning more than £15,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "For the hon. Gentleman to suggest that the announcement today of a 16·4 per cent. pay increase for teachers represents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "e figures or not, what will now be circulated in the schools will be the moves, which he thinks are small but which we think are substantial, from the Main recommendations. We are all concerned about the atmosphere in the schools and, by moving away from Main in his statement today, no matter how little, the right hon. and learned Gentleman is conditioning an atmosphere against the Main proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-10-30", "file": "debates1986-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "bb09b4916eb37c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "y with no enthusiasm, and perhaps, to put it bluntly, with a little embarrassment, that if he were to do that my party and I could not go into the Division Lobby with him. I say that with a little embarrassment because we joined him in the Division Lobby last time he raised the matter. Therefore, I ask him and others to recognise that, on maturer consideration of those matters and, in particular —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-10-30a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is just rumour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "there is considerable anger in the west of Scotland at British Rail's proposal, following the electrification of the King's Cross to Edinburgh line, that fast trains from Glasgow should be re-routed through Edinburgh? Is he aware that there is great anxiety that this will cause considerable damage to the passenger routes in the west of Scotland and generally to the line between Glasgow and London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "If there really is any evidence of intimidation of witnesses, I just wish that it could be made available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sheffield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "t is what the Lords amendment would mean— the decision as to whether a house or flat ought to be exempt from the right-to-buy provisions on the ground that such a property is particularly suitable for a person of pensionable age. If that decision were left to local authorities, I believe that some of them—alas—are so opposed to the right to buy in any event that capricious decisions would be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "not acted in good faith in making a designation about houses that are particularly suitable for occupation by pensioners. He also said that, although he was accusing the Government of bad faith, he was not extending that charge to Ministers. From my knowledge of this matter, I can say that all applications made by local authorities for exemption from the right to buy were dealt with by Ministers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Avon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "er should know well, is different areas, which may be Liberal, Social Democratic party, alliance, Labour or Tory controlled, have different circumstances. The Minister, with the Labour housing spokesman, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), and myself yesterday watched a film on the now twice quoted \"This Week Next Week\" programme, from Woodspring district council in Somerset —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.719.2", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "rging them once and now again, their popularity in Scotland has gone down and down. The latest opinion poll showed them enjoying the marvellous support of 14 per cent. of the Scottish people. Five Conservative Members of Parliament out of 21 will be lucky if they hold their seats at the next general election. That is what the Scottish people think about the Government and this type of legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "rity was evinced by the fact that every time we put up discounts our popularity declined. The Labour party conference last March considered a report drawn up by an academic who used to be a Labour councillor. He discovered that 67 per cent. of Labour supporters wanted the right to buy. That is why at that conference the Labour party in Scotland decided to stop opposing the sale of council houses —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "lear that he opposed the right to buy. Obviously, he does not want to send me that document if it undermines his own arguments. The hon. Gentleman asks \"Why now?\" The reasons for the amendment were set out most persuasively by my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing, Urban Affairs and Construction and I shall not try to add to those. The proposal is sensible. We came to that view at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-03", "file": "debates1986-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "38231f2236a45dc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "preceding_text": "Having heard hon. Members' speeches, I am sure that that was not the intent of the amendments. The amendments as drafted impose a statutory requirement for consultation in general or ballots in particular in cases where the proposal is the transfer of new town houses to a non-council owner. They do not make a comparable provision for cases where the proposal is to transfer housing to the council —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-03a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that at my meeting with the trade union representatives at Rolls-Royce, Parkside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.798.11", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The new questionnaire applies the law as the Labour Government reaffirmed it in the Social Security Act 1975, which said: a day shall not be treated in relation to any person— (i) as a day of unemployment unless on that day he is capable of work and he is, or is deemed in accordance with regulations to be available to be employed in employed earner's employment\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.798.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.800.6", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. To forestall any possible points of order, I should tell the House that I stopped the hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Couchman) from asking a question about what went on in the Manchester city council —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Unemployment Benefit (Claimant Advisers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Well, it would, but it is unlikely to happen because —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Unemployment Benefit (Claimant Advisers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes we do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the Minister answers, I should say that we do not have idiots in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.808.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "BBC (Libel Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "st in our care throughout these legal proceedings not to abuse our position in the House in order to advance our case—a case which you will know put us at risk to the extent of £750,000. I seek a ruling from you, Mr. Speaker, that you will not allow the abuse of privilege in the House. If that is not to be the case, we shall use the privilege that is afforded to us perhaps to reveal other things —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member asks a particular and interesting question. I shall reply off the cuff, but if I am wrong I shall write to him. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "h an infernal hurry to pass it. When the first carry-over hybrid Bill was proposed in the House, the then Prime Minister chose to address the House because it was considered of such importance that only the Prime Minister could do so. From Ramsay MacDonald to the Minister of State is not exactly a step up in protocol. It seems that today's Government are taking a more relaxed view of their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "l not last another Session—whatever happens to the Government, and assuming that it is the same Government after the next Session has ended. As I have said, the London Passenger Transport Bill was carried forward for two Sessions. If the same occurred with this Bill, it would be an abuse of Parliament because there is opposition to it, whereas the London Passenger Transport Bill met no opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "preceding_text": "The Minister is well aware that they are not my local representatives —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-04", "file": "debates1986-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "a619f956655d2068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Housing (Basildon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "ne week there will be an exhibition in the Palace of Westminster entitled \"Basildon—a town of opportunity\". It will be Basildon week in the House of Commons and the Commission for the New Towns will be promoting the event in order to stimulate even further interest in our town. So the commitment to permanently securing Basildon's position as the finest new town in the country is as strong as ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-04a.926.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Robin Cook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.940.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question No. 4. I call Mr. Robert Atkins —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "referred. Although I have heard nothing, yesterday the Lord Chancellor replied to the inquiry by way of a planted written question, which was answered by the Attorney-General. The question was tabled by an hon. Member who is a little fellow from one of the Leicester seats. You will know him, Mr. Speaker, because he prattles on but cannot be seen because he is so small. My first point, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "judges but to senior judicial figures. I ask, Mr. Speaker, where one draws the line as to who is and who is not a senior judicial figure. Let us consider the Lord Chancellor's son. He is a barrister and a Minister—a Member of this House. Is he a senior judicial figure? When I was in chambers with him, we used to call him a weak-chinned, bespectacled swot. Be that as it may, I ask you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": " am particularly envious that you had prior notice of this matter. I did not. I appreciate that the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) is concerned that a shorter Member than he actually got the right answer, but I refute the fact that I asked a flagrant planted question and that I had showed some interest in this case. I seek a withdrawal of the unfortunate allegation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.956.9", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Hickmet) but, in fact, the private solicitor and I held a press conference this morning. The private solicitor not only bitterly criticised and challenged the lies of Master Bickford Smith but took on the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney-General. It has been done outside. If these people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.956.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.956.11", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. Master Bickford Smith is constrained by the rules of the Supreme Court from issuing a writ against that so-called hon. Member, as well he knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.956.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Make him withdraw it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me clear up this matter in relation to what the hon. Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Hickmet) said. We have in this place, and we shall be claiming it after the State Opening next week, freedom of speech. Every hon. Member has freedom of speech. Of course, he has to exercise it with discretion as he sees it, but that is entirely a matter for the hon. Member concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.957.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Hickmet) referred to my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) as the \"so-called hon. Member\". I think that that statement demands that he withdraw it immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.957.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.957.6", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Master J. R. Bickford Smith", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No—withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "preceding_text": "We are all hon. Members and we have to discharge that obligation which is upon us. The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch knows the best description that fits him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.957.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to put on the record that which he wants to put on the record if he catches your eye, Mr. Speaker. The Government cannot accept the circumstances that I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "This debate takes place because of what occurred in another place at 23 minutes past 4 o'clock yesterday. There are nearly 1,200 Members of the other place. Yesterday by 148 votes to 124 the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.971.5", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "y their homes. My hon. Friend the Minister gave his advice to the House with great reluctance and I shall follow his advice with even greater reluctance. The other place is not nearly as closely in touch with the real world and with how matters operate in our constituencies. The other place, out of touch as I believe it to have been on this issue, with four right reverend prelates voting against —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.971.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Cereals (Co-responsibility Levy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "It may not be strictly true, but in effect it is true, because that is what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Cereals (Co-responsibility Levy)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "nd the Minister should return at the next price review —it cannot be done here and now—and ensure that the levy is deducted from the intervention price. That seems to be fair to all, and easier to administer. This is only one aspect of a bigger package deal for dealing with surpluses. We have to move on. We must either set aside further price reductions at the end or encourage alternative crops. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Cereals (Co-responsibility Levy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": " mentioned audit. The brief on the audit matter that hon. Members received may have misled them. That matter still lies on the table. We are ready to discuss some sort of realistic, cost-effective, simple audit. Simplicity and cost-effectiveness will be difficult to achieve. The hon. Members for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Strang) and for Bradford, South (Mr. Torney) mentioned poultry with some ferocity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I am aware that Councillor Jameson of Dumfries and Galloway, who is not a member of my Parliament—sorry, party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "his form of policy. It is equally irrelevant to say that the Government are penalising only 25 authorities when those authorities represent 73 per cent. of total local government expenditure in Glasgow. I was not clear about the four authorities that together account for £107 million of the £125 million. I make it three authorities, but perhaps simple arithmetic is not the Minister's strong point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive an Englishman for intervening in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "It is a pity that the hon. Gentleman has not been listening to the debate. If he chose to go back to his old stomping ground he would see that in the years since I became a Member a great deal more money is being spent on that portion of West Stirlingshire than ever was spent when he was a Member there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": "es to have a predominantly Labour representation that is dominated by the Tory majority from the south of England, not only the Scottish people but the Labour party will need to examine the situation. We are dealing with an order to reduce the rate support grant by £125·3 million—from £1,761 million to £1,636 million. Tomorrow the Chancellor of the Exchequer will make his autumn statement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-05", "file": "debates1986-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "dabe93ccd759caea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1052.6", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is now beginning to hypothesise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-05a.1052.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense in the latter part of his question. Although we had no legal objection to the resolution, we were not prepared to support the attempt by Nicaragua to exploit a legal judgment for its own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense in the latter part of his question. Although we had no legal objection to the resolution, we were not prepared to support the attempt by Nicaragua to exploit a legal judgment for its own— [Interruption.] —political ends. The Government in Nicaragua are increasingly repressive in their methods and in recent months have taken action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman absented himself from the whole of Treasury questions to have time to mug up the questions he has just asked, I should have thought that he could have done a little better than he did. I shall do my best to answer the right hon. Gentleman's questions. I shall take them in the order that he asked them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "easury questions to have time to mug up the questions he has just asked, I should have thought that he could have done a little better than he did. I shall do my best to answer the right hon. Gentleman's questions. I shall take them in the order that he asked them. [Interruption.] If right hon. and hon. Members do not want me to answer the right hon. Gentleman's questions, I shall not answer them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1105.3", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "BBC (Libel Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we have dealt with that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The straight answer to the question is that the repatriation of funds recently invested overseas will produce an upward pressure on sterling and make it unnecessary to run record interest rates in the way in which the Chancellor has done it. Having answered the question, let me tell the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " economy as a whole. Looking at the overall position, the prospect for next year is for faster growth that is balanced in two senses: first, between domestic demand and exports; and, secondly, between investment and consumer spending. I have to say that the latter achievement was conspicuously lacking in the upswing that took place under the previous Government. Between 1975 and 1979 under Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " the rest of the European Community put together. Total employment has now risen for 13 successive quarters—the longest period of uninterupted growth in employment for almost 30 years. Opposition Members ought to welcome that if they have any concern at all for the unemployed, which they have not. They seek to exploit the unemployed for their own party political purposes. They simply do not care.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1120.5", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. Spending on motorways and trunk roads —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seize?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "preceding_text": "ssed. There seems to be a spirit of defeatism — certainly among the Opposition—about what British industry is doing, and can do in the near future, about the opportunities offered to it. British industry enjoys many advantages which have been given to it since 1979. The featherbedding and overmanning of the 1960s are things of the past. They will only return if the Opposition parties seize power —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor is not paying attention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "y at 37 per cent. of the price that our people must pay for electricity for their electric arc furnaces? It is no good the Chancellor talking about cheap nuclear power. That has nothing to do with it. The Governments in Italy, France, Germany and almost every other OECD country recognise that they cannot afford an arm's-length relationship with industry and that their own industries must survive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "h retail trade. In particular, because he happens to he one of the far-Left politicians, the author chose to criticise one of our most successful high street chains, Marks and Spencer plc. Somebody should have told that prospective Labour party candidate that, but for companies such as Marks and Spencer, there would not be a textile trade in this country. Job losses would have been 10 times worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "That is a fair point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1165.4", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I will happily double check. I shall explain the procedure that we use. That document was produced by my special advisers in the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1171.4", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "That intervention has taken two minutes of my time. For the hon. Gentleman to raise that point in a debate about employment, jobs, and the Government's programme shows how serious he is about these matters. If that is all that the hon. Gentleman can do", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "tion of gross national product, which we have succeeded in doing over past years and in the programmes now before the House. The success of the economic strategy, reflected in inflation at levels not seen for almost two decades, and economic growth averaging nearly 3 per cent. for six successive years—that prudent management of the economy—enables us to make further increases in priority services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "for six successive years—that prudent management of the economy—enables us to make further increases in priority services. [Interruption] I want to say a word about them. This debate is about our public expenditure programmes as well. The first point that I should like to make is this. Over the past few years, when we have been succeeding in getting public expenditure down as a proportion of CiDP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is impossible for us to hear the debate. Only 30 members of the Labour party are present for this important debate, and they are shouting and buffooning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "mber for Kingston upon Hull, East claims that a Labour Government would borrow an additional £6 billion on top of what we are doing in terms of job creation programmes. I have looked at the Southwark programme mentioned by the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East. He said, interestingly enough, that it would form the sort of basis for the local authority programmes that he hopes to encourage —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that to achieve 1 million jobs over two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1180.9", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "e debated by various Select Committees, and it would be worth while seeing the same procedure take place on this occasion, especially as one in eight of Tory Members is a member of Lloyd's. Half of the Tory Back Benchers represent companies on the stock exchange. With the kind of information that was available in advance to them, they could have made a killing. They could have lined their pockets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1180.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-06", "file": "debates1986-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "c6cd315ee73c1de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. It will be within your knowledge that, although the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not a Budget statement, there were significant tax elements in it, especially on petroleum revenue tax. Therefore —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-06a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "preceding_text": "e had it said so often to them, \"Would you buy a used car from this man?