{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-12", "file": "debates1987-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "ac01a42e88f0b896", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-12a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Halifax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dewsbury was absolutely correct when he drew attention to the fact that hardly anyone can honestly claim to understand how local government finance works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-12a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-12", "file": "debates1987-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "ac01a42e88f0b896", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-12a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "mittee. The hon. Member for Copeland mentioned the promises about the operation of what is now the Rates Act during and after its passage. He was somewhat wide of the mark on this occasion. We accept that we are not following the Rates Act procedures. My right hon. Friend has explained why we have to adopt, for 1987–88 only, the approach to rate and precept limitation contained in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-12a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.132.5", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thank him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.132.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The announcement by the Minister earlier today on severe weather payments was welcome, but an admission of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.140.6", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nt improvement on the previous scheme for exceptionally severe weather payments, in terms of simplicity, comprehensibility and certainty of payment. Thirdly, when we have a totally unprecedented level of low temperatures of the sort that we have experienced recently, which were lower than ever before except in 1940, we are indeed anxious, and will waive the strict bureaucratic procedures in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.140.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.140.6", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " severe weather payments, in terms of simplicity, comprehensibility and certainty of payment. Thirdly, when we have a totally unprecedented level of low temperatures of the sort that we have experienced recently, which were lower than ever before except in 1940, we are indeed anxious, and will waive the strict bureaucratic procedures in order— [Interruption.] That is precisely what my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.140.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.4", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.6", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Now, Mr. Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.7", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The comparison is as follows: under the Labour Government £90 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.7", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The comparison is as follows: under the Labour Government £90 million— [Interruption.] I shall say what is happening now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.141.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is imperative that the House has the opportunity to debate the subject of severe weather payments, because thousands of people, including the constitiuents of Conservative Members. are at risk and are desperate to be able to maintain heating in their homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "use has the opportunity to debate the subject of severe weather payments, because thousands of people, including the constitiuents of Conservative Members. are at risk and are desperate to be able to maintain heating in their homes. [Interruption.] There is a crisis of cold in Britain that affects many old and poor people and it is not changed by the announcement that we have heard this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.143.7", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not the fact that the Leader of the Opposition simply wants to run away from the economic debate, and should not the House be aware that on 2 December the Opposition were not even here for the debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.143.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.144.8", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Because of your loss of voice, I am sorry to ask you to guide the House further. Manifestly, the comment of the Leader of the Opposition was not a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.144.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me clear this matter. Before we adjourned for the Christmas recess, no subject for the Opposition day had been announced. As far as I am aware, since I do not receive party Whips, no subject has yet been announced. I think that it was for the general convenience of the House to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "it. In the case of the 20 joint authorities which are automatically selected for precept limitation under the Local Government Act 1985, Departments with responsibility for those authorities will be writing to them with similar information about the precept limits produced by the formulae in the Bill. The present system of local government finance is short on accountability and long on complexity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "t, if settlement of that matter comes after local authorities have fixed their rates, they will face grave difficulties? Since the right hon. Gentleman has commented on the Government's resolve to protect ratepayers, will he say why last year's public expenditure White Paper did not take realistic account of the level of local government expenditure? Will tomorrow's be any more realistic? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "fly. I am delighted to hear his support for changing this system getting stronger and stronger. We shall expect him to be with us in the Division Lobby when the Bill to abolish rates in England and Wales is introduced shortly after the election. He will then be able to reflect his dislike of the system in his vote. The consultation on this settlement has been greater than on any previous occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ken place when authorities that wished to apply for redetermination saw officials or Ministers and, after consideration of those representations, the formulae in the Bill were inserted. Had it not been for the Bill having to be brought forward, I should now be making a final determination, having consulted those rate-limited authorities that applied for redetermination, which were not all of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Capital Punishment (Murder of Children)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": " deterrent but a desire for revenge. It is more than a desire for revenge in the case of the hon. Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth. It is also a desire for votes, but his revenge would be carried out by somebody else; the hon. Gentleman would not carry out the sentence himself. This is the first step towards the introduction of hanging for many more crimes, including terrorism and the IRA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "present we do not have any specific formal arrangements of the sort to which he has referred, but I shall gladly consider that matter further and write to him if I have anything further to add. However, there are some informal arrangements that some individuals make. I shall now turn to the Army's role outside the NATO area. The Labour policy statement approved at its last party conference states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "a mortar bomb. In the past year there is no doubt that lives have been saved and injuries prevented as a direct result of the additional protection provided by the Royal Engineers. I know that the whole House will want to join with me in expressing our appreciation to the Royal Engineers for their life-saving work in Northern Ireland last year and in congratulating them on their 200th anniversary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The strategy is perfectly clear. It is—the Minister of State for the Armed Forces implied this, because this was his criticism of us—that if deterrence fails, and nobody has ever suggested that deterrence will never fail, or can never fail, war will become a battlefield nuclear war in central Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.179.5", "colnum": "179", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ritory—nobody is suggesting that we are attacking the other side, and we are postulating the situation where a conventional war becomes nuclear—much of that artillery will be dropped on the NATO battlefield between the River Elbe on the one side and the River Weser on the other. Hon. Members should accept that, and they should not shut their eyes to it, because that is the reality of the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.182.4", "colnum": "182", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I shall not go into the threat within Norway. Perhaps we can discuss that in another debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.182.4", "colnum": "182", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "istening to the Minister, one would not think so— since the 1950s and 1960s when most of our strategic ideas were formulated that many of these concepts are now obsolete. That is the Defence Secretary of the United States commenting on the NATO strategy of flexible response. We believe that the only sensible defence, and, of course, deterrence, is and would be a conventional one in central Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ct, as the House well knows, it was an American idea to have tank traps or ditches, but there are physical and electronic barriers and land mines, which the Government do not want the British Army to have. Physical and electronic barriers could be used as a first layer. It is perfectly possible to have, as a second layer, lightly armed infantry and then, as a third layer of manoeuvrability, tanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not. We shall stop any hunting on Ministry of Defence property until we have legislation on the statute book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "hat he has not, as far as I am aware, complained directly to the MOD about it even when invited by my noble Friend in November to comment on any aspects. I am not aware of any reported evidence of the conversation. However, I know that it accords exactly with the line volunteered on a separate occasion at the British Army equipment exhibition to the Chief of Defence Procurement and Brigadier Last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.230.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-13", "file": "debates1987-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "223b5b72adf1d76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "British Coal (House Sales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "h break-even by 1988–89. I think it would be helpful if I say a few words about some of the problems raised this evening by the hon. Member for Bassetlaw. It has been alleged that some of the houses sold at auction have then been resold quickly, and that the tenants do not know who their new landlord is. I must say quite clearly that tenants have a legal right to know who their landlord is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-13a.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Television Licence Fees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "mendations, accepting those that suit him and rejecting another that would help the poor. The Labour party believes that the financing of the BBC should be re-examined in a way that seeks to address itself to the problem of the licence as a regressive poll tax. Meanwhile, the Labour party makes it absolutely clear and reaffirms its commitment to phase out the television licence for all pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Guinness plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "er, Mr. Speaker. You will recall that some weeks ago I endeavoured to draw the attention of the House to the number of job losses in my constituency arising from the Guinness takeover. I seek your guidance principally because in today's issue of The Independent there are two articles, the first of which is headed, \"£200m Guinness slush fund\" and the second: Guinness's second secret Boesky link\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Guinness plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. There is some difficulty in raising this matter in the House for two reasons which you should bear in mind, especially as we can discuss most issues properly. First, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is unable to speak on this issue because of the close association of his family with the whole affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Members' Correspondence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have received many letters regarding my Bill on Friday, some of which have been dealt with by my secretary and some by the Library. This is part of the support campaign by the Daily Star—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Members' Correspondence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have received many letters regarding my Bill on Friday, some of which have been dealt with by my secretary and some by the Library. This is part of the support campaign by the Daily Star—[Laughter.] Tory Members' constituents who write to me do not consider it to be a laughing matter.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Members' Correspondence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I am asking you, Sir, whether there is any arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "can tell the hon. Gentleman one place that it could come from. I do not know whether he has had notice of some of the contents of the public expenditure White Paper, but I see that the Government are proposing to spend an extra £230 million in the next two years on the cost of stocking Common Market food mountains. I suggest that that money would be much better spent on elderly people in the cold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.282.7", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.282.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Pensions have increased under this Government, mathematical illiterate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "o warm them up. At lunchtime today, the Ministry of Defence instructed the Army to cease all such help at 12 midnight. The borough needs to re-apply for assistance. If this is general Government policy, it is placing a bureaucratic block in the way of commonsense help which is urgently needed in this crisis. I hope very much that the Minister will give a commitment that this will not happen again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and the Disabled (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and the Disabled (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "bble (Mr. Atkins) about whether his winter premium scheme is or is not contained within the £3·6 billion by which the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) threatens to raise taxes. I offer the hon. Member for Oldham, West, an opportunity: is it, or is it not, contained within that £3·6 billion, which is the maximum, we are told, by which taxes will be raised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.289.7", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.289.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.290.8", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Speaker has ruled that allegations that a Minister or any hon. Member is deliberately misleading the House are out of order. The hon. Gentleman must not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.290.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "It becomes noticeable, does it not, that members of Her Majesty's Opposition seem disinclined to proceed with the debate and to determine what realistically may be done to solve the special problems that exist? There are specific matters that I wish to deal with later which even the most boneheaded Member of the Opposition might conceivably find of some interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.292.5", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have lunched well if not wisely. If he wishes me speedily to proceed to the issues, perhaps he will permit me to do so. Perhaps the most vulnerable of all members of society are the elderly who live on their own. I shall address myself specifically to the social security benefits that are available to them, but there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.292.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "No doubt the hon. Gentleman will elaborate on that point, but there are other ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nergy policy. It states that our objective shold be to ensure that everyone can afford adequate heat and light at home. They do not have that, although some do. Those of us with elderly relatives must help them, and rightly so, because we are more fortunate. But all elderly people do not have relatives. Many are wholly alone and have nothing except state assistance. I heard the Prime Minister say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "osition were to acknowledge the link with the wealth that provides money to do all that is needed for the elderly, they would take a leaf out of the book of the hon. Member for Birkenhead and look at the answer that he received from the Treasury in April of last year, which shows that the way to get money out of the rich is to reduce their taxes so that more money for the elderly can be generated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "inister referred to the fact that it is desperately important in this cold winter to ensure that neighbours, friends and relatives look after elderly people. It is all too easy for people, any time a crisis occurs, to ask, \"What are the Government going to do?\" I believe that charity should start at home. In most cases elderly people have children and grandchildren who live not very far from them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "relatively small and will go some way to offset the larger heating bills that we will all face for January. That is simple economics. The laughter and dismissive remarks of some Labour Members prove that they are not interested in old people. The Labour party is looking at the opinion polls and it is aware that it will lose at the next general election. It is clutching at straws to try to salvage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "re that money will come from. There has been considerable hypocrisy in some of the speeches made inside and outside the House. There was a clear impression that in the periods of the Labour Administration—1964–70 and 1974–79—there had been no cold winters and no tragedies when old people had died. It was claimed that the Labour Government had made special provision. That is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is a great pity that the hon. Member for Berkshire, East, (Mr. MacKay) seemed to want to join in a competition in frivolity among Conservative Members, as that is quite inappropriate to the very serious situation facing many people today. Conservative Members have almost totally failed to respond to the severity of it. They would like us to believe that everything in the garden is lovely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "g the point, to give the figures that I have for excess winter mortality over five-year periods. In 1971–75 the figure was 28·2 per cent.; in 1976–80, a period that the Opposition will recognise, it was 33·6 per cent.; and in 1980–85, a period which Conservative Members recognise, it was 29·3 per cent. Let us not hear the Opposition make too much of that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": " construction. Rather than spending the whole of our North sea oil inheritance on the dole queue, we could have invested that money in new homes, new roads, new sewers and new hospitals. Under this Government we see that money being wasted and the skills of the people who could have produced that new development decaying. Three ingredients are missing. The first, of course, is a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.376.7", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "preceding_text": "stry it may be that the large firms are receiving a disproportionate share of the benefits while small firms pay a disproportionate share of the levy. In smaller companies the emphasis is often placed on on-site training, but they may then lose experienced staff to the larger companies. As a result, small companies may be given no recognition of the contribution that they make to on-site training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.376.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": " It was called some months ago by my hon. Friend the Minister. I reached the same conclusions as he reached, but from an entirely different route—a report issued by the Federation of Master Builders. My right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State thought that it was rather quizzical that we identified several skill shortages—about 4,000—yet we had an unacceptably high level of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-14", "file": "debates1987-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "bc0d86e72d2c4c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": " I have already said will be about 4,000 apprenticeships. I have no doubt that the board's response will be positive. The hon. Members for Huddersfield and for Gordon were wrong when they said that the number of people being trained in the industry was falling. Between 1985 and 1986 there was an increase of 2,000 apprenticeships in the industry. The number of YTS trainees was also on the increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-14a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-15", "file": "debates1987-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0336bcbb9999b213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister content that her Government preside over a society in which the chairman of Guinness can earn £350,000 a year while thousands of pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-15", "file": "debates1987-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0336bcbb9999b213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BTR and Pilkington Bros.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I had to decide whether to refer this matter to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. I cannot reconsider the decision that I have announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-15", "file": "debates1987-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0336bcbb9999b213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has proved my case. They do not employ that number because they are not given the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-15", "file": "debates1987-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0336bcbb9999b213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rnment are reelected, the National Coal Board, or British Coal, as it is soon to be called, would be a prime object for privatisation. The Tory Government are hell bent on destroying British Coal and on attempting to destroy the NUM in the process. The Government have been engaged in that exercise for the past two or three years and are now getting the industry ready for the spivs and racketeers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-15", "file": "debates1987-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0336bcbb9999b213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "it those 300 years of reserves and produce the money that is lacking in this Bill in order to ensure that more people are employed. With a view to dealing with the after effects of this Bill and other Bills, this morning some of us went to see British Coal about the scandalous way in which it is selling off houses in which many miners with more than 40 years experience of working underground live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-15", "file": "debates1987-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "0336bcbb9999b213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — City of London (Various Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " sexism that existed in Victorian Britain. Obviously, when a woman married she became nothing more than the chattle of her husband. Clearly this must be changed and that is what the proposed clause seeks to do. In all honesty I must report to the House that when I got up at 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning to get to the House for a ten-minute Bill, my wife said that she must have been mad to marry me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-15a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "It is clear that the hon. Member is one of the intellectual thinkers of the Conservative party. I was not prepared for that intervention, although I should have known that it would come, even if I had been in politics for only a few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I do not want to engage in a verbal challenge. I hope that we can conduct the debate on a proper basis. However, I find the \"free kunch\" expression rather offensive to the type of people whom I have mentioned. I think that, on reflection, the hon. Gentleman will agree it was not appropriate to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Waller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Waller", "preceding_text": "hey wish to use it. My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West (Sir P. Hawkins) made a sensible point in his letter to his constituents. The pensioners who would gain least would be those who, perhaps as a result of a loss of sight or of hearing, cannot enjoy television. But they could use cash benefits in other more fruitful ways. The anomalies in the concessionary system cause difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.522.7", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I was about to make that very point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.522.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "provide the retirement pensioners and others with cash benefits without placing any restrictions on the way in which they might be spent by the recipients. It is not for the Government to determine how pensioners use their resources, by syphoning some off into exemptions from licence fees, which many can afford and others do not want. That is the basic standard principle that the Government adopt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " paid for by a £10 licence on car radios, which we thought both unenforceable and undesirable. Our proposal is to keep sensible control over the licence fee and to ensure that there are easier methods of payment. We see that at the most practical way forward in assisting the pensioners. That is why my hon. Friend the Home Secretary made clear what the Government intend to do about the licence fee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.528.8", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook said: We do not propose to be side-tracked from our primary obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.528.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Phase in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "We should not be making cheap debating points. No amount of laughter from the Minister and his colleagues will disguise that. We have made a commitment that the next Labour Government will phase in the abolition of the licence fee for pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give them it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "preceding_text": "peeches today. The entire purpose of the Bill is emotional. It is a sort of \"East Enders\" with a Greek chorus now assembled behind the mover. It is a media exercise. Instead of applying our hearts to the Bill—and I have applied my heart to this Bill perhaps rather more than Labour Members realise—we should understand that old-age pensioners want television and find it extremely hard to pay for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Change it, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "preceding_text": "arts to the Bill—and I have applied my heart to this Bill perhaps rather more than Labour Members realise—we should understand that old-age pensioners want television and find it extremely hard to pay for it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give them it.\"] I am also thinking of the old-age pensioner who lives with his adult son and wife who are out of work. They will not qualify under the Bill for a free licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "preceding_text": "ectual argument are admirably expressed in a piece of research that I have not heard mentioned today. In 1968 the television licence was £10 a year, and the basic pension for a single pensioner was £4·50 increasing to £5. In those days a pensioner with no savings would have had to spend more than two weeks of his pension on a television licence. Today the basic single pension is £58 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Brinton", "preceding_text": "nsion for a single pensioner was £4·50 increasing to £5. In those days a pensioner with no savings would have had to spend more than two weeks of his pension on a television licence. Today the basic single pension is £58 a week. [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, that is the cost of the licence. I misread my notes. [ Laughter. ] I have always been bad at reading notes and that rubs the point in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-16", "file": "debates1987-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fddb3c3e08926e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Free Television Licences for Pensioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "constituents have cut out the coupon and sent it to me saying that they rather like the idea of getting something for nothing. Would that life were that simple. Fortunately, not all of us will be subjected to the sort of pressure that is sought to be exercised. I notice that in the January 12 edition of The Star the paper said: If the Bill is sabotaged we will go all out to nail those responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-16a.566.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-19", "file": "debates1987-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0841dfa3bb0ef30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.611.7", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman is right—the Bill introduced by my right hon. Friend has a twin purpose. It is, first, to restore the law to that which the House and the other place intended when the legislation was passed in 1980. Its second purpose, which will be immensely welcomed by those, like myself, who live in the Soviet republic of Lambeth, is to give certain further protection to innocent ratepayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.611.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-19", "file": "debates1987-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0841dfa3bb0ef30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.619.5", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shameful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Committee will note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.619.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-19", "file": "debates1987-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0841dfa3bb0ef30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "disrepute. We shall be a disreputable body if we let this go through. I say to the few Conservative Members who have bothered to listen to any of the debate that when, after the next general election, it is their turn to sit on the Opposition Benches, they should not moan to us if they think that we are pushing things through too quickly. If Conservative Members vote today to treat us in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-19", "file": "debates1987-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0841dfa3bb0ef30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "enditure, the Act will prevail over any decision of the court. The hon. Gentleman must realise that any authority could go to court and claim that the definition of total and relevant expenditure is not the one that we have all been working on but was the one in the original 1980 Act. On that basis, authorities would win every case and in order to discourage them from doing that, it must be right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-19a.643.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Severe Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "what higher temperature threshold in the first place, will he also undertake to make retrospective payments, where appropriate, at the new trigger point? Lastly, is the Minister aware that his reference to \"only\" 643 deaths from hypothermia has been received with dismay and disgust? Will he now retract that innuendo and apologise and acknowledge that pensioners are not just dismissable statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.747.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " were 2·5 per cent. up on the previous three months and 7 per cent. up on the previous year. It did not go on to say that while consumer spending rose by 7 per cent. the production of consumer goods in Britain rose by only 2 per cent. To have added that would have demonstrated not the strength but the weakness of an economy about to slump into a £7·5 billion balance of trade deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "that while consumer spending rose by 7 per cent. the production of consumer goods in Britain rose by only 2 per cent. To have added that would have demonstrated not the strength but the weakness of an economy about to slump into a £7·5 billion balance of trade deficit. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"] It is not rubbish, because the figure of £7·5 billion is the Chancellor's and not mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "eased by 15·5 Per cent. between the third quarter of 1985 and the third quarter of 1986, and the import of other consumer goods rose by 19·5 per cent. Our share of world trade had fallen since 1979 and our share of world manufactured trade has fallen massively by over 24 per cent. Indeed, manufactured output is still 4 per cent. less than in 1979. To be fair and honest, I must admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ther countries have a worse record than ours for manufactured output since 1979. Those countries are Fiji, Argentina, Senegal and Barbados. I have nothing to tell the House about the capital expenditure of manufacturing of those four countries. However, even when leasing is included in the calculations, in Britain that figure is 18 per cent. less than in 1979. The Chancellor will rise in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.771.5", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "What is wrong with it not being in its full and complete form is that, in its full form, it proves me right and him wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The Tory slogan for the next election is, \"Vote now, pay later\". We know how the Chancellor will react to this sudden exposure to the truth. In a moment there will be long passages of bogus statistics, rather like those that I quoted at the beginning of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": " since 1979 and have fostered the conditions in which a million new jobs have been created throughout the country since 1983.\". This is not only the first economic debate of 1987; it is also the first since the tragically premature death of the Liberal party's economic spokesman, David Penhaligon. His breezy, good humoured, but always thoughtful contributions to our debates will be greatly missed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "was the lowest for almost 20 years, and although this year it will be slightly higher than that, it will still be far lower than anything the last Labour Government even so much as aspired to, let alone attained. Moreover, the growth that we have seen and that we shall continue to see has been balanced between consumption and investment. Indeed, for the whole of the period since the upswing began—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "des of the political divide at the time—meant fewer jobs. But that phase is now behind us. During the present Parliament, the number of jobs has risen steadily, quarter by quarter, without a break—the best performance for almost 30 years. Altogether the number of jobs has grown since 1983 by more than a million—a bigger increase than in the whole of the rest of the European Community put together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " for almost 30 years. Altogether the number of jobs has grown since 1983 by more than a million—a bigger increase than in the whole of the rest of the European Community put together. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] It is now clear from the latest figures that unemployment—I hope that Opposition Members will listen to this because they profess to care about unemployment—is now on a steady downward trend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "at our balance of payments is now in deficit on current account. Once again, the contrast with the Labour years is instructive. During the whole of Labour's period of office there was a cumulative deficit on current account which is now put at some £5 billion. During the first seven years of the present Conservative Government, we were continuously in surplus, to a cumulative total of £21 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.779.5", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I am talking about jobs, which the hon. Gentleman professes to be concerned about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I shall withdraw nothing. As the right hon. and learned Member has owned up, the last Labour Government had a deathbed repentance. Right at the end of their term of office, they suddenly got around to the question of insider trading. They were never able to get it on the statute book during their period in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman does not promise that. Apparently, as far as the right hon. Gentleman is prepared to go, at least until now, to promise, in the spirit, he says, of Mr. Walter Mondale, to undo any tax reduction that there may be in this year's Budget. I do not know whether there will he any tax reductions in this year's Budget. All I shall say is that the Budget this year will be on St. Patrick's day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "bs created in the past three years is only about 239,000. That contrasts vividly with the constant stream of propaganda—that is what it is—that we get from the Chancellor, the Prime Minister and other Ministers. For the benefit of the Chancellor, I repeat the Bank of England figure—239,000 full-time equivalent new jobs in the past three years. That is merely scratching the surface of the problem.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "able. Our manufacturing employment is down by 28 per cent. and the worst comparison that we can draw is the 9·4 per cent. drop experienced in Italy. Britain's declining manufacturing industry is a direct consequence of the Government's policies. It is no good the Chancellor trying to tell the House that the decline is due to our industries not performing as well as those of other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "f the City, official regulation is inescapable. I do not believe that the City is any longer capable of self-regulation. It is not an interest to declare, but I was brought up in the City in merchant banking. At that time, it was possible for the City to regulate itself. There was no legislation on insider dealing because nobody imagined for a moment that there would be an orgy of insider dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four years\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " SEC is coming back into its own. It is having to do so because of the present scandal. I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) takes the view that he brought the scandal to the Government's notice, whereas most of us thought that it was because the SEC dealt with it. However, I am prepared to give credit to both. The SEC dealt with the matter in three or four months", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister keeps referring to the previous Labour Government. That was eight years ago. There are millions of young people who will vote for the first time in the next election. There are many young people who voted in the previous election but who did not remember too much about a Labour Government. I just make the political point that we are living too much in terms of past considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.820.4", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": " difficulties of pensioners to achieve a reasonable quality of life. They do not adequately demonstrate the tragedy and disappointment of the young mother who loses a baby in the early days of the baby's life because of a lack of facilities. They do not demonstrate the despair and disillusionment of a young man who has never had a job and has no likelihood of getting one in the foreseeable future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.820.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I was anxious, for the sake of the House and also for the sake of business and industry and, indeed, the areas, that they should not have thought that there was a period during which applications would not be accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.827.4", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman wishes to be accurate and fair, will he point out that that is because expenditure on regional development grant has increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.827.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to apologise for. The Library and I regret that it made a slight error which I shall come to in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am glad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.828.8", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " Box. We understand that he cannot involve himself with one half of his Department because of an interest through his family connections. However, he should not disable himself from the other half of his Department through non-interest in the House. It is his duty to answer such debates. I hope that on the next occasion that we debate manufacturing industry and regional policy, he will be present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.828.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.830.3", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "eatest sins of the Government is to have turned their back on manufacturing industry. Where did they turn to? They turned to cast their favours on the City. I understand that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said in a television programme today that the Labour party did not even contemplate legislating about insider dealing. That suggestion has certainly been made on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.830.3", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " occasions— [Interruption.] I hope that the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) will forgive me if I put the matter straight. I have to remind the House that the Labour party produced provisions for insider dealing in the Companies Bill 1978. The Bill did not reach the statute book because a general election intervened and the Conservative party would not agree to let the Bill go through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) has just replied to what was billed as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "rittan), my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle on Tyne, Central (Mr. Merchant) and others wanted to deal, with the alleged north-south divide that was trailed before the debate actually started. Of course we all accept that there is a marked difference between the economic and industrial life of the north and the south of England. There always has been—it is nothing new—and there always will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I know the midlands better than the hon. Gentleman. We have also been treated to a little bit of City bashing. That was rather forlorn, because I was delighted to hear, as were, I am sure, many Members, that the Pilkington bid is now a dead issue.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "nd Sidcup and other hon. Friends have said that we should examine the rules in the light of the Pilkington reference. They believe that we have narrowed the rules too much by concentrating on competition. We have not changed the rules and it is still possible for Ministers to take a wider view of the public interest. I invite Members to consider the reference of the Gulf Resources' bid for IC Gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "from within unions, interest groups inside the Labour party and with an eye on marginal seats. Any assertion that jobs and companies in the north would be safe in the hands of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) and his right hon. Friends should send a shiver down the spines of those not only in board rooms but in the workplace of most companies likely to be affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It has not come to that, but I assure my hon. Friend that we should not shrink from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-20", "file": "debates1987-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "dde313172b14d6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "irective has been proposed under article 57(2) and article 66. Article 57(2) provides for some degree of majority voting. However, other articles require unanimity—for example, articles 100 and 235. We think that those articles may be more appropriate for consideration of these matters. I cannot say categorically that there will not be majority voting, because I cannot say categorically what view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-20a.855.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-21", "file": "debates1987-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8858d76eb5f10394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.879.8", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ches and elsewhere at the Prime Minister's recent retreat from her initial agreement at Camp David on SDI with President Reagan? Can he say that Her Majesty's Government unequivocally expect the United States to observe the ABM treaty in its pursuit of its star wars initiative in the restricted interpretation which has been endorsed by those who negotiated the treaty in the United States? Thirdly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.879.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-21", "file": "debates1987-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8858d76eb5f10394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks. Achieving 48 measures concerning the internal market was a record that has never been equalled by any other presidency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-21", "file": "debates1987-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8858d76eb5f10394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will join the hon. Gentleman in congratulating Sir Henry Plumb on his election as President of the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-21", "file": "debates1987-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8858d76eb5f10394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "Is not the legacy of the British presidency of the European Community a financial shambles, which means that the European Community still has no agreed budget for 1987? A trade war with the United States of America is looming and it threatens to cause long-term damage to European and United States relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-21", "file": "debates1987-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8858d76eb5f10394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Rent Control (New Lettings) Abolition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": " Many of those homes, but not all—even some needing refurbishment—could be let to people who need them if landlords were not inhibited by the effects of the Rent Acts.\"—[ Official Report, 19 February 1986; Vol. 92, c. 381.] Those are not my words, but the words of my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing, Urban Affairs and Construction, who spoke so eloquently on 19 February 1986. How right he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.898.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-21", "file": "debates1987-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8858d76eb5f10394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "cerning the future proceedings of the Committee. We consider that the Committee should not proceed to a final consideration and vote on clause 1 until it has had an opportunity to hear from the Attorney-General about these matters. With regard to discussions of clause 4 and clause 6 of the Bill, it would be appropriate for the Attorney to be in attendance throughout the Committee's considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-21a.904.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Condemn it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The House will want to voice its strongest possible condemnation of all the gratuitious violence at Wapping on Saturday night. The House will also wish to send its sympathy to all those who were injured during the ugly events at Wapping, to members of the Metropolitan police, local residents and all those who went to Wapping to avail themselves of their lawful and legitimate right —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " demonstration. That peaceful non-violent demonstration was the objective of the overwhelming majority of those who were present at Wapping is shown by the fact that a highly active police presence found it necessary to arrest 67 people—only one half of 1 per cent. of the 12,500 people who took part. Is the Home Secretary aware that the events at Wapping highlight three extremely serious problems?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.21.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "e problem for the police, who have still not found it possible to work out tactics to deal with potential or actual disorder which protects both the police and innocent demonstrators and bystanders from danger and injury. In view of the seriousness of the situation and conflicting reports of exactly what took place at Wapping, it is essential that there be an urgent and independent public inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "f order. —that there should be an urgent and independent public inquiry into Saturday's events and the events leading up to Saturday, for which there should be made available all the video and sound recordings made at Wapping by the broadcasting authorities and other organisations, including the police. Thirdly, we once again see clearly what happens under a Government who have a vested interest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ng by the broadcasting authorities and other organisations, including the police. Thirdly, we once again see clearly what happens under a Government who have a vested interest — [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—a vested interest in disorder. Any other Government, Conservative as well as Labour, would by now have tried to step in to assist in producing a solution to a dispute which has dragged on for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ny other Government would show concern at the serious and damaging way in which the massive and continuing police presence at Wapping is distracting the Metropolitan force from dealing with the 750,000 crimes which are being committed in London, a dilemma to which the Commissioner himself drew attention last Friday. The Prime Minister is perfectly content to mouth catchphrases about law and order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "n. Friend aware that the whole House will await with interest the answer by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) to his challenge? Meanwhile, can my right hon. Friend confirm the press reports that some Opposition Members were present and spoke at that disgraceful riot, including the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.23.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scarman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "nary processes of law. I am anxious that those charged with offences on Saturday night or before should face those charges in the courts. I am anxious that any complaints against the police should be handled through the procedures that Parliament has laid down. Both those lines of action, which seem to me right and normal, would be to some extent complicated and frustrated if there was an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You don't know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I have always listened with care to the hon. Gentleman because of his local knowledge, and to the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) and other Members with constituency interests in this matter. However, nothing that he has now said will distract the House from the basic facts of what happened on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On behalf of many of my constituents who were at Wapping on Saturday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.29.7", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that all of us agree with him that the events that we saw on Saturday night and Sunday at Wapping were shameful? Will he also accept that I disagree with him that my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) should not have the right to go down to Wapping and speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.29.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.29.7", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Wapping (Disturbances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths) that local authorities use ratepayers' money—that was the allegation—to instigate what happened the other night. That should be investigated. Secondly, allegations have been made that it was not the trade unionists who caused the trouble, except perhaps marginally, but people from other organisations. Who are these other organisations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.29.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "preceding_text": "where it has risen by 20 per cent. in real terms. It also says that inner London has twice as many staff per capita as the most deprived metropolitan districts outside London …\". I understand that there are certain pressures to have that leaked report modified, but I hope that they will be resisted. I draw the attention of the House to the last auditor's report, published in September 1986.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.52.4", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Meadowcroft) made a very rude remark about my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House when he left, but the hon. Gentleman sat down only two minutes ago and has himself rushed off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.52.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "rough, regardless of the consequences. As I have emphasised, we already have a further Bill, but we have not yet cleared up, nor do we appear able to, the major legal row about the Bill. The point still at issue is that clause 4 contains a sweeping catch-all immunity for the Secretary of State from legal challenge in the courts, which is unprecedented, so far as we can tell, in modern legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.67.5", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "utive of Kent county council—the city of Birmingham was under-spending considerably compared with its budgeted expenditure for 1984–85, so he suggested to the council that a sum equivalent to the underspend should be transferred to a special fund to be called the supply of goods and services fund. There was some correspondence about the transfer while the city's accounts were being audited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.67.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "As I have already said to the hon. Gentleman, I understand and appreciate why he is putting that point. We must be certain that the validation stands up without threat so that rate-capped authorities know what the situation is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-26", "file": "debates1987-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9ce959fcbdff30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott '", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott '", "preceding_text": "l, for allowing me to intervene. My hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw), moved the amendments as they were selected by Mr. Speaker. However, in this group of amendments there are a number which are related to specific issues. Certainly the debate has been wide-ranging and interesting. Unfortunately, it is rather distressing that so few Conservative Members are present for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-26a.105.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend reconsider the practice of consulting the Leader of the Opposition on matters of security, bearing in mind that Mr. Duncan Campbell, an adviser to the Labour party on security and defence matters, already has one conviction for breaking the Official Secrets Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.178.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Houses (Radon Levels)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "a stage further, I understand that in the map compiled by the NRPB it showed other parts of the country as well as Devon and Cornwall which suffered from hot spots. Why has the Minister decided that the people who live in the Derbyshire and Yorkshire Pennines, which had a high measurement reading, should not be included in this survey? Do the people in the northern parts of the country not matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.190.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "High Court Injunction (Mr. Speaker's Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is in no sense a party political matter. It is a matter of high constitutional importance and one for the whole House. The matter is for the House to decide. I think that we must see what explanations may be given from the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.219.6", "colnum": "219", "heading": "High Court Injunction (Mr. Speaker's Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "In the pursuit of their work, should a conflict arise between the members of a Select Committee and any Government Department, members of the Select Committee clearly and explicitly have the right to come to the House for the matter to be resolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "High Court Injunction (Mr. Speaker's Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, and the reasons why you took it. If you had taken a different decision, you would have anticipated the freedom of the House to make up its own mind by precipitating a course of events that would have made today's discussion irrelevant. It is not the Chair's function to do that, as you are the first to recognise. You are here to protect the rights of hon. Members, not to pre-empt them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.233.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.245.7", "colnum": "245", "heading": "High Court Injunction (Mr. Speaker's Order)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Harrow.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may cast aspersions on Opposition Members, but does he remember that the biggest spies in British history were members of his class who went to the same public school, spies such as Burgess, Maclean, Philby and all the others? If he wants to look for traitors in this country he should look to his own party, to his own class, and to his own school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.245.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "High Court Injunction (Mr. Speaker's Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " to take account of the views that have been expressed. It is right that in a debate affecting the affairs of the House account should be taken of them. Certainly the Government do not approach the matter with a closed mind. The Government wish to say that if the manuscript amendment finds favour with the House, as we believe it does, they would accept it. A great deal has been said in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "High Court Injunction (Mr. Speaker's Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ral hon. Members have made the point that the law of England does not permit an injunction to be obtained in blanket form. An application must be made for an injunction against a named person. We cannot say that something may happen which ought not to be permitted and an injunction should be taken out against all the world. It may be that that rule should be reviewed in cases of national security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-27", "file": "debates1987-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "678e97c0b4a1f598", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "we are discussing a matter that is within our responsibilities, and I trust that we shall be able to assist the Ministry of Defence in improving this modest but important measure. I had intended to embark on an historic analysis of this issue, but in view of the mickey-taking indulged in by hon. Members speaking following the Minister, it would be unwise of me to pontificate on historical matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-27a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.324.8", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. It is essential that this industry be returned to the private sector at the earliest possible date. My hon. Friend referred to the Labour party's proposals. I am in some difficulty about the 1 per cent. training levy on turnover, because we do not hear about it. I", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.324.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "High Court Injunction (Mr. Speaker's Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "Mr. Benn), agreed that your ruling on 22 January prohibiting the showing of Mr. Duncan Campbell's film in the precincts of the House would last until the Committee of Privileges reported and the House itself debated the Committee's report. This morning, in the BBC's \"Today\" programme, the Leader of the House, answering questions from Mr. John Cole, said the following — \"The Speaker has indicated\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "osed in the package announced this afternoon. The Government's statement must be seen against today's political background and seven years of Tory policies on employment and training. Despite the many fiddles with the unemployment figures, the registered unemployed total stands at 3·25 million, with 30 people for each vacancy and with the worst trained labour force of any developed economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You soon will again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "g 110,000 places in six months—twice as many as the MSC thought it could handle. Is the Paymaster General convinced that those places, even on the terms that he set out, can be provided by industry under present circumstances? I must make it clear immediately that, of course, we welcome the counselling and advice that are given to the long-term unemployed. I have suffered periods of unemployment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "places, even on the terms that he set out, can be provided by industry under present circumstances? I must make it clear immediately that, of course, we welcome the counselling and advice that are given to the long-term unemployed. I have suffered periods of unemployment — [HON. MEMBERS: \"You soon will again.\"] — that have not been suffered by Tory Members. We welcome any advice that can be given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "rect in believing that it will be precisely the same as the levels of benefit? Will it include, as the MSC report requested, at the very least out-of-pocket expenses and help with extra training requirements for the individual? Are these job training places now to be provided at half the cost of the existing community programme, thus breaking any attempt to adjust payments to proper levels of pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "han these schemes without facing penalties? Is not the limited six hours a week for job training on a six-month scheme completely inadequate to make any contribution to the high quality training, as the Paymaster General has claimed? Will more resources be made available for monitoring the schemes and for judging the qualifications and standards achieved by them? What are the estimated effects of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "nds on the extent to which we achieve the rate of progress that the Government would like to see. If we reach the sort of figure that I am talking about, the cost will be about £200 million, some of which would be switched from programmes elsewhere and will therefore be new money to the Manpower Services Commission. Some of that money will be found by switching funds within my Department's budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.341.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are on schemes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "atures so largely in the barracking from his hon. Friends. Its effect on the unemployment figures will depend on the extent to which we successfully continue to reduce unemployment. It is a sad truth, from the point of view of Opposition Members, that, as the number of unemployed people steadily reduces, the figures go down. I realise that Opposition Members are worrying as the election gets near.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.342.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Training and Employment Measures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "nt is seven years of the collapse of proper skills training, and the fast creation of schemes that have more to do with getting people off the register than with providing proper training. The register effect has been the main thrust of the Government schemes over the past few years. We know for certain that in west Yorkshire, we call those schemes shoddy, as they do not provide jobs and training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alleged?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Howarth", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman has spent a considerable time describing to the House circumstances of alleged malpractice in the City—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "sly investigated and offenders will be punished with the full weight of the law. But to portray, as some Opposition Members do, everyone who works in the City as a shark or a charlatan is offensive to hundreds of thousands of honest, hard-working people. It is grossly irresponsible and against the national interest. No one is keener than those who work in the City to see offenders brought to book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "l services available in one place and the ability to react quickly to change and to meet the requirements of a vast range of overseas customers have made the City of London the leading financial centre in Europe. As rapid advances in telecommunications lead to a 24-hour global market in financial services, London, with Tokyo and New York, will form the triangle at the heart of the financial world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "If the House will give me a hearing, I shall explain exactly what we are doing, what we have done and what we intend to do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "with £220 billion of new issues a year and five times that volume of trading. It is the largest centre of international bank lending, with more than £500 billion a year. Nor is the City just a direct contributor to our national wealth. It has a vital role — here I answer the point made by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith)—in supporting the rest of British industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with manufacturing investment, but, as the hon. Gentleman has challenged me on it, he might be interested to know that output is 14 per cent. higher than the 1981 trough —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with manufacturing investment, but, as the hon. Gentleman has challenged me on it, he might be interested to know that output is 14 per cent. higher than the 1981 trough — [Interruption.] Profits and profitability are up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ill expect, we have given further thought to the concerns expressed about the conduct of takeovers. I understand from the Governor of the Bank of England that the takeover panel will be meeting shortly to consider changes to the takeover code and other actions to strengthen its application. I welcome that. I have agreed with the Governor that all of us in Government concerned with City regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "in my constituency or in most others. In spite of that, they were not satisfied and had to look for ways to inflate their earnings. Sir Ralph Halpern is the chief executive of Burton. He has not resigned, but his lurid activities were reported in all the tabloids on Sunday. However, I am concerned, not with his sexual dealings, but with his share dealings. This should be of interest to the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "preceding_text": "Typical Labour party pessimism.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "'s decisions Nos. 1 and 2 on the proposed Lonrho takeover. Today, I mention the tax aspects of the matter. For those who were not present when I mentioned it at Question Time, I repeat that we have lost £20 million of revenue because of a decision taken in the early 1980s to refuse Lonrho the right to take control of Harrods. That in itself is worthy of some form of statement, if only a sentence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "has occurred over a considerable period, and that has been well known to the Minister with responsibility for consumer affairs. Indeed, our motion encapsulates the proper dissatisfaction felt not only among Opposition Members but throughout the country with what is happening in the City. There was a time when the City evoked some national pride; today, it stands for fraud, chicanery and fiddling —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": ". The hon. Gentleman asked me to justify my opening statement; if he sits back and listens, I shall do just that. We are not dealing tonight with the new phenomena of Distillers, Argyll, Pilkingtons and BTR—we are dealing with a long history of fraud and chicanery in the City. The extent of fraud in the City's insurance sector is extraordinary in moral, legal, criminal, financial and social terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "ming to be concerned about standards and worried about what I may say. The Government appear to have an obsession with standards—probably because they do not have any themselves. Not long ago, the leader of the Conservative party spoke of standards in society—the need for more law and order, the need for the hanging penalty for terrorists, the birching of hunt saboteurs and the flogging of miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.6", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will. I shall not do so now, but will check with Hansard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.6", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will. I shall not do so now, but will check with Hansard — [Interruption.] Because I have prepared myself for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.407.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "the City are crooks. I would go so far as to say that most of those in the City would not knowingly break the law. Over the past three months I have met many people operating in the City on many different occasions. I have not been invited to chateau Morgan Grenfell, which I understand is located in Whitehall court. However, I have met many operators in the City and it is clear that many of them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "London Regional Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "period, the retail price index rose by 20 per cent. and earnings rose by about 30 per cent. That is hardly a massive fare increase. According to LRT, next year fares will fall in real terms by ·05 per cent. That 3 per cent. rise in real terms compares very interestingly with the 85 per cent. real rise in the 12 years during the time that the GLC ran it. That disposes of the first criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "London Regional Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "t. That 3 per cent. rise in real terms compares very interestingly with the 85 per cent. real rise in the 12 years during the time that the GLC ran it. That disposes of the first criticism. [Interruption.] All I am saying is that it has now been allowed to be managed by people who know how to manage, without politicians interferring. I now move on to the next criticism, that there will be massive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "London Regional Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "es in the train miles run by the tube from an index of 94 in 1983 to 104 next year. and on the buses from 93·5 in 1983 to 96·5 next year. The service level has actually risen every year except for one blip on the buses when it went down one year and up to a greater level the next. Next year, the route miles run by the bus services are planned to increase from 16·6 million to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-28", "file": "debates1987-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "47d6730ac5d6a3dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "London Regional Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "The same GLC forecast the closure of 35 stations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-28a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-29", "file": "debates1987-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "5b0348c303bc79d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.484.7", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the package of training and employment measures announced yesterday offers real hope to the unemployed with the prospect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.484.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-29", "file": "debates1987-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "5b0348c303bc79d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "J. E. Hanger and Co. Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is this a question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "poning amputations that can be postponed, even at some risk to patients? Is it not plain, from the history of this dispute, that the owner of Hanger, BTR, which every hon. Member was convinced was totally unfit to take over Pilkington, has demonstrated also that it is quite unfit to have a virtual monopoly of the supply and fitting of artificial limbs for people within the National Health Service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-29", "file": "debates1987-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "5b0348c303bc79d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.498.4", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "With regard to the events of last night, is the Leader of the House not aware that my hon. Friend the Chief Whip of the Liberal party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-29", "file": "debates1987-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "5b0348c303bc79d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.541.2", "colnum": "541", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "st by world satellite development, including pop channels, but by United States programmes, which are marketed on a much wider basis and often dubbed in the United States. There is thus, sadly, a danger of being consigned an excessive weight of \"Dynasty\", \"Dallas\" and other admittedly popular rubbish from the United States and being deprived of the opportunity to see better programmes from Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.541.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-29", "file": "debates1987-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "5b0348c303bc79d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "ember states. I am not arguing whether that is right or wrong; that is a different matter. What I am saying is that the Community should get its house in order. There is no sign that it will ever do that. My last two points are references to the ways in which the common agricultural policy is spreading out its tentacles into other areas. Two are mentioned in paragraphs 3·32 and 3·33.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-29a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-30", "file": "debates1987-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be6e03a72010bd18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Crossbows Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "ty of fire of the longbow made it much more effective against the heavy French cavalry. The problem of reloading the crossbow meant that the rate of fire was restricted. It seems that it was also regarded as a weapon for the aristocracy or the upper classes, whereas the longbow was not. There were statutes that made the possession of longbows and arrows mandatory and formal practice was required —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-30", "file": "debates1987-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be6e03a72010bd18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Crossbows Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "preceding_text": "n sought endorsement from the chairman of the Conservative party and, sadly, he got it. Some hon. Members might remember a piece that I wrote about it in The Observer early in January. But what my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) did not know�žneither did I—was Mr. Lynn's record as a politician. Last year he was a ward chairman of the Cambridge Conservative Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-30", "file": "debates1987-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be6e03a72010bd18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Licensing (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "is a great deal of evidence from many countries that price and consumption are closely related. When the price is low, consumption is higher, as can be seen from the evidence that is adduced from Scotland. Equally important to the way in which hon. Members judge the Bill today is not just what the Minister said, but what the hon. Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) said when he introduced the Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-01-30", "file": "debates1987-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "be6e03a72010bd18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Licensing (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman's Bill to deal with the price and taxation points that I have mentioned. However, the title of his Bill could have allowed it to be extended to some of the problems of off-sales, as well as of order and the difficulties that licensees and others face in enforcing the under-age drinking laws at present. There would have been scope for extensions if the title of the Bill had been wider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-01-30a.660.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The boardroom of Eurotunnel, as my hon. Friend knows, has nothing to do with the Government or the House of Commons, but the specific question relates to British Rail's freight estimates. Those estimates project a tripling from £2 million to £6 million. Those are relatively modest estimates, but it is for British Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "The Minister's answer is just not good enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"M r. Campbell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "Statesman of 23 January 1987. The request was for a search for material relevant to that investigation to he made of the BBC premises at Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, where it was believed that Campbell had worked in the course of preparing a series of programmes entitled \"The Secret Society\"; a search was also requested of a flat at 27 Hamilton Drive, Glasgow which had been occupied by Campbell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has chosen to table his question for answer by the Secretary of State for Scotland. I have to inform him that neither I nor the Government have any responsibility for requests made by the Metropolitan police for search warrants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "hat the Government must take responsibility for the investigation of a matter concerning Government secrets in which the Government have embroiled themselves deliberately and closely? Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman tell us who is politically responsible for this operation, which he has been put up to answer? Is it the Home Secretary? Is it the Attorney-General? Is it the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " police officers would not initiate or undertake such an operation if it was not clear that they had serious ministerial authority, because they were being asked to cock a snook—in their view, cock the proverbial five fingers—at the High Court? The Secretary of State chose his words carefully when he said that no Minister initiated the search. Can he give us an undertaking that Mr. Bernard Ingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ertake such an operation if it was not clear that they had serious ministerial authority, because they were being asked to cock a snook—in their view, cock the proverbial five fingers—at the High Court? The Secretary of State chose his words carefully when he said that no Minister initiated the search. Can he give us an undertaking that Mr. Bernard Ingham— [Interruption.] —and Mr. Bernard Sheldon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.696.10", "colnum": "696", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that over the years many Members of the House of Commons have been critical of what happened in Nazi Germany and have attacked what has happened in eastern Europe, Chile, South Africa and many other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.696.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.696.12", "colnum": "696", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "wards on a point of order. It is clear that if we genuinely believe in the democratic principles of free speech, free institutions and free discussion, it is also clear that what has happened in Scotland, at the BBC and to Mr. Campbell is an outrage. Is it not time that the people of this country understood the situation that has been created by the Government and the disgraceful attitude adopted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.696.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.696.13", "colnum": "696", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I called the hon. Gentleman to ask a question, not to make a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.696.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.697.4", "colnum": "697", "heading": "BBC (Special Branch Raid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I am not asking for generosity. I have been an hon. Member for 22 years and in all those years I have seen successive Speakers protect the rights of Back Benchers when they are making points in the House. Of late, we have seen exhibitions, primarily from Conservative Members. Whenever there is something that they do not like, they act like a bunch of lunatics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "2 and 9 of the Official Secrets Act in a manner that many people believe has serious implications for the freedom of the press and freedom of speech. The matter should have urgent consideration because there are profound misgivings about the future of civil liberties in our society and fears that Britain may be going down the road already travelled in such places as eastern Europe and South Africa", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.698.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-02", "file": "debates1987-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "88fdf9fadb1677d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " I conclude by commenting on the importance of security. I regret that the argument about Trident has come to represent the difference on this issue, because I regard what has happened to the merchant fleet as being even more important. Although Trident is important—I have my own views on that— I do not wish to divert attention from what I am saying now by discussing it, because its day will come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-02a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I disapprove of people giving set answers. The implication of set answers is to tell the claimant, \"Never mind telling the truth about your claim. If you give these answers regardless of the truth, you will get benefit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "In relation to the Zircon affair, will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Metropolitan police asked the BBC to co-operate but the BBC refused to do so unless the police went through all the legal processes?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "In relation to the Zircon affair, will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Metropolitan police asked the BBC to co-operate but the BBC refused to do so unless the police went through all the legal processes?— [Interruption.] Is she aware that when asked by the police where the relevant tapes and files were held, the BBC replied to the effect, \"You will have to take the lot\"?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will be very interested in what my hon. Friend has to say. However, he will know that these are not matters for Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will be very interested in what my hon. Friend has to say. However, he will know that these are not matters for Her Majesty's Government— [Interruption.] It is for the police to decide whether to apply for a search warrant and for the courts to decide whether to grant the application. The Government do not give orders to the police as to how—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has good cause to know that I shall do everything to safeguard national security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will do everything except support the police in carrying out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.4", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.9", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As usual, the right hon. Gentleman is completely muddling a civil action or injunction with the issue of the right of the criminal law to investigate how secret information came into unauthorised hands. The latter is a matter for the Attorney-General in his legal capacity; it is not a matter for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.807.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister continues to reject the idea of creating a senior parliamentary Committee on security issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.808.6", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "Is it not about time that the right hon. Lady came clean about the activities of the Attorney-General and his dining with people who are subject to criminal inquiries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.808.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.808.6", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "Is it not about time that the right hon. Lady came clean about the activities of the Attorney-General and his dining with people who are subject to criminal inquiries? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Is she aware that the Attorney-General had Mr. Duncan Campbell as his guest at the Garrick in 1985 and that on 17 July last year, he had lunch with Mr. Duncan Campbell at the BBC's expense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.808.