\" and indeed with such profitable results. It is a pleasure to second the speech by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon). The House listened with great interest to his wise words, not least because, without doubt, he is one of the most distinguished proposers of the Loyal Address in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.13.8", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "d in training and investment in research and development that is commercially viable, all of which are essential to give this country a long-term secure industrial future. Unless we follow that long-term course to strengthen our industrial base, we shall continue to decline as a productive nation and the legacy that we hand to our children will be one of increasing failure, insecurity and poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.13.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "m. Wellington won many famous victories, particularly in defence of Britain, so I should like to think that his comparison was rather apt. I found it difficult to find my way through the right hon. Gentleman's rather rambling speech. I notice that he was very critical of our manufacturing performance. I remind him that manufacturing output has risen by 10 per cent. overall since the 1983 election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister say that the Government's policy has been an outstanding success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.22.8", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must wait for the Bill in order to discuss these matters. Additional money has been made available to enable this scheme to come into operation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.22.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.22.12", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.22.12"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.25.5", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me remind the right hon. Member for Leeds, East of what he said in 1981. He was asked what he would do if Labour adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament. He replied: I would fight to change the policy before the General Election and if I failed then I wouldn't accept office in a Labour Government\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "At any moment, I expected the hon. Member for Halesowen and Stourbridge (Mr. Stokes) to suggest that convicts should be deported to penal colonies in Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "rity of those who arc denied the right to work want to work. We need a very different kind of policy. We need policies that we are not likely to get under the Government. The Government can be complacent and can look at the opinion polls, for what they arc worth, and can see that certain polls show that the so-called alliance parties—which I have never taken very seriously—are not doing very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "preceding_text": "of sanctions on South Africa will result in untold misery and suffering and a very serious setback in national development for all those who now emerge from a long period of domination and despair. Since the Botswanans gained their independence on the 6th of December 1977, apartheid has been eradicated, racial discrimination is unknown, and a democratic free enterprise system has been established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "ion has been neglected by Britain, which is responsible for it, and by the South African Government. It has had to pick up the pieces and put together an education programme for its people. It is succeeding in that. It has a university, schools and an education system, but it could do with help. Although we do not recognise Bophuthatswana, why cannot some of the money at least be channelled there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-12", "file": "debates1986-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "3e4d72f3bca7a560", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I have given way often. I am trying to answer the questions and points made in the original debate, but the more I am interrupted the less chance I have of doing so because I do not intend to spend all night here and you, Mr. Speaker, would not let me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-12a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.107.4", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Powley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Powley", "preceding_text": "May I draw the attention of my right hon. Friend to the part of Her Majesty's Speech in which she said: A Bill will be introduced to facilitate the conservation and management of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads.\"? While that may not be of worldwide interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.107.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I do not have rights to ballot teachers. One difficulty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "This is the problem that exists now and will continue to exist under the existing negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ition is needed. As I understand it, in the negotiations so far there is broad agreement among all sides as to the definition of a teacher's duties. That has been the core of the discussions at Coventry on the 19 conditions. In fact, that will be part of a contract of employment. But I readily recognise that it is up to the local education authorities to enforce it, because they are the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "e run up to the general election. Of course, there are many good things in British education, and I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman is taking the opportunity to familiarise himself with the nation's schools. That is a good thing and it would be a good thing too, if more Conservative Members did that. It would certainly be a good thing if more of them sent their children to the state schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "e been working hard for the past 18 months for a long-term settlement of teachers' pay and conditions much resent both his attitude and his clumsy interference in the negotiations earlier this week. I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman and his Government that if they had come up with the sort of money that they are now offering the teachers we should never have had a teachers' dispute at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.125.5", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman's first intervention was not any good, and I shall not give way a second time. There has also been a criticism —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.125.5", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman's first intervention was not any good, and I shall not give way a second time. There has also been a criticism — [Interruption.] There has also been a criticism of the pay structure. It has been said that it does not reward senior teachers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.134.3", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "No, I am not backing off in the slightest degree —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "preceding_text": "This is a sad occasion for me. The House will know that this debate on the Loyal Address is possibly the last time that I shall have an opportunity to speak on the Queen's Speech on a subject which I have pursued with as much energy as I can during my time in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "is clear that the provisions in the Gracious Speech, and especially the performance of successive Conservative Secretaries of State for Education and Science, show that the frontiers of the state, to use a term which they frequently use, must be rolled back until the areas which, historically, we have said are a matter for community concern, for Parliament or statute, are minimised or swept away —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "al security benefits and, in real terms, on the National Health Service. That intriguing little fact was not immediately evident from the hon. Gentleman's remarks this evening. It also seemed to have slipped temporarily from the Leader of the Opposition's notice in his ill-informed remarks yesterday. I remind them that this year we expect to spend about £44 billion on social security, an increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "he view that the supplementary benefit scale rates can be used as a definition of \"poverty\", for I do not believe that they can. The hon. Member for Oldham, West should beware before he says that that is the case. Such a view is misleading. The fact is that supplementary benefit exists to ensure that people do not live in poverty. To measure poverty by the supplementary benefit rates is ludicrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ases in the supplementary benefit rates. Therefore, those tables contain unequivocal nonsense. When benefits go up, the number of people in poverty, according to that definition, appears to go up as well. If we wanted to reduce poverty on that definition, we would reduce the level of benefit to where it was when the hon. Gentleman was in office, and that would clearly be absurd and grossly unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-13", "file": "debates1986-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e518ca91266b2c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Family Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "olicy intentions clear. What is the policy of the Labour party? When will the hon. Gentleman cost his promises and tell us how he will pay for them? He repeatedly reaffirms that in the first year of a Labour Government his party will increase retirement pensions and child benefits and extend the long-term scale rate of supplementary benefit for the unemployed. He costs that at £3·6 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-13a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-14", "file": "debates1986-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "1581f2d8ee09885f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "onal issues. That is why my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will be visiting the Soviet Union on Mr. Gorbachev's personal invitation in the first half of next year. The General Secretary respects the Prime Minister precisely because she is not weak, or ready to surrender Britain's interests, but because she combines firmness in our national defence with patience and creativity in negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-14", "file": "debates1986-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "1581f2d8ee09885f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "orridor in central Europe, recommended by the Palme commission, with the agreement of the leader of the Social Democratic party, the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen). It was also endorsed in an agreement in the past few weeks between the Social Democratic party in Germany and its opposite number in the German Democratic Republic. Such an agreement would be highly advantageous —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-14", "file": "debates1986-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "1581f2d8ee09885f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "on facts. It concerns the amount of time which the BBC devotes to Afghanistan compared with South Africa. It is an interesting comparison and the ratio is about 20:1. To come nearer home, during the Labour party conference, unless one did one's timing with a stopwatch, the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock) devoted 12 minutes to an attack on American policy in Nicaragua and Central America", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-14", "file": "debates1986-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "1581f2d8ee09885f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ant debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley), like the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer), showed an extraordinary inability to distinguish between liberty and tyranny. I am not interested in belonging to a power bloc, but I am impressed by the fact that America is a free country, which came to our rescue when tyrannies threatened every country in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-14", "file": "debates1986-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "1581f2d8ee09885f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "eakthrough. My hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson), in a perceptive speech, spoke about some of his doubts on short-range intermediate nuclear weapons. I would go a long way with the right hon. Member for Leeds, East and say that Reykjavik was a watershed. I hope that it will still be seen as such in five years. A watershed implies turbulence and a stirring up of currents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-14a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would do the House a service if he told us what he has done with the family silver. I can give him a very good answer to his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "or in Brent has resigned because he said Although I'm anti-racist, I couldn't discuss issues without being misrepresented\". They think that they are being watched by spies. They are afraid that chance remarks might lose them their jobs and their livelihood, on the ground of racism. I am not joking. I have some minutes of an anti-racism group which meets in Brent. I shall quote a passage from it. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "r controls more local authorities in Britain than the Conservative party. As a result of the debacle in local government that he and his right hon. Friends engineered for themselves, the Tories have been humiliated in successive local government elections. Since the right hon. Gentleman has chosen cheaply to attack people who are not here to defend themselves, just let me remind him and the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "In that case, will the right hon. Gentleman tell the House and the teachers whether he expects local education authorities to honour the teachers' agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have Conservative confirmation that people who qualify for rate rebates—people on low incomes, single parent families and the unemployed — will now have to pay —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like Salome.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "rnness of blindness. The Secretary of State knows that she is wrong and that he is wrong but he must, perforce, pretend otherwise. We all know about the Secretary of State's record in these matters. He is shy and retiring, although that is not one of his notable characteristics, about his record. He has quite a good record on devolution, but suddenly he seems to be trying to draw a veil across it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "with our estimable support. In view of the Secretary of State's enthusiasm for these bodies, perhaps he will also tell us why their budgets have been cut. The success record of the Highlands and Islands Development Board is very good—about 92 per cent. —and the cost per job compares well and is possibly cheaper than keeping people on the dole. There is a failure rate of approximately 8 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Scots are the guinea pigs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "ber to refer to a Scottish Bill, and a Scottish Bill to determine local government finance might be thought to be the biggest turn off that one could imagine, and perhaps the attendance in the House reflects that, but this is an important subject. It is obviously important to Scotland but it is important also because, as has been made clear, the Scottish Bill is a precursor to English legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hirst", "preceding_text": "illing to reform the rating system. I am not surprised that those hon. Members who represent the Scottish National party have disappeared; nor am I surprised that those hon. Members who represent the Liberal party are being so uncharacteristically silent. We know that their fudge, local income tax, is impractical and that it would be impossible to implement it before the middle of the next decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"13 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Mr. Hirst) that Scotland leads the way at the moment, in that it shows Tories the way to defeat at the next general election. I understand that the opinion polls show that the Tories have the support of only 21 per cent. of the Scottish electorate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ng local authorities who impose political requirements on contracts. The GLC pioneered contract compliance in 1983 and it was attacked by the CBI. At that time, the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Jenkin) said that the Government would legislate against it. However, the Government will not legislate against contract compliance. They have done a U-turn and I am glad that they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-17", "file": "debates1986-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3aff94ff627a354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I accept that there is more than one way in which that can be done. I am pleased that he and I are on common ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-17a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, as a result of the Government's legislation on wages councils, the wages of young workers in our hotels and elsewhere have been, or are about to be, cut by about £20 a week —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has made clear the conditions upon which the Government will pay the extra sum required to finance the 16.4 per cent. increase. Those conditions relate to duties and pay structure. Pay structure is crucial if we are to get top calibre teachers into the profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.433.4", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Structure is vital to attract young people of calibre into the profession. The right hon. Gentleman is hardly in a position to complain when our average offer is 27 per cent. in real terms above anything that the Labour Government managed to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.433.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.436.12", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on my visit to the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.436.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.437.7", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I made it clear in my answer that the Attorney-General has accordingly applied in the Supreme Court of New South Wales for an injunction to prevent the publication of the Wright book. You have ruled that the matter is not sub judice in this House, but I must submit that it would be most unwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.437.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.437.8", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is an extremely important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.437.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You have ruled that the sub judice rule does not apply and we accept that absolutely —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As one of the questioners whom the Prime Minister misled by her answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.440.4", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She did not mislead the hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "As one of the questioners whom the Prime Minister misled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.440.6", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "case to which Her Majesty's Government are a party, are not sub judice for the purposes of this House? May I make a further submission to you, Mr. Speaker? You have said, quite rightly; that this is a very important matter. We all know the basic reason for the existence of the sub judice rule. It exists so that no influence of an improper or outside kind shall be brought to bear upon the courts. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.440.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.443.5", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Prime Minister (Visit to Washington)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely vital. We shall continue to get Trident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No. Hon. Members cannot accuse me of not giving way, because I have given way three times during my short opening remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "ible picture, and portray the situation in the worst possible light. They revel in it. I am happy to tell the House that the position of British industry today bears no resemblance to that described by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. In fact, the outlook and prospects for British industry are better than they have been for many years. We are now in our sixth successive year of steady growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.470.7", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "which would add to the costs and burdens on British industry. We had the great treat of the hon. Member for Knowsley, North (Mr. Howarth) arriving here this afternoon. Only last week, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East was at it again. On Monday, he announced his plan for a I per cent. levy on companies' turnover to finance industrial training. I am all in favour of industrial training —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.470.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.471.4", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is certainly the Labour party's policy to implement training levies and grants to deal with the collapse of training in industry. I said at Knowsley, North that we had not yet decided on the percentage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I wholly support the CTCs. They are exactly rightly targeted and, if I may take a historic view, they will do something to undo the damage of the social engineering that took the grammar schools out of the city centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "preceding_text": "ng industries. Is not the answer self-evident? The person who really matters—the consumer who will spend his money—does not buy a Japanese car just because he wants to but because he recognises that the Japanese product is better than the British product. Instead of featherbedding weak and incompetent management and instead of giving in to 19th century work practices and 19th century restrictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "preceding_text": " featherbedding weak and incompetent management and instead of giving in to 19th century work practices and 19th century restrictions— [Interruption.] — Opposition parties ask that incompetent British management should be featherbedded by import restrictions and protection as though, by cosseting British industry, one will improve by one iota our industry. That is the direct route to destroy jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Harvey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Harvey", "preceding_text": "comed. The opportunities for a more leisured and prosperous society are huge, and in the long run new service industries should reduce the level of unemployment. But in the short term, there are hundreds and thousands of victims of this process, unskilled and semi-skilled people being shaken out of the traditional industries. They had to be shaken out of them, because there was no future for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Sit down. We are short of workers in some of the basic trades such as bricklayers, plasterers and all those involved in housing building programmes. In the construction industry, there has been a collapse in the number of apprenticeships from 65,000 to 49,000, and that industry maintains the levy system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ve outflow of capital abroad, to invest in the countries of our competitors. We are not prepared to tolerate Britain being turned into a semi-skilled skivvy nation. We have to train our people. We have to pay for them. One thing is for sure: industry should carry its fair share of those costs just as its competitors do. Believe me, industry will carry its fair share and its costs of that training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "and Middlesbrough. We are now spreading them very rapidly. The hon. Member for Jarrow dismissed all his and said that we should talk about people rather than statistics. I have with me a press notice issued today by the Sunderland jobclub, which is not far from the hon. Gentleman's locality. That club has now been operating for 15 months and out of 145 people who went along, 105 have now got jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "not far from the hon. Gentleman's locality. That club has now been operating for 15 months and out of 145 people who went along, 105 have now got jobs—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] They celebrated their century with a man who got a job as a heavy goods vehicle driver. It is utter rubbish to say that these are skivvy jobs. they are real jobs. Labour Members must realise that as the economy expands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.530.4", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e shall adopt them. Although we see a continued strengthening of our manufacturing base, that in itself will not be an answer to our employment problems. No one must misunderstand that. We are fully committed to the manufacturing sector, but, as the Leader of the Opposition conceded in a speech only two weeks ago, we cannot look to the manufacturing sector to be the major source of new employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.530.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-18", "file": "debates1986-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "963c0206dafa444d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Mr. Mordechai Vanunu", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"But very much to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "preceding_text": "That intervention by my hon. and learned Friend was rather long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-18a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.549.6", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ne of us in the House have heard for a long time — and I include the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary, the hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Chope), for what he recently said. My point of order is this. I find that what the Secretary of State has said is unacceptable. He made an imputation of the most serious nature against me. He actually used the word \"stealing\". He has not withdrawn it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.549.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.549.9", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that hon. Members can help with this matter, and I do not think that it has anything to do with the hon. Members who are now rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.549.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "Obviously the Opposition welcome any move that improves the quality and state of repair of urban housing. Will the Minister confirm that the urban housing renewal unit involves no allocation of money from central Government to local authorities? It involves stealing or taking control —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. Of course, there may be an opportunity in Ealing in the near future for the council's policies to be tested in a by-election. If the chairman of Ealing council's gay and lesbian committee, who was convicted earlier this week of committing an indecent act in a public lavatory, were to resign —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.559.8", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman has the temerity to mention the Transport Act after the extraordinary nonsense that we heard from Labour Members during the passage of that legislation. It is astonishing how little any of them dare say about the success that is now coming through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.559.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that we shall have no sport, competitive or otherwise—and we very much support competitive sport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.562.3", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is a perennial question and I take the opportunity to tell the House that, because we have freedom of speech here, we should take great care with the way in which we make statements —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.562.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I miscalculated. I thought I would be asked first about bailing out the councils and that this would come second. I shall tell the hon. Gentleman exactly the position", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " exclude the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the accusation of moralising, as he is not a moralist. That same economy with the truth has been the characteristic of the Prime Minister in her handling of the Westland affair, and has characterised much of the manipulating of the economic statistics. It has also been the hallmark of how the Government have handled the unemployment figures and of how—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "s financial year the alliance suggested a PSBR of about £8.5 billion. The right hon. Gentleman castigated us for profligacy. Since then, the right hon. Gentleman, who set his PSBR unrealistically low, has had to raid the contingency reserve and has now been able to claim a PSBR for the outturn of this financial year that will be between £8 billion to £9 billion. That is exactly what was estimated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Of course, it would be totally irresponsible of us, having reached the stage where the Government are now adopting the public sector borrowing requirement figures which we advocated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about inflation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " do about all this? His electoral strategy is to spend now and pay later— the same old cycle. Within months of the elections of 1955 and 1959 the electorate was being asked to pay for the folly of returning a Conservative Government. The longer the gamble continues, the greater the risk of economic suicide. Heaven help us if we have to go right on into 1988 in the stench of the electoral hustings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "levels of unemployment. Another issue, which for the long term is probably more important, is an industrial strategy which emphasises improving skill training and employment. If there was to be a relaxation of public expenditure at present, could there be a more urgent area of priority than skill training? It is the absence of that extra spend in the area of skill training which I suspect we will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ebate on the Humble Address are essentially traditional occasions. Although the subjects chosen for each day's debate vary from year to year, it is customary for the Leader of the House to wind up the whole debate. On this occasion, although speaking traditionally, I propose to introduce an innovation by giving the House some modest but early guidance about the expected dates of the Easter recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "lation of Trident and for the removal of United States nuclear bases from Britain. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear. It is so nice to know that the party conference decisions are now being echoed to the rafters in this Chamber. The first and most charitable thing that one can say about those decisions is that they set out the long-standing hostility of some Labour Members to nuclear weapons in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "a dangerous leap into the dark. It is much more about neutralism than about recasting the NATO Alliance. The electorate will have their opportunity to make their judgment. [HON. MEMBERS. \"Hear, hear.\"I Once again, we are delighted to know from the applause of Opposition Members that they want this matter to be at the forefront as and when the popular decision comes. I now come to economic affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-19", "file": "debates1986-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "bfedf868a871a690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "s. The present economic policies of the Opposition look back to the 1970s, back to the inflation of those years and the imposed advice of the International Monetary Fund. That is the most unproductive form of nostalgia. The Opposition's defence policies are a gamble and no more than the uncertain wisdoms of a Labour party conference. A nation's security deserves more than that. The Queen's Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-19a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.682.4", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has a most distinguished record in crime prevention, to which I pay tribute. The action of the Labour authorities to which he referred is positively unhelpful and damages law enforcement by the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.682.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Proceedings continue in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Particularly as the Government are the plaintiff in the case in Australia, it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the case —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend turn her attention to local government? Did she note on the front page of The Times today that at last the Leader of the Opposition has admitted that extremism exists in a great number of Labour councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a sign of how far behind the times the Labour party is that it still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Mr. Peter Wright (Australian Court Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can conclude my remarks, Mr. Speaker, by referring to other matters that are directly relevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Financing the BBC (Peacock Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "is the proposal that part of BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 should be privatised. I do not propose to tackle that question in detail today. Our reactions to the Peacock recommendations on radio will fit in with the proposed Green Paper on radio services which I plan to publish before long. Radio may be a good testbed for pursuing deregulation rather faster than may be immediately possible for television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.717.7", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Financing the BBC (Peacock Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I am still around, and shall be around for a long time. When I was PPS to that Postmaster General, he introduced a very misguided paper called \"Broadcasting in the Seventies\". I resigned because I could see what he could not see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.717.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Financing the BBC (Peacock Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has answered.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "t the right hon. Gentleman needs to do to clear the matter up once and for all is just to say yes or no to the question: does he believe that the BBC is fulfilling its obligation under the annex to the licence and agreement, for which he is responsible to the House, to treat controversial subjects with due impartiality? The right hon. Gentleman has intervened. All he has to do is to say yes or no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Financing the BBC (Peacock Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It is probably true that all Governments become upset when they are criticised, and that is probably true the longer that they are in office. When I was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, I was often critical of the media. Like most of the English media, the BBC and the IBA are not very good at Irish affairs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.742.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.742.4", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Financing the BBC (Peacock Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Ernest Armstrong)", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds, South (Mr. Rees) was doing very well indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Financing the BBC (Peacock Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "am, Erdington. It is to the credit of the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) that when he went there, having found that out, he refused to share a platform with Mr. Finnegan. It is a pity that the debate has taken place against a background of sustained abuse and hostility towards broadcasters generally and the BBC in particular, which reveals the extreme face of Conservatism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-20", "file": "debates1986-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6190aa1015750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Financing the BBC (Peacock Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Phase out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "That is another story. I am not making that point at all. We accept that the BBC licence fee is regressive and hits hardest people with the least cash. That is why, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) said, we are pledged to phase out the licence for all pensiioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-21", "file": "debates1986-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "89b1789d48a6c76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-21a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "and the at-risk groups are immediately exposed to tremendous social pressure. In some cases they are persecuted, threatened and abused. I fear that if that continues indefinitely they will tend to be driven underground. If one is a member of the homosexual community, the best way to obtain cover is to acquire a wife. If one acquires a wife and is carrying the virus there is another vicious screw —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-21a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-21", "file": "debates1986-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "89b1789d48a6c76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-21a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "preceding_text": " of it when he was ill. Cancer is a great killer, but more people recover from it than die from it. The House will have heard me say that I am one of the fortunate individuals who have recovered from it. Also, my wife's cancer was surgically removed 10 years ago. Mine was surgically removed six years ago. We both hope to emulate my late friend, Manny Shinwell, and to be around for many years more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-21a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-24", "file": "debates1986-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "88abe83722c1a8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.3.8", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Nuclear Waste", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "While my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) may know what is going on and others do not, the fact is that the people on Merseyside, in Ireland and in Northern Ireland are worried about what is happening in the Irish sea. Is it not clear that there must be something better than what is happening at present, because the Irish sea is becoming a nuclear waste pool?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.3.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-24", "file": "debates1986-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "88abe83722c1a8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Quotations (Question Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.21.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-24", "file": "debates1986-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "88abe83722c1a8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Ministerial Statements", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Abuse.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "teachers' pay on the ground that the agreement between the employers and teachers was not complete. On Friday, despite attempts by the Secretary of State to undermine the deal, the employers and four out of six unions formally signed the agreement. Why does the Secretary of State still remain silent? Will you convey to the Leader of the House or to the Secretary of State for Education and Science—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-24", "file": "debates1986-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "88abe83722c1a8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "I am not in the oil industry but the oil companies have been paying petroleum revenue tax and taxation for many years. About 85 per cent. to 90 per cent. of the take from the receipts of the North sea is held by the Government. Therefore, when one considers the liability for decommissioning the structures, one has to take into account who has the profits. It has been the state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.42.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-24", "file": "debates1986-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "88abe83722c1a8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " not be growing. If we did that even on 20 per cent. of our land, the Minister should accept the advice of the chemical industry, the National Farmers Union and others who have said that yields are increasing all the time. Indeed, on the continent yields are also increasing. Even if we were to pay off, sterilise or shoot 20 per cent. of the farmers, and all that goes with them, we would find that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-24a.98.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The question is about Leicestershire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "preceding_text": "Has the RAWP process not become descredited under this Government to such an extent that, in the northern region and Newcastle—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with Leicestershire?\"] I am talking about the RAWP process. No doubt the same conditions apply in Newcastle as in Leicestershire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.137.10", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I made it clear that the Government are concerned with upholding the principle of confidentiality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.137.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.137.11", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "onal security was being breached. The issue involves a matter of order, not only because of its implications for the conduct of government in this country, but because of its implications for the attitudes of hon. Members. Any Government who do absolutely nothing to impede the publication of a book, knowing it to have been published with information directly from people under a duty of confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.137.11"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.141.4", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Civil Servant (Briefing)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the silver?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": ", I take no satisfaction from having been proved correct so far. Since April 1985, 55,000 workers in the industry have been made redundant or are under notice and 59 pits have been closed, merged or are under notice of closure or merger. The Bill continues that process. It sets preconditions for further pit closures and redundancies. Little wonder that morale in the industry is at an all-time low—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which clause?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "ernment's political objectives for the energy industries. Implicit in its financial provisions and its market philosophy is a reduction in deep mine capacity. Inherent within its clauses is the privatisation of the coal industry. Written into the small print is a disastrous expansion of nuclear power which the country neither wants nor needs. Government policy has already decimated the coalfields—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.159.7", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "There is nothing in the Bill about the Labour party, either. For decades, British miners fought to improve conditions in the pits. As a result, we came to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.160.9", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I will support the terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.160.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.163.5", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Osborne", "preceding_text": " hear that the Central Electricity Generating Board had a programme for coal-fired power stations and nuclear-fired power stations—possibly all pressurised water reactors but perhaps including one or two AGRs—in the foreseeable future. I asked whether coal-fired power stations would use imported coal like power stations elsewhere in Europe. The answer was no, provided British coal was competitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "rovide money that will enable the welfare schemes to become self-sufficient. They should take that into consideration when they splash the money around. No doubt the Minister will tell us when he replies how many millions they will give to the various colliery closures. Clause 3 relates to concessionary coal. Does that include smokeless fuel? If the Minister will nod, I can carry on with my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ashby", "preceding_text": "House, but the Labour party outside is giving no support to anyone who supports the UDM. The Labour party in the constituencies is determined that any Member who supports the UDM should be dealt with in the same way as the hon. Gentleman and should lose his seat. The real reason why the parliamentary Labour party is opposing the Bill is that it is afraid. Its members are frightened for their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": " industry arise from political interference with the market, restrictions on competition, and the inherent failures of monopoly. I wish that I could accept the pessimism of Opposition Members, which would be transmuted into optimism for me, and think that the Bill presaged the privatisation or liberalisation of the coal industry. Regrettably, that is not the Government's intention. I wish it were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "r me, and think that the Bill presaged the privatisation or liberalisation of the coal industry. Regrettably, that is not the Government's intention. I wish it were. [Interruption.] Privatisation would secure the future of the coal industry. The private sector of the coal industry is well constructed. I declare an interest as a consultant to the National Association of Licensed Opencast Operators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Mr. Lester) that parity of rights between NUM and UDM members is desirable and necessary if we are to achieve the reconciliation to which so many Opposition Members have referred. Members of the UDM do not enjoy the rights for which the Opposition are calling. For Opposition Front Bench spokesmen to offer to trade rights and liberties with the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-25", "file": "debates1986-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4ad76c33a35f85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " in the coal industry. We continually hear of productivity records being broken at pit, area and national levels. Indeed, I am delighted to have received information tonight—I know that people in the NCB worked hard so that the House could hear these figures tonight—showing that last week productivity in the British coalfield reached a new United Kingdom record of 3·59 tonnes per man shift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-25a.222.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Invisible Trade (Statistics)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that my hon. and learned Friend and the Department have in no way interfered with the statistics that came from the Central Statistical Office? Is it not also clear from these exchanges that it is the shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry who apparently would fiddle the figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.270.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Invisible Trade (Statistics)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that there is no question of anyone fiddling anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.270.10", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Invisible Trade (Statistics)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We often hear the phrase \"fiddling the figures\" in this House in all sorts of connotations. I do not think that the hon. Member for Eastbourne was intending to impute any dishonour to the right hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.270.