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.809.6", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It so happens that I read the entire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.809.11", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I understand the Leader of the Opposition's desperate need to reinforce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.809.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Freehold Entitlement", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "number of people living in the most expensive properties. After the new rating assessments which were made in 1973, these properties were those in the Greater London area whose rateable value was in excess of £1,500 and elsewhere in excess of £750. Therefore, there are now still thousands of people in inner London and, I would imagine, a considerable number of people in other parts of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " is now said that it was at a meeting chaired by the Foreign Secretary, and attended by, among others, the Home Secretary and the Attorney-General, that policy decisions were taken on how to handle the Zircon problem. When the Home Secretary replies, will he specifically state whether such a meeting took place? Only if he denies that will we be convinced, and silence will be taken as confirmation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.820.7", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "portunity to tell the House; I will gladly give way if he wishes to do so. Did the Attorney-General take, initiate, authorise or consent to that action? Of course that action was taken not on the instructions of a ministerial meeting that the Attorney-General had attended—no Attorney-General would do that— but after having consulted Ministers and taken cognisance of their views. We need an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.820.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.820.7", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nt to that action? Of course that action was taken not on the instructions of a ministerial meeting that the Attorney-General had attended—no Attorney-General would do that— but after having consulted Ministers and taken cognisance of their views. We need an answer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer now.\"] I have asked the question and the House must draw its conclusions from the Attorney-General's reaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.820.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.821.6", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Member for Henley saying that a group of special branch officers go to Heathrow, catch an aeroplane and go to the BBC headquarters in Glasgow at random, with absolutely nobody telling them to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.821.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.821.7", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who gave the order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "pecial branch officers go to Heathrow, catch an aeroplane and go to the BBC headquarters in Glasgow at random, with absolutely nobody telling them to do so? [Interruption.] That is an interesting example of the kind of random gathering that will be made illegal under the Public Order Act 1986. From the very beginning this whole train of events has borne the personal hallmark of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.821.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.822.4", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "mulation, when he said that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister had unleashed the special branch on the offices. He produced no jot of evidence to suggest that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister had done anything of the kind. It is not sufficient in a matter of this importance to dress up generalised and prejudiced accusations of this kind. I shall not describe meetings between Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.822.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "So the right hon. Gentleman is not complaining of the investigation by the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "So the right hon. Gentleman is not complaining of the investigation by the police— [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am coming to the question but I am making an observation. The Opposition must be clear whether they are now complaining that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The point which the Leader of the Opposition has raised has already been fully debated in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "en staying in Scotland and that the research material was stored at the BBC headquarters in Glasgow. I am informed that, on 26 January, Mr. Alan Protheroe, the BBC assistant director-general, was telephoned at BBC headquarters in London and asked whether he would be prepared to hand over the original film to help the police investigation. He stated that he was not prepared to do so because of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.826.7", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "position today. The right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) made that the main point of his intervention yesterday. It was also implied by the intervention of the leader of the Liberal party and others. What is now emerging, it seems to me, is a different and, indeed, contradictory line of criticism. Now it is clear that Ministers did not intervene in the conduct of the police investigation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.826.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "iend the Secretary of State for Scotland touched yesterday. Both yesterday and again today the right hon. Member for Gorton made much of the fact that the Home Secretary is the police authority for the Metropolis. Of course that is true, but is the right hon. Gentleman saying that police authorities up and down the country should have the right to intervene and to direct the police investigations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": ", the hon. Gentleman can intervene later. I am just developing my argument. A fundamental question relates to the issue of warrants and the breadth and scope of such warrants. It has always been understood that a warrant is a basic intrusion on civil rights. It has to be done, but the terms of the warrant have always been considered to be of extreme importance and they have been zealously guarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.830.5", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "which rightly said that it was oppressive. It was withdrawn and a second warrant was issued, incidentally to the wrong address. We then witnessed the spectacle of the police going out with material, coming back with the material, and going out with the material again. As I understand it, the BBC did not challenge the third warrant. I wish that it had done so, but that is a matter for its judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "warrant. Civil liberties require warrants to be as specific as possible, so I would not follow the hon. Gentleman in asking for wide powers. If the police wish to search another person's house, they should provide the court with the necessary evidence. As I understand it, in Scotland the police were operating under the terms of the warrant which was issued in relation to the New Statesman offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is too light weight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "preceding_text": " question had been deliberately put down to him. That was not so. The intention was to get an answer out of the Home Secretary, but he dodged the question. The question could have been asked of the Attorney-General, who has some direct ministerial responsibility, and it could have been passed to the Solicitor-General for Scotland, who answers questions in this House on behalf of the Lord Advocate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is getting his orders from the Home Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "preceding_text": "has certain independent responsibilities in prosecutions and it is certainly true that at the end of the day he does not discuss these collectively with Ministers. It is a travesty of the situation to suggest that Law Officers in any Government live in a cloistered world and never talk to any of the Ministers. The Attorney-General is talking at this very minute to two Ministers on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland (Mr. Peter Fraser)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland (Mr. Peter Fraser)", "preceding_text": "he Home Secretary said today, that was done with an officer of the Metropolitan police taking an oath before the sheriff. It is not directly the responsibility of the Lord Advocate to secure the search warrant. He is there to ensure that, first, the warrant is sufficient to meet its purposes and, secondly, that it does not go beyond what is required. In those circumstances, an application is made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "s the national security implications of the Zircon affair are serious, in which case the Government must say so, and say also that the BBC was raided as a matter of Government policy to protect our national security interests. If such a statement were made, I think that we would all accept the authority of the Government spokesman and take a step backwards, at least until the outcome of the trial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "gave a very different impression of how the BBC acted: I understand that the BBC technicians were asked whether they would be willing to come in to assist those taking part, and that they voluntarily chose to do so because they were aware of their public responsibilities.\"— [ Official Report , 2 February 1987; Vol. 109, c. 695.] My impression is that the BBC has been aware of its responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The Lord Advocate's duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman has got it totally wrong. First, as with any Law Officer, in these circumstances the Lord Advocate does not have a dual role— he has a single role as a Law Officer. Secondly, the width of any warrant sought is a matter not for the police or for the Lord Advocate but for the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.8", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The function of the Lord Advocate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.11", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.857.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. Given that the whole basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The case raised by the Leader of the Opposition and by the right hon. Member for Gorton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.858.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.858.7", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Special Branch Activities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member must have the leave of the House to speak again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.858.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "he pamphlet that if a loan is given by the European Investment Bank national Governments are obliged to guarantee it against exchange losses. That means that the Government would have to make a direct payment towards any possible financial losses stemming from that. I am not in any sense accusing the Government of doing that, because the honour and integrity of the Government are absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "to its destination without the sort of transhipment that would be necessary if such a load were taken by rail. Surely it is necessary to provide facilities a long time before 1993. We are not saying in the new clause that rail freight facilities should be provided full scale from one end of Britain to the other. I have already said that in some parts of the country work could take place right now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "preceding_text": "support new clause 3 and I should like to tell you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and the House why. New clause 3 says that British Rail should publish a plan and bring it to the attention of those who will be affected by its implementation. It is clear that, since we first heard of the Bill, British Rail has done no research into the probable social, environmental or planning effects of the Channel tunnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to hear that confirmation, because it undermines what little faith I have in British Rail's capacity to forecast traffic. I do not know whether that is acceptable to the hon. Member for Northfield, who believes in market forces adjusting supply and demand rather than in planning supply and demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will appreciate that, unfortunately, I did not have the advantage that he had of sitting on the Select Committee, the Standing Committee or other committees that may have dealt with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "essions and help that he has managed to offer to date. I should like to think that when the final report of the impact study is available to us further measures will be taken to enable us to compete if we have to, as we would like to, with the Nord Pas de Calais region of France. My thanks and my praise for the Minister's attitude do not extend to the attitude taken by Trans-Manche and Eurotunnel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "There is an immense responsibility on Government to ensure that safety standards are achieved. I have no doubt that the Government will accept that responsibility and that the highest possible standards will be written into the legislation. However, the fact remains that the Channel tunnel will he a remarkably potentially hazardous project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " suggested that risks are involved because of the configuration of the tunnel. The Minister referred to the Alpine tunnels, but they are several thousand feet above sea level and cannot be compared with a tunnel that will be under the sea. One of the safety experts dealt with this point. I refer to Dr. Eisner, the former director of the Health and Safety Executive's explosion and flame laboratory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-03", "file": "debates1987-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f1dae92c7646594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "e vicinity there is some potential advantage in terms of the automatic fire-fighting equipment that could be applied with great effect. In all those cases, there appear to be grounds for believing that it would be safer to segregate passengers from vehicles. The experts who have given evidence have suggested that there may be considerable advantages in that. That gives rise to a critical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-03a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Given that I have not said any unpleasant things about the Minister in the Yorkshire Evening Post —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.984.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I begin my question by making the point that my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.990.4", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I listened carefully to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.990.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.991.9", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the Labour-controlled authority in Bury recently advertised for a director of social services in Labour Weekly ? Is there not a clear implication that only Socialists need apply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.991.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Fixed Parliaments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ence. Although present Parliaments can run for a five-year term, it is unusual for that to happen. Since the war, only the Government of 1959 has run the full term. Indeed, the average life of a Government since 1945 has been three years and five months. My Bill would require the Government, given an adequate working majority by the electorate, to serve out the full term. The Governments of 1945 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The House has had to consider more than the usual share of local government finance in recent months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "preceding_text": "he amount of that legislation is a matter on which I should express my sympathy to the House, or vice versa. As hon. Members are aware, this legislation has arisen, for the most part, because of legal problems or deficiencies in the existing legislation and in the way in which it was thought to operate. I am pleased to tell the House that the Bill is not of that category. It is a positive measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1069.4", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary and Health Service Commissioners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend and I are in total accord. I want to leave one thought in my right hon. Friend's mind. What heroic purpose is served by the Co-operative Development Agency? My right hon. Friend may say that it is a sterling body applauded by the Opposition. Is the Crafts Council essential to the progress of mankind? Does the Crofters Commission render signal service to the human story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1069.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rent (Relief from Phasing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ock this morning I was talking about the beauties of Basildon's shopping centre. With questions this afternoon, I feel that I have already spoken enough for one day. I should not like to have to go through two separate debates on these orders. Therefore, I am grateful to the hon. Members for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) and for Leeds, West (Mr. Meadowcroft) for having agreed to this course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rent (Relief from Phasing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Random?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "e for housing benefit. Approximately 1·9 million households in the private sector are eligible for housing benefit, but how many of those people will be eligible next year? The Minister should know those figures before he comes to the House with these orders, the consequences of which will be significant for thousands of families. If we take a random borough—the London borough of Greenwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rent (Relief from Phasing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ause of their direct constituency experience. It might apply especially where there has been a mushrooming of private landlords using shorthold tenancies outside London, especially in former National Coal Board property. We give notice to the owners of that property that when we are in government we will not hesitate, should the circumstances so warrant, to bring forward retrospective legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-04", "file": "debates1987-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "70b4063ceb3f74b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1106.2", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rent (Relief from Phasing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "lowance. You see we are borderline cases— ex-service personnel (as if that meant a thing these days). Yet another constituent wrote: The elimination of the phased increases in Fair Rents over two years may well force many tenants to seek support or alternative accommodation from the Local Authorities, thus increasing the demands on rates and taxes. As a resident in a purpose built block of flats\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-04a.1106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1135.6", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the correct approach to emergency planning is to pursue a broad all-hazards policy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1135.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1136.5", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "es for it, I must point out that in January 1985, in the debates on what is now the Prosecution of Offences Act, both the Opposition and the alliance voted solidly to oppose our proposal to enable lenient sentences to be referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney-General. I take it from what the right hon. Gentleman says that this time they will support clause 29 of the Criminal Justice Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I first say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I first say — [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The right hon. Lady will want to reflect on the use to which she put the previous question, which I thought was a matter of common view among us. Notwithstanding her efforts to make party points out of what is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "eflect on the use to which she put the previous question, which I thought was a matter of common view among us. Notwithstanding her efforts to make party points out of what is — [Interruption.] The fact remains that the clause in the Prosecution Offences Act would not have had the bearing that I presume the right hon. Lady would want it to have on this kind of case. May I say to the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1138.5", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ar deterrent that has been the best peace policy of this century would not be a deterrent unless those in charge were prepared to press that button. It would not have been a deterrent in any previous Government who had it either. The hon. Gentleman wants to abandon the nuclear deterrent. We will not do that. Secondly, that film is not a party political film. It is a film on Government information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1138.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1139.4", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the reports today that the Labour party has joined the Liberal party and the SDP —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1139.4", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the reports today that the Labour party has joined the Liberal party and the SDP — [Interruption.] — and re-affirmed its intention of making large numbers of home buyers pay much more for their mortgages? Is this not yet further evidence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1140.2", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Yes. It arises out of the last exchange between the Prime Minister and my hon. Friend the Member for Houghton and Washington (Mr. Boyes). You will be aware that on Tuesday there was a debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "On a new point of order arising out of questions, Mr. Speaker. You will recall that earlier we had many questions about the crime figures of the nation. You may not have heard, but I ought to tell you that this morning at the Old Bailey Judge Miskin gave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" The Sun .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "r Scotland has never committed himself to making a statement, but I shall look into the points that the right hon. Gentleman has raised. I make this observation in the context that, in any case, my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will answer questions on Wednesday. I assure the Leader of the Opposition that The Guardian newspaper is not my early morning reading. It has that engaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ment to the point that he raised. As the right hon. Gentleman said, the Merchant Navy featured in powerful contributions by the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan) and by my right hon. Friend the Member for Taunton (Sir E. du Cann), and I do not think that I can offer the early prospect of a further debate on the Merchant Navy, since it was debated only a few days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1144.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1151.7", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Well, can I remind my right hon. Friend that it says that any act which has the effect of bringing the House into ridicule is a contempt of the House? My right hon. Friend will be aware —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1152.5", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call the other Member for Leicester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "l aware that until we reach the normal uprating period no one can be entirely certain what the income support and the other relevant rates will be. I acknowledge the point raised by the hon. Gentleman. The levels of those rates will be important and on that point I need no instruction from anyone. In any event, I again stress that we are talking of grants, not loans, because I know that even now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "r day about me insisting on taking powers to cut funeral payments to pensioners and others and forcing more and more of them to build up savings for their funerals.\"—[ 0fficiat Report, 22 January 1987; Vol. 108, c. 1043.] In fact, we are doing precisely the opposite and our proposals will greatly help many people on low incomes. Once again, because of the misunderstanding in the House and beyond —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "] It is not often that I quote that right hon. Member in support. The right hon. Member who said that is the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher), the Prime Minister. In case any hon. Member thinks that the right hon. Lady's views have changed over the last 23 years, I shall give one more quotation—her reply as Prime Minister to her hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend try to interpret whether the decision of the Minister in respect of funeral and maternity grants means that such grants will have first call on the social fund? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " is worth setting in context how much slippage has occurred. In 1983, the average single payment made by the DHSS was £60, making with the £25 maternity grant a total grant of £85. In cash and real terms the Government's proposals in the Bill will give mothers on supplementary benefit substantially less than they were receiving both in cash terms and real terms in 1983. That is wholly unjustified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-05", "file": "debates1987-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "faa8cf52a6ccfa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Education (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": " I have given the House in respect of the terms of transfer for individual people—that there should be no disadvantage to them—could be extended to apply to career prospects. Although he did not define those words, we understand what he meant. I assure the right hon. Gentleman, as far as it is possible for me to do so, that the career prospects of transferred staff will not be adversely affected.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-05a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-06", "file": "debates1987-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "59aa0f8ffb51a645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1227.5", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": ". Those fundamental rights and freedoms are set out in schedule 1. I shall not go through all the provisions in detail, because I think that all right hon. and hon. Members are fully aware of all the rights contained in the convention—or am I mistaken? Clause 3 prohibits breaches of the convention and makes such breaches actionable in law in the United Kingdom. Clause 4 is a very important clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-06", "file": "debates1987-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "59aa0f8ffb51a645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1227.5", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "ther nervously, in view of the intervention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Southport (Sir 1. Percival), who has ministerial experience and knowledge which I sadly lack, that because of Strasbourg's influence, our law has been altered so that there will no longer be corporal punishment in our schools and judicial birching. Corporal punishment has gone, whether we like it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1227.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-06", "file": "debates1987-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "59aa0f8ffb51a645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": " true that there is a programme \"in the can\" which has not yet been transmitted in which the words that my hon. and learned Friend has recited were spoken by my noble Friend the Lord Chancellor, so I had a word with him. I understand that when we hear the programme we shall be told that that was said in the context of what Lord McCluskey said in his Reith lectures, not in the context of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-06", "file": "debates1987-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "59aa0f8ffb51a645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1271.1", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "rcise of discretionary power by any executive body, including the Government. That has been a very welcome development and also an immensely potent contribution to the rule of law. However, one cannot go on from that to the proposition that has been advanced that, somehow or other, the number of applications for judicial review shows how much we need to incorporate the convention on human rights —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1271.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-06", "file": "debates1987-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "59aa0f8ffb51a645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Official Secrets Act (Prosecution Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "les those discriminating practices are justified and on what basis discrimination is authorised by Ministers. It is to the position of Lord Rothschild that I wish to refer. If, for the first time, I shelter under the cloak of parliamentary privilege, it is because Lord Rothschild can be a litigious man and, secondly, I do not think that what I am saying is to his discredit. I refer to 26 November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-06a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.10.6", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A written question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be answering a parliamentary question today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.10.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.11.8", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman refers to a rise in Wales, but the figures vary from year to year, and the figures for last year were down on the figures for the year before and also on those recorded in the last year of the Labour Government. The Government are doing precisely what the hon. Gentleman is asking us to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.11.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Comptroller and Auditor General", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "You might say, Mr. Speaker, that Ministers' answers to hon. Members are not a matter for you. I put it to you that when Ministers provide documentary evidence to the Comptroller and Auditor General to enable him to carry out audit certification and value for money examinations, Ministers' replies to him are a matter for you, because he is an Officer of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.86.4", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "y a Labour Secretary of State. I hope that when my hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Ms. Richardson) takes her place in a Labour Cabinet in the next few months she will make it a priority to redress the problems caused by this legislation. We know that she will have a fight on her hands to ensure that a Ministry for women's rights has the necessary finance to carry out improvements in the lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.86.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.94.5", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "Field) has in mind, payment should be made to the child mother's parents rather than to the under-aged mother herself. That is the substantive point. When there is great poverty, I think that the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow and I are at one. Our aims in abolishing the £25 universal maternity grant and the system of supplementary benefit single payment for maternity leave are twofold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.94.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "h) flitted in and flitted out and made one crack in passing. He was an opponent of mine during his first election campaign in 1974. I was quite sorry to see that he came to the House eventually. In his comments today he tried to rubbish the idea of a Ministry for Women to which my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East referred. When Labour is in power, we shall have a Ministry for Women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.101.7", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "two reasons. First, we always intended these payments to be rather different in nature from other social fund payments. Decisions on many social fund payments will be based on a flexible approach to individuals in varying circumstances, something that the current supplementary benefit system signally fails to provide. Decisions on maternity and funeral payments will be based on clear-cut criteria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.101.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.101.7", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "thing that the current supplementary benefit system signally fails to provide. Decisions on maternity and funeral payments will be based on clear-cut criteria. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Birkenhead is interrupting regularly. We look forward to his intervention from the vertical rather than the seated position. If people meet the criteria that we are setting out, they will get the payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.101.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "f Right-wing Tories who spoke without having listened to the debate. They made a contribution and got it on the record in the hope that their constituents would take note. They were participating in the debate but had not been here to hear every word, unlike other hon. Members who have sat here during the debate this evening. What we have witnessed from the Tories is a disgusting state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.111.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.112.7", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "The Minister is stipulating the type of funeral. It is not fair. He is forgetting those who will not qualify. They are struggling right now. I tell him this: he will have a good send off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.112.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.112.7", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "the type of funeral. It is not fair. He is forgetting those who will not qualify. They are struggling right now. I tell him this: he will have a good send off. [Laughter.] That is funny. The Minister can afford to have a good send off. There will be many more like us who can afford a good send off, but we represent people who are struggling in this world. They are struggling in our constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.112.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.112.8", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "As we have gone beyond the time that we expected, I shall be only a couple of minutes. If this miserable little Bill, which was introduced because of some draftperson's mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.112.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-09", "file": "debates1987-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1eb3bba7b69e0d97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dockyard Services (Devonport) Order", "cue_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "ted into the management and will still be responsible for the day-to-day running of the dockyard. That seems to me to be a good move. I shall deal briefly with certain aspects of Brown and Root. Much has been made by some hon. Members tonight of the number of redundancies. Surely the number of redundancies will depend on how much outside work that consortium or any other consortium brings in when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-09a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a persistent tendency to ask me questions which he knows no Minister in his right mind would answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "During the passage of the Bill we consistently made it clear that it would be wrong to impose extra financial burdens on local and health authorities until sufficient resources were available. That remains the position. The Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.156.8", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have indicated the sections that we hope can be brought into operation by next April, with section 11 during the course of 1987. I have also indicated that, although we would all wish to do more, a former Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.156.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.156.8", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ion 11 during the course of 1987. I have also indicated that, although we would all wish to do more, a former Labour Government — [Interruption] Of course, hon. Members do not like to hear this reply because it is true. A former Labour Goverment who passed the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act were also in a similar position. The last Labour Government did not, in five years of government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.156.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We do not need any lectures from a former Labour supporter of the last Labour Government, who did not begin to do anything like as well for the disabled as we have done. The right hon. Gentleman's second point was about helping people into jobs. As far as the disabled are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "considerations. With regard to the motion of the National Farmers Union this morning, the NFU's action reflects a short-term view of the farming community. The last chairman of the NFU took a different view, which was set out in the NFU booklet \"The Way Forward\". This Government have made the preservation of a strong rural community an important objective. If the farming community wishes to have —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "As this morning the National Farmers Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.159.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding my right hon. Friend's answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow), will he confirm that the green belt around the conurbations remains sacrosanct? Will he further confirm that his Department will make every effort to ensure that low-grade land, such as allotment land, becomes available for residential purposes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does major mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend that a great deal of time and effort is wasted on applications for developments in the green belt. The policy is absolutely clear: no major developments will be allowed on the green belt, but only developments in relation to the rural community, leisure or such matters. That has been repeated over and again and developers are wasting their time if they apply for major developments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "t, but only developments in relation to the rural community, leisure or such matters. That has been repeated over and again and developers are wasting their time if they apply for major developments — [HON. MEMBERS: \"What does major mean?\"] — or arty development which is in contravention of the policy that has been enunciated. My hon. Friend the Minister for Environment, Countryside and Planning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Law of Property (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Market forces.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "ely, at least under these proposals the would-be purchaser whose offer was aborted would be better protected than he or she is at the moment and at least receive some compensation and recompense for the heartbreak and financial loss incurred. Naturally, if the vendor stands to gain more than the 0·5 per cent. deposit that he would forfeit by going against his word, the law cannot intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "or many people housing benefit means that the cost of housing is virtually zero. If a commodity costs little or nothing, demand is unrealistically high. Maintaining a separate household costs a certain amount, so there are costs involved, but housing benefit makes it easier for people who are in the lowest income groups to move away from home and be rehoused under the homeless persons legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "I am happy to answer the point. Twenty per cent. or more of Tower Hamlets' total resources is to go to house 1,500 families, so of course the council is keen to find a solution. The Independent article states that over 600 of those families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "ctors. The Centre for Environmental Studies report on the outer estates—one of the most optimistic documents for a long time — shows us how to deal with the legacy of the answers to the problems of the 1930s and 1940s, which have led to our current problems. Stockbridge village is one example; it has its problems but no doubt it will be improved upon in the next experiment of that type involving —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "preceding_text": "When I reply I shall certainly remember that the hon. Gentleman has been courteous enough to give way to me twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "I stress again that the scale of discounts will focus on the different needs of particular authorities. That is not abolishing the right to buy. We must be careful to make that distinction. If the Minister can afford it, I will sell him a copy of the book in which the policy is set out", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "I stress again that the scale of discounts will focus on the different needs of particular authorities. That is not abolishing the right to buy. We must be careful to make that distinction. If the Minister can afford it, I will sell him a copy of the book in which the policy is set out [Interruption.] I am surprised that he does not have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "et flats boarded up The official replied: No. That's a different kettle of fish\". That is intolerable. The difference is that there is a variety of rented accommodation around the country and a blanket policy will not suit all the different authorities. Therefore, we must be more sensitive than the Government in applying the policy. I shall move on quickly now, as other hon. Members wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "clude a positive policy of housing for rent. Last Thursday the Minister spoke about the right to rent, but he excluded from that those who take up the new partnership rents. They will not even have the right to buy. The right to buy should not exclude the right to rent, and the right to rent should not exclude the right to buy, if we are to give people a variety of choice in their housing tenure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "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": "I regret the attack on my right hon. Friend by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker). It marred an otherwise interesting speech. I am sorry that it shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "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": "dly, I shall end on the theme of the right to rent, which will continue to be important. On the issue of homelessness, I was fascinated to hear the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison). He said that it was 10 years since he had spoken in the House on housing. I hope that it will not be long before we again hear his immensely wise voice, to which we listen with care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "e not prepared to take a long hard look at the private rented sector to see whether we can build some consensus. My hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow), that great consensus politician, suggested that we should seek that consensus in this area. Perhaps we should think of a different name from \"private rented sector\", and then perhaps people would not be so agitated about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Housing and Homelessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I have said. I apologise profoundly. I wish to put on record, for the benefit of my right hon. and hon. Friends who were not present during his speech, what the hon. Gentleman said about the right to buy. The new housing spokesman for the alliance, speaking with the enormous authority of that position, has said that the Liberals and the SDP were no longer in favour of the full right-to-buy policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being unreal and absurd. The idea that once people have been admitted to this country the Immigration Act 1971 or the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 enables the police to do what they have to do, which is to detain and question them, is simply unreal.