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.271.9", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to take points of order today on what happened yesterday.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.271.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.271.13", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Let me clear up the matter once and for all. We are getting into the bad habit of raising points of order on political issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.271.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "order, Mr. Speaker. I am sure that the House will agree that from the moment when, according to ancient custom, you were dragged into the Speaker's chair you have been a model in upholding the traditions of the House. Having said that, I have never raised with you a bogus point of order, but I am growing deeply concerned that many hon. Members, not just on political points, but on security points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Burke?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": " model in upholding the traditions of the House. Having said that, I have never raised with you a bogus point of order, but I am growing deeply concerned that many hon. Members, not just on political points, but on security points—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] When one seeks to table a question with any element of security, the Table Office rightly says that that is prevented under the Burke arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) read out some figures for Lancashire. There were 11,000 queries, but few of them were complaints. The cameras went round the first day when the buses were deregulated and there was, indeed, something of a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "that £500,000 can be properly used to service such routes in the same way as mid-evening gaps can be filled. I am gravely suspicious of the noises made by hon. Members from Merseyside because where a local authority—and it is likely to be Labour controlled—has a vested interest in the failure of this Bill it will do everything possible to frustrate the Bill's purpose and will seek to make it fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.302.5", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "will comment on this during his winding-up speech. One of the problems that I think he will find is that prior to 26 October the officers of the municipal undertakings were still employees of the councils and still subject to the pressures that could be put upon them by politically motivated city, county and metropolitan councillors. For that reason, those officers had to play things very quietly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Speller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Speller", "preceding_text": "ation? If the best use to which two or three hours of debating time can be put is to argue about legislation which is one month old, it is a rather sad case. The little Red Bus service in north Devon has caused a political furore in the hothouse of Devonian politics. The prospective Labour candidate objected to an advertisement calling the little red buses \"Rosie\" on the ground that it was sexist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " to say that the 50 taxibus operators represent one form of innovation. He was also right to say that, as yet, the enterprise culture has not led to as many new operators as we might have liked. However, I should be very surprised if the new year does not bring with it more operators. The Department has recently sent out a leaflet for prospective new operators, explaining how to start in business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "anagement, because companies did not train their drivers properly before sending them out on new routes. That is a matter not for the Government but for local management. The hon. Member for Aberdeen, North referred to the months going by. So far, only one month has gone by and it is already clear that many of the problems that prompted the Opposition to table their motion are fading rapidly away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " House I am not prepared to do however hard he may press me. I told the managing director of Hanger's that I expected the company to continue negotiations at ACAS, that I wanted to see a settlement as soon as possible and that I wanted priority action to deal with any urgent cases to minimise patients' inconvenience. Surely there is no doubt in anybody's mind that that is the Government's position", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Temple-Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": "er-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security. First, let me explain my presence here. As most hon. Members know, when I address the House I usually inhabit the more tranquil area of foreign affairs. I come to this debate from the rural fastness of Leominster because I have an interest to declare. I am the salaried parliamentary adviser to Intermed and therefore to J. E. Hanger and Co. Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": "I cannot carry on a vicarious dialogue for somebody else. If my hon. Friend the Member for Putney said that, he was quite right because we need more flexibility on both sides. In ACAS at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": " boys, and then we will talk\", but the 300 jobs are no longer there. As part of the original proposals to settle this matter there would have been more than 80 jobs, but the extra jobs that could have existed over and above the 80 have dispersed around the country in order to deal with the dispute. Incidentally, the way in which Hangers has dealt with it nationally has been very creditable indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "though I admit that the Oxford English dictionary did not enable me to recognise it as a Scotticism—but also by the omission of items 3 and 6. Item 3 is \"rape\". I do not know of any reason why, when we were about the business, we should not have included the offence of rape among those to which the provisions of the order apply. There may be some reason for that, but I am not clear what it can be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-26", "file": "debates1986-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d33a1880c5c214c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "x and pay credit to Labour, Liberal, SDP as well as Conservative councillors who are playing a significant part on many regional tourist boards and are completley dedicated to the task in hand. What is upsetting is that my only difficulty on the subject is in this House. That is relfected, as it has been in this debate, by the attendance of so many of my hon. Friends and so few Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-26a.402.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "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's question is totally unworthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.427.4", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, are indivisible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.428.6", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have nothing further to add—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.428.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot undertake to do what the hon. Gentleman asks me, to get the matter put right, because I am not quite certain what is the other side of the story. I know, as he knows, that our record on disabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot undertake to do what the hon. Gentleman asks me, to get the matter put right, because I am not quite certain what is the other side of the story. I know, as he knows, that our record on disabled— [Interruption.] —Yes. Our record of spending on benefits for the long-term sick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.430.5", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows full well that he can ask me any questions. I am constrained by a court case in which the Government are appearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.431.4", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "On a point of order relating to Question Time today, yesterday and the day before, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.431.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. With characteristic courtesy the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, South-West (Sir A. Grant) said that he might raise the subject of Sir Arthur Franks. My question elicited a rather positive answer from the Attorney-General on the subject. I am exceedingly careful how I use the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.431.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You ruled some days ago that the proceedings in South Africa—Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "eman did not mention that—and defines, for the first time, a maximum class size. I accept that there are still differences between the Secretary of State's position and the agreement, particularly over structure and costs. Indeed, what I heard the right hon. Gentleman say about both of those matters was somewhat exaggerated. Is he really telling the House that those differences are insurmountable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "m the proposed redundancies at Scott Lithgow. I note the request for a debate on that and related matters, covering heavy engineering generally and in Scotland. Perhaps that could be looked at through the usual channels. I assure the right hon. Gentleman that our approach to the privatisation of Rolls-Royce will be characterised by the same strong sense of fiscal rectitude and general imagination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ses a very serious point. How we conduct ourselves in the House is a matter for the House itself, in the light of recommendations and guidance proffered by the Procedure Committee. I tend to be traditionalist and conservative in all these matters when innovations are proposed, but, looking back over the years, I believe that continence is essential if we are to maintain our traditional procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "s not been mentioned in this House? I refer to the Government's persistent refusal not to assure us that when nuclear convoys—vehicles carrying nuclear weapons—pass through the county, prior warning will be given to the emergency services. As there is such a convoy passing through Leicestershire at this moment, and staying overnight either in or near the county, may we have an immediate statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "I refer to the serious case of my constituent, Miss Maureen McGoldrick, who is being pursued by the Brent Labour council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.460.4", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "my right hon. Friend might suggest that the Order Paper be divided into separable sections—just like the Sunday newspapers. We might have a colour supplement, the editor of which could be the hon. Member for Workington. It would have the advantage of being a detachable piece of paper that we could throw away without having to bother to read it in the morning and suffer indigestion after breakfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.460.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "growth in demand and, importantly, achieve some reduction in arrears. My hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths) has conveyed to me the anxieties of the Police Federation about an adjustment in the scope of the scheme which affects the treatment of accidental injuries suffered by the police. I notice from the Order Paper that the Opposition have now latched on to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "defendant were put on the same footing. Two proposals are not in the Bill because we are consulting on them, but I expect that they will find a place in it before the Bill is much older. As the House knows, we recently published a White Paper containing our reactions to the Prior report on prison discipline and we intend to bring forward proposals in Committee, if the Bill gets its Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is another pledge. Add them up. I am ready to make pledges to the crime victims that the Government are bilking of their right to compensation. Yes, I am ready to make that pledge anywhere. That is a priority pledge, if the Home Secretary wants to know—a priority pledge to the police and to crime victims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": " which we welcome. As for firearms offences, if the Government go through with their proposals despite the warnings of their own Back Benchers they will be sentencing to death the small number of police officers and people in the community who choose to face a gunman. Let there be no illusions about that. The Conservatives completely fail to understand the kind of people likely to commit offences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "nces, and on this, more than on anything else, he is in danger of doing the police an acute disservice. He should be representing the police, not the Tory party, and to do that properly he should bear in mind that the main interest of the police is in the prevention of crime because their chances of getting into difficulty are thereby reduced. Yet there is no suggestion of that in these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "their officers. If we did what the Home Secretary will not do and introduced a proper system of accountability, it would save police officers having to go through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, and that would be a good thing. We would introduce such a system. There is no point in the hon. Gentleman going on about the Police Federation suddenly developing an interest in the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "en one or both of the parents are drunk. We know that a vast number of crimes in the inner cities are committed under the influence of drink. But there is no alcohol policy. When the hon. Member for Ealing, Acton (Sir G. Young) was a Minister he put up too much the price of tobacco and alcohol—industries that supply money to the Tory party—and he got the sack. Let us have a proper policy on drugs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-11-27", "file": "debates1986-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a74b68e2f9856bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "in no sense hesitant about reconsidering the proposal because it does not go to the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter is our commitment to the criminal injuries compensation scheme, which means that there has been an increase of over 80 per cent. in real terms in the resources that are made available to it, an extra £114 million more than anything that was ever done by the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-11-27a.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Deregulation of buses means more minibuses, so more people are likely to be able to get a ride to where they live. The Brewers Society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend can have the assurance that he seeks. I need hardly add that as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State also represents a Croydon constituency, it is a matter that does not escape his gimlet eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House will be aware of that suggestion. A variety of options are available and they were set out in chapter 8 of this report. Most people would agree that there are defects in the present", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "The Leader of the Opposition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "uently, the office of the Leader of the Opposition issued a copy of a letter dated 28 November, addressed to you. The final paragraph of that letter reads: With your permission I would like to release the text to the Press. I should like to ask you, Mr. Speaker, at what time you received that letter and whether you did, indeed, give your consent to the release of that statement? This is described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.632.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.635.7", "colnum": "635", "heading": "The Leader of the Opposition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. Nothing of substance has been said by Opposition Members about the statement on Friday by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to merit my speaking, but I take account of the intervention by the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.635.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Advance Petroleum Revenue Tax Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that it would be quite improper if I went into the tax affairs of individual companies. He will know that Ministers do not deal with the tax affairs of individual companies. However, I can assure the hon. Gentleman that the effects of the Bill will be to give most of the help—I did not say all of the help—to medium-sized, independent companies. It is true that some of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "joy the total environment of the area, along with many others, although I consider navigation to be part of that environment. While the hon. Member for Maidstone is right in that this is a man-made natural environment, and while we do not want to preserve it in aspic or anything else, there is a sense of trusteeship for the totality of the British landscape and its resources that we must maintain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.679.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "preceding_text": "ly Acle Bridge, and the River Waveney up to roughly St. Olave's Bridge. The Department would see no objection, on safety grounds, if there were a different authority responsible for navigation on the remaining part of the Broads. I know that the Under-Secretary of State will respond to this point when he replies, but it is one on which we shall have to spend some time in Committee. May I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.723.8", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chicken!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "You, Mr. Speaker, have appealed for brevity and I know that many hon. Members wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.723.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "preceding_text": "axe on the British dairy industry, which is already in a state of crisis and reeling under it. That applies to dairy farmers and the dairy manufacturing sector alike. By so doing the Minister is also adding to the balance of payments deficit and wrecking the social fabric of the countryside and the rural economy. Obviously, we must try to bring milk production into closer balance with consumption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "preceding_text": "g under it. That applies to dairy farmers and the dairy manufacturing sector alike. By so doing the Minister is also adding to the balance of payments deficit and wrecking the social fabric of the countryside and the rural economy. Obviously, we must try to bring milk production into closer balance with consumption— [Interruption.] —but are the Government going about it the right way? We doubt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "orthern grassland producing areas, particularly Wales and Scotland. In the county of Dyfed, 18 per cent. of the population depends on agriculture for its living. That is almost identical to the percentage of the population dependent on it in Ireland. Many are dairy farmers. Creameries have been shut and farmers have being going out of business. For those who remain the going is increasingly tough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "e for its living. That is almost identical to the percentage of the population dependent on it in Ireland. Many are dairy farmers. Creameries have been shut and farmers have being going out of business. For those who remain the going is increasingly tough. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I can understand why Tory Members are so anxious about the situation: their Minister has caused their anxieties.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "erstand why Tory Members are so anxious about the situation: their Minister has caused their anxieties.— [interruption.] From an ADAS report the Minister must know that in Dyfed 25 per cent. of dairy farmers are financially insecure, 7 per cent. are threatened now with bankruptcy and 37 per cent. have serious financial problems. Therefore, 60 per cent. of the dairy farms in Dyfed are under threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "le by 2 per cent., it would affect England and Wales by minus 5 per cent. Therefore, we would lose out by a further 3 per cent. in quota compared with elsewhere. That will hit Britain most unfairly indeed. I and the Minister know that France and Ireland are resisting the abolition of B quotas and I am pleased to hear him say this evening that he is also against B quotas being abolished in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "and there will also he a knock-on effect in the beef sector. It has been estimated that if the full weight of the EEC proposals come in there could be a further additional production of 600,000 tonnes of beef in a market that is already swamped with that product. We must get production and consumption in balance. We agree with the Minister on that, but he must proceed with caution and sensitivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How? Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "of beef in a market that is already swamped with that product. We must get production and consumption in balance. We agree with the Minister on that, but he must proceed with caution and sensitivity. [Interruption.] Mr. Deputy Speaker, I demand a hearing. We must positively identify the small dairy producers and certainly protect from further cuts those producing 250,000 litres per annum and less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "the Minister on that, but he must proceed with caution and sensitivity. [Interruption.] Mr. Deputy Speaker, I demand a hearing. We must positively identify the small dairy producers and certainly protect from further cuts those producing 250,000 litres per annum and less—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How? Tell us.\"] We must give them direct payments to assist them in their incomes without additional production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "ty. [Interruption.] Mr. Deputy Speaker, I demand a hearing. We must positively identify the small dairy producers and certainly protect from further cuts those producing 250,000 litres per annum and less—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How? Tell us.\"] We must give them direct payments to assist them in their incomes without additional production. [Interruption.] That proposal will not increase surplus production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "f destocking into some of the poorer countries, and that should be linked to developments in their own agriculture. We must also give incentives to New Zealand to market its product elsewhere than in the EEC. There are opportunities in the far east and we must encourage it to market there. The EEC should accept responsibility to give incentives to do that. The alliance has tabled an amendment and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": ", it was feared that there would be a greater rush of culled cows on to the beef market than occurred. The reason was that a large proportion of milk producers went from a high concentrate feeding system to a low concentrate feeding system, but that slack has now been taken up, so a reduction of 9, 9·5 or 10 per cent. in milk quotas will inevitably result in a rush of about that proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "That is a helpful intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-01", "file": "debates1986-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "57abe9e53b5a5fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dairy Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "ions are clearly true: first, that many hon. Members still wish to contribute to the debate and, secondly, that the subject is not one of passing importance but is one which goes to the heart of the survival of one of Britain's industries. I put it to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that, on the precedents, you would be amply justified in declining to put the Question so that the debate can be continued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-01a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.751.3", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": " worried about something that is happening today at the University of East Anglia. The Labour club there is being addressed by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), at a time when the University of East Anglia has asked for the postponement of a meeting that is to be addressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mr. Proctor). Does that not suggest double standards and is this not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.752.8", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Responsibility for the organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.752.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.753.9", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "The Minister must be well aware that the Audit Commission and HMI have warned the Secretary of State about the \"crummy\" state of our schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.753.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.761.7", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is aware that I cannot comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.761.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.761.11", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I repeat, it would be inappropriate for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.761.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.763.6", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "preceding_text": "May I assure my right hon. Friend that the questions which have come from the Conservative Benches today have not been planted by Mr. Turnbull?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "w have some advance notice of discussions like this, unlike the activities of one of the predecessors of the Secretary of State, now the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who sought to sell British Leyland and Austin Rover without informing anyone, will the Secretary of State take the opportunity of having full consultations with the relevant trade unions, to which this statement will be news?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the foremost aim of my constituents and those of my hon. Friends the Members for Watford (Mr. Garel-Jones) and for Lancashire, West (Mr. Hind) is to secure the long-term future of Leyland trucks, which is centred in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "f my hon. Friends the Members for Watford (Mr. Garel-Jones) and for Lancashire, West (Mr. Hind) is to secure the long-term future of Leyland trucks, which is centred in my constituency? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Many people at all levels of the company, including trade union representatives, have pressed me to work for greater collaboration especially in Europe. Does he agree that the work force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fuel Poverty", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "Although the 0·9 per cent. figure quoted by the hon. Gentleman is an interesting one, I fear that he is mistaken. The figure of minus 0·9 deg C has been widely misunderstood, and it is clear that the hon. Gentleman has misunderstood it as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fuel Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "at he previously supported? If not, the logic of his proposal is that each winter local authorities should increase housing benefit or accommodate the value of the winter premium. The hon. Gentleman is in danger of re-creating the problem that led to the creation of housing benefit supplement. There is a further bizarre aspect that has an odd and unwelcome effect for pensioners. Let me illustrate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fuel Poverty", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Alastair Goodlad)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Alastair Goodlad)", "preceding_text": "mote energy efficiency in the home—in other words, to tackle at source the problems that we are discussing—than the Labour party ever did. Let me remind the House what we have done, which has made a massive difference to the lives of a large number of people. We have encouraged loft insulation through the homes insulation scheme and improved the help that the scheme gives to low-income households.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fuel Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "I shall answer it in a moment. The labour costs are met through the Manpower Services Commission's community programme for the long-term unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "al arrangements provide for increases two, three or four times the growth in the domestic market. I appreciate that that represents a relatively marginal increase in their slice of the domestic market. Nevertheless, arithmetically, the conclusion is inescapable. It means that domestic producers have to accept a steady reduction of their market share within the United Kingdom and the Common Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Assembly (Elections)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "hree key points to which I should like to refer hon. Members. The first is rule 17 which says that there will be no change in the electoral system. The second is on page 38 of the regulations and in describing the ballot paper it says that there will be a chance to, \"vote for one candidate only.\" That excludes an opportunity for a regional list or for any other form of proportional representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.895.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Assembly (Elections)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is right.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "preceding_text": "As one who stood with me to ensure that these regulations should be debated tonight, rather than be referred to the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, will my hon. Friend agree that, had it not been for the presence of Conservative Back Benchers who believe in electoral reform these matters would not now be debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.903.0", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Assembly (Elections)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows very well that that is not a matter for me. I am under the impression that the House now wishes to come to a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.903.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-02", "file": "debates1986-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "eaf293c0423277cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.904.7", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That, in the course of its consideration of the matter of Agriculture and Fishing in Scotland, the Scottish Grand Committee may meet in Edinburgh on Monday 8th December at half-past Ten o'clock.— [Mr. Cope.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-02a.904.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.919.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.934.4", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It's your system.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I must agree entirely with my hon. Friend about the bizarre and complex nature of the system that we seek to operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.935.3", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Bearing in mind the importance of the subject that has just been raised in a private notice question and the fact that it should have been the Government's duty to come to the House with a statement and not rest on the back of a private notice question, and bearing in mind the fact that that £800 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Tebbit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "difficult to take an immediate action against Peter Wright. However, Mr. Wright has been to this country since 1981. Indeed, in 1984 he appeared in a television programme which will be repeated by Granada tonight. Having read the transcript of that programme, I am amazed that it will be broadcast again—Granada states—without the Government making any formal challenge or representation against it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "hat they are rather enjoying this running farce. The atmosphere is helped because we are doing well against the Australians in cricket. Indeed, the judge's florid turn of phrase may mean that the Government will have some legal redress on appeal. How long will this rolling farce go on? How many more facts are likely to be revealed? One of the skills of politics is to know when to cut one's losses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ultation with the Leader of the Opposition. Since then, there have been periodic briefings from No. 10 about the position. I find it bizarre that the Leader of the Opposition should have telephoned defence counsel in a case involving the Crown, but I take the view that he is more a fool than a knave. To pretend that that is a major issue which justifies breaking the conventions on security issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is passing the buck.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "That was directly dealt with by the Prime Minister of the day, the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan), and I understand that further comments are to be made by the former Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins). If my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has anything to add he will be able to do so when he winds up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, from information given by his contacts, things that he believes are clear. I cannot go beyond what I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Opposition on the background to the action against Mr. Wright, before that action was brought? Is the Prime Minister's definition of bipartisanship one-sided, to be observed by the Opposition, but not by the Government? Why did the Prime Minister not make available to my right hon. Friend details of the proceedings in court in Sydney, so that he and the House in general could be properly informed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is a silly point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "If the Attorney-General takes such a keen interest, what better does he have to do than to be present for three hours in the House? This matter is a bit more than the amour propre of hon. Members. The Attorney-General is an honourable man and I believe that he would have wished to be here. Frankly, the conclusion that some of us draw is that he has been told to keep out of the light—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "MP. Truth is stranger than fiction. I listened to the speech by the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins). It may be within his recollection that I went to see him during the period of office of the first Wilson Government at a time when I was asking awkward questions about variable geometry aircraft on Aldabra atoll. I was being the proverbial bloody nuisance to my own Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": " (Dr. Owen) introduced the debate and the terms of the motion. It suggests that we should concentrate upon an important, but restricted view of the organisation of our defence services and that we should avoid some of the more exotic distractions that come from Sydney, New South Wales. The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman), who has explained why he cannot be here for my reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " who currently have the executive responsibility for those services. Far from bringing clarity to the situation, that runs the danger of bringing confusion. The House has had a good chance to listen to the debate and I am the only speaker to lie between the House and the denouement of Liberal defence policy that is to follow. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made a fair and measured speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.997.5", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "sire—although he was not very successful—to paper over the cracks in his party's defence policy and the policy of what is apparently described as the alliance. I am sorry to say that he did not make a serious contribution to these fundamental and difficult issues. The right hon. Gentleman hardly addressed himself to the motion. The motion says nothing about Britain's independent nuclear deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "eech I shall do that. There are areas within the Royal Navy where money could be spent. The Secretary of State will not be able to maintain even 50 frigates and destroyers. Some of the money will be spent on that. So far, the Secretary of State has put no money into the budget for the European fighter aircraft. We are committed to the European fighter aircraft. Much could also be done in the Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, I must get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quoted in the Western Mail of 29 November, last week, as advocating the possibilities of digging tunnels filled with explosives\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "try can unilaterally, without consultation, announce its intention of removing the main-spring from an alliance and still declare that it regards itself as being ready, as always, to fulfil all its obligations to its partners. That is a fair assessment of the Labour party's position. I am not at all surprised that we have again seen in this debate the unholy alliance between the two Front Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "He is paid £8,500, with another £1,500 in London weighting. It is absurd to say that a brilliant young scientist earning £10,000 a year is highly paid. The hon. Gentleman is living in cloud cuckoo land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ent funding. The suggestion made by the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Howarth) that the Labour party's policies would cause some kind of vast exodus of scientists from Britain came strangely from the mouth of a person whose party has encouraged that exodus to the point that, by the time the next Government come in, one doubts whether there will be a corpus of scientific ability in Britain", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-03", "file": "debates1986-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7622e222fdff1f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall not be bullied by Government Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-03a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1064.5", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is essential that we keep confidence in the dairy industry?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1064.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1064.5", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is essential that we keep confidence in the dairy industry?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Is he not disturbed by the remarks of Sir Stephen Roberts, the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board, this morning, who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1064.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1066.10", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "Has the Secretary of State plans to assist the sheep farmers who may be affected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1066.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nothing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is one thing to make regulations on pesticides to protect the public and the countryside, but quite another to make them effective? What is he doing to advise the public and farmers on the use of pesticides so that the excellent new regulations can work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1077.13", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "take time today to consider the extra-parliamentary pressure that is being applied to certain Members of Parliament? Is she aware that Arthur Scargill has demanded the expulsion from the Labour party of the hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Haynes) and the right hon. Member for Mansfield (Mr. Concannon)? Will she refer that matter to the Lord Privy Seal as a possible breach of parliamentary privilege?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1077.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is a matter for you arising out of Question Time and the events in Australia. I understand that the Leader of the Opposition—I am sorry that he is not here at the moment—wrote to you at some length about the affaire téléphonique that he has had with various succulent sources in Australia. I believe that this affair culminated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1085.6", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "That is not a particularly worthy comment, in the context of the earlier remarks about political interference with the judicial process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1085.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1086.4", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I suppose that, cautiously, I was waiting for a fairly spontaneous and unanimous manifestation of support for that idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1086.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Advance Petroleum Revenue Tax Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ill means. My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham has proposed an alternative. I will not go into the pros and cons of that argument. All I would say on behalf of my hon. Friend, without regard to the amendments, is that he is doing no different from what Ridley has done in wanting to change the rate support grant for the various authorities. My hon. Friend is putting forward a different argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-04", "file": "debates1986-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "33573001f2407797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Advance Petroleum Revenue Tax Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "If—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-04a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1192.7", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "ine out of the 48 in Lancashire, nine out of the 57 in Knowsley, nine out of the 60 in Newham, nine out of the 42 in Haringey, or nine out of the 29 in Nottingham? I have mentioned only 400, and I have not even started. I am only scratching the surface. If we scratch the surface, what do we find? More are coming up. The problems of the Labour party are many. I shall terminate my remarks by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1192.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was informative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "The start of the debate has been disgraceful. It should have been constructive, informative and worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I do not in any way want it to be said from a sedentary position. I hope that when the Labour Government are elected we will do something about getting South Africa out of Namibia and we will be flying the SWAPO flag—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "he words in the motion, continue to recognise the importance of local government as a vital part of the British democratic system. I want to address my remarks substantially to democracy and local government. Before I do so, I wish to pay tribute to the hon. Member for Ealing, Acton (Sir G. Young) who, for the past five years, was greatly respected as Under-Secretary of State for the Environment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " Conservative group he supports. Does he support the Muswell Hill moderates, as they call themselves—the old wets of the Tory party, who have served him so faithfully for many years—or does he support the Tottenham skinhead clique that is led by Peter Murphy? That clique has disrupted council meetings, shouted down visiting speakers at council meetings and thrown things around the council chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "may be six people in that house with six times as many incomes and the consequent increase in the use of services. I am told that, with the development of housing benefit, in Lambeth and Liverpool only one in five of those who vote pay rates. There have been revolutions and we have said that there should be no taxation without representation. But these days we have representation without taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-05", "file": "debates1986-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c4b7d619bffe29c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Division (3 December)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "rded as going on in the Lobby. There was an order—I have not checked in the Official Report —by the then Deputy Speaker, that the Serjeant at Arms should inquire as to what was causing the delay. The Serjeant at Arms on duty began that exercise. Subsequent to that, the hon. Members remaining in the Lobby who were, to my recollection, all Labour Members, including the hon. Member who was mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-05a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "I look forward to receiving those figures, but I am already fully aware of the increasing number of visitors to the Palace of Westminster. Does my right hon. Friend consider that the time has now come for perhaps a charge to be levied on all foreign tourist parties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "European Council (London)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor of the Exchequer. On customs and excise, it is a decision for the Chancellor, as my hon. Friend knows. However, the House must bear in mind that we complain bitterly when other countries seem to put on highly selective increases on products which we would normally sell to them. That is a barrier to trade and we must take it into account when considering our action. On other matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "European Council (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "e had in previous communiqués, perhaps a communiqué should be issued saying how we could resolve some things that can be resolved only within the Common Market, such as getting rid of food surpluses, getting rid of the common agricultural policy and feeding the Third world? Would it not make more sense to the British people if, after two days of dining out, spending taxpayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "European Council (London)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said that the 1·4 per cent. VAT cannot go up without the agreement of all Heads of State and Government and of all Parliaments. I was not going to rule out absolutely a supplementary budget, for the reason that I gave—it could be highly damaging to Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Buchanan Bottling Plant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "ate encouraged his hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) to make a statement. The right hon. Gentleman rushed in to have discussions with Mr. Saunders on two top executive posts on the board of Guinness. If that intevention was important enough for those two senior posts, why is not the Secretary of State rushing in to save hundreds of jobs in my constituency and elsewhere in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": "ruption of education and its impact on our children has been very damaging indeed. It was unjustifiable and I would hold that it was also avoidable, had there been a general willingness to move forward on any reasonable basis. Sadly, that has proved not to be the case. Instead, the machinery that should have provided resolution lurched from crisis to crisis. In the meantime, our children lost out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.44.4", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": " about teachers' pay and conditions. After two years of disruption in the schools, I hope that the whole House can agree that our objectives should be, first, an improved service for pupils, secondly, decent pay and conditions for teachers and, above all, long-term peace and stability in our schools. One argument against the Bill is that it will make those objectives far more difficult to achieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.46.5", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I must get on. I will give way when I want to. The Secretary of State must admit that the Bill gives him exceptional powers. He has actually said that he is taking Draconian powers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.46.