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being unreal and absurd. The idea that once people have been admitted to this country the Immigration Act 1971 or the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 enables the police to do what they have to do, which is to detain and question them, is simply unreal.—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] Because the powers do not exist to detain and question for seven days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": " its pure form is not always adequate to protect citizens, it is ridiculous to suppose that no further steps should be taken, beyond the pure form of the rule of law, to provide a defence. Yet Opposition Members do so pretend. Opposition Members are in danger of being exposed as caring more for the civil liberties of someone who is a known associate of terrorists and most likely to be a foreigner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "y reasonable objection one can have to the legislation is that it is not sufficiently restrictive. It should apply to anyone who boasts an affiliation with a known terrorist organisation, whether or not they have hitherto been convicted and whether or not there is any evidence against them. It should apply to stop PLO representatives staying in Britain and establishing their offices in Kensington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-10", "file": "debates1987-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c0b910bb8f3b1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "them wish to return to the old Stormont. They are acting as though nothing has changed, but things have changed and we can never go back. Opposition to the emergency legislation is now massive and is growing. No matter what happens on the Conservative Benches, that is the reality. The British people are wishing more and more, and in bigger numbers, to be rid of the whole mess of Northern Ireland.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-10a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Was Professor Bradley right, or wrong, in suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.312.4", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I called a number of English Members during Scottish Questions today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.312.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.312.8", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Division Lists", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "f Hansard, for history and for our own benefit. I think that there must be a mistake in today's Hansard, which shows that once again the alliance parties voted against each other in the Division last night. It proves that the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey, (Mr. Hughes) voted against the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen). Therefore, there must be a mistake in Hansard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.312.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " by the Zircon film. Specifically, how does the Lord Advocate assess the damage to the public interest? How does the noble Lord Cameron of Lochbroom alone assess the damage to the public interest of a wholesale search of the BBC? May there not be a changing public interest as events proceed? Must there not come a time when Ministers say to themselves, \"For heaven's sake, we have gone far enough.\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.337.7", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what you say, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but it is of crucial interest to everyone in Scotland that the Labour party intends to rate agricultural land. That is important relative to a Bill dealing with rating in Scotland. However, I shall say no more because the point has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.337.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "One gets bored by the childish interventions of the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob McTaggart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob McTaggart", "preceding_text": "I became a member of the Standing Committee only after the Christmas recess because of the unfortunate illness of my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. McKelvey). I am pleased to report to the House that my hon. Friend is making a good, sound recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "icular problem, but that they were designed to ensure a specific reaction, in the face of the Minister's advice that they were technically deficient, I believed that the proper course was to withdraw them but to make it clear that I should return to them on Report. Therefore, it was very sad that a Division was forced in Committee. Presumably, that will prevent me from tabling a similar amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is unworthy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": " and I agree with many of his recent remarks, with the exception of those on Prestwick airport. Listening to the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Mr. Hirst) also reminded me of the feeling that we always have before a general election, when Members who are fighting for their seats and know that they may be defeated suddenly begin to take an interest in local matters such as sports clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.411.11", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) would shut up. He is rabbiting on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.411.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.414.4", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "crease over just three years is approaching 90 per cent. and clearly demonstrates the Government's concern to enable the real problems in the housing stock to be tackled. I have to say that if today's problems are the legacy of past underinvestment and lack of proper repair and maintenance, a great deal of responsibility for those problems must lie with those who made policy between 1974 and 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-11", "file": "debates1987-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d851d55626d11b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McCurley", "preceding_text": "We have in our midst a mimic—a highly inadequate and untalented mimic. I believe that if one does not have talent, one should keep quiet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-11a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.442.7", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "Unlike the hon. Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth (Mr. Dickens), my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East regularly appears at Question Time and has a productive input into our proceedings in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.442.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.454.11", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is aware that, although, alas, it does not apply to Scotland, unemployment is coming down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.454.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.454.11", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is aware that, although, alas, it does not apply to Scotland, unemployment is coming down—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I indicated that a moment ago. Although this month it has not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.454.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.458.6", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there appears to be no relationship between low wages and employment, as epitomised in the south-west of England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Points of Order (Mr. Speaker's Ruling)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Naturally, the House was interested in the Statement that you have just made, Mr. Speaker. Everybody, I am sure, will see the great—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.460.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Points of Order (Mr. Speaker's Ruling)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": " means only one thing: if you postpone points of order, you break the continuity of argument to which the points of order referred. I doubt if that is advisable, because it might be interpreted that your intention is to dispossess hon. Members of a long-established tradition of arguing points of order relevant to the matter then under discussion. Were you to maintain this argument, it would mean —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Employment and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "hat have been published in the Library of the House of Commons, so that hon. Members can be aware of the documents that will be used in a debate. For the past two days I have been to the Library trying to obtain a copy of the published Labour party document, which has been trailed in the newspapers and which will be used by the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) today, called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Employment and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I accept that this month has not been as good as the past five months, but the hon. Gentleman will be aware that January is always the worst month of the year. Unemployment figures always go up in January because it is the worst month of the winter. Even so, it is the smallest rise in any January for eight years. It means that the trend over the past six months is the best since 1973 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.477.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Employment and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t the moment is favourable and what I have described is a package of measures to train our work force into the new jobs that are emerging at an ever-accelerating rate. Perhaps I may be allowed not to give way for a few moments because, having described the package of measures and the philosophy underlying our approach to this problem, I was going to move on to the approach of the alliance parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.481.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Employment and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "llion in 1987. However, the OECD figure, which I am much more likely to trust, is that it will be a £3·2 billion deficit, despite the help of all the oil money. We still have a crisis in the balance of payments, the balance of manufacturing and the balance of trade. Let us put all this on the record because our candidates will be reading this sort of stuff to make use of it in the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Employment and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "up and were not included in this form in 1979. Who put them in? The Government put them in. The revamping of the self-employed figure, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows, was considerably increased because the Government came to the view that, on an estimate of the market, more people were to be considered self-employed, so they further inflated the figures of the employed labour force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-12", "file": "debates1987-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ddd32ccf7bbb9d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Employment and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "all kinds. I shall quote the one body from which the Government get their evidence, the NEDC. Two weeks ago the NEDC paper made it absolutely clear that the training skills of our people and the shortages of all kinds of skills have increased quite considerably. The NEDC mentions every kind of technology through the traditional industries. I shall not quote the paper as there is insufficient time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-12a.499.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-16", "file": "debates1987-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e72af809f4cdc315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-16a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "y, like the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East (Mr. Freud), I hope that every help will be given to the interests of the independent television producers. Like the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East, many of us are concerned about the centralisation of television production. Far too much of it is located in this city. Many excellent television programmes are produced in Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-16a.692.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.764.6", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker. The point of asking for consultation is to know the effect upon arms control negotiations. If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to look at the face of the treaty he will discover that where there are new ABM systems based on other physical principles\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.764.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984 helps the police to apprehend terrorists and therefore to protect the people of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.765.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Adjournment Debates", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ly be given before 8 o'clock. In a serious Adjournment debate, it is clearly infinitely better that a Minister should be present to reply. However, it is another practice—I am not making a party issue of it. because Labour Whips did exactly the same thing—that if an hon. Member wishes to raise a sensitive issue, the Government will ensure, somehow, that the debate is extended. Let me amplify that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Adjournment Debates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the hon. Member, and especially to the Opposition, that this is an Opposition day on which there are to be two important debates. I shall hear the points of order that hon. Members wish to raise, but I can add nothing to what I have already said to the hon. Member for Linlithgow. As for what the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has just said on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Adjournment Debates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "? Do you appreciate the distinction that my hon. Friends are trying to draw, between custom and practice and rules? Is it not true that we are dealing only with custom and practice. and that any Member of the House is entitled to stand at the Government Dispatch Box and answer a debate? Any hon. Member of the House could have taken upon himself the duty of replying to the debate of my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Refugees (Members' Representations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I often find myself saying from the Chair that I am not responsible for what is said from the Front Bench. I am not responsible for any views that the Minister may have expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Local Government (Empty Council Houses)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Powley) on being successful in the ten-minute rule slot. I heard the Jimmy Young programme this morning—he is the Prime Minister's favourite political interviewer—on which the hon. Gentleman gave a good account of his Bill. Clearly, I am not against the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Local Government (Empty Council Houses)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ve for their forward budgets. Thirdly, the Government impose cumbersome detailed controls on every repair scheme. Therefore, properties stay vacant in London and throughout the country because they are bottled up in the Minister's Department. No Labour-controlled local authority in London, or in the country as a whole, deliberately keeps properties vacant. However, plenty of Tory boroughs do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.785.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.786.6", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Local Government (Empty Council Houses)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "e structurally unsafe. Newham has had to move the residents out of those blocks but they were included in the figures that the Minister gave so that he could try to prove that Newham is deliberately keeping its housing stock vacant. If the Minister did not know that, he is a pretty shabby Minister indeed. That is an example of the way in which figures can be manipulated to make a particular point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.786.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "he Opposition the Prime Minister made some grossly misleading statements both about the implementation of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 and about the comparative provision for the long-term sick and disabled by Labour and Conservative Governments. In an attempt to excuse the Government's failure to implement my hon. Friend's Act the Prime Minister said: The Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mrs. Golding) launched a powerful attack on her alliance opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "nd not discriminated against, as under the present tax system. It is interesting that our present tax system is based on an 1806 statute when married women were considered to be an appendage of their husbands in property terms. Few married women worked. The first world war saw a considerable increase in the number of married women working, although it is interesting that by 1921 only 10 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "We have all slipped into the danger of talking about rape as if it always happens in dark streets by inadequate, funny men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": " that federation next week. We also fund the rape counselling and research project. So we are trying to do our bit in that area. As to the remarks of the hon. Member for West Bromwich, West (Miss Boothroyd) on appointments, I say to her, please watch and see how we make progress on that, but I am not prepared to recommend in my Department the appointment of women for the sake of having more women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.865.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "ng millions of women both above and below pension age. As for the various things that we have managed to do in terms of social security, I listened with amazement to the criticisms being made about the introduction of invalid care allowance for married women. What we did was abolish a particularly nasty little piece of discriminatory legislation which was left over from the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "onsumers of health care since we live longer than men, have been substantial beneficiaries all round. When we took over in 1979, we found that in Great Britain the Labour Government, for all their talk, had been spending less than £8 billion a year on the Health Service. This year, we are spending nearly £19 billion. We have just been allocated another £1 billion. Next year it will be £20 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "e to make some announcements soon. On lung cancer, I hope that we can raise women's awareness, for we are extremely concerned. The number of women dying from lung cancer is up 20 per cent. since 1979. It is now killing 10,000 women a year in England and Wales. The risk of heart disease and strokes among women who are both on the pill and smoking is ten times the risk when those factors are absent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "hat is absolutely right. That is just the point. That is why women should not be shunted off into a separate Ministry. It is all a load of humbug. The Labour party does not really believe it. The leader of the Labour party is a man. The whole of the shadow Cabinet, as the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich knows, are men. Not one women was elected by the PLP. There are two hon. Ladies present who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.870.8", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Women in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.870.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Tamils (Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-17", "file": "debates1987-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8aae5a72de6482eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "oved from the first draft that was put before the House in December. It is a rather strange method of proceeding to introduce one set of regulations which were ultra vires and then hastily introduce a fresh set which are improved as we go along. I have bad news for the Government. We fear that this second set of regulations may be defective, and I have a number of questions to put to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-17a.880.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is right to remind the House, as I think I did earlier, that the United States—not only Mr. Schultz, but others—has contended that the broader interpretation is one that can be upheld. It also said that it would continue to conduct the SDI research programme within the narrower interpretation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The House will wish to congratulate the hon. Gentleman on moving on from Afghanistan to Albania. Afghanistan is perhaps in danger of becoming too revisionist for him. The fact is, as the hon. Gentleman knows, that we cannot act unilaterally with regard to the Albanian gold. That can be done only by unanimous agreement of the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.927.4", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "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": "ave been topping the growth league of major EC countries, a welcome change from our position at the bottom in the previous decade. That growth is not, as the Opposition are trying to make out, simply the result of an extravagant consumer boom fuelled by excessive consumer credit. In fact, over these six years, consumers' expenditure has risen by an annual 3 per cent. — just as fast and no faster —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.927.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "o resist and has condemned root and branch, but which he is now forced to say are the basis upon which public spending has been allowed to rise. There is a third reason for embarrassment. The Chancellor's efforts to cut public spending have been counter-productive in more than just macro economic terms, although that is very clear because the cuts have led to the economy collapsing in on itself. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "ecord. They have allowed public spending to be cut and cut again so that there is now a lack of investment in the training of our people and, as was made clear in the debate, in the research and development needed for our industrial future. We have committed ourselves, and do so again today, to increase public spending in the interests of the infrastructure required by a modern industrial economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman has taken a leaf out of the conjuror's book so often used by the Chief Secretary. I invite the Chief Secretary now to concede that he wrote to me on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "one cannot meet all the housing needs. Like most Opposition Members, time after time in my advice surgery I meet young couples who would give their eye teeth for a council flat. They will not get one because, as in so many other parts of the country, no new council housing has been built and the council houses that have been sold — I do not oppose that — have not been replaced by additional stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "lanned to spend in the current year. Therefore, the figure in the White Paper is yet another fiddle, not that we have come to expect anything else from the present Government. Fiddling figures and conjuring tricks seem to be a major pastime. However, what should have been a pastime has now been substituted for real work, particularly on the part of the Chief Secretary who likes to indulge himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Rate Rebate (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "preceding_text": " by 6·6 per cent. It was not simply a question of inflation, but of significant expansion in services, in addition to the effects of a high rate of inflation at that time. No responsible Government could have stood aside in the face of that trend. Indeed, the previous Labour Government certainly did not, when the late Mr. Anthony Crosland told local authorities in 1976 \"the party's over\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1007.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Rate Rebate (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " the Minister's administration has been the way in which he has hunted local government, ruthlessly criticised it and brought a partisan approach to it that I regret. The Minister knows that today I have been commenting on some letters that he sent, on 27 January, to Councillor Brian Meek and Councillor Jean Armstrong, who are the Conservative group leaders on the Strathclyde and Lothian councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Rate Rebate (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "later in the letter, of \"moaning'. He should not be ascribing to them points of view that I am assured by both councils have never been espoused or put forward. It does nothing for the dignity of his office, or that of the Scottish Information Office, which was asked to distribute this in the form of a press release. I have drawn that matter to the attention of the Comptroller and Auditor General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Rate Rebate (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "to make things much simpler. In the short time that is available to me, I shall make a few points and ask some questions. First, the Minister said that there should be no rate increases next year. To take as an example the Highland region, about which I know a little, the rate will be 56p in the pound. If the rate support grant had remained at its real 1979–80 level, the rate would be 33p —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-18", "file": "debates1987-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e0067e7c27142531", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Rate Rebate (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "n the short time that is available to me, I shall make a few points and ask some questions. First, the Minister said that there should be no rate increases next year. To take as an example the Highland region, about which I know a little, the rate will be 56p in the pound. If the rate support grant had remained at its real 1979–80 level, the rate would be 33p — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Pence.\"] Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-18a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1043.4", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " must accept that the system that we use to restrain the ability to fish in order to be in line with the availability of fish in British waters and in European waters as a whole could not be destroyed by the situation in the Falklands. We would have to keep the rules as we have them. One could not give special permission or special opportunities to those who happen to fish in the Falklands waters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1043.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1056.10", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell that to Edwina Currie.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "victim of attacks from the hon. Gentleman and many others, and I have never squealed or complained about it. But may I make it absolutely clear that I for one, regardless of the hon. Gentleman, welcome the agreement reached by my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip and the Chief Whip of the Labour party that we concentrate on policy matters. I have always tried to do that and shall continue so to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1056.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "performance—been included in this sale? Is it being included as a sweetener for DAF? Why must we sell a profitable company or surrender control of it? Is it not ironic that we appear to be surrendering control of Leyland Vehicles because it makes a loss and surrendering control of Freight Rover because it makes a profit? What is the value of the Rover Group's 40 per cent. share in the new company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "for those who work in Leyland? The alternative of remaining in the Rover Group is unacceptable on the ground that it would probably mean more job losses and eventually the closure of the plant. Can my right hon. Friend confirm that there will now be continuity at the Leyland assembly plant and the design and development testing track? Can he also confirm that there will be exceptionally generous —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall take it in a minute. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1066.4", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Mills", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend remind the House just how much money this Administration have spent on supporting the Austin Rover Group?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1066.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1066.4", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Mills", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend remind the House just how much money this Administration have spent on supporting the Austin Rover Group? [Interruption.] I am grateful to the Opposition for their help. I have two questions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1066.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "It will depend on the sort of engine. The light engines will be manufactured in the United Kingdom and, over a period of time, more heavy engines will be built in Holland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman omits an important point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-19", "file": "debates1987-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "da31f14609bd48b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1109.5", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Banking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "endment No. 4, but the Opposition had the clear understanding that we had an agreement that amendment No. 13 would be taken at this point in the proceedings. We understood that we would not proceed to Government amendments Nos. 4, 5 and so on until such time as the Division had taken place and the Question on amendent No. 13 determined. Apparently, something has gone wrong and I do not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-19a.1109.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-24", "file": "debates1987-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6053d14316c8c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Trade Unions", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that most people accept that trade unions must belong to their members, and, therefore, that the extension of voting must be acceptable in terms of industrial democracy? Does he have any knowledge of whether the TUC and individual unions are prepared to consult on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-24", "file": "debates1987-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6053d14316c8c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Trade Unions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It would not have helped them to get rid of Rupert Murdoch, but it would have helped them to have a proper say in the activities of their own trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-24", "file": "debates1987-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6053d14316c8c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ministry of Defence Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "a race riot. The delicate area between the enforcement of the criminal law and the maintenance of the Queen's peace requires the greatest sensitivity, which, I concede, the police do not always achieve with the greatest efficiency. But if, in that situation, without the knowledge of the officer in charge of, say, the Metropolitan police operation, members of the MOD police then come lumbering in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.182.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-24", "file": "debates1987-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6053d14316c8c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.186.4", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ministry of Defence Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend was slightly misled. The hon. Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George) does not mislead us often, but he gave the slight impression that his was the only area that was not covered under the 15-mile limit. I have a map with some black areas on it which I should be happy to show to the House. It shows that extensive areas of, for instance, Scotland are not covered under the 15-mile limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-24", "file": "debates1987-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6053d14316c8c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "re told that the scheme was under way in the morning, they met to discuss the scheme and the scheme is phrased in the way that they wanted. How could we have done it better than that? The motion then goes on to say: as a result of which large numbers of the most needy are likely to be excluded from this aid. That cannot be so because we have already distributed 22·5 million packs of butter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-24", "file": "debates1987-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6053d14316c8c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ons arose for the distribution of food in emergencies, the Minister would not recoil from the thought that it would be appropriate to use such a scheme for the distribution of surpluses. We recognise that the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has recently devoted more attention to his activities in the Soviet Union—no doubt butter was on the agenda — than to helping needy people at home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-24", "file": "debates1987-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6053d14316c8c90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "t my hon. Friend in arguing for a return to a system whereby farmers were guaranteed a certain income and the market decided the price of food. When farmers, as a result of their efficiency, produced much more, it meant that consumer prices went down. That is a sensible food policy and the Government should consider returning to that policy. There have been reforms, but when the Minister replies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-24a.217.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Love Lane Bus Depot, Liverpool", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "I seek 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 closure of the Love Lane bus depot and the sacking of\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not accuse me, but should look at the Audit Commission's report. That is entirely independent and states that there has been no increase per person for those aged over 75 in the essential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " better balanced distribution of services throughout the country. The Audit Commission makes a radical criticism of existing policies and states: A very uneven pattern of local authority services has developed, with the care that people receive as much dependent on where they live as on what they need. There could scarecly be a more fundamental contradiction of a proper national service than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has not been in the Chamber. I shall no': give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "g benefit needs allowances. Without this, the full benefit of any increase will go only to the better-off pensioners. I am glad to say that there are more of those around now than there were eight years ago, but it is extraordinary that the Opposition's policy is still apparently to help the better-off pensioner and to ignore the poorest. This is, after all, a debate on priorities for the elderly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Perhaps that is one of the reasons why the link between the Liberal party and the Labour Government was broken. Certainly that link would have been broken much earlier if I had had my way. I accept that such points may be made, but they are not relevant in 1987—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ve a deep respect for her, but I do not believe that her argument is necessarily correct. It is possible to abolish standing charges and pass the cost of that abolition on to the cost of the consumption of the services. If one uses services, one pays for the portion of the services used rather than, as at present, paying for services one does not receive merely because one has a right to use them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.305.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "tandard of life that can be enjoyed by all throughout their extended lives. That includes a reasonable and secure income, somewhere warm and decent to live, a sense of security, and the stimulus of company, together with the practical services that will help them to keep healthy and mobile. Under this Government, the living standards of elderly people have not kept up with those of the rest of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "those services increased and have devoted our attention to achieving that objective. Let me take two obvious examples that particularly benefit elderly people. The number of cataract operations rose from 38,000 in 1978 to 55,000 in 1984. We have set a target of 70,000 a year for 1990. Hip replacements rose from 28,000 a year in 1978 to 38,000 in 1984. We have set a target of 48,000 a year in 1990.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Be careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "What can I say after that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " be cut down. I wonder what the NHS has come to when that happens. The ambulance service is not of the same quality as it used to be. I have only another two minutes to speak, but I wonder whether the Under-Secretary will mend her ways? In the House of Commons, she said: Universal screening is neither desirable nor necessary.\"—[ Official Report, 5 February 1986; Vol. 91, c, 372.] If she said that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-25", "file": "debates1987-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "9ad56222060d7516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "d. The same problem exists in the European development fund— that of rolling forward one year's programme to another. Several hon. Members have referred to this. We are never certain how much will be drawn down on the European development fund and, therefore, how much will be debited against our aid budget so it is extremely difficult for our national aid budget to he accurate in disbursing funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-25a.387.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-26", "file": "debates1987-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c5f95df0af778923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-26a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "me for hammering out. I stress that this is a breathing space. It is the sensible way forward. I emphasise again that, when the interim advisory committee makes its recommendations, I shall be personally involved in the consultations required under the legislation and in the consideration of those recommendations, which will inevitably have the character of negotiations. The proposals in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-26a.436.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-02-26", "file": "debates1987-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "c5f95df0af778923", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-26a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "m sight. Numerous parliamentary questions then ask when the report will be published, but all produce nothing. The Secretary of State can use that device when the advisory committee produces its report. He can simply ignore it and not bring it into the public domain. If the Secretary of State were to say to us, as no doubt he would if he were sitting in his place, \"I would never do such a thing\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-02-26a.468.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I do not disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. I have already announced three new industrial projects this afternoon : CP Pharmaceuticals with more than 100 additional jobs, Sony with more than 330, Avana with 800, the overwhelming majority of the jobs being entirely new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "f place. I can also tell the House that Motil Plastics, which already employs 460 at Aberbargoed, today announced an expansion project providing 130 additional jobs by the end of next year; and I am also delighted that Penney and Giles Conduction Plastics Ltd. intends to create 100 extra jobs in a proposed expansion at Blackwood and Magnapower Transformers Ltd. 150 on the Treforest trading estate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ort the week before last, and myself last week. I was given the detailed information about it on exactly the same day as it was given to the hon. Member for Newport, East (Mr. Hughes). So much for private information and consultation with Government. That proposition has been put forward by Trafalgar House for its own reasons without any discussion with Government. It will have to stand the test —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not read the reports by Her Majesty's Inspectorate. Since 1979, its reports have successively pointed to a serious state of affairs. Her Majesty's Inspectorate is not politically inspired. Its reports point to a disgraceful situation that has developed during the right hon. Gentleman's term of office. The right hon. Gentleman should be ashamed of his education record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.620.5", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": " are from the United States and Canada, 58 from Europe and most of the remainder from Japan. That shows that the Welsh scene and economy are not unreceptive to new ideas, and that Wales is attractive to companies from overseas. I am sustained in my hopefulness not only by the speech of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State but by the forecasts of independent bodies, including the CBI Wales.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.620.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "occasions about the prospects for the future. He painted on a large canvas. I was reminded by what the hon. Gentleman said about America—that perhaps we did not have enough failures — of what a delegate said to me at the National Farmers Union conference : \"How do you make a small fortune from agriculture? Start with a large fortune.