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "tion. The Secretary of State will have seen the letter sent to him, on Friday, by the four main teachers' unions which expressed their total opposition to the Bill and to the imposed settlement. If he will not listen to them he should take the advice of some of his more knowledgable Back Benchers who are alarmed by the consequences of the decision, particularly in a run-up to the General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "ary of State. It will be paid by the Secretary of State and its agenda will be set by him. He can turn down or modify the advisory committee's conclusions without having to publish them. Provided that the Secretary of State wins the support of Parliament he can impose his own settlement. In short the advisory committee will be the Secretary of State's poodle. The Secretary of State can, by order,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "ry of State can, by order, make different provisions for different areas including different provisions for different areas. That does not say much for the idea of professional salaries. The Government also have the power, by order, to oblige local authorities to impose on teachers through their contract of employment, conditions of service which the Secretary of State has unilaterally determined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "onal salaries. The Government also have the power, by order, to oblige local authorities to impose on teachers through their contract of employment, conditions of service which the Secretary of State has unilaterally determined. [Interruption.] This is the truth. It is extraordinary that once the Bill comes into force 400,000 teachers will have fewer rights than any other group of public servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I will not give way. If machinery such as that works well for teachers in further education, why should it not work equally well for teachers generally? If the Secretary of State is to carry conviction on this point, he will have to answer the question. Although the Secretary of State seeks to appear as broad-minded and responsive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "become almost permanent, will abolish collective bargaining. I have a simple view: That it is a pre-requisite in a pluralistic democracy that people should have a right to belong to a trade union. An essential characteristic of trade union organisation is the right to bargain with an employer over pay and conditions of employment. In other countries, that right has been recognised in legislation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.79.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.107.6", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I have already taken up the hon. Lady's comment from a sedentary position about a third of the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.107.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.110.5", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "of delivering a sensible final agreement. Opposition Members have made other points to us. They have said, \"Why doesn't the Secretary of State move towards the unions' point of view and the ACAS point of view?\" May I ask another question of the House? Is it possible that the people who negotiated the Nottingham ACAS agreement could move slightly towards my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.110.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-08", "file": "debates1986-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a1b3fd7d27e1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding (European Community Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": "r to win orders. We would all like to have a perfectly fair industry worldwide which meant that there was no need for subsidy. However, subsidy is essential if we are to keep our yards open, and we certainly need a higher subsidy than 26 per cent. I should like the Minister to let me know one thing that has been worrying me, having read the papers. Will the directive stop all speculative building?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-08a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.169.7", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman of all people should be more pleased than he appears to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.169.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "A Government who have trebled unemployment since 1979 have no business to talk about other people being cavalier about jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.174.7", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I think that we might have just an interlude of good-natured exchanges on these matters, and to that extent I agree with my hon. Friend, but the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock) will know perfectly well that he comes back from the United States to fairly well-charged political situations. I could not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.174.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.175.8", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "preceding_text": "r, which some of us believe to be the code name of the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours), and a decision concerning ex-employees of the service, who propose to tell their all for money, in breach of their undertaking and contract? Does he further agree that the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock), who manages to do down the country over defence policy while he is in America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.175.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.176.9", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Contrary to the view being propagated in some quarters, will my right hon. Friend confirm that Her Majesty's Government are more than happy for the House and the country to spend as much time as they like debating defence and the nation's security? Are the public not right to be wary about the possibility of a party which wants to leave NATO having anything to do with Britain's defence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.176.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.177.6", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed that the latest nuclear-free missile which the Leader of the Opposition is about to launch on the nation tommorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.177.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.177.8", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed that the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.177.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.184.3", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The latter will be of special help in meeting the needs of standard grade. Centrally funded work on curricular reform in schools and further education is to be maintained and Scottish PICKUP extended. The importance of higher education has also been fully recognised. An additional £6·1 million is being provided for the central institutions and the colleges of education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "el of £638 million in 1986–87. I have made significant extra provision available for the Housing Corporation, the Scottish Special Housing Association and the new towns. I am also pleased to be able to recognise in a tangible way the importance of preserving our heritage by increasing the resources available for historic building grants by 80 per cent. next year and by even more thereafter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "in 1986–87. If we apply the inflation factor, we need £8,079 million to stand still. We are getting £7,957 million. The shortfall in real terms is £122 million", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.198.14", "colnum": "198", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.198.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.199.11", "colnum": "199", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is hypothetical at the moment. If the matter is raised, I shall judge whether it is sub judice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.199.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ill be a system of civil penalties, imposed by the registration officer, on responsible persons who fail to provide information or who give false information. We have adopted this approach in preference to the earlier proposal that failure to provide information or the provision of false inforation should be a criminal offence. The provisions now contained in the Bill have been generally welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made an intervention and answered it himself. Everyone in the country pays indirect taxes one way or another. I do not think the hon. Gentleman's point is valid. It has been right to adopt the community charge as the best option. It is disappointing that the Labour party in particular has not been able to put forward any alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "heir discretionary powers to give total relief, if they wish, to sports clubs. The costs are very small and are much less than Labour authorities have squandered in the not too distant past on grants to striking miners and other causes that are dear to their hearts. Indeed, what Fife paid to the striking miners would almost cover the cost of giving complete relief to every sports club in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "It is an odd argument that considers single pensioners—many of whom pay income tax—not in terms of the justice of helping them when they are perhaps stuck in family homes and facing huge rate bills on small incomes, but on the basis of what percentage of the population they represent. That is especially odd when it comes from the party which accuses us of being the accountancy regime in politics.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "l Democratic Members and crippling constituencies represented by at least one Member of the Scottish National party. I am surprised that hon. Members have not made the point that the interesting thing about the local income tax proposal is that when one makes the point about the narrowness of the tax base the vague assertion is made that there could be some sort of grant to redistribute the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman much espouses the concept of Europe and he knows that VAT on major property improvements or extensions operates throughout the Community. Of course they will pay more VAT, but at the end of the day they will have a substantive capital asset. My complaint is that income outgoing in a higher rates bill year after year is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "s drawing up the register for the poll tax, he will make a comparison—in fact, he is obliged by the Bill to make such a comparison. He will see a name on the electoral register at such-andsuch an address and he will therefore put that name on the register for the poll tax. It will then be up to the student to get himself off that register. If he does not he will find himself paying two poll taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I have read the Bill. The fact is that students will have to go through a complicated procedure to get themselves off the register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Of course he should pay it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "some of us were attracted to the concept of LIT until we looked at it in detail. I have to say that it failed on almost every count. Many of the reasons for that were put excellently by my hon. Friends the Members for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) and for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro) and I do not want to reiterate them. The spokesman for the alliance said that effectively the system would be run through PAYE—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "nd particularly at the start of a four-year period, that a council is prepared to behave irresponsibly, to the severe detriment of those who are paying the community charge. My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State believes that this power should be used only sparingly, and he would hope not to have to use it at all. My hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries asked about shooting rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-09", "file": "debates1986-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b8af070c060e7860", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " do not want the precarious existence that a fully liberalised regime would bring about. They want some long-term guarantees of the security of the market in which they operate. Despite the Minister's brave words earlier, there was not a great deal of content in what he had to say. We understand the Government's avowed intention to move towards this great liberalisation, but we do not really feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-09a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I am amazed at the way in which the right hon. and learned Gentleman continues to ascribe responsibility to Government and to Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will understand that I have made no rash promises to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Mortgage Interest)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "re that the Social Security Advisory Committee, which is his own advisory committee, has stated: We do not think a scheme of this kind could be justified at all unless the building societies and other mortgage-giving bodies were prepared to give comprehensive assurances about the availability of rescheduling\". Will the Minister say whether he has had such comprehensive assurances? Will he confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.345.8", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Mortgage Interest)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "e also agree that the number of people homeless as a result of mortgage arrears has risen to the point where 10 per cent. of all homeless households accepted by local authorities are homeless because of mortgage arrears and that this measure will make life worse for those people in difficulties? If the Government had wanted to make savings they might have done so by restricting mortage tax relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.345.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.347.9", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Mortgage Interest)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The monkey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "are largely the victims of the Government's economic policies be punished in this way? Is the Minister aware that in the west midlands large-scale redundancies continue and many families who become unemployed will be hard hit and penalised by what might be described as this Tory new year present for the jobless? Was the Secretary of State too ashamed to make the statement himself? Why did he send—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.347.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.348.8", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Mortgage Interest)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "e substantial propositions underline what I have said today. First, we wish to strike a fair and reasonable balance between borrower, lender and taxpayer. Secondly, we do not think it unreasonable to expect people acquiring a capital asset to meet a proportion of the interest charges for a limited period. Thirdly, we are keen to establish equity between those in and out of work on similar incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.348.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I did not notice that the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) was there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.368.6", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "May we proceed, Mr. Walker? I have never talked about money. I simply say that the hon. Gentleman is paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.368.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "preceding_text": "d pretend that they are totally incapable of running more than a nugatory budget. When teachers complain—as they frequently do—that they are under-remunerated, it might pay them to look at one or two other professions—for example, that of speech therapy. I have some knowledge of that profession, because my wife teaches within it. A district speech therapist with a salary of about £10,000 per year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed with that intervention. I acquired a warm respect for the hon. Gentleman during the debates on the Education (No. 2) Bill earlier this year. He had a great deal to contribute to the education debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "forward, I should like to ask him whether he agrees that far too much emphasis has been placed on the agreements breaking down between the teachers and the employers, so something must be done. Nothing has been said about why the agreements have been breaking down, and why there has been so much fuss. Is not part of the reason the continual hammering that the teachers have had from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "m other groups of public sector employees. We also know that the taxpayer argument could be used to take bargaining rights from all public sector workers. You were right, Mr. Deputy Speaker, not to allow me to talk about nurses' pay, although I am sure that you realise that the Bill has implications that go far beyond the teachers' dispute, and extend deep into the public sector. I shall conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "ng. The Government are going in the opposite direction. The debate and these amendments are important. I had hoped that I would win some support from Conservative Members. However, the power of my argument has obviously been enough to win me one supporter at least, as the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East (Mr. Freud), who represents the Liberal party, has at last joined us in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "ter to put the record straight. Several questions have been put to me. During the course of the negotiations between the unions and the employers there were repeated and obvious moments when Labour party representatives on both sides of the table left the room on the understanding of the others present that they intended to consult the right hon. Gentleman. I put that to the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "They were appointed. Tory Governments and, sadly, Labour Governments, appointed a couple of representatives, but those representatives carried 15 votes—the Secretary of State will correct me if I am wrong—so they could sway the committee by putting their foot down on behalf of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.390.5", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " unions, the Labour party and many other people are watching this debate closely, because if the Bill is accepted the Tories will seek to destroy free negotiation in the public sector generally and then, judging from their reputation since 1979, to attack the trade unions generally. This is being carefully watched by the TUC, the president of which is not unknown to the National Union of Teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.390.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.390.7", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The honourable Harry.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that we do not refer to other hon. Members in that fashion in the House. If he wishes to draw attention to another hon. Member he should do so by reference to that hon. Member's constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.390.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.391.4", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "lieves in collective bargaining, like the other member of Equity, the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East (Mr. Freud), he does not fool us. The hon. Gentleman believes in the Bill. The Bill is totally and utterly opposed to any programme of democracy or any free collective bargaining. On Monday night I was present for the debate on the Bill. I left the Chamber to perform a natural function.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "front. However, the Secretary of State comes along with very strong views on how education should be conducted. He says that he wants to weed out the bad teachers. My hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) was challenged about criticisms of teachers. Anyone who can use the words \"weed out bad teachers\" has misunderstood the position. That is rather like saying \"Weed out bad MPs\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Oh yes, the hon. Gentleman did. Secondly, my hon. Friend brought out with his usual eloquence the point that the right to strike remains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "hanged very much, have they?— and when in July last I proposed that the Associations of Local Education Authorities and the National Union of Teachers should come together to form a Standing Joint Committee, I did so in the hope and belief that 'an orderly and progressive solution' of an extremely difficult and complicated problem would be best reached in that way. I felt sure that it was better\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "f all the opinion in all parts of the country, let us treat the teachers like the grown-up, responsible beings they are and allow them negotiations and some say in how their profession should develop.\" That is all that we in the Opposition are asking for. Is it too much to have some movement by the Government on that issue? Let me make progress and refer to the ILO convention. I shall not be long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.417.10", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I see that he is shaking his head, but in case he does wish to speak, I shall try to bring my remarks to an expeditious conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.417.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think that Opposition Members consider amendment No. 9 to be the best so far. If the Secretary of State does not like any of those amendments, there is amendment No. 13.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.423.7", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Durham, North and his hon. Friends have introduced the Opposition amendments, none of which I or, I believe, any of my hon. Friends support. Nevertheless, it is the right of the Opposition to bring forward amendments for debate. What depresses me is the negative, defeatist way in which they have done so. Their attitude mirrors that of the NUS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.423.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "issed completely. The hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Barnett) certainly missed it. The Bill repeals the Remuneration of Teachers Act 1965 and makes temporary provision with respect to the remuneration and other conditions of employment of school teachers, and it extends only to England and Wales. It is clearly temporary and has been introduced because of the callous approach of Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " carefully to see whether clause 1 will pave the way for attacks on other workers in the public service and in nationalised industries. In that I include doctors, nurses and other workers in the Health Service, the bin men, the social services and housing staff on local authorities, people in the ambulance service, the fire service and the other services which my hon. Friend the Member for Hexham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.445.8", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "ssed. As the Committee has not accepted that amendment, I assume that we cannot vote on amendments Nos. 8 to 14. Amendments Nos. 17 to 20 propose a substantially different approach from that of making an order. Would it therefore be possible, provided that his remarks are germane to amendments Nos. 17 to 20, for my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) to make a contribution to the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.445.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": "g at all. That has been one of our constant criticisms. Under the Bill, the Secretary of State hogs all the decisions on basic pay and conditions. He will decide what is to be discussed and what is to be referred to the advisory body. We are not likely to get an answer on this, but my hon. Friends and I would be interested to know how many objections have been and will be made by Tory councellors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I was disappointed that I was not called in the debate on the first group of amendments. I shall not go over them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": " are throwing out that proposal. Apart from not wanting to put up the money to pay the teachers, I suspect that that was one of the reasons in the back of the Government's mind for not wanting the agreement. They are prepared to see classes well over that number continuing for a good time yet. It is a shame that that has gone out of the window. That is all that I want to say on the ACAS agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for giving way to me again. Does he accept that my earlier comment was the usage of an old phrase and in no way implied any disrespect for the teaching profession for which I have the greatest admiration? Does he agree that if we adopt a merit points system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.491.8", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "s to make will have disastrous effects. The remuneration change in particular means that teachers would always have to look over their shoulders to see whether they were pleasing their head master, perhaps not following their best educational instinct. The problem will not be solved because of the Secretary of State's involvement in all these details or because he is giving himself blanket powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.491.