\" I fear that that describes the future for much of agriculture.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Raffan", "preceding_text": "per cent. of them full-time male jobs and 86 per cent. of them in a wide range of manufacturing activity. I wish that the Opposition would applaud this. They are always asking for more jobs in manufacturing. Why are they so silent? I do not expect you to intervene, Mr. Speaker, because even in the face of this good news you must restrain yourself, but surely the Opposition can applaud good news. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "The answer is clear. The hon. Gentleman knows that that idea is flirted with by politicians from time to time. It has been flirted with by Mr. William Rodgers, who is now in the Social Democratic party, by the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Fowler) three years ago, and now by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Milk and Dairy Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I need to be careful here, because the hon. Gentleman's question is straying a long, long way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Milk and Dairy Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " to be careful here, because the hon. Gentleman's question is straying a long, long way—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] My answer is that the public and the farmers know that the only time that the rating of agricultural land has come before this House has been as a proposal from a Conservative Member. When that proposal was defeated it is on the record that it was Liberal Members who led the opposition", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.682.7", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Milk and Dairy Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "n result ultimately in the termination of the contract. In present circumstances, the programme of visits, which costs £2·2 million per year, may no longer be necessary. I should be interested to know the Minister's view on that aspect. The effects of the problem are very grave. I have received a letter from a small tenant farmer in Surrey, and I shall read it out because it shows clearly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.682.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-02", "file": "debates1987-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "141708340674e33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.691.4", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Milk and Dairy Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": " do not have the net income left it is foolish to say that they can recover part of the costs of those charges. That is the sort of false argument that only foolish people advance. The thing to do with this order is to take it away and burn it. When something is obviously wrong a Minister with guts and a brain takes it away and burns it. Only a Minister who lacks either or both persists with it. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-02a.691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "In fact, as my hon. Friend has suggested, they bear favourable comparison. One of the problems that we have identified is that the apprenticeships, which all hon. Members have come to know over a number of years, are perhaps outmoded and not as appropriate in the 1980s as they were in the 1960s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.717.9", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend have plans to extend the local enterprise agency grants scheme, operating during the past year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.717.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.717.9", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend have plans to extend the local enterprise agency grants scheme, operating during the past year — [HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Does my hon. Friend propose to extend the LEAG scheme to embrace larger and perhaps more successful local enterprise agencies, such as the Medway enterprise agency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.717.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. An agreement on intermediate range nuclear weapons was singled out for progress when I met President Reagan last November. It is a useful step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, the right hon. Gentleman would abolish all our nuclear weapons and leave the Soviet Union with all of theirs, and then he actually complains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Yes, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.4", "colnum": "725", "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 would have heard, had he listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.11", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Could anything be more absurd than lessons in arms control and nuclear negotiations from the leader of the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.12", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We often hear things in this Chamber that we do not agree with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.13", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.725.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.726.7", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "It was a fact that was denied last July by Baroness Young, the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Is it not a fact that the only way in which we will break this sinister and undemocratic link between this Government and the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.726.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "In view of the magnificent and resounding SDP-Liberal alliance triumph in the Greenwich by-election last week, will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to congratulate and welcome an excellent new Member of Parliament for the constituency? Will she have a wee word with her party chairman, whose advice to the electorate is clearly as discredited as that of the leader of the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "dvisory Service. Can the Home Secretary answer my questions? What, in future, will be the position of bona fide refugees without visas who arrive in this country under his newly announced legislation? Is he aware, for example, that if someone such as Mr. Shcharansky arrived as a refugee from Russia without a visa, the airline carrying him would be fined under the legislation that he has announced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "e are people to get out of countries? Are they supposed to come in rowing boats? What on earth does the Home Secretary think is going on if he believes that people under oppression are able somehow to get out of countries without using means of transport? Is the Home Secretary claiming that there are to be no means of appeal whatever and that there is no interview other than that by his own staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to protect the rest of today's business, and as there are two other statements after this, I shall allow questions on this to go for a further 10 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "o find out the real position in Jaffna, the north and east of Sri Lanka? Does he realise that one of the families of economic refugees fled because their three-year-old daughter was shot dead? Does he realise that other families fled because their homes were bombed in the villages where they lived? Does he realise that they have relatives in Coventry and elsewhere, which enables them to come here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Diabetics (Needles) and NHS Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I thought, Mr. Speaker, that I would have to strip off like the Tamils at Heathrow to be noticed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Diabetics (Needles) and NHS Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I thought, Mr. Speaker, that I would have to strip off like the Tamils at Heathrow to be noticed. [Interruption.] The Minister is considered by Conservative Members and by millions of other people to be one of the most caring —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.5", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Diabetics (Needles) and NHS Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.7", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Diabetics (Needles) and NHS Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "of other people as perhaps one of the most honest, courageous and caring Ministers. His decision to provide free disposable syringes and needles to diabetics is warmly to be welcomed, although such a move is only just, bearing in mind that we provide free replacement needles to drug addicts. Diabetics deserve consideration and sympathy more than drug addicts do. Will he highlight to the people of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.755.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to come back on this point. The direct answer to the questions is that in government we would review the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "ss. In some areas, local authorities are virtually monopoly suppliers and their provision of housing has some of the worst characteristics of old monopolies. There is restricted access to rented housing and little choice. Tenants get a low standard of service and poor value for money. That is not true of all authorities, of course. Some manage their housing effectively and I pay a tribute to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I am answering the question. If housing is built by one of the private bodies that I have listed, that body should take its share of the risk. We do not want to socialise private enterprise. Without the risk factor, it would become corrupt, and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not wish that to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": " its conventional services but has introduced new areas of activity. For instance, contrary to the rhetoric in the House, the Government pursue a fairly interventionist policy towards industry. But it is not sufficiently interventionist for the Wolverhampton council. Since 1979, it has engaged in its own forms of industrial support. It has also extended its activities by support for ethnic groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is an Assembly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": "y by making special payments to protect them in the cold weather spell undoubtedly saved many lives in that area. I also mention that the leader of the Wolverhampton council, Mr. John Bird, will be our Euro-candidate in the European elections. I realise that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West will find it impossible to utter the words \"European Parliament\" with his reactionary attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "At the time that I made the speech on 4 February, it was the Government's intention to bring forward the Bill as proposed in the Gracious Speech. What changed was the realisation that it would take at least a month, beyond February, to bring the Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfortunately?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I will come to Ealing in a moment. Unfortunately, Wolverhampton did not comply with the requirements set down by my right hon. Friend for rate capping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": "lose approximately £300 million to £400 million, which equates to a 4p or 5p rate increase for all the authorities. No wonder that Jack Layden, chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, said today: Less than a week after the Courts have found Nicholas Ridley guilty of robbing Greenwich of £4m, he is preparing to push a Bill through Parliament to rob local government of up to £400m\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "One has to say that, because local government finance is complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-03", "file": "debates1987-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f9a8c31f9690a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "mplicated. [Interruption.] At least we have unanimity on that. I think that it is unfair to say that the Secretary of State robbed Greenwich of £4 million. The allowance of money on the abolition of the Greater London Council was dependent upon who maintained certain roles. A wrong decision was made as to where the money should go, not by the Secretary of State, but by the staff and one authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-03a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.860.9", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "d that will be the equivalent of the rate income. If the local authority is more careful about its expenditure, the amount that is levied will be less. By spreading this cost more widely many people, including the old-age pensioner and the one-parent family — about whom we have \"bleeding hearts\" stories from Opposition Members all the time—will be better off than they are under the present system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.860.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.877.13", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "l position where we can ask the House to pause and consider whether something of the kind that we are suggesting would not be sensible. The Government may object and say \"Well, after all, there is an election coming up.\" It may be that this whole debate will be academic because, clearly, there is every possibility that this Government will lose office and will be swept away at the coming election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.877.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.877.13", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "nd say \"Well, after all, there is an election coming up.\" It may be that this whole debate will be academic because, clearly, there is every possibility that this Government will lose office and will be swept away at the coming election. [Interruption.] I shall not make a great point of that. I am merely saying that that is a possibility. None of us know what will happen. We have our own feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.877.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "mpletely open mind on the subject. He might believe that COSLA is not parti pris and that it would be prepared to look at this question entirely objectively. I have no doubt that Councillor Fagan would say that he would be prepared to put aside all past ideas, prejudices and political affiliation and examine the matter with the total independence that one would expect from a boundaries commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "ices in Fife. It is preposterous to say that some people notionally benefit from services but do not pay, and that we should try to alter boundaries to overcome that difficulty. If the Secretary of State is as sure of his ground as he suggested, there would be no harm and much good in embarking cautiously on a period of experiment, using one region or district to analyse the effects of the change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "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": "important issue of accountability which, whether applicable to a particular district or the whole of Scotland, has been brought out so well by my right hon. Friend. In the same way, the importance of this to Scotland and the reason why we do not want to have any attachment to a district experiment is that the Labour party intends to rate agricultural land and buildings, which are presently exempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The Minister now says full rates. I shall deal with the matter bit by bit. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) referred to an answer from the Minister which stated that 49 per cent. of people were liable to pay rates and that another 30 per cent. were the spouses of those who pay rates. That makes 79 per cent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "n (Mr. Home Robertson) said that about 16,000 people in the services in Scotland are affected by the legislation. If the hon. Gentleman had ever attempted to study what goes on in the services, he would know that they are accustomed to local compensation being provided wherever people are posted. It used to be called the local overseas allowance and other names, depending on where the posting was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I should not wish to pre-judge that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "domestic rating system in Scotland. For far too long, businesses have had to put up with the sudden, sharp and often unexpected increases which take place from year to year in their rates demands. Profligate and spendthrift local authorities have been able to make unreasonable impositions on their business communities with complete impunity because business does not have a vote in local elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.959.2", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "As this is a debate on sport, I am sure that all hon. Members, particularly Scottish Members, will be delighted to know that Dundee United is beating Barcelona 1–0—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I explained earlier the way in which the system will operate, that each autumn the rating authorities will be asked for details of commitments made for the following year to give relief to sports clubs. Since such relief can be terminated only from the end of a financial year and after 12 months' notice, there will be no risk of any authority taking grant and not giving relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.964.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The position is simple. When each year Government decide on the aggregate of rate support grant, they will take into account all the circumstances and they will have to include—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.965.4", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It will not be done by means of a specific grant. It will be done through the needs element next year. With regard to the new system, it will be done under clause 25.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "I listened with interest to the intervention of the hon. Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Henderson). He is concerned about the students of St. Andrews university. We all share his concern. However, if the hon. Gentleman was truly concerned about those students, he ought to have asked his Government to sort out the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ing second homes even worse than it is now. The disparity between people's income, the size of their properties and what they would have been asked for bears no relation to their ability to pay. Balmoral would have been classified as a holiday home. If the hon. Gentleman's amendment had been accepted by the Minister, the Queen would have paid the very princely sum of £160 a year for that property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "s system, the Queen would pay £160 and every individual who lives there would pay his own personal community charge. The fact is that there is no differential in the standard community charge. Like the personal community charge, there is no differentiation in terms of people's ability to pay, the size of their property or whatever. Along with the rest of this tawdry Bill, it is something that is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-04", "file": "debates1987-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a9b5384df914fcd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "r whatever. Along with the rest of this tawdry Bill, it is something that is — [Interruption.] The Minister says that I am admitting that I am wrong. I am not admitting that I am wrong. What I am saying is absolutely right. Balmoral is a holiday home and so is the tiniest flat in Millport. The amendment would reduce further people's contribution towards local authorities in terms of second homes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-04a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1017.7", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, several times in the Minister of State's replies he referred to Tamils at Heathrow. The question arises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1017.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1019.5", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has failed to notice that the question is about violent crime. He will be glad to hear because he does not seem to know —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1019.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1023.10", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find time during her busy schedule today to consider the news that at least three Labour-controlled borough councils are planning to increase their rates by 50 per cent.? Does my right hon. Friend agree with me that this will provide a substantial burden —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1023.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Government have spent a total of £2,000 million more in real terms on the Army than if expenditure had been left at its 1978–79 level. We are carrying out a massive re-equipment programme for the Army, including main new battle tanks, new armoured personnel carriers, new artillery, defence missiles and new communications equipment. Furthermore, the Government have also implemented in full —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "n which he says that vehicles breaking down cannot be replaced, that the efficiency of the finest volunteer fighting force in NATO is being impaired and that vehicles purchased in the 1960s will still be being used at the turn of the century? Instead of giving the Army nothing but her excuses to fight with, will the Prime Minister send a message to Lord Morpeth saying — \"Hang on. Labour's coming\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " that point are further known. On the request for a debate on homelessness, to which I am sure the right hon. Gentleman would add the consideration of the more effective use of the national housing stock, I am certain that that is a debate which could take place in this Chamber as a preliminary to the wider debate that we all anticipate with such good nature and zeal later this year or early next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1054.3", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "e directly to the district. They pay to the regional levying authority. The Government admit that for the regions to establish machinery to collect the personal community charge will be much more expensive than the collection of rates. The Minister is shaking his head. I have never heard any denial that this process will be a much more expensive procedure to establish than the collection of rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be patronising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "preceding_text": "ities, which are the levying authorities? They would obviously consult district authorities if that was thought to be desirable. Why not leave to those bodies the decision on the best way of levying and collecting this tax. I hope the Minister has read the submission. The worst aspect of dealing with two Ministers is that we are never sure who is dealing with it or who has done all the homework. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "preceding_text": " tax with a different purpose. It will be levied on more people directly and individually. Therefore, this seems a good opportunity to make a clean break. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) has referred to the electricity boards. I am just guessing, but I do not suppose that there is a single house in Scotland that does not have electricity and an electricity bill to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "ed to include any provision in the Bill on that point. Arguments were put forward in Committee that there should be a firmer provision requiring an authority to recover outstanding community charges, but as I said at the time, the effect would be either declamatory—I am not keen on seeing declamatory provisions in legislation and I doubt whether many others are—or it would impose an absolute duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 24", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "This Bill is guillotined and I am determined to continue with my speech in my own way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 24", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": " concerned. The important words \"closely comparable\", which appeared in the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981, are now to be removed. The Government are completely indifferent to public opinion in Scotland. They are dismantling our economy and devaluing our democratic institutions. Even the so-called Tory moderates have a remarkably cavalier attitude towards Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 24", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"Where is her?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) started his speech by referring to issues to which the Labour party and the Government are committed. It became clear that all that he is committed to is the continuing production of hot air. When asked a simple question by my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire, West (Mr. McLoughlin)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "s a major distinction between the two sets of proposals that were before the House last night. In overall terms, the Secretary of State said in an answer to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar): When each year Government decide on the aggregate of rate support grant, they will take into account all the circumstances and they will have to include— Unfortunately, the record reports an", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "s of their husbands or wives, but even taking that into account we are still left with a substantial minority of the electorate who make no contribution. That is not because of their level of income their status in any general sense or because they are less in receipt of benefits or services from the local authority. Some may be wealthy, some may be of moderate wealth, some may be relatively poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Secretary of State is getting bored.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ax or through income tax or through both. That is a factor that the Opposition have not begun to answer at any stage in this debate, nor have their proposals for reform of the system in any way dealt with that fundamental point. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadeen (Mr. Dewar) who at least does not interrupt with the same boring regularity as the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1107.6", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is indeed relevant to the Bill. The other major area which is central to the debate is the question of ability to pay. The Opposition have sought to imply on various occasions that somehow the proposals before the House will lead to unacceptable and unreasonable hardship for the average person in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1107.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1107.6", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "vant to the Bill. The other major area which is central to the debate is the question of ability to pay. The Opposition have sought to imply on various occasions that somehow the proposals before the House will lead to unacceptable and unreasonable hardship for the average person in Scotland. [Interruption.] We are now told that they will not lead to any problems for the average person in Scotland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1107.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1107.6", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "le hardship for the average person in Scotland. [Interruption.] We are now told that they will not lead to any problems for the average person in Scotland [Interruption.] It looks as though we are making progress at this late stage. It seems that the hon. Member for Cathcart does not wish to argue that the average person in Scotland will be worse off as a result of these proposals. I am prepared —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1107.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State saying that nobody will be worse off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ot the occupier of a rateable property. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will be the first to appreciate that point. I commend the Bill to the House in the very sure knowledge that, despite more than 100 hours in Committee, two days on Report and a public debate that has gone on much longer than that, and quite apart from the outcome of the votes, it is a well-recognised fact throughout Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I understand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " been on, I genuinely believe that to imply that accountability demands that those who are the most disadvantaged in our society should pay 20 per cent. of their local taxation bill is a perversion of any argument of humanity or equity in British politics. I am very sorry indeed that this form of argument should have been put forward. All that I can say to the Secretary of State is that we shall —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "ave been imposed upon them by regional councils, such as Lothian and Strathclyde. The hon. Member for Garscadden made a considerable point about equity, but my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State dealt with that in his opening speech. It is worth emphasising that the bulk of local authority expenditure will be covered not by the community charge, but by the non-domestic ratepayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": " a considerable point about equity, but my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State dealt with that in his opening speech. It is worth emphasising that the bulk of local authority expenditure will be covered not by the community charge, but by the non-domestic ratepayer— [Interruption.] —or through the national Exchequer. Any Government are therefore able to set out a taxation system —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1117.6", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I am glad that not only you, Mr. Speaker, but Opposition Members are so anxious to hear me. I am delighted at that. It may be helpful if I tell Opposition Members that I want to be as brief as I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1117.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "If I am out next time, I can confidently say that a Labour person will not put me out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "mes will be taken into account. The impression has been given that there will be no rebates. Of course there will be rebates—that is provided for in the Bill—and of course account has been taken of the fact that individuals have different circumstances. I am prepared to stand on any public platform and defend the reason why 20 per cent. should be paid by all those who are adults and making use of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I can remember when greater numbers turned out to vote in Dundee than do today, so do not tell me that there has not been a loss of interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I can remember when greater numbers turned out to vote in Dundee than do today, so do not tell me that there has not been a loss of interest. [Interruption.] There has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I can remember when greater numbers turned out to vote in Dundee than do today, so do not tell me that there has not been a loss of interest. [Interruption.] There has been. [Interruption.] There have been reductions in the numbers of voters and the reason is that people cannot relate what goes on at local level to what they want done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.6", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "No. No one can accuse me of not wishing to participate in matters of all kinds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1121.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1122.4", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "e years before I came to this House I had the opportunity of being in local government as a member of the Edinburgh corporation—where I served not alongside but opposite the Secretary of State for Scotland—and subsequently on the Lothian regional council. Unlike some Conservative Members, particularly the hon. Member for Tayside, North, I have some experience of local government and its pressures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1122.6", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "g at the pressure put on him from the ratepayers of Troon, and his fear of losing his seat. He still faces that danger, and I do not expect him to be the Member for Ayr after the election. The second pressure, the second parent of the Bill, was the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth), who was considered by most of his hon. Friends as somewhat eccentric in putting forward the idea of a poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1122.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I do not feel able in the time allowed to me to respond to some of the points about doubtful parentage. There are six good reasons for supporting the Bill. The first is because, apparently, the Tory Reform Group is opposed to it. The second is that throughout the passage of the Bill the Labour party has singularly failed to make any case against it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": " but when he grasps a principle it crumbles and is destroyed in his own hands. Conservative Members assert that this poll tax will make local government more responsible. Every penny that we get in this House comes from the transfer of taxes. The burden of tax is not on us, but does that make us irresponsible? Does it make us irresponsible because the burden of taxation is, in practice, not on us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "axes to pay us. The Secretary of State does not understand that. It is a little beyond him at this time of night. We get paid because other people pay taxes. We are extremely responsible in terms of the political process. Teachers are paid out of the transfer of taxation. What we are trying to obtain here, in the overall balance of taxation, is an equitable and fair system. Other people pay taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "erall balance of taxation, is an equitable and fair system. Other people pay taxes— [Interruption.] I do not want to lecture the Secretary of State on economics. It is difficult, because he is a lawyer and he does not understand economic matters. Taxes are levied on us, but we pass them on, because we do not pay them. This is part of the problem in local government. What is happening with this tax", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-05", "file": "debates1987-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5f0cb939748b0c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "is a good thing. I have challenged the Secretary of State to come to Dunfermline and debate not just this measure but the whole orbit of Government policy as it affects Fife. I have asked him to see whether he can persuade people there to support the measure. There is no bedrock of public opinion that desires this iniquitous and inequitable measure. The Secretary of State has proposed the measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-05a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-06", "file": "debates1987-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "69fd9c68b2897139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Inner City Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rosie Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rosie Barnes", "preceding_text": "me the opportunity to make my maiden speech on a matter that is very dear to my heart. First, I should like to pay sincere tribute to the former hon. Member for Greenwich, the late Guy Barnett. He was known and respected in Greenwich as a sincere, hardworking and caring Member of Parliament. I am sure that all hon. Members would like to join me in extending deepest sympathy to his wife and family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-06", "file": "debates1987-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "69fd9c68b2897139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Inner City Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "preceding_text": "ch we in the Labour party particularly appreciate, as will his family. Certainly if she shows the same dedication, loyalty and hard work as was shown by Guy Barnett, she will represent her constituents extremely well. Talking of dedication and hard work, I notice that the few hon. Members in the Chamber today for the debate who are from non-London constituencies all come from the north of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-06", "file": "debates1987-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "69fd9c68b2897139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Inner City Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "preceding_text": "I take my hon. Friend's point. Indeed, Gateshead council is attempting to resolve its great problems in education. Unfortunately, it is being held up by the parochial views of one or two parents, which we hope will shortly be sorted out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1161.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-06", "file": "debates1987-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "69fd9c68b2897139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Inner City Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "that inner city enterprises range from the big, high-quality stores, such as Marks and Spencer, which provide many jobs, to the single manufacturer. We must avoid the antagonism which sometimes unintentionally occurs between local authorities and the private sector and which is fostered by silly remarks made about some of our inner city boroughs. The Tories must stop frightening business men away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-06a.1186.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will understand that I cannot comment on the last part of his supplementary question. As for the first part, I shall pass his remarks to the chairman of British Coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.7.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "Our sole interest must be to get the best people for the Civil Service. [Interruption.] We have a fair and open system, based on merit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Subtle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "preceding_text": "arheads to be dismantled or destroyed as a result of the zero solution than there are NATO systems. This would be the first time in the history of arms control that brand-new, effective and sophisticated nuclear weapons were destroyed as a result of an agreement. That is extremely significant. The Government's position on the zero option has undergone some subtle change since the Reykjavik summit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.28.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "s and reject their policy. The fact is that he did not accept the Liberal assembly decision. It is about time that it was accepted that there is some honour in this House. The right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel) has consistently held the view that we should support the dual track decision. The policy of the alliance, as distinct from the policy of the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.79.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "g the regional policies of the Labour Government. Since then new ideas on regional policy and local employment have come from the present Government. It will be a pity if our entire discussion about regional employment turns on the simple issue of the level of regional grants and where the map is drawn, giving various areas assisted area status. We had a touch of it in the hon. Gentleman's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "for \"Still Divided on Polaris\", and perhaps that is true, but I am reliably informed that it now means the \"Southwardly-Drifting Party\", and that is how it looks to many of us in the north. We welcome the alliance's new-found enthusiasm for addressing the problems of the region. Although we are delighted to have it as a convert to our cause, I think that I should direct the attention of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.95.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Scandalous -", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "that is not the case at all. We need analysis before we can come to a solution. The major economic problems are in London, in our capital city. Six of the 14 constituencies with the highest levels of unemployment arc in London-Bethnal Green, Hackney, South and North, Peckham, Bermondsey and Vauxhall. The average in those constituencies is that a third of the men are unemployed and drawing benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.109.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-09", "file": "debates1987-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "6c991d2d8e878b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.113.3", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"In the south-east?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "n decisions and that they better know what they can do in their own areas, if they are given the backing, resources and freedom to make their own decisions. That is something that the big brothers in the Labour and Conservative parties will not allow them to do. We propose the establishment of regional development agencies to make the decisions that are at present being made by central Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-09a.113.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr McNamara", "preceding_text": "uents crew these ferries. There are 81 people still on board and many are still unidentified. Was not that joke even sicker and even more insensitive than the one that appeared in Conservative Newsline this week insulting the blind? Now that the Secretary of State for the Environment, himself a former Minister of Transport, has apologised, saying that those remarks were inappropriate, inopportune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.146.7", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the revised balance of payments figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.146.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Last year, exports were at a record level in volume terms despite the reduction in oil exports. There was an improvement of more than £2 billion in invisible surplus between 1985 and 1986. The right hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that that minus £1·1 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind that the right hon. Gentleman speaks for a party which, when in Government had an overall deficit of £5 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.147.6", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the vast majority of people in this country and in western Europe believe that our security is safe in her hands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Prime Minister's Question Time", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There has always been a dispensation for the Leader of the Opposition, and three questions have been the norm in this Parliament rather than two, but nevertheless it is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debtors (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hirst", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the situation is worse than she has described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debtors (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) is not in a position, this week of all weeks, to talk about job security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debtors (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " who live in constituencies such as mine. I have given fair notice to the Solicitor-General that that point, as well as other points, will be pursued in Committee. A number of points have been made by hon. Members. The Solicitor-General cannot be expected to reply to all of them tonight, although no doubt he will respond. I look forward to the Committee proceedings and the constructive discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-10", "file": "debates1987-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "408364e6cd604b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Public Order (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "ncerned about the fact that there is no limit on the categories of procession which may be the subject of conditions imposed by the police or of prohibition by the Secretary of State. There is power to prohibit a school crocodile or a funeral procession. It is only for the purpose of the provisions about the giving of notice that there is any limitation on the categories of procession in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-10a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.281.8", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that for every £4 of public expenditure south of the borders about £5 is spent north of the border?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.281.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Solicitor-General a question of which I gave the Crown Office notice on Monday, to which I hope that there will be a considered reply? By what statutory provision or principle of the common law does he assert that the sheriff has legal authority to grant a warrant that Parliament specifically stated should be granted by someone else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.297.8", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis S kinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis S kinner", "preceding_text": " to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I know that you have already said that what goes on in the Tea Room or anywhere else is not really a matter for you, but you have claimed to be a fair man and we have heard the reports from Conservative Members. Iris e in the into rests of party balance. I happened to hear the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark) on the radio the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.297.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "That is right. —preaching to him and to other Tory Members about almost everything else under the sun. He said, \"I am fed up to the back teeth with her telling me who I have got to take on holiday. I am fed up to the back teeth with her telling us about not smoking when she can't control her husband.\" Then he went on to attack the Prime Minister. That is an even better story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.298.5", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": " Speaker, we have a divided Opposition. We know that the Labour party is poised on a precipice of terminal decline. We are not quite sure as to the potential fortunes of the Liberal party and the Social Democratic party. Surely in these circumstances and with a split Opposition, it is sufficient for one opposition party to put the Opposition case and then for a Minister to put the Government case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Coal Mining Subsidence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to change the system of compensation for coal mining subsidence. Mr. Speaker, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Coal Mining Subsidence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": " bogus points of order that were raised not many moments ago. As a lad, in 1944, I started work at the pit. At that time, the workings of the pit were very old fashioned and there was not much mechanisation then. Advances were made in the removal of coal from the coalface. However, the old-fashioned system was good in respect of mining subsidence. Former colliers who serve in the House understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "n into the enterprise zone. Was that a proper use of taxpayers' money? Was it right to hand over £5 million to Murdoch, who has made £50 million out of The Sun and invested it in Hollywood films? Was it right to hand over taxpayers' money to Murdoch to slag off the Government with the News of the World publication about Peter Archer and Victoria station? It is bizarre, but it was taxpayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "urs in the new privatised mining world. What else would ensue? More people would be on the dole, and more youngsters on tin-pot youth training and other Thatcher-devised slave labour schemes. In addition, more South African coal would pour into the country to service hospitals. Indeed, some South African coal is already going into Nottinghamshire and depriving Nottinghamshire miners of their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "want to tell the House about that in his own time. I move on, because I know that some hon. Members have not had a chance to speak yet who wish to do so. I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Havant and his Committee on producing an excellent report which, in my view, ranks alongside the 1983 Monopolies and Mergers Commission report as one of the great works on the coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "preceding_text": "cond point relates to something that has not been picked up significantly so far in the debate—new jobs. British Coal Enterprise Ltd. was set up to achieve various specific objectives within the coal community. Where there have been closures it was important that funds should be available to assist and help in the creation of alternative employment. There are different problems in different areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": " UDM rejected British Coal's wage offer and British Coal has produced a special issue of Coal News asking the members to vote against the union. It says that £10 a week is fair to everyone. We are entitled to ask hon. Gentlemen who have been so articulate—I do not quarrel with their articulateness—in defending the UDM, \"Whose side are you on? Are you on the side of the membership or British Coal?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the Committee divided on certain portions with certain majorities in control at certain times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.340.7", "colnum": "340", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "se advocates of so-called 'new realism'. Their alternative policy apparently is the kind of thing that's taken place in Wales, it's to collaborate, it's to accept, it's to cooperate with the employer or the Government. Well, I wasn't elected President of this Union to do any of those things. That is one of the most disgraceful things that I have heard from Arthur Scargill— and that says something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.340.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "eir recent quality and productivity improvements, exports to the continent of 50,000 vehicles a year could begin in the early 1990s, with a gain of around 1,000 jobs. The success of Jaguar is a splendid example of the change in the fortunes of the motor industry. I have noticed that one or two Opposition Members try to ignore Jaguar, for it provides incontrovertible proof that privatisation works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "see the production costs for every Austin Rover model, showing that the cost of the Metro—which gives Austin Rover almost 40 per cent, of its sales— was £100 higher than the Ford Fiesta, giving Ford the edge in last summer's discount war. Ford was able to push discounting to the point where Austin Rover would have had to sell the Metro at a loss. Jean Denton, who was Director of External Affairs\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": " how important that area is. I could accuse the Opposition— particularly in view of the vast numbers who are present tonight—of being a little two faced. I heard an Opposition Front Bencher say, \"Could be better, this deal, but I am not complaining.\" He would not admit that publicly, but he said it privately. I have a great deal of respect for the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "military contracts. Apart from ERF, no indigenous lorry company is manufacturing in Britain. Where does that leave us? Conservative Members are always patriotic, or so they tell us, but where does that leave us in relation to defence contracts? At the moment, Freight Rover buys in power trains from other Rover Group companies. How will the component sourcing policy be affected? Will that continue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.411.11", "colnum": "411", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There has been one overriding urgency in dealing with the Bill—the need to have a rate support grant report approved by the House and in place before the start of the new financial year so that we can pay grant to local authorities. That urgency remains, and we shall not slacken pace at the 11 th hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.411.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.411.11", "colnum": "411", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rrected by hon. Members—at the 11 th hour and the 30th minute. The Bill has been thoroughly debated. To date, we have had over 47 hours of debate, including 2½ hours on points of order and a procedural motion. We have covered 120 amendments on the Floor of the House. Another place has considered over 100 amendments. That is a substantial expenditure of parliamentary time. During the debates", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.411.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is extraordinary at all. Is that not the effect of clause 2(5)?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is extraordinary at all. Is that not the effect of clause 2(5)?— [Interruption.] The point is that the Bill already provides what the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) is suggesting that the amendment adds to the Bill. Clause 2(5) already provides an overriding power.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is more confused than ever.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "years my mother was a headmistress of a nursery school in a deprived part of Newham. No one can say that at any stage of its existence Newham has been a profligate authority— to use the standard term of abuse. In comparison with adjoining authorities of different political complexions Newham has had a reputation for economy to say the very least. On many occasions I went to see my mother's school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.433.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am almost at a loss for words after hearing the Minister parodying the position of Greenwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Of course, it is true that almost every decision that Ministers make on rate support grant is an error and has to be changed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "port grant is an error and has to be changed.— [Interruption.] I have thick files on the Bromley error. I corresponded with the Minister's predecessor but two on that errror, as his own private office files will show. It is not our fault that Ministers or the Department make errors and then bring forward legislation such as the Rate Support Grants Act 1986, which sets all those errors in concrete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-11", "file": "debates1987-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e50f1999b30274be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "en over-gracious this evening and we began to wonder whether we should vote against the amendment. I shall put that gently on the record. When one does something to try honestly to help somebody else, both sides should accept that. The hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) referred to the Greenwich judgment. An electoral judgment was made in Greenwich as well as the one we are discussing tonight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-11a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e same time, there must be provision for follow-on negotiations to deal further with those systems and to rectify the imbalance in shorter-range systems, comprising shorter range INF and SNF with a range of less than 500 kilometres. We also need to tackle the conventional imbalance: as nuclear weapons are reduced, measures to deal with disparities in conventional forces become even more important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the outrage felt throughout the northern region over the switch by the BBC of the transmission of programmes for Cumbria from Newcastle to Manchester? Is the Prime Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.462.6", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The BBC insists on this decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.462.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "at case has now gone down the drain in stark contrast to the way in which today the Law Lords have made a decision about 47 councillors in Liverpool and Lambeth, who have been surcharged to the tune of less than £250,000? Is there not something wrong with the system of law in Britain and freedom under it when these people in the City, these crooks, these swindlers, these friends of the Tory party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The impact on Cumbria and on Sellafield is very considerable. It is interesting to note that locally the Labour party has one policy but nationally it has another. The Labour party's policy decision to stop processing nuclear fuels from abroad, which is the main reason for the financing of the development there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ar power stations were not built coal-fired power stations would be needed to provide energy and that at least an equivalent number of jobs would therefore be needed to provide that energy? Is it not curious that the Secretary of State should say that the Opposition ought to provide estimates of the cost of future coal-fired power stations when he cannot provide estimates for the cost of Sizewell?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.489.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is alive.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "e Government, the Arts Council is now moving towards indicative figures for three-year funding for at least some of its clients, who will therefore be able to make long-term plans on a sounder basis. The hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher) has recently become the Opposition arts spokesman, following the sad demise of his predecessor the hon. Member for Paisley, South (Mr. Buchan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": " countries and praised his own Department for its leanness and smallness. In fact, comparable countries spend far more on the arts. Italy spends the equivalent of £274 million on subsidised arts. West Germany spends £15·77 per person per year. Sweden spent £24·82 per person in 1980–81. The equivalent figures in this country are £7·20 for England, £6·90 for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "or its leanness and smallness. In fact, comparable countries spend far more on the arts. Italy spends the equivalent of £274 million on subsidised arts. West Germany spends £15·77 per person per year. Sweden spent £24·82 per person in 1980–81. The equivalent figures in this country are £7·20 for England, £6·90 for Wales— [Interruption.] Those are the PSI figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "he rebuilding and redevelopment programme of the Garden takes place. I should mention too, because there are Welshmen somewhere in the House I hope—of course there are, the Secretary of State for Wales is present—the great Sir Geraint Evans, who is one of our greatest opera stars. I shall mention, last but not least, a great opera singer who celebrated her 95th birthday this week, Dame Eva Turner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.526.4", "colnum": "526", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "which the arts are so fundamental. The expression of news, popular opinions and ideas is undertaken by the press, which is owned by three people. It is a frightening monopoly. If that happened in any other part of our industry or economy, it would immediately face the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Five people control the dissemination of popular news in this country—Stevens, Maxwell, Murdoch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.526.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "p. It has been argued by the Minister that sponsorship means additional money coming to the arts. It is only over the last two or three years that the money for the arts has been cut in real terms. That has taken place at the same time as there has been an increase in sponsorship. Sponsorship is seen not as an additional source of funding for the arts but as a substitute for proper public funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " as there is in the press. In his report, Professor Peacock said precisely that. He gave the example of the free press which has developed in Britain since 1694. He proposed that that should happen also to television and broadcasting. But the free press that existed for almost 300 years has degenerated into a monopoly of three people. If that is to be the model, the same will happen to television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-12", "file": "debates1987-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "61bebfba766b003b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Dicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Dicks", "preceding_text": " heard much about the phrase \"the arts\". What is or is not art is a matter for personal choice. If some people want to listen to an overweight Italian singing in his own language, so be it. If people want to waste time watching a man prancing about in a pair of ladies' tights on stage, that is their choice. But do not expect me and the rest of the people in this country to subsidise that choice. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-12a.532.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-16", "file": "debates1987-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "66a5dd8e479d5aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.679.7", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be aware that we try to run the driving test regime in a way that is seen to be safe, fair and honest. It is our intention to keep it that way. We want to see whether it is possible to give customers a better service and to get greater efficiency. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.679.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-16", "file": "debates1987-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "66a5dd8e479d5aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.687.9", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hanged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Has the Solicitor-General seen the recent remarks of Judge Argyle, who last week addressed a meeting and said that those who are found guilty of crimes which result in sentences of more than 15 years should be hung—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.687.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-16", "file": "debates1987-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "66a5dd8e479d5aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Register of Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Interests—responsible in the sense that hon. Members must give what they honestly believe to be the truth and nothing but the truth. The Register is then compiled under your general direction. As a matter of curiosity, I wonder whether there will be an entry for the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins) as a result of the new moonlighting job that he obtained at Oxford on Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.704.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-16", "file": "debates1987-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "66a5dd8e479d5aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration (Carriers' Liability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "a panic reaction. I trust that it was not meant to be a pre-election attempt to play the immigration and race relations card and to demonstrate that the Labour party is not in favour of effective immigration control. As I said during an intervention in the Home Secretary's speech, we all know that, whether in government or opposition, the Labour party is committed to effective immigration control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-16", "file": "debates1987-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "66a5dd8e479d5aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration (Carriers' Liability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "preceding_text": " the Bill to which the Minister did not refer. The latest version of the Bill states \"A.D. 1987.\" The first version of the Bill stated \"A.D. 1985.\" I wonder whether the Bill has been lying in the Home Office for a couple of years and has just now been trotted out. If so, has the misprint been hidden by an attempt to justify the second printing of the Bill? Perhaps I have an unduly suspicious mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-16a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "The responsibility for that rests with local education authorities. However, I am bound to say that my hon. Friend is quite right. In many authorities that claim a high expenditure per pupil a high ratio seems to follow once examination is made of the non-teaching staff. Many local authorities can do more to take out unnecessary non-teaching staff from their payrolls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.798.7", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pipestream?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman cannot have heard that the first college was announced in Solihull only four months after I had announced the concept of city technology colleges. That college was sponsored by two companies, Lucas Industries and Hanson Trust. I can assure the hon. and learned Gentleman that there are several more in the pipestream and I will be announcing them fairly soon", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.798.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "I advise the hon. Gentleman to study a little longer those matters of education for which he is now spokesman. The GCSE will first be taken in 1988. We have made very good provision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "I advise the hon. Gentleman to study a little longer those matters of education for which he is now spokesman. The GCSE will first be taken in 1988. We have made very good provision — [Interruption.] Will hon. Gentlemen listen?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.802.11", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "This year current spending on education is planned to increase by 19 per cent., or £2 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.802.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.808.9", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that, whoever has voted not to come out on strike, three quarters of the teaching profession have voted to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.808.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "h while, most of them, sadly, are only worthy palliatives. When will the right hon. Lady take action to strike at the social and economic roots of crime, to give people, especially women and old people, proper protection and to take up the issue of recruitment in order to remove the administrative burden on the police, including that imposed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 that keeps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us would welcome the conversion of the Leader of the Opposition to the cause of law and order if he now demonstrated that he will persuade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.812.4", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is certainly referring to matters for which I am not, and cannot be, responsible. May I read once again the statement that the then Prime Minister made —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.812.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "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 concerned with something that did not happen in my time and about which the Prime Minister of the day made a clear statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "d will not come into force until the early 1990s. I have to set the 1988–89 car and fuel benefit scales for those with company cars. The car scale charges still fall well short of the true value of the benefit, and, as last year, I propose to increase them by 10 per cent. There will be no change in the fuel scales which, as already announced, will also be used for VAT purposes from 6 April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "for those with company cars. The car scale charges still fall well short of the true value of the benefit, and, as last year, I propose to increase them by 10 per cent. There will be no change in the fuel scales which, as already announced, will also be used for VAT purposes from 6 April. [Interruption.] Training and retraining are vital to a flexible and competitive economy. At present — training", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Felicities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I begin with the usual facilities and congratulate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "riate way. The Chancellor took it upon himself in the Budget to make a drum-banging announcement about the abolition of the Exchange Control Act 1947. I think that that is unlikely to be resisted, as it is a somewhat academic, even otiose, exercise at the present juncture. Indeed, the incoming Labour Government have a much better system for encouraging the return of much needed capital investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "984 were part of the Tory tradition that stretches back through Reggie Maudling; and Heathcoat-Amory to the Chancellorship of the late lamented R. A. Butler, a much respected and endearing man in many ways, but he was also the father of the congenital Conservative practice of making concessions before an election and, if successful in buying votes, taking those concessions back after the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ented the April Budget. I am sure that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, will recall that Budget, as you were active in the engineering business at that time. In 1955 Rab Butler took 9d off the standard rate of income tax and raised tax thresholds. Just three months later, after the election, he introduced special measures. In October he brought in a special emergency Budget to reverse all the tax changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e people who are supposed to concern the Prime Minister very much and who are said to want additional sums net of tax to be able to look after themselves, which is an instinct that I well understand—under this so-called tax-cutting Government has gone up by 10 per cent. To bring their tax burden down to 1979 levels there would have had to be a cut in the standard rate to 23·5p in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Oh, they have changed their minds, have they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": "nt to see dealt with. The Budget also has a few fun items which will be welcome to those who enjoy putting a small bet on the horses. I wonder whether it will also affect the queue of people who appeared in JAK's cartoon in The London Evening Standard yesterday who were putting £5 bets on the Tory party winning the next election. Those of us who saw the cartoon will recognise a few familiar faces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"On-course betting\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": " a small bet on the horses. I wonder whether it will also affect the queue of people who appeared in JAK's cartoon in The London Evening Standard yesterday who were putting £5 bets on the Tory party winning the next election. Those of us who saw the cartoon will recognise a few familiar faces. [Interruption.] As has just been said, the Chancellor's proposals today apply only to off-course betting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.848.3", "colnum": "848", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "y purpose. What has been revealed in one hour's speech on one afternoon is an indication of the Government's priorities, but we knew what they were. They have not changed, which is regrettable, because with the onset of an election and the fact that the Government will have to test their policies, many people outside the Chamber were looking for action on unemployment and action to help the poor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.853.4", "colnum": "853", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Craigen", "preceding_text": "y. One suspects that the situation may be worse at the Treasury than we realise —especially as I look at the Minister of State—because it is the consumer boom that has financed a substantial part of today's handout. That spending boom has given the Treasury revenues that were not expected at the time of last year's Budget. Those unexpected revenues come from extra VAT and corporation tax receipts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": " proud place, and I am proud to be one of its representatives. There are lovely people there, but there is a great deal of poverty and despair there. The housing in Hull is appalling. The hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) knows Kingston upon Hull. He is on the south side of the river. He knows that in Kingston upon Hull people are living in houses with fungus crawling up the walls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": " for young people who cannot find jobs and who have had difficulties in the past. I was told that when an official went to see them and a young man was introduced to him he was described as a lovely young person, but they were told that he is nothing. That young man thinks of himself as nothing. He thinks that he is completely unwanted. That is the kind of people that we have in our society today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "tate intervention, but for years this Government have believed that the answer to this country's ills lies in helping ordinary people to help themselves by building up their own businesses. That is the profound difference between us. I do not say that the hon. Gentleman is insincere in what he says about people, but I wish that he would not say it about me. I am not a young Tory; I am an old Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman is insincere in what he says about people, but I wish that he would not say it about me. I am not a young Tory; I am an old Tory. [Interruption.] I did not hear that. Does the hon. Member for Thurrock (Dr. McDonald) want to intervene? The Chancellor deserves to be congratulated on his Budget. It has taken the Opposition parties by surprise. They cannot find in it very much to attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chose?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "ue. Those bands are already the subject of separate national insurance contribution calculations. Without doubt, all the tax cuts that have been made this year will go a long way to improve work incentives. The right way to widen the gap between the take-home pay earned by someone in a full-time job and the income that that same person could obtain if he chose to live on social security benefits —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-17", "file": "debates1987-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f29251f500b3f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "Of course I am representing a constituency and I shall say so throughout my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-17a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "British Rail Engineering Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "o tender a major order for heavy freight locomotives. Will British Rail Engineering Ltd. take part in that tendering? If so, why is it once again running down capacity? The hon. Member for York (Mr. Gregory) said on local radio this morning that he would be in the House and would raise this matter to defend the interests of his constituents. Why is he not raising it, and why am I doing it for him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "British Rail Engineering Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "between two applicants. The hon. Gentleman said that the explanation that I gave to the House about the reasons for this reduction in jobs would not wash. He cannot deny that when new rolling stock is brought into operation there is immediately no need for old rolling stock to go for heavy maintenance. He cannot deny that new rolling stock requires less maintenance than old rolling stock requires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.928.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " months hence and the Table Office accepts it, under your guidance, that is okay. But in a number of instances, of which this is one, the practice has grown up, especially under this Prime Minister, of using the blocking mechanism to stop very unsavoury matters from being raised on the Floor of the House. I want to ask you, Mr. Speaker, a very important question in the run-up to the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Opposition Budgets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": " is in power, that its obedient servants, following the course of duty meticulously, keep a score sheet of the cost of every Opposition proposal for reducing taxation. Those proposals are in fact a set of alternatives. No Opposition suppose that they will ask for all those reductions to be granted simultaneously— of course not. We know that we will be defeated on one matter, so the following week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "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 coming year in the most positive and clearest way the fruits of the success of our economic policies, prudently and persistently applied. Far from being transient, as the right hon. Gentleman tried to suggest, they are solidly based on good foundations and strong public finances. I repeat straight away to him that the Budget will be sustained. For what we are seeing now is an economic hat trick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I am deliberately including the whole of the 1980s. The position since 1979 is quite simple, as the hon. Gentleman knows, and as we have often said in the House. We faced a worldwide recession during that period, with a heavily disabled and uncompetitive British industry that was over-manned and riddled with restrictive practices. Today all that is much changed. A reinvigorated British industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "thinks. His predictions have been lamentably and persistently wrong. The right hon. Gentleman is not much good with the crystal ball. His balls have a habit of breaking apart in his hands. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor, in his speech to this House on 20 January this year— Hansard c. 775— catalogued the way in which, ever since the last election, the right hon. Gentleman's forecasts of gloom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is no longer your friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "to float ourselves off the domestic shoals but that is not what we are offered. We are offered a drift into deficit without purpose or plan. The Chancellor talked last night about a steady hand on the tiller. That got me a little nervous. It sounded too much like one of the equally nautical but less happy utterances of my right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "der of scientific research I have recently met—I have met rather a lot in the past few weeks—believe that that is happening under our noses. Not only, by any stretch of the imagination, is this no Budget for jobs but it is no Budget for the growing number of the deprived in our society. I do not believe in the almost mechanical egalitarianism of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook, but I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "cent. cut, which was reluctantly admitted, and now today only another 0·5 per cent. cut. That was the amount expected before the Budget was announced with its unusually low PSBR. That 1 per cent. cut in interest rates over the past few days still leaves our real interest rates higher than all our major industrial competitors. The Chancellor's actions reflect his fears. What are those fears?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "ork force of 9 million women, whether in full-time or part-time work, benefit little from the 2p off the standard rate of income tax. It is interesting that in what is supposed to be an election year the Chancellor chooses to ignore the majority of the electorate. He will find that he pays the price for that sooner or later, whenever the Prime Minister summons up the nerve to go to the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "n at work. Over half the electorate have been ignored. Over half the electorate have seen for the past eight years their conditions of work and the possibility of caring for their children or for elderly relatives in the community being made much more difficult for them by the cuts in community care and health services. They have watched the standard of education of their children being destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "oters all the time. At least the Labour party has come clean on this and has made it clear that it is firmly committed to reversing the tax cuts not just in this Budget but in previous Budgets as well. If the right hon. Member for Hillhead and his colleagues, who pride themselves on their courage, really had courage, they would have come clean today and would have spoken frankly to the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-18", "file": "debates1987-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "c7ed827121adf39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Liverpool (Financial Situation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": " influence is far and widespread across the country. Indeed, we are told that Liverpool's present problems resulted from a mere 15 Militant councillors; the rest were non Militants. It is sad that people who were non-Militants should have been carried away like that. Press reports suggest that the Militants are boasting of fielding 30 candidates under the Labour banner at the next local elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-18a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister is genuinely concerned to increase respect for law and order, will she take this opportunity to comment on the activities of her hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mr. Proctor) and his many supporters in the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who is a very perceptive observer of the scene, has seen that the Liberal party and the Social Democratic party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1050.12", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the masonic lodge again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "re is a peculiar stink in the nostrils regarding BET, which has three subsidiaries which were involved in tendering for the latest contract in 1985, giving £25,000 to Tory party funds? It is coming to something when the Government are lining their pockets out of cleaning contracts in the Palace of Westminster itself while Members of Parliament cannot even discover how much the contracts are worth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1050.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Urban Road Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Arrogance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "swer. When I came to the House at 3.30 pm I had still not received it. Is it proper for Ministers to behave in this way towards hon. Members, particularly when it transpires that at this very moment the Minister is in my constituency and adjoining ones making statements to the press and commenting on matters of which hon. Members have no knowledge? Is it proper for Ministers to show such contempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "That is the kind of clever answer that we have come to expect from the Paymaster General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "evy system— one imposed by the Government—construction firms paid £47 million in levy but they got back from the Government £67 million. The taxpayer is carrying the major burden of whatever skill training is taking place, and industry does not pay anywhere near its fair share. In other developed economies industry pays three to five times more than is paid in Britain. That is wholly unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "x, and cut Government borrowing and so ease interest rates downwards— all these things in turn strengthening our economy still further. I specially commend the Chancellor for cutting the standard rate of income tax to 27p in the pound, so increasing take-home pay for the man on average earnings by £3 a week. The shadow Chancellor has committed himself to clawing this back if he ever gets a chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton (Newhain, North-East)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton (Newhain, North-East)", "preceding_text": " entitlement to unemployment benefit\". That is what those people were told. How is that for frighteners to start with? The people conducting the interviews told me that for the first 10 minutes they have to reassure the clients who come along that it is not a punitive exercise. How long do they have for an interview? The Paymaster General told me some months ago that it was an hour, but it is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-19", "file": "debates1987-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "bef9a60cc99e6a2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "preceding_text": "atistics that are irrelevant to the people who are suffering. The letter comes from a person who lives in Whitburn in my constituency. The letter said: Dear Mr. Dixon, Thank you for your help in my problem to obtain a new fire, which I am pleased to say is now settled. Unfortunately I am once again requesting your help in an extremely serious matter with regard to my health. I am 82 years of age\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-19a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-20", "file": "debates1987-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "16abd0f256b3010b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman well knows that his point is a travesty of my remarks. I have enumerated a long list of sensible and practical projects on housing, employment and education that are aimed strategically and not just globally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-20", "file": "debates1987-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "16abd0f256b3010b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "nfusion. It is one thing to break the criminal law—everyone knows that that involves activities of moral turpitude, and the code of criminal law is clear—it is quite another to discover, in the civil sphere of law, that a Government have taken a decision that, subsequently a court, somewhere along the line, says is ultra vires. There is no comparison between those two kinds of unlawful behaviour —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1181.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-20", "file": "debates1987-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "16abd0f256b3010b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1197.8", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " per cent. on police establishment. Lord Edmund-Davies reported that police officers were grossly underpaid and that the police were deserting the force in droves. The fact that the Labour party is seeking to pretend that it is either willing or able to fund an adequate police service is simply to fly in the face of history. I now refer to the very positive action that the Government have adopted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1197.