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.494.6", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. I know that we are galloping on in the Bill, but there are some 18 more groups of amendments. We have tabled 18 amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.494.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.497.2", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"13 points.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "about. The Liberal party said at its conference this year as it has in previous years, that it believes in less Government intervention and in bodies dealing with industrial relations matters. Therefore, one would have thought that the alliance spokesman would have come here today and applauded the fact that ACAS got round the table and managed to come up with a 19-point resolution of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " the establishment, such as MacGregor, and ACAS, the Government were able to force their way and get the settlement that we have today. I hazard a guess that ACAS has probably grown a bit since then and that, in regard to the teachers, it thought, \"Here is an industrial problem. The teachers have been on strike on and off for about 18 months. It is not like the teachers to take industrial action\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "an detect a smile on my face. He will probably have to ask ACAS to sort it out when he is threatened with the sack, but he will hardly get an all-night sitting on his behalf. The teachers that I met were huddled in corners in the Lobbies trying to contact various hon. Members. I met them after they had met various people and they were overwhelmed with the support that they had from Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "preceding_text": "I should like to refer to ACAS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "al right for an employee to negotiate with an employer. I know that the Government do not give a fig for international arrangements. I cite another simple example that will occur later today. In the Criminal Justice Bill, clause 22 flies in the face of agreed conventions on refugees. That again shows the conceit of a Government who tear up their international arrangements. The people of this land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "shows the conceit of a Government who tear up their international arrangements. The people of this land— [Interruption.] It seems that someone has a hearing aid and we are getting a whistling noise. I get very paranoid. We have this Australian spy business. Apparently everything is bugged nowadays, and I am beginning to wonder whether one of us is bugged. I come back to the point about democracy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " with his sleeping pack behind him, is one of utter contempt. The right hon. Gentleman is not sleeping. He is showing us that he is not even interested in what we are saying. Although we shall not win the vote, we shall win the argument and our case will become reality, because the difficulties will be so tremendous that something will happen and make what happened to Chirac look like a tea party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "This is not an arbitration concept. It is an advisory committee. The hon. Gentleman has been in politics for a fair while, as I have. He knows that a great deal is often done in an informal sense—in smoke-filled rooms, in bars or behind the Speaker's Chair—to achieve the same results. The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish is a man of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.581.13", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "It is very good to have a morning audience that was significantly missing during the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.581.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.581.13", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "It is very good to have a morning audience that was significantly missing during the night—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I think that it would be fair to tell hon. Members who have arrived now that they have missed some virtuoso performances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.581.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is he talking about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "esterday, today and perhaps even tomorrow will do anything to alter the teachers' distruct of the Secretary of State's philosophy of trying to hammer things through or that they will induce any kind of confidence among teachers or their union representatives. Nevertheless, the exercise has to be gone through. With the Secretary of State, I sat through the long agonies on the Local Government Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "opolitan councils. I learnt that that was completely untrue. The metropolitan councillors who spoke to me afterwards said that they thought the whole thing was a sham and a farce. I went through a similar exercise last year and, for my sins, prolonged the agony of the Dockyard Services Bill by speaking for close on one hour simply to drag out the debate. I was asked whether I was good for an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is like an opinion poll\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "intervene. They saved all their fire power for amendment No. 50. So far, the total contributions to the debate, in this process of prioritising, by the alliance parties—even with the hon. Gentleman's contribution—comprised 36 minutes contribution to the total debate over 118 hours. Without trying to be too much of a mathematician, that totals 3·33 per cent. between the two parties. Clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": ") has left the Chamber, because I should have liked to address my comments to him directly. I have to admit that I am one of those hon. Members who had a reasonable night's sleep, and who came back early this morning to participate in the debate. It was a pleasure for me to see the newly risen hon. Member for Portsmouth, South come into the Chamber, looking very spruce, to address us this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "mbers who explained that, far from taking their time on a specific batch of amendments, they were using the Committee of the whole House procedure as we would normally use such procedure upstairs in Committee. With the promise that that would be continued throughout the passage of the Bill, I did not beg to move, That the Question be now put. I have been here for all but three hours of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.592.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "There are variations in schemes, conditions of service and pay for individuals employed in the service. We have those differences and the head teachers' organisations have said to us, and I am sure they have said to Conservative Members, that the only way in which we can make progress is to have a nationally negotiated scheme that will give the head teachers and their organisations what they wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.643.4", "colnum": "643", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Franks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wednesday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Franks", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Armstrong. Can you give some guidance? As I understand it, our deliberations having reached 2.30 pm on Thursday afternoon —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.643.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Over the past 24 hours my hon. Friends and I have fought for democratic rights in Britain. That is why we have opposed the Bill that takes negotiating rights from trade unionists and teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.644.9", "colnum": "644", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "—have been cheerful relevant and robust, and we have won the vote on every occasion. Needless to say, we have won the arguments", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.644.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.644.11", "colnum": "644", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "I always enjoy the comments of the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett). However, when he talks about trampling on people's rights and about upholding a concept of Socialist democracy, I can remember, over a period of some 20 years, a catalogue of abuse from the Labour party in the context of people's rights. It started over 20 years ago with the Burmah Oil legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.644.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "In all the free-standing establishments where school meals are served the Labour party would seek to abolish them and deny people's choice. I thought that the purpose of the debate was to discuss new clause 18.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "In all the free-standing establishments where school meals are served the Labour party would seek to abolish them and deny people's choice. I thought that the purpose of the debate was to discuss new clause 18. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it then.\"] We shall do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-10", "file": "debates1986-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6587dc238b4b4552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "a tyrannical piece of legislation. However, the Opposition have reminded the Government, who are growing arrogant with power, of the need to maintain parliamentary rights and scrutiny. We have drawn public attention to a Bill that gives exceptional and unacceptable powers to the Secretary of State. The Minister has deliberately tried to mislead the House and the media about the nature of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-10a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-12", "file": "debates1986-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b6d3dd32f5e21bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-12a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Defence Projects and Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "preceding_text": "long-term development of the European fighter aircraft. Quite rightly, that worried many people. I am amazed that the hon. Gentleman could have made such a statement. Some of us have longer memories than he may think and we know that the last fighter aircraft Britain attempted to develop was the TSR2 on which my father had the pleasure of working. That aircraft was scrapped by a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-12a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Harrier GR5 Mission Simulator", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 20, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the Government's award of a contract for the Harrier GR5 Mission Stimulator\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything of the sort. I remember that meeting clearly. It was in Rossendale town hall. During that meeting, I had cause to say that I doubted the complete conviction on the part of all members of the Labour party that our parliamentary democracy was the right form of government, and the hon. Gentleman was very cross with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "The House may or may not at some future time wish to return to some of these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.810.5", "colnum": "810", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "s approach to the matter and one that I would not have expected to hear from the hon. Member for Workington, as that is unsustainable and unworthy. I urge the House to consider the case in Australia on its own. If we do that, there can be only one answer. It was right and necessary to take proceedings, whatever had happened before. We can only hope that right will prevail and that the publication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.810.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I shall come to what I consider to be the core of the speech by the right hon. and learned Member for Southport (Sir I. Percival), but first I must make it clear to him that at no time in the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) or at any time during the proceedings have the Opposition been engaged in any party political fight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " sole judge of whether he has sufficient reason to break the confidence which is enjoined upon him in his position as an officer or former officer of the Security Service. He cannot be the sole judge, but if he has no other recourse and nowhere else to go, he is left in a very unsatisfactory position. I speak not only of Wright, but of very many officers who have found themselves in this position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.820.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made a comment that I do not wish to repeat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I have made it perfectly clear that we would choose the GEC Nimrod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ments. The hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke), as the author of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986, knows perfectly well that in some weeks or months he will leave this place, alas for ever, but, none the less, leave for posterity something by which he will he remembered. I understand that that being the case he is rather worried about the lethargy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.908.8", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "er for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson) also objected to our children studying peace. What does he want them to study—war? Does he not think that we should spend our time trying to decide how to avert war? That is how we should spend our time. The hon. Gentleman wants to pooh-pooh it as, historically, Tories always have done. we must remember that they were the men of Munich, preferring war to peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.908.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I entirely endorse what my hon. Friend has said. It is interesting to note that in the recent Labour party political broadcast on television there was no specific reference to the additional conventional forces that would be introduced following the cancellation of Trident. The fifth argument is that Labour policy would make this country safer from nuclear attack and fallout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime Prevention", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "bout to refer to crime prevention, but I was interrupted. The hon. Gentleman has fouled his nest once, and he shows a remarkable desire to foul it again. It is quite plain from what he said earlier, and even plainer from his intervention, that he is unwilling to see the police service increased either in terms of numbers or resources. That is an astonishing performance for a Front Bench spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-15", "file": "debates1986-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19b00ac739ee8a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime Prevention", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I was about to emphasise that we were doing that. For example, the urban programme is a vehicle by which we are using substantial sums of money for security on the estates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-15a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1040.6", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "iddle? Will he remind Opposition Members that their party introduced the youth opportunity programme in 1977, which gave youths a wage of only £18 a week, including travel allowance? Will he also remind them that the Labour manifesto of 1979 said: We have the Youth Opportunities Programme, which guarantees every school-leaver either a job or a training place or employment experience\". In addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1040.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1048.7", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "It is obvious that on both sides of the House, and, indeed, on all sides of the argument, the strong demand is that our country gets as a vital part of our national defence an airborne —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1048.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1048.7", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "is necessary to show that, in coming to a decision, full account is taken of the current quality of the British GEC system and of the national technological interest—an aspect which, understandably, the RAF officers making the assessment did not have to address directly. Therefore, before the Cabinet meets on Thursday, will the right hon. Lady set up a speedy and independent inquiry to establish —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1048.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1049.5", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "But—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "May I declare an all too-well-known interest? I say to my right hon. Friend that of course the defence of the country must come first in any decision that the Government reach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1051.6", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "preceding_text": "I note with interest the Prime Minister's concern about defence. Is she aware that Babcock Power yesterday announced 620 redundancies at its Renfrew plant? This is a factory that is steeped in manufacturing parts for Trident, which is an integral part of the defence of the realm, apart from developing ultrasonic equipment and heavy lifting gear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1051.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the calculation of expenditure for rate support grant purposes. Relevant and total expenditure are two key concepts that are basic to the local government finance system in England and Wales. Since 1981, relevant and total expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "se to the views of local authority associations. I have looked closely at the definitions of relevant and total expenditure because of some anomalies in the returns of expenditure received from a number of authorities. I was concerned that the accepted approach, despite the local authority associations' desire for it, did not seem to correspond to the statute, and I sought legal advice about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "That advice made it clear that the Department's treatment of expenditure was incorrect in law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. What did you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had some fun with his adjectives, but let me ask him what scrutiny he gave to the 1980 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "es me to do not only my job but the Opposition's job in pointing out what Parliament failed to stop in 1980. The hon. Gentleman talks about the events of 1981 and the circular from my Department. But he will know that local authority associations, including all the Labour-dominated ones, wanted the definition which has now been found to be in question. Is the hon. Gentleman really saying that he —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "and the circular from my Department. But he will know that local authority associations, including all the Labour-dominated ones, wanted the definition which has now been found to be in question. Is the hon. Gentleman really saying that he — [Interruption.] I listened with respect and quiet to the hon. Gentleman, Mr. Speaker. I am surprised that the Opposition do not want to listen to the answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1057.4", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is totally wrong. I am the only person who is quite certain what the law is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1057.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has quoted the judge's words wrongly. If he wants to quote the judge, he should quote accurately and properly. I make a distinction between the events to which he referred and the events about which we are talking. In that case there was a court case, where the judge interpreted the law differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the practice which has now been found to be wrong in law —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1062.9", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not certain that what has happened in the Chamber this afternoon would be happy as far as the electors are concerned —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1062.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The issue was debated last night. Has the right hon. Gentleman told you why he was not here to discuss it last night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D.N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D.N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " me this opportunity and to the Attorney-General for being present in the House today. It is as I predicted yesterday morning: if the Attorney-General had replied for the Government in yesterday's debate, I know that the entire debate would have taken a different course. It is unfortunate that one has to deploy such an elaborate ruse to secure the attendance of the Attorney-General in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.4", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.5", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I will deal with it in my time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.9", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "It was for the Attorney-General to decide whether Pincher was prosecuted under section 2 of the Official Secrets Act or section 7 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. He failed in his duty. He had a duty to prosecute Sir Dick White and Arthur Martin. Now, five and a half years later, he says that he is considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.11", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I am about to deal precisely with your request, Mr. Speaker. It was the Attorney-General who failed to prosecute Rupert Allason and those who fed him classified material, and all the time he hides behind the skirts of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1073.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon Gentleman has now made his withdrawal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have dealt with the matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have dealt with the matter [Interruption.] Order. I am not prepared to say any more about it. It is not a precedent that should be followed by any other hon. Member and I will not allow it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Attorney-General (Member's Reference)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Michael Havers)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Michael Havers)", "preceding_text": "I should like to be in the position to thank the hon. Gentleman for his apology. You, Mr. Speaker, have ruled that this is not be be a precedent; in my view, that means that it was not a withdrawal, and I do not treat it as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "Second Reading, as we all expect it will, we will be able to suggest amendments. I do not know whether there is a connection between the two events, but I note that it has persuaded Members of the Official Unionist party to emulate the commendable example of the right hon. Member for South Down (Mr. Powell), and to attend our proceedings. I hope that they will accept a welcome back to the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. The hon. Gentleman got it wholly out of proportion. I shall remind the House of some facts about the main change. The 16 weeks restriction will not apply to anybody who is aged 60 or over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "al demand pull on expenditure that has been wrought on housing benefit over the past few years. It is now a substantial burden on the Exchequer and taxpayers. When one reaches the point where one in every three families is subsidised in housing benefit by the other two—this is not the subject of tonight's debate—one wonders whether the system is proper and sustainable. I do not believe that it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Apart from the repeated lie that the Labour party is against owner-occupation, whereas Labour Governments have successfully taken measures to increase people's opportunities of owning their own homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-16", "file": "debates1986-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ec5c7c1b833d486d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1164.2", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "tly what the Government policy is on this important matter because it affects the use of United Kingdom quotas. An important squid fishery is the Falklands. The major problem of overfishing comes from the considerable presence of Eastern European fishermen. Licences were due to be allocated from 12 December. Will the Minister tell us what progress is being made and what the plans are for policing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-16a.1164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1190.6", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I do not think that yesterday's statement was farcical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1190.