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-20", "file": "debates1987-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "16abd0f256b3010b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Abortions (Monitoring)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mrs. Edwina Currie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mrs. Edwina Currie)", "preceding_text": "n in this country, nearly 100,000 were performed at the gestation age of 12 weeks or less. Therefore, the vast majority are done on pregnancies in the early weeks of the woman's time. The total number of terminations in the first three quarters of 1986 on babies of a gestation period of 25 weeks and over was 19. Therefore, I caution the hon. Gentleman when he talks about 24 weeks or over 24 weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-20a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "'s Budget to include a range of measures, direct and indirect, that are greatly to industry's advantage. My right hon. Friend's decision to devote more than half the scope for fiscal adjustment to a £3 billion reduction in public borrowing was not only financially prudent but will be of great benefit to industry and commerce, and thereby to jobs. The CBI welcomed the Budget as just what it wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "ater, but first, while the Chancellor is here, I think that I should do what my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition does each time he responds to the Chancellor. He congratulates him on the manner of his speech. We all recognise that the right hon. Gentleman's speech was his own—I could detect no trace of any civil servant's injection into it—but that is the limit of my congratulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "rement was running at £7 billion, or 1·75 per cent, of GDP. It will now be reduced to £4 billion, which is only 1 per cent, of GDP. I am sure that Opposition Members will agree that it is fair to say that the Labour Government's borrowing requirement represented just over 9 per cent, of GDP. That forced them to go to the IMF. Their real problem was overspending. We were in an absolute mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "n. Friend's target for the borrowing requirement is zero. If we raise £5 billion from the sale of BP, the current borrowing requirement of £4 billion will be reduced to nearly zero. I know that the hon. Member for Walton does not care for the capital society. However, during the past seven years, with the sale of property to council house tenants, we have created a true property-owning democracy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.59.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way then\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "tivity. That is largely a statistical effect, produced by simply getting rid of the weaker brethren. It is rather like shooting the tailend batsman in an attempt to put up the average—that may not work if one is the captain of the England team. Nevertheless, the principle exists. Let us consider the truth of the matter. I invite any right hon. or hon. Member to give me the answer to this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "of the matter. I invite any right hon. or hon. Member to give me the answer to this question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way then\".] I will give way, but let me put the question first. Can anyone point to any of our rivals — we are told that they are languishing behind us in the productivity league table—who have secured improvements in productivity by reducing manufacturing output? Is there such a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " shall not give way. The hon. Member for Dagenham did not give way, and nor shall I. The right hon. Member for Hillhead owes that victory, in equal measure, to the first-past-the-post electoral system and his seminal address to the students of Oxford university a few years ago. In that address, he said: There has been a lot of talk about the formation of a new centre party…I find this idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " the campaign attitude of the Liberal candidate in Chester-le-Street than to those of Mr. Giles Radice is manifest nonsense. He concluded: Fourth, and more personally, I cannot be indifferent to the political traditions in which I was brought up and in which I have lived my political life. Parties are not to me a religion, but the Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.5", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "e: 'Playing on his fuddled fiddle Somewhere in the muddled middle.' I could not have put it better myself. As for the right hon. Gentleman's contribution to this debate, it was, of course, the same speech as he has made in all our previous economic debates—rather like some fine antique piece of furniture, the polish improving as the utility diminishes. This year's Budget has been warmly welcomed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.5", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "the somewhat inconclusive G5 and G7 meetings at the end of September, I authorised the Bank of England to intervene unusually heavily in order to buy a breathing space that would enable me to confine the interest rate rise to 1 per cent. rather than the 2 per cent. the market was then pressing for. The reward for this was to be accused by the Opposition parties of having wasted vast sums of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I have not given way. I shall give way in a moment. The hon. Member for Dagenham disputed that the Labour party is planning to borrow an extra £6 billion. Let me tell the House that the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook said that he believed that there should be a public sector financial deficit of some 4 per cent. of GDP. That is £16 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.109.4", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": " anxious not to be answered on the question that he put to me and tried to wriggle out of the subject. Let me make it clear. Our jobs programme costs a net annual amount to the Exchequer — the Chancellor wanted an answer, so let him listen to it—of £6 billion. I believe that even the Chancellor can work out that that is quite a different question from how that money is to be provided. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-23", "file": "debates1987-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "17403e98e3231ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has got his sums wrong again. It is clear that The Observer was right after all. The Opposition could not have shown their hand more clearly than by their pledge, if given the chance, to take back the tax cuts I have been able to make in the Budget as a prelude to still more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-23a.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked this question many times, I think probably of all Governments. He knows that the answer has not varied from Government to Government. It is extremely difficult to put that on the list of treatments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ured trade deficit, is £2 billion this year, despite the fact that the right hon. Lady has at her disposal very large oil revenues and a saving of oil imports. Will she accept that the CBI, even on the basis of the fortunate recovery recorded in its statement, still expects manufactured imports to go up 25 per cent. faster than manufactured exports? On the basis of the fact that already this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.160.8", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "preceding_text": "Gorbachev, will she please tell him that, while it is very important that we should negotiate on nuclear and conventional weapons for peace, harmony and friendship in the world, it is absolutely imperative that he show his human heart, human face, compassion and sincerity by allowing the people in Soviet Russia the freedom of speech, religion and movement, that we take for granted in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.160.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.160.8", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terlezki", "preceding_text": " heart, human face, compassion and sincerity by allowing the people in Soviet Russia the freedom of speech, religion and movement, that we take for granted in this country. [Interruption.] Then we could negotiate on nuclear weapons. Only when, for all people in the Soviet Union, the barriers are broken down, the Berlin Wall is demolished and slave labour camps are abolished can the people be free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.160.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.160.9", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I fully agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.160.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Sir Winston Churchill National Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stefan Terlezki", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stefan Terlezki", "preceding_text": "peak, to debate, to agree and to disagree and to keep the light of freedom burning. I am further convinced that I would not be here today doing what I do and speaking as I do, nor would there be right hon. and hon. Members of the House had it not been for Sir Winston Churchill who saved Britain from the Nazi holocaust and paved the way for the peace that we have all enjoyed over the past 42 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will listen carefully to the rest of my speech. I believe that the past in education is ghastly, and that it has been especially ghastly over the past eight years. I say that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "to be made. Our 14-year-olds who are rising towards taking GCSE are getting, as a national newspaper stated recently, a raw deal. That is putting it at its best level. At its worst, many are having their chances for the future completely blighted. When we talk about Government policy, it is fair to look back at what the Government promised. I have glanced through the Tory party manifesto for 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "clear that I do not blame the Government for all that. The unions have their share of blame as well. But there is no doubt that 12 million lessons have been lost through disruption. At least a part of that disruption has been the Government's deliberately provocative actions in taking away teachers' rights to negotiate their pay and conditions without necessarily a limit on the Government's power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "happening in this area is very heartening. It is encouraging to see that at last we have on British television an expert in her field—Sally Jones—who has a couple of blues at Oxford and who can speak with great authority on the subject. That is a very good sign that we are moving in that direction. The relationship between the Sports Council and other sporting structures needs further examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "s rather selective way, the hon. Member tried to draw conclusions from a period some years ago. I do not propose to go over that period, other than to point out that unemployment and inflation decreased and that for a short time there was a degree of stability in the economy which had not been there previously. There was also the appointment of the first-ever Cabinet Minister for small businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "ed shop—never mind trade unions. Not all trade unions have closed shops. The Paymaster General has a nerve to tell the Opposition and the nation what the Government will do about trade union legislation. He is a member of the biggest closed shop in the country. That is a shocking state of affairs. Trade union officials are elected to represent their members, and that is what they have always done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.248.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.254.2", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "e book which has to be removed if only to remove the embarrassment of members of the alliance in this House, many of whom failed to take the opportunity, when they had it, to prevent such a measure from being passed. When the Liberal party had an opportunity to influence the Labour Government to change their labour relations policy in the fundamentally liberal direction of giving people the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Beef Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "id not achieve a better deal than other countries. That could be proved by asking any of the other European Ministers which country they thought did best out of the deal. I believe that they would unanimously say that it was the United Kingdom. The hon. Gentleman said that somehow or other that deal was bad for Britain. However, he did not mention the retention of the beef variable premium scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Beef Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "st three paragraphs, was entirely about party politics and how the Government had not done this, that and the other. In contrast, my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries put the case for beef producers extremely well and pointed to their problems. He mentioned the need for and importance of the suckler cow premium. I thank him for his support for that other important element of this excellent deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "ion, with exports accounting for approximately a third of that turnover. It has firm orders that are worth over £4 billion for the first 10 years capacity of a plant that is being built, and two thirds of those orders are from overseas customers. It is also the biggest yen earner in the United Kingdom. It is most extraordinary that this bunch of— I was going to say jackals, but I shall not say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-24", "file": "debates1987-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb5741089911e078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "preceding_text": "effect of nuclear power and mentioned recent opinion poll results. He was on dangerous ground there, because in Scotland the polls show 47 per cent. for Labour, 19 per cent. for the Tories, 19 per cent. for the alliance and 11 per cent. for the Scottish National party. If we pursued the hon. Gentleman's logic, we would say that, therefore, the majority of Scottish people are against nuclear power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-24a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.7", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "This is certainly an exemplary situation, which completely encapsulates the Japanese attitude and the difficulty of breaking into a most important sector. The British Government have been active. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.7", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the hon. Gentleman going to do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "This is certainly an exemplary situation, which completely encapsulates the Japanese attitude and the difficulty of breaking into a most important sector. The British Government have been active. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State— [Interruption.] I do not understand why the Opposition are reacting in this way. This is practically the most serious single topic with which we are dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.7", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "MBERS: \"What is the hon. Gentleman going to do about it?\"] I am telling hon. Members what we have done. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to Mr. Karasawa on 13 February. He received no reply. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister wrote to Mr. Nakasone on 4 March and has had no reply. I know that a number of senior members of the American Administration have also written about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.9", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I assume that the Opposition's attitude is good-natured, but I detect in it a strong undertone of indignation, which I know is shared on this side of the House. In the course of time this level of indignation, which is widely held in this country, in the Community and in the United States, will finally find expression —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.427.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "r some reason, Opposition Members refuse to acknowledge that there is a comprehensive system of international trade treaties which regulate world trade. These treaties have been built up over a long period to restrain and deter trade wars. Where one country deliberately flouts, ignores or circumvents that system, it has only itself to blame for the consequences. To put those consequences in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "e to see alliance councillors supporting the same old Socialist policies of high spending and giving the Labour tail a chance to wag the Liberal dog. In the metropolitan areas, the average increase in the local rate of non-rate-capped Labour authorities is about 11 per cent. Compare that with Solihull—the only Tory-controlled metropolitan council—which has managed to reduce its rate by 1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I quoted were not from a third-rate, blinded-with-prejudice leader of a Conservative council. They were a direct quotation from an article by a certain Mr. Hoggett from Bristol university in this month's edition of the official Labour party publication New Socialist. That is what the hon. Gentleman's friends think about Socialism in municipalities in action. I would never dare use words like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.444.11", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "being less than candid with the House. He is falling back on the myth that somehow there was an error. There was no error. There was a change in the basis on which the grant was allocated. There was no error. It is a Government excuse for the cock-up that they have engineered. When the right hon. Gentleman lost in the courts, he announced his intention last year to change the law, and in doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.444.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nd that are faced by Liverpool. The local authorities have not been irresponsible. It is the Government who have been completely irresponsible. Even if the next election is not in June or September, this Parliament will not last for very much longer. We are at the fag end of it. After the next general election, Conservative Members, in diminished numbers, will be sitting on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "a year or two ago. The Tory party in Scotland will be damn lucky if it wins 10 parliamentary seats out of 70-odd in the next election, partly as a consequence of the poll tax. I suspect that when the electors in England know its implications, and realise how much it will benefit the rich rather than the poor, they will also rebel against it. I have said enough to show how local government finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": ", have managed to contain their rates rise to 6·8 per cent. The Labour-controlled authorities have averaged overall an 8·7 per cent. increase and Lib-Lab councils are at 9·1 per cent. The jewel in the Liberal tiara, the Isle of Wight, has bestowed upon its ratepayers a 10 per cent. increase. However, those figures all pale into insignificance when compared with Waltham Forest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Coombs", "preceding_text": " one believes that local government should be paid for locally. However local government is paid for, it accounts for between one quarter and one third of all national public expenditure and no responsible Government can afford to allow local authorities a free rein, especially when the horses are bolting mad, as we see happening in those parts of the country where the Labour party is in control —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, Ealing town hall is virtually closed and the switchboard operators are on strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Copeland has just produced a copy of \"Housing Matters\" which is published by Conservative-controlled Portsmouth council, and I am very grateful to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "h the 6 per cent. increase in rate poundage is as follows. Of the 2·5 per cent difference, over 1 per cent. represents buoyancy in rateable values; 0·5 per cent. represents the fact that we are talking about England alone, and rate rises in Scotland are unfortunately even higher; another 0·5 per cent. is because we now have better information; the final 0·5 per cent is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "Conservative boroughs the increase in rates is 4·6 per cent. only. The increase in nonrate-capped Labour boroughs in London is 60·6 per cent.—15 times more. If the electorate wants to know what a Labour Government would be like, there it is. Reference has been made to the three London boroughs, and I shall mention them again. I know that Opposition Members do not like them mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Niggers in the woodpile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that Lancashire county council has shot away with rates every years since it took office? This year, with the assistance of the Liberals, the rate has doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "hat has gone. I acted genuinely and one answer will have to be the Opposition's lot. Now that the hon. Gentleman has brought my attention to Ealing, let us see where the expenditure has gone. I would have forgotten about it if it had not been for his help. Expenditure in Ealing on the police co-ordinator will be £18,000 a year. A new office block to house 1,100 more staff will cost £20,000 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.515.12", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to the Minister for giving way. He is discussing additional spending in Ealing and I can do better than him with regard to the totals. Does he support the additional spending in Ealing of £500,000 on extra care for the elderly? Does he support the additional spending on education in Ealing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.515.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.516.6", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. First of all, may I correct him? The amount involved for Hillingdon is £4·6 million—£2·3 million this year and £2·3 million next year. As a result of the mess-up and incompetence in my hon. Friend's Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.516.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.516.7", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer that!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "ngdon is £4·6 million—£2·3 million this year and £2·3 million next year. As a result of the mess-up and incompetence in my hon. Friend's Department— [Interruption.] — wait for it — and the dishonesty of Greenwich, my local authority has lost £4·6 million. What guarantee can my hon. Friend give me that my local authority will not lose out in the long run because of that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.516.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister have dinner with me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I am referring only to roads in London. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman's offer is on the menu at present. Let me refer to the community charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "th and going to the south. Undoubtedly, business rates in the north are far higher than they are in the south. If we are to link the north-south divide—as a northerner who lives in the south, I shall like that —that is one of the best ways to do it. That is why we have the universal business rate. The community charge is to make sure that all people voting, even if it is on the rebate, are doing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "e. I shall answer the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones). First, on the question of the grant reduction since 1978–79, we have reduced grants to local authorities by around 6 per cent., not 10·9 per cent. The hon. Gentleman has forgotten the £40 million increase in specific and supplementary grants. We did it deliberately because we are determined to improve accountability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "rm grip on the council, whereas previously they were merely the largest political group on the council. As such they have systematically cushioned the rate increases by running down the balances. This year, however, there are no balances to run down. Much of the explanation for the sharp rise in Colwyn's rates lies in the random effect of the various special factors determining rate support grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": " [Interruption.] The borough treasurer said in a letter to me: My members are totally bemused by the RSG system. They cannot understand that, for an authority which has kept to spending targets in the past, they are treated in this way. I find it difficult, if not impossible, to give a satisfactory answer. Then seem unimpressed with the explanation that the whole thing is a mathematical exercise\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "The treasurer goes on to say: They seem unimpressed with the explanation that the whole thing is a mathematical exercise, the formulae having been the subject of consultation with the local authorities associations. The whole thing appears to be a huge lottery, and the dice do not fall kindly for Colwyn.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": " a mathematical exercise, the formulae having been the subject of consultation with the local authorities associations. The whole thing appears to be a huge lottery, and the dice do not fall kindly for Colwyn.\"— [Interruption.] Colwyn has pointed out that this time the special needs element has operated rather more favourably for Rhuddlan. It should not be supposed that Rhuddlan is entirely happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "y, and the dice do not fall kindly for Colwyn.\"— [Interruption.] Colwyn has pointed out that this time the special needs element has operated rather more favourably for Rhuddlan. It should not be supposed that Rhuddlan is entirely happy. [Interruption.] It is concerned about the capital allocation for its housing improvement programme. Like every council, it would like a larger housing allocation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": " out that this time the special needs element has operated rather more favourably for Rhuddlan. It should not be supposed that Rhuddlan is entirely happy. [Interruption.] It is concerned about the capital allocation for its housing improvement programme. Like every council, it would like a larger housing allocation. [Interruption.] Rhyl is suddenly becoming aware that it has a problem of alarming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "preceding_text": "ent scene in Wales. That is not the view of Mr. Richard Tettenborn, the financial adviser of the Welsh Counties Committee who wrote of the absence of the extremes of political polarisation and of spending patterns. it is pleasant to be able to report that consultation is alive and well and happening in Wales He also said that the settlement is a significant improvement on some of its predecessors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-25", "file": "debates1987-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "d4cc3d56332de8c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I shall not give way to a man who has revealed his contempt for the Welsh people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-25a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-26", "file": "debates1987-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eb5bf649aeae837f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-26a.567.9", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "When did the Prme Minister first become aware of the Health Education Council's report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-26a.567.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-26", "file": "debates1987-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eb5bf649aeae837f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-26a.568.4", "colnum": "568", "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 is aware, I wrote to Mr. Nakasone, the Prime Minister of Japan, on 4 March to express our interest in the Cable and Wireless bid. I have not yet had a reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-26a.568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-27", "file": "debates1987-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4c81effa47095cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-27a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIDS (Control) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "May I explain to the House the purpose of this group of amendments. They have the unusual, and in this case meritorious, characteristic of being amendments that stand in the names of both an Opposition Back Bencher and a Government Minister. That is a happy sign of all-party unanimity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-27a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-27", "file": "debates1987-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4c81effa47095cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-27a.715.6", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gaming (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Labour Members may laugh at the casino economy. We do not have a casino economy, but we have a thriving, prosperous economy which has been underlined by the remarkable success and achievement of the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-27a.715.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-03-27", "file": "debates1987-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4c81effa47095cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-27a.735.8", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parental Leave Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-27a.735.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-30", "file": "debates1987-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "b5cc62bb2e962364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landlord and Tenant (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "has focused public attention on the issues dealt with in the Bill. Hon. Gentlemen's pressures led us to set up the Nugee committee in the first place. The committee reported, and we accepted its report on 8 April 1986. Less than a year later we are bringing forward a Bill to put its recommendations into effect. This is a token of our determination to help mansion block tenants with their problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-30", "file": "debates1987-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "b5cc62bb2e962364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "out of the ground. This is a welcome measure. We should like to take it a little further in Committee and to ensure that it reaches the statute book. It has the support of many organisations, including the Fire Brigades Union and the fire service, both of which are keen that it should reach the statute book quickly. I should be reluctant to see it die halfway through because of a general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.813.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-30", "file": "debates1987-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "b5cc62bb2e962364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "y and I do not think that it is asking too much of the sporting community for it to make a substantial financial commitment to that objective, which the hon. Gentleman and I share. I have endeavoured to answer the important points raised by hon. Members. I am extremely grateful for the support of hon. Members on both sides of the House and I hope that they will all serve on the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-30", "file": "debates1987-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "b5cc62bb2e962364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pilotage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "e harbour authority without any further recourse for appeal. The hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Stott) raised the issue of exemption certificates. I was grateful to the hon. Member for Bristol, East (Mr. Sayeed) for pinning down the hon. Member for Wigan because it transpired that he was seeking a ban on all exemption certificates for foreign vessels, which is blatantly protectionism by the back door—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-30a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.892.9", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend been able to ascertain whether the Leader of the Opposition spent 20 or 28 minutes with the President of the Unied States, and how much of that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.892.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend do his best to persuade the Treasury to provide more money for trips abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.895.6", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend comes to discuss these matters with the Prime Minister, does he think that it would be a useful attitude for her to adopt in her conduct of foreign affairs to respond to a White House press spokesman by saying, \"No, I bloody don't\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.895.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.895.8", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend not agree that that sort of petulant vulgarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.895.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "detailed research that has been carried out by the Home Office under the successive Governments on punishment of young offenders. He is tearing up all the judgments as to how best to deal with young offenders. In addition, he is tearing up what is known of the experience of many schools, especially schools in the private sector, in which corporal punishment has been widely used over a long period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": " into our law a new crime, that of provoking language. I have been subjected to provoking language for the past five minutes from the other side of the Chamber. Is the hon. Member for The Wrekin really asking magistrates courts in his constituency or anywhere else to decide what is provoking language? There is also behaviour tending to a breach of the peace\". What behaviour provokes such a breach?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "I rise to support my hon. Friend. My name is on the new clause— not because I get any pleasure from the thought that evil young people will end up being birched, but because constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.933.2", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "'s horse and running away with it. He looked after it very well at the local recreation ground for three days, and the judge said that he would have let him off if he had not stolen the money as well. It is funny to look back at such events 40 years on, but the man who stole the coal and was birched for it brought up five sons to be the biggest villains and criminals that the city had ever known.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.933.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"None?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": " The incidents that I have described occurred before the war—I was only seven at the time of the blitz. Now, as in the 1930s, people at the bottom are becoming full of despair. There is no stepladder, no hope and no future. People do not expect to jump to the top of the stepladder, but a big strong lad bursting with muscles wants to use his strength in a job. There was no crime in 1950s and 1960s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about mugging?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is referring to children who go to supermarkets, grab something and run out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.935.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.982.5", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "partially in respect of the police. They do not understand that an English jury would act fairly in dealing with a policeman whose action had led to the death of a black man. In short, they were uncertain about English institutions. I do not understand English institutions, just as I do not understand my diffident faith in the Church of England, but I support institutions that I do not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.982.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "I produce it now. This is an account by Mr. Bray of the meeting of counsel before the Cyprus secrets trial. He says: A meeting was called for Sunday 14th for all Counsel to be present … The meeting was called for 9.35 and all Counsel save Colin Pitt attended\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.986.8", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "I support my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and criticise new clause 9 as being thoroughly unhelpful. It was the Labour party in 1977, I believe, that reduced the number of peremptory challenges from seven to three. My main contention is that the peremptory challenge has been abused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.986.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.986.10", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "ttal rate in trials by jury. I expressed the fear that not all jurors today were respecting law and order, and I went on to say that I did not believe that all those jurors saw anything wrong in breaking the law. I highlighted the point to the Prime Minister that I felt very much that a number of jurors were deliberately acquitting rather than convicting. I asked her to introduce random selection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.986.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "eby there would be a genuinely random selection of jurors. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister agreed with this, referred to the White Paper on criminal justice and very much supported that line. On 9 July 1986 my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in answer to a private notice question made it quite clear that the peremptory challenge was to be abolished, and that was particularly welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": " example, small business men should still be able to serve as jurors. If we gave such people plenty of notice for example, three months— that they will be liable to jury service, we would get a truly representative jury. I would like to see more professional people on juries. That is not always possible. I believe that there should be a morality and loyalty test before jurors are allowed to serve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "ht person. People liable for jury service should be checked to find out whether they believe in punishment. That is particularly important. On 9 July 1986, during a statement by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, I revealed the acquittal rate at Snaresbrook and Leicester. It was far too high in Snaresbrook where the rate was 58·2 per cent. and at Leicester it was 15·5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " not guilty of murder but guilty of a lesser offence such as manslaughter. There is another consideration. There will always be a small number of offenders charged with murder where the ultimate charge is one of manslaughter, reflecting an offence such as euthanasia. In those cases the courts may well feel that it is wrong in principle to impose a custodial sentence. I cannot commend to the court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": ". Friend. Although the Lord Chancellor has been firm and clear and has urged caution in the granting of bail in rape and murder cases, all trials must be speeded up because there are too many murders and rapes. I ask my hon. Friend to update the statistics so that we may know how many people have been convicted of crimes of rape and murder whilst on bail. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": " want to see new clause 20 or amendments Nos. 61 or 62 passed. Clause 29 is another nonsense, introduced by the Government to show, in a sort of gung ho fashion, that they are doing something about law and order. I repeat that is not necessary because it is patently obvious to anybody with the slightest interest in law and order that the Government have introduced an endless catalogue of measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "gher, the Court of Appeal will be able only to say, \"Yes, it is a terribly low sentence, but we cannot do anything about it.\" The people who will get the kicking are the members of the Government, because the public will ask, \"What are the Government doing? This measure sends matters to the Court of Appeal, which cannot do anything about them. What a load of idiots we have governing the country.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-03-31", "file": "debates1987-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "3bbf380868b6875b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "ice, the Court of Appeal or somebody else, issuing guidelines to advise and correct. If we begin to go down the road of appealing against sentences on behalf of the prosecution, as has been said earlier tonight, we open up a completely new ball game. We destroy a system that has stood the test of time and we begin to allow the popular press, the publicity-hungry politician on occasions to seek to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-03-31a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I would he delighted to meet my hon. Friend and any group of councillors or hon. Friends that he may wish to bring with him. I would be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend raises the point, let me tell him that in 1986–87 Stockport received £171 per head in rate support grant, whereas Liverpool —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Higher Education and Research", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Welcome it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "We have listened with interest to what the Secretary of State has had to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Higher Education and Research", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only some aspects?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that I am happy to welcome some aspects of the report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Higher Education and Research", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " in 1990. Will he answer that now? Is he aware that the Council for Industry and Higher Education, to which he referred earlier, commenting on the 4 per cent. increase, said that this was \"at odds\" with Britain's ambitions for prosperity and renewal? Is the Secretary of State aware that we can welcome his statements on corporate status for polytechnics? But why must that once again be centralised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Higher Education and Research", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "We should, as a country, take pride in the polytechnics. They are excellent institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Higher Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "n assessor on this occasion or will it be by direct appointment and, if so, why has there been a change? Will he accept that there is nothing in the sad and damaging cuts of recent years to suggest that Scottish universities will be safer as a result of the rejection of the STEAC proposals for an over-arching body? The Secretary of State knows of the Opposition's commitment to a Scottish assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Higher Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " funding could not be guaranteed if British peer review advice was interpreted by separate funding bodies north and south of the border. As the Scottish universities have a legitimate interest in access to proper research funding, the hon. Gentleman might have reminded the House of that aspect of Croham's conclusions as well. The hon. Gentleman asked about the membership of the Scottish committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1107.6", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Higher Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of any referendums having been held in the universities of Scotland to establish the views of students as a whole. Such referendums have not been held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1107.