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1191.2", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend's comments. I know that throughout the country thousands, indeed millions of people are awaiting the introduction of what we proposed in the Green Paper. Most people want legislation immediately, but they will have to wait a little longer. We have promised that legislation, at the latest, in the first Session of the next Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "h any such evidence? Will the right hon. Gentleman ensure that the Health and Safety Executive's audit is provided in the Vote Office? Hon. Members and others have asked for the report and it should be available to the House. Will he ensure that the management of British Nuclear Fuels complies with the directions of the Health and Safety Executive within the 12-month time scale envisaged? Will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " Executive's audit is provided in the Vote Office? Hon. Members and others have asked for the report and it should be available to the House. Will he ensure that the management of British Nuclear Fuels complies with the directions of the Health and Safety Executive within the 12-month time scale envisaged? Will he— [Interruption.] —right hon. and hon. Members have a lot to say about these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1193.4", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark), who is responsible for these matters on the Opposition Front Bench. His good sense as a constituency Member with the interest of his constituents at heart and his sound attitude to these matters puts the hon. Member for South Shields right into the shade. We now know where power resides on the Opposition Front Bench and we are very pleased to know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "United States' trade negotiating policy. In relation to the successful launch of the GATT round, the reality is that the Community has been firm under British leadership. On the solution of American-European Community trade disputes, throughout the early autumn the Community was firm under British leadership and effective agreements have been reached on steel, pasta and citrus fruits, for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1211.2", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, arising directly on this statement. Courtesy is important in the House. The Foreign Secretary said that he had been given no notice about Mr. Sandy Grant. However, I wrote to his office this morning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": "country. I succeeded in securing a form of words in the final document that is acceptable to us and to them. The changes, particularly in the milk sector, will, of course, cause serious problems of adjustment for many individual farmers, but they will be sizeably compensated. But the package agreed at the Council on milk and beef fits in well with the best interests of the United Kingdom industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "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": "een rate changes, which will greatly benefit our livestock sector. The Agriculture Council has, I believe, under the British presidency, taken an historic step forward in tackling the problems of surpluses, which will bring substantial savings to the Community budget. Twelve nations have together found the way forward in agriculture—despite differences so big that once they could have caused wars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "basis of a bit at a time, as we have done in the Agriculture Council, does the Minister accept that in other sectors, most notably beef, if outgoers use their money to set up in that sector, by the killing of dairy cows, estimated at 1 million or more in Europe, they are depressing beef prices and building up the 600,000-tonne beef mountain? Does the Minister further accept that a number of acres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1227.4", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows that I am careful never to be economic with the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1234.3", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I see that hon. Members are not the slightest bit interested in this debate or the economy, and that goes for right hon. Members, so I fail to see why they should make a fuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1236.4", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "he field of strategic defence. Be that as it may, I see little practical alternative to continuing as I have begun during my first three and a half years as Chancellor—and, indeed, as my predecessors have before me—making some speeches, such as the Budget, in the House and others, such as the annual speech to the Lord Mayor's Mansion House banquet, outside it. I readily concede that some may feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1236.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " sense of deprivation is shared throughout the House. When, in this year's Budget speech, towards the conclusion of a relatively brief passage, I uttered the words I will say no more about monetary policy the reaction was scarcely one of profound disappointment. Indeed, Hansard records hon. Members as having interjected Hear, hear.\"— [Official Report. 18 March 1986: Vol. 94, c. 170] None the less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.8", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Let me say to the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook that I shall stay to hear what he has to say. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.8", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I hope that now we can get on with the debate in a civilised manner and that the Opposition will not create the bear garden that they have been creating. This is clearly the occasion to respond to the Select Committee's report. Since I shall have one or two critical observations to make, let me hasten to add that I do not blame the members of the Committee for their report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1237.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I would say in reply to my hon. Friend that of course the report is the Committee's report. And this speech is my speech.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1238.6", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "May I, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "and I quote once again, from the 1982 medium term financial strategy this time: The behaviour of the exchange rate can help in the interpretation of monetary conditions, particularly when the different aggregates are known to be distorted … the Government considers it appropriate to look at the exchange rate in monitoring domestic monetary conditions and in taking decisions about policy\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not a gross abuse of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "That extra tax income—what the Chancellor coyly calls buoyant tax receipts—is the direct result of earnings outstripping the inflation rate—levels of wage settlements which he used to condemn—so I ask the Chancellor again, for I am more than willing to give way to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "rnings outstripping the inflation rate—levels of wage settlements which he used to condemn—so I ask the Chancellor again, for I am more than willing to give way to him—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"] I ask the Chancellor again, for I am more than willing to give way to him, does he still condemn wage settlements that are moving forward faster than the rate of inflation, and if he does not condemn them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.6", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.7", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "er Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I ask for clarification of the ruling that you have just made? As I understand it, you said that because the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersely) has refused to give way, on any new points that arise, he cannot be asked to give way on them. Why is the right hon. Gentleman under your personal protection, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and why can we not ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1252.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has just gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "f the European Monetary System at a competitive rate and to introduce an incomes strategy to reduce the increase in unit labour costs to the level of the United Kingdom's major competitors. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Worthing (Mr. Higgins) on opening the debate, as there was very little debate before. The Chancellor's pressing engagement was apparently less pressing than he made out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are your friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "preceding_text": " for Worthing (Mr. Higgins) on opening the debate, as there was very little debate before. The Chancellor's pressing engagement was apparently less pressing than he made out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He has just gone.\"] I did not expect his patience to stretch so far as to listen to what the alliance had to say. He has never listened before, but he will discover what we have to say when the election comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An alliance of one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "agement was apparently less pressing than he made out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He has just gone.\"] I did not expect his patience to stretch so far as to listen to what the alliance had to say. He has never listened before, but he will discover what we have to say when the election comes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are your friends?\"] There is a higher proportion of alliance Members here than of any other arty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "I did not accuse the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "wn to get a job. I could walk down the street and get lodgings easily. One cannot do that today. There was much more mobility of labour in those days than there is now. There will be an increasing division in the country. Not just its economic implications but its political implications alarm me. Of course, we will get a few more Labour seats in the north, but that is not the most important thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "f economic policy, as it has risen by 18·2 per cent in the 12 months to September, we should now face an inflation rate of 18 per cent in the forthcoming year or two. I assume that that is not now the Chancellor's prediction. That rise in sterling M3 is not being responded to with any rise in interest rates, contrary to the policy options taken earlier by the Chancellor and his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": " a change of substance which will change the course of the economy. He implied no change in the Government's policy, but the reverse is true. As the Select Committee report makes clear, the Chancellor and the Government have changed their policy, techniques and instruments of control. What is missing is any real change in substance of the volume and scale required to meet the needs of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "nditure under the last Administration, they had to cut capital spending in key areas. Within our restrained totals we have almost identically increased capital spending in the key areas by the same percentage. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook referred to the increase in social security spending, which is a marked feature of the autumn statement, and described that as a product of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ir own internal party discussions on economic matters. It is fairly clear that the hon. Member for Dagenham wrote his speech before the Chancellor spoke or, alternatively, he could not have heard the Chancellor, because he concentrated on the frivolous aspects of the matter, as did his hon. Friends. He totally failed to see that the Chancellor had responded to his speech in full before he made it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-17", "file": "debates1986-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "06bb996da1b09413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Authorities (Return on Assets)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing, Urban Affairs and Construction (Mr. John Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing, Urban Affairs and Construction (Mr. John Patten)", "preceding_text": " able to demonstrate. I remind the House of our policy, which I outlined a year ago when the previous order was debated. This is exactly the same policy as that announced in 1984 by my distinguished predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow), who I see here tonight. Two years ago we were seeking convergence as much as possible, in answer to the hon. Gentleman's first question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-17a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Yes, crime which Conservative Members do not care about. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, in Britain, in the week between now and Christmas there will be 640 robberies, 2,500 crimes of violence against the person, 2,700 frauds, 12,000 acts of criminal damage, 19,000 burglaries, 42,500 thefts and 80,000 crimes of all kinds. Is it surprising that 83 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1344.12", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman yet had a chance to read Mr. Hugo Young's comments in The Guardian today, suggesting that people in the Conservative party, including the Prime Minister and just about every member of the Cabinet, believe that members of the Labour party are subversive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1344.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1346.9", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "cle by Hugo Young that appeared today in The Guardian? He states that a former Tory Cabinet Minister told him that he was provided with documents that contained security information about prominent members of the Labour party and that he was told by the same Cabinet Minister that he hoped that \"Denis Healey\"—my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East, whom I first met on the beaches at Anzio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1346.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1348.6", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scrooge\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is wrong about supplementary benefit. Supplementary benefit has gone up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Supplementary benefit is up by 6 per cent. over and above the rate of inflation and supplementary benefit scale rates for children under five years old have gone up by 29 per cent. over and above the rate of inflation. May I also remind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning Aircraft", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "tractor under an effective discipline. My fellow Defence Ministers and I will be ensuring that these and other lessons are fully absorbed and acted on in our future handling of major projects. While this must inevitably be a sad day for GEC and its work force, this decision must be seen in its proper context. GEC will remain one of the MOD's biggest equipment suppliers; we spent over £700 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Single Payments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "f exceptionally severe weather. That was resolved only when yet further guidance was issued, following which, adjudication officers throughout mainland Britain declared that the weather in February 1986 was exceptionally severe. I set out that tangled tale simply to demonstrate beyond doubt the unsatisfactory nature of past provision and to illustrate the principal problems that need to be solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Single Payments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " the bar that he left only five minutes ago before inflicting his presence upon us. Under the original regulations, the Stockton office of the DHSS came wholly under the Leeming criteria so this anomaly did not apply then. Hon. Members may think that it is small beer my raising the question now. Hon. Members following my line of argument may be tempted to consider that the points are nit-picking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Single Payments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "rred that any scheme should be judged. The House will remember that we are discussing a scheme for exceptionally cold weather. It is based on a crude average of once in five years' coldness. It is not the basic means of support, which is the current levels of weekly benefits, including additions. These sums will be put into the basic scale rates and the special premiums in 1988. The basic support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "reign aircraft. Let us look briefly at the Government's record on procurement during the past three or four years. It is not necessary to have a long memory to remember what happened the last time the Government became involved in defence procurement. About a year ago there was lie question of the purchase of Westland or of a share in it. Perhaps I should remind Conservative Members what happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1412.3", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " matters. He did not say that in one of those fireside chats that he gives on Radio Ayr, such as the one that he gave before the bombing of Libya. This was prime time stuff, on \"News At Ten\". He clearly said that the two systems work. I am not sure what the Secretary of State said this afternoon. I think that he said that they did not work. By implication, his statement shows that the two systems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1415.2", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "hat there was a virtual blockage of imports, but he moved his stance when he saw he was getting nowhere. A few bars later, if that is the right way to describe it, he said, \"No, no, there is a two-way trade between the two sides of the Atlantic. We are buying and selling both ways.\" He was moving his stance as he went along. Then he came to his great panacea for our defence industries and exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The details are part of the contract. The right hon. Gentleman knows that we do not make details of that sort public, for obvious reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "contract. The right hon. Gentleman knows that we do not make details of that sort public, for obvious reasons. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Nor did any of my predecessors in this job. The right hon. Gentleman also asked where the money would come from. I made it clear this afternoon that the money will come from within the Ministry of Defence's expenditure patterns which have already been published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1417.5", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "No, not for the moment. As for the rest of the option—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1417.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1417.5", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "No, not for the moment. As for the rest of the option— [Interruption.] I am trying to answer the first part of the question, but the right hon. Member for Llanelli is much more interested in asking the questions than in hearing the answers. However, that is understandable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1417.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question but I shall answer it again. In the case of the contract to supply the aircraft there are penalty clauses on Boeing if it fails to deliver on time and so on. There are no penalty clauses about the offset but Boeing has an exceptionally good record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "preceding_text": "ncelled the project then and gone for AWACS. That was a difficult time for the Government because it followed the Westland and Rover incidents and there was a lot of anti-Americanism. The Government did not pursue AWACS. They kept on with the contract. There was a case then for cancelling it. The Government should not have taken £25 million of GEC's money in the way that they have since that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NcNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NcNamara", "preceding_text": "sure that it was available when Tornado came on stream. Therefore, when we have our first squadron of Tornado interceptors next year they will be crippled because over the past seven years not one Tory Secretary of State has been prepared to grasp the nettle of airborne early warning and make sure that the RAF has the use of the potential of that system. Now they are doing it at twice the expense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Airborne Early Warning System", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Archie Hamilton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Archie Hamilton)", "preceding_text": " It used to be said that although the Soviet Union had greatly superior numbers in troops, tanks, aircraft and many other armaments, the West had a commanding superiority in technology. This is becoming less and less true every day. For example, it is highly likely that the Soviet Union will soon be able to deploy a new generation of cruise missiles that will fly faster and be much more difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1455.4", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to resume my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "oblem because he has not done so up to now? While he is doing that, will he look into the future a little bit. Under the Social Security Act 1986 that he so avidly supports and that will come into operation, those people on housing benefit will have to pay a proportion of their rates. In areas such as that which I represent the rates are high. I am not proud of that and nor is the local authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1471.5", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I have listened with great care to what the Minister has said. He seems to be under a misapprehension. We are debating the uprating under this Government, not the uprating that the next Labour Government propose to introduce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1986-12-18", "file": "debates1986-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6535dd3fe4addfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1471.12", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "ll answer my question in a moment. The Guardian on 24 October carried an article on how Labour would pay the bill. This is a classic example from the hon. Member for Oldham, West. The answer is that Labour will not pay the bill. The article states: we are adamant that beyond our two central overriding pledges, no other commitments can be guaranteed until the books are opened on coming into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1986-12-18a.1471.12"}