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I shall not complain unduly at the fact that today's was the second environment Question Time when, unfortunately, I failed to catch your eye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1111.5", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Hon. Member for Ynys Môn", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Well, Mr. Speaker, it is well known that Members of Parliament are supposed to put statements about shares and their interests in various matters in the Register of Members' Interests. I should like to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1111.5", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Hon. Member for Ynys Môn", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ts. I should like to know— [Interruption.] Just hear this out. In future, we must make sure that we have a full and comprehensive register. When people make multiple applications for shares in companies that have been privatised, for which they have voted in the House, will you see to it, Mr. Speaker, that that is included? Would it be a sensible item to include on the register in future, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1112.4", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Hon. Member for Ynys Môn", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the ten-minute Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "That problem is not new. It has always been with us, and it existed when juries tried murder cases when we had the death penalty. The answer is that no one with very strong views either way should sit on the jury if it can be avoided, and judges have ways of indicating this to those who are liable to serve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "t stake must have shared my view and must have taken every conceivable care to see that a mistake was not made. I think that there is great exaggeration about the assertions as to mistakes that have been made. Many of the allegations are I think ill-founded. Nevertheless, I accept that there is a risk, and that there always must be, but that is not, as so many seem to think, the end of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "d friend, cannot have been present when I dealt with that point at the start of my speech. If it means what he says— and I am not sure that it does—it can very easily be put right by adding the four words \"in either case done\". My answer is simple and I am surprised that my right hon. and learned Friend should seek to deal with it in this way; it is a drafting point. If, in fact, it is capable of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1140.8", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "We are not in a war. My right hon. and learned Friend is a lawyer. Have we declared war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1140.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": " for the views that they hold here. If they are sincere in their beliefs, a real educative process must be undertaken to sway the public—and perhaps educate the public — to their view. They must change the perception of the public. The reason why the matter has cropped up again this evening is not some perverse, atavistic, degraded thirst for blood and retribution among Conservative Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ements of the popular press. So-called public opinion would not be able to gauge or distinguish between the murder itself and its horrific detail, and the prisoner to be tried. Incidentally, the prisoner would remain innocent until proven guilty. Out of deference to the House—if the hon. Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth (Mr. Dickens) wishes to intervene, he may do so and I shall give way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1174.4", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is a free vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "on of the defence's right to challenge jurors without cause. We witnessed the Opposition vote against modest Government measures to guard against lenient sentencing policy. We shall be interested to see the results of tonight's vote and whether the Opposition will represent a cross section of views as we shall on the Conservative Benches or whether they will, as they did in 1983, toe a party line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No, 16.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "brary and look at the story of the 1916 rising. I am interested in it. My father died as a result of the first world war. He was brought back from France to be at the Easter rising. He never thought that many years later his son would be Secretary of State for a divided country. Redmond spoke in the House about the nationalist party. Because of the war and our feelings about it we shot was it six?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-01", "file": "debates1987-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "bdb67f6e55c08954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is still murder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steve Norris", "preceding_text": "itnesses the appalling crimes that are committed. However, that alone would not make me support the clause. I accept that the amendment will not apply in many cases of murder, nor should it necessarily apply in such cases. Some Conservative Members accept that many killings are unpremeditated. Domestic murders, for example, often result from a strong familial relationship that has led to conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-01a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1202.2", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that any correspondence between him and Mrs. Shirley Williams is the bland leading the bland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This afternoon the Home Secretary enunciated the new doctrine that crime is the fault of the victim. As there have been 25 million crime victims since the Government took office, and that in the 40 minutes of Home Office Question Time today 330 crimes will have been committed, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Yes, it certainly is a disgrace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1207.6", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that in many areas neighbourhood watch schemes are not making good progress? In my county of Hampshire progress is slow. Is my hon. Friend aware that some of the crimes which neighbourhood watch should be able to detect remain unobserved? Is he aware of the serious problem of the bogus water inspector, the bogus electricity inspector and the bogus health inspector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1207.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1212.6", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the Labour party is now so concerned about reducing income tax that it has reversed its previous policy and now supports us. Real take-home pay for a married man on average earnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1212.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1212.8", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tax\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman forgets that average earnings have gone up enormously, and with them net take-home pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1212.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Letters of intent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Speaker. I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The Soviet Prime Minister proposed, and I accepted, an annual target of aggregate trade between the Soviet Union and this country of £2·5 billion by 1990. That means putting up our present trade, but we are going in that direction, because while I was there contracts to the value of £400 million were signed, including a very good one with GEC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "iet Prime Minister proposed, and I accepted, an annual target of aggregate trade between the Soviet Union and this country of £2·5 billion by 1990. That means putting up our present trade, but we are going in that direction, because while I was there contracts to the value of £400 million were signed, including a very good one with GEC—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Letters of intent.\"] Letters of intent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1213.10", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "As we are 10 minutes into Question Time and it has not formally been done, may I offer the Prime Minister a very warm welcome back after her quite remarkable visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1213.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman is aware, day surgery is on the increase and it is very welcome. Many people wish to get home as soon as they can after surgery and it means a far greater and better use of doctors' and nurses' time. As far as London is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "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 a moment ago, expenditure on health services in London has risen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "I should like to make a statement, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "First, I thank the Prime Minister for her statement and express pleasure at the way in which either chemistry or travel has succeeded in broadening her mind about the Soviet Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1219.2", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ssary, especially as the trade balance with the USSR has moved from a surplus of 6 per cent. in 1979–80 to a deficit of 24 per cent. in 1985–86? Will the Prime Minister tell us whether on anti-ballistic missiles systems she had American agreement on her proposals for research timetables within the narrow interpretation of the anti-ballistic missile treaty of 1972? On nuclear weapons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1219.4", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ent to give case by case consideration to human rights issues was, as she put it, much better than we would have ever got two years ago is in some danger of being misleading? The truth is that well over two years ago I and, I am sure, others received precisely those undertakings in precisely those words from Mr. Chernenko and Mr. Gorbachev, and many of them have been honoured. Can she now tell me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1219.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1220.4", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The memorandum of culture, builds on, but is separate from, the existing biennial cultural agreement, which was renewed for 1987–89 in January. It has nine new features.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1220.4", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " control. One continually put that point to them. One added to it that for years and years to come—probably always— the overwhelming majority of Jewish people in the Soviet Union will stay in the Soviet Union because it is their home, and that they should have far greater rights to freedom of worship than they have now. One also put to them that the Chief Rabbi would like to discuss these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1220.4", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " come—probably always— the overwhelming majority of Jewish people in the Soviet Union will stay in the Soviet Union because it is their home, and that they should have far greater rights to freedom of worship than they have now. One also put to them that the Chief Rabbi would like to discuss these matters. [Interruption.] Yes, we shall go on. The refuseniks whom I saw said to us, \"Please continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e sign of the way in which borders operate round a Communist society. It will be a long time, if indeed it ever happens, before people there enjoy the freedom which we enjoy. One must not be under any illusion that any country which has Communism in its basic constitution, and which does not have an independent judiciary in its basic constitution, is a different country from the one which we know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The IPU.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gorbachev came in 1984 at the invitation of the British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1230.4", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Soviet Union (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er of international issues. I hoped that the original doctrine of Communism—world domination by the Communist system—would be dropped, because I thought it caused great concern and fear in the West. I also believe that the way in which the people came out to talk to me and the fact that I was able to talk more freely than any other leader on television helps to make the world a more secure place.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1241.5", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "he meantime, hon. Members might like to take account of the fact that the Secretary of State for Scotland will be first for questions on Wednesday. I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition was being other than mildly contentious when he suggested that Rolls-Royce would be sold off for next to nothing. He knows of the formidable record of success in the Government's privatisation programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1241.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I read something of these remarks. In all charity we must conclude that they are but a newspaper report of what the right hon. Gentleman is alleged to have said. What worried me was the tremendous emphasis that was placed upon the use of a referendum as a means of government. That is historically the technique of the authoritarian Right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "It would be helpful to the House if, in the course of discussing each of the statutory instrument changes that the Government are bringing forward in these regulations, the Minister will give us some estimates of the savings. I do not want to put that pejoratively, I could call them cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "need for child dependency additions, as well as the need for child benefit, is removed when a young person works. Finally, among the changes affecting young people in education, we are expanding the categories of youngsters —the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire may care to note this— who can receive supplementary benefit even though they are continuing in full-time non-advanced education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire will know, if he heard what I said at the outset of my remarks, that a large number of these matter; are familiar old friends and we have discussed the additional costings and savings on a number of occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Nicholas Lyell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Nicholas Lyell)", "preceding_text": "rogramme where that is appropriate. The regulation does not imply that the community programme is full-time work. The question about family income supplement was also pertinent. That is payable to those who participate in the community programme and who are in full-time work, that is to say, 30 hours or more. A formidable number of questions were asked and I do not have time to deal with them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows something about the ways of this House and can give good advice to the hon. Gentleman. It can best be done by regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-02", "file": "debates1987-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "db1da78b147543f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": " they were taking an examination? If they were entered for exams when they left school they would not be entitled to benefit until the terminal date following the examination. I agree that at that stage in their lives young people may be in a variety of circumstances. We have endeavoured to establish rules that are as clear cut and consistent as possible, given that wide variety of circumstances.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-02a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-03", "file": "debates1987-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "e33611894ce35b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-03a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Obscene Publications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may not think that the word \"bloody\" is offensive, but I hope that the House is not so out of touch that it believes that such language is now part of the accepted language of everyday people. There are worse words —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-03a.1330.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-03", "file": "debates1987-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "e33611894ce35b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-03a.1336.2", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Obscene Publications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "We have traversed this ground before. That is what happened a year ago with the Obscene Publications (Protection of Children, Etc.) (Amendment) Bill. That Bill was considered in Committee and an entirely different Bill was proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-03a.1336.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-06", "file": "debates1987-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "4dce8cde14be0002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-06a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "as been emerging from a recession. When the Opposition refer to the divisions in our society, they always forget to mention that between 1979 and 1985 the average net income for pensioners rose by 18 per cent.—an average annual rate of just under 3 per cent. That means that those above retirement age have, as a group, done well under this Government and that they can expect to continue to do well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-06a.38.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-08", "file": "debates1987-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9168068970d1027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not. I shall develop my own arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-08", "file": "debates1987-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9168068970d1027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "um, because access to large numbers of drugs and long supplies are potentially dangerous both to the patients and to other people living with or helping them. All those are the consequences of the grasping policies of the present Governent. No doubt the Minister will switch on his Norm-speak auto-pilot and repeat all the stuff about three quarters of the public not paying for their prescriptions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-08", "file": "debates1987-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9168068970d1027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) has reaffirmed from the Front Bench that the next Labour Government will proceed to reduce, and eventually to abolish, prescription charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-08", "file": "debates1987-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9168068970d1027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Labour party is now recommitted to the restoration of a free NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-08", "file": "debates1987-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9168068970d1027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.413.10", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman did not make any specific allegation about the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.413.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-08", "file": "debates1987-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9168068970d1027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.414.14", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "As I understood it, the right hon. Gentleman may have meant that the hon. Gentleman was over-excited —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-08a.414.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.447.8", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, sections 4, 8(1), 9 and 10 of the Disabled Persons Act were implemented on 1 April. These sections clarify the duty of local social services authorities under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.447.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Cable and Wireless issue is still under discussion with the Japanese Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "That does not make the visit any less fruitless —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "That does not make the visit any less fruitless — [Interruption.] The Prime Minister made it clear that we got the brush-off on all counts in Tokyo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "That does not make the visit any less fruitless — [Interruption.] The Prime Minister made it clear that we got the brush-off on all counts in Tokyo. [Interruption.] What will she do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.7", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s, who will meet in Brussels tomorrow. Those experts are expected to examine proposals put forward by my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary on more effective protection against dumping of components, possibly unbinding of tariffs on certain products as a result of Community enlargement, and measures that may be necessary to avoid diversion if the United States acts against Japan —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.449.4", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely right that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.449.6", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.449.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.450.5", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rope as a proportion of national income. Denmark and France are above the United Kingdom. We are better than Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. Secondly, the hon. Gentleman refers to the previous regime. I would remind him that in 1979 this Government made good an uprating deficiency against earnings created by the Labour Government in 1978 and gave full price protection to pensioners. Thirdly, —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.450.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "On the first point, I am not in a position to adjudicate with confidence on the figures to which the hon. Gentleman has referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " the book is known, the crystal examined and the future divined. On the hon. Gentleman's previous point, he is inviting me to set aside the professional work of Touche Ross in favour of the journalistic achievements of the Daily Mirror . That is an interesting proposition, but I say to him that the day will come—inevitably — when he will be on the Front Bench and will have to accept responsibility", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Sumburg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Sumburg", "preceding_text": "In the light of the local elections on 7 May, which is one election date that the leader of the Social Democratic party is capable of forecasting accurately, should not the House have an opportunity to debate Labour's appalling record in local government? In my constituency, after one year of Labour rule, the rates are to rise by 17 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Helicopter Orders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": " that battle has not offered long-term security for the jobs of those who work in the Westland company, is not early-day motion 317, which I tabled 15 months ago, ever more urgent today? It called for the public ownership and the integration of Westland into the rest of the aerospace sector. Given the present urgency, for example, for the airlifting of grain to famine-stricken areas of the world —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-09", "file": "debates1987-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "8650547d2e1575b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.480.4", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Helicopter Orders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "eman will perhaps appreciate, it is not I who run Westland. It is up to Westland to work out the consequences to it of the orders that I have announced today. It is perfectly clear that those consequences will be much better after today's announcement than they would have been if the announcement had not been made. That applies also to the point that the hon. Gentleman raised about subcontractors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-09a.480.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-10", "file": "debates1987-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "59908c8eb3387fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-10a.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "credit directive, which was formally adopted on 22 December last year, which will require information in respect of such agreements, including the cost of credit, to be notified in writing to consumers. It is likely that the requirements will be effected by a variation in the terms of the Director General's determination; my Department and the Office of Fair Trading are currently considering that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-10a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "In spite of all the huffing and puffing of the \"tea dancers\" on the Tory Benches, does the Minister understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) and others will continue to search for the truth in this matter? Did the Minister see the article in The Independent of 11 February by Tony Bradley, professor of constitutional law at Edinburgh university? In that article —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Service Personnel, Cyprus (Attack)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": " courage and presence of mind in preventing a more serious incident and trust that Miss Wilkinson will have a speedy recovery. The security of our sovereign bases in Cyprus is not only important for our national interest, but necessary in supporting the United Nations forces and the sustaining role they fulfil in both Cyprus and the Lebanon. When all Members of the House went to Cyprus last month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Massey Ferguson (Redundancies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "thin 48 hours of claims by members of the Tory Cabinet that unemployment was improving and the economy getting brighter. Massey Ferguson has given the lie to that dubious Tory claim. Such an announcement demands emergency action. It follows on the heels of the major job losses announced at Caterpillar and Westland. If publicly owned, planned and integrated, all three firms could play an enormous —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Members (Declaration of Interests)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have had an opportunity to read the hon. Gentleman's letter in the newspapers this morning and I must say straight away that, although I accept that he posted the letter to me, I deprecate letters addressed to me being sent to the press. As to the substance of the hon. Gentleman's point of order, the hon. Gentleman has been here as long as I have and is an experienced Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Members (Declaration of Interests)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I read the article in The Guardian this morning with astonishment. The hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Lewis) had not warned me that he proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.678.6", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Members (Declaration of Interests)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am particularly proud, having served an Industry and Parliamentary Trust Fellowship with the Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, to be invited to assist it further. It is a fine company, which makes a major contribution to employment in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom through tourism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.678.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.697.5", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "nswering the central question, \"Is work being done, or has work been done on proposals to extend VAT?\" We get no answer to that question. On that basis my right hon. Friend and I —indeed, the whole Labour party — will be campaigning, and warning the electorate that the election of a Conservative Government will mean the extension of VAT to food, fuel, new housing, all clothing and even funerals. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.697.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-22", "file": "debates1987-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "eba7c4a5e9aec8bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "Friend the Prime Minister has written a letter to Mr. Lomas, the Labour Member of the European Parliament. Such scare stories show how desperate the Opposition are to distract attention from their own policies. The Labour party is desperate to put up a smoke screen to hide the fact that the Conservative party is the party of lower taxation and that the Labour party is the party of higher taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-22a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.779.5", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "In answer to the hon. Gentleman's first comment, I can only say that these are not happy times to be a Minister of Agriculture anywhere in Europe. At least I have not been burnt in effigy, as my German colleague has been on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will bruit abroad that I was attacked violently in the Irish Dail for my opposition to the Irish subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.785.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.789.5", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "tion. Will the Prime Minister agree with me that one of the fundamental principles that divides democracy from dictatorship is the right of working people freely to negotiate with their employers without any pressure from the Government such as to destroy their negotiating power? Now that the right hon. Lady and the most hated Secretary of State for Education and Science that there has ever been —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.789.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.794.4", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I stand here between the hon. Gentleman and my right hon. Friend and I have to say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.794.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.795.5", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made the point the more forceful for being succinct than it might have been made if Government time had been provided for the Leader of the Opposition to make his somewhat equivocal position clearer than it seemed in The Sun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.795.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The square.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "f the Exchequer that special grants should be given for doing up redundant steadings and farm buildings, to be used for small business purposes and as dwellings? Although all these measures are good, does my right hon. Friend not appreciate that unless we solve farming finance in this country, particularly in Scotland, by examining the square root of the 4 per cent. devaluation of the green pound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "We believe that that should be done by quotas imposed over the whole range of the regime. The hon. Member for Torridge and Devon, West (Sir P. Mills) need not be surprised. He knows my document and he knows of the proposals —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "estion of the effect of VAT upon food. I believe that the Minister was less than reassuring when he said that the Treasury will need to study the proposal carefully. That is not what we want. In the light of the horrendous effects on the population, we want a categorical assurance that the Government will oppose the imposition of VAT upon food in the interests of producers as well as of consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mostly of his farm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": " is not true. I regard ALURE as the most over-rated gimmick that even this Government have attempted to foist upon an unsuspecting public. The whole glossy packet is largely descriptive of what is available in the United Kingdom — plus some pretty pictures. As my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) said, in the case of Scotland most of the pictures are of his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.813.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ke. In reviewing the Commission's price proposals, I have left to the last the single most important requirement of the Minister, and that is to secure devaluation of the green pound of certainly not less than three times that proposed by the European Commission. His tactics on this have been peculiar, to say the least. His Parliamentary Secretary, who has not been present during the debate today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-23", "file": "debates1987-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6e943b6450ca4e13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "m the farming industry the Labour party, however interesting some of its thoughts might be on this or that, seems blissfully unaware that its general policy of increasing inflation will drive up farm prices. The Opposition would also increase nationalisation and that would threaten land. They would increase borrowing, which would drive up farm interest rates, and they would rate agricultural land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-23a.870.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Many companies have come forward to support the CTCs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "gement\"?—[ Official Report, 23 April 1987; Vol. 114, c. 790.] The two major unions, which represent the vast majority of teachers, met because of that answer and were outraged at what the Prime Minister had said. I do not know whether the Prime Minister tells the right hon. Gentleman, but she must have received a joint letter from those two unions today, in which they say that if she will discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State realise that, almost certainly, he has within his hands the power to end this disruption if he will stop mouthing words and take action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I call the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the entire record on value added tax. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the bogus election propoganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.10", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are used to smears and scares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.12", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are used to smears and scares from the party in opposition. May I give the House an example? During the last election campaign the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) said that if the Tories were allowed to win the election they would within five years put an end to the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.158.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "hers attempted to subvert an elected Government\". This application arises directly from the Prime Minister's refusal to make a statement about those allegations, which are now in the public domain and are quoted in yesterday's Hansard, about illegal acts by the security services, and, therefore, that information was not available yesterday. Secondly, this does not relate to the court case against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.165.6", "colnum": "165", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. A submission is being made to me. I cannot hear it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "by the Attorney-General against The Observer and The Guardian which will be heard in the House of Lords in June. The proceedings will be before the Law Lords. The question is: do the proceedings in the Lords deserve the protection of sub judice? Could the Law Lords truly be influenced in their judgment by public debate on these matters? Of course, your ruling would preclude debate in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Davyhulme (Mr. Churchill) would not be here but for his grandad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.170.7", "colnum": "170", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ions Bill going through at that time and the sub judice aspect relating to Lord Donaldson, who was to be in charge of the industrial relations court, you would see that variations upon the sub judice ruling were made by the Chair. I would also remind you, Mr. Speaker, that that flexibility was apparent when the Clay Cross question was brought before the courts over a period of more than 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.170.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Shortisin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ime buyers are outstripping rises in pay and that people are being forced to buy smaller and smaller homes. Hon. Members must know from their constituents that those homes are not easy to sell. A show house which is empty or has specially built furniture designed to create the illusion of more space, can look great. Those houses might be all right for Tom Thumb people, but not for ordinary people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I am coming to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " was dismissed and opposed by most Opposition Members. It is now an established fact of our housing. The battle over the right to buy has been won, game, set and match. It is the consensus, except, of course, among the alliance who are not wholly in favour of the right to buy under all circumstances. Alliance Members wish to give a little local discretion to councils to have it here and not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "using. The battle over the right to buy has been won, game, set and match. It is the consensus, except, of course, among the alliance who are not wholly in favour of the right to buy under all circumstances. Alliance Members wish to give a little local discretion to councils to have it here and not there. [Interruption.] We do not know what they are up to in extremist, loony Liberal Tower Hamlets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "The tragedy of the Rent Acts is that they have injured the people whom they were designed to protect. We have succeeded in drying up the supply of privately rented accommodation, to the great injury of potential tenants. That has meant a great loss of housing for our people. I believe that the radical poliy that I have suggested would, in the medium term, reduce rents in many parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Richard Tracey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Richard Tracey)", "preceding_text": "as to do with the supply of housing, especially the decline of private renting, as my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne said today, as he has on many other occasions. Private renting flourishes in every other part of the free world, helping the homeless, as much as the young and the job seeker. Homelessness is the extreme development of the monopoly of public housing, which inevitably creates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Richard Tracey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Richard Tracey)", "preceding_text": "they might learn—rationing and queues. But the reasons for homelessness go wider than that. It has much to do with social factors, such as the increasing incidence of divorce. Britain has the highest divorce rate in Europe, except for Denmark. Young people are leaving home earlier. Today's patterns of migration and the general loosening of the structure and cohesion of family life are also causes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Rolls-Royce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend has said, that proposition is probably too simple to be grasped by Conservative Members. If they showed just one glimmering of the sense of propriety that they exhibit in attending to their own personal financial affairs in respect of our public financial affairs, we should make much more progress in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Rolls-Royce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ch and development, capital investment and for maintaining Rolls-Royce in its position of excellence in the world there is every reason to keep it in the public sector and none for privatisation. That is why we argue the importance of public sector participation and why after the general election we shall secure a strategic public stake in Rolls-Royce so that the public interest can be maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Rolls-Royce", "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": "ernment may make no predictions or forecasts about the future of the company or the issue. Therefore, I intend to restrict my remarks purely to the facts. Rolls-Royce has a special place in British industry. It is a symbol of excellence and, more than that, a symbol of British excellence. The name itself has a unique place in the British manufacturing tradition and it is recognised the world over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Rolls-Royce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "its proper name: \"renationalisation\" has become \"social ownership\". I do not believe that the British people will be so easily fooled. Rolls-Royce will shortly become the 15th major business transferred to private sector ownership under this Government. The British Airports Authority will follow shortly. We intend to carry on with our programme of privatisation in this Parliament and in the next —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Rolls-Royce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": " five companies, the performance of which has improved since privatisation. The hon. Member for Derbyshire, West (Mr. McLoughlin) referred to one of those companies, Jaguar. However, to say that the performance of those companies has improved since privatisation, is not to say that their performance has improved as a result of privatisation. That ignores completely, as the hon. Gentleman ignored —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Rolls-Royce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Those sections have done that as a result of investment under public ownership. To give just one example, Freight-Rover was losing money under private ownership. Conservative Members also wish to ignore those companies that have been privatised, and then have failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Rolls-Royce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Those sections have done that as a result of investment under public ownership. To give just one example, Freight-Rover was losing money under private ownership. Conservative Members also wish to ignore those companies that have been privatised, and then have failed. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Derbyshire, West, referred to Jaguar —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Stansted Airport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "The Minister opened the debate by saying that the order was both predictable and unsurprising. Predictable it may be, but I am not so sure about the second part of the Minister's description. It would probably be far beyond my limited capabilities as an orator to arouse the House to great heights of passion about this order, but I should like to mention one or two points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-28", "file": "debates1987-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bbea6478e2de518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.288.9", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Senior Colman Engineering Ltd., Cheshire", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "to make him a flask of tea and a sandwich in case he couldn't get anything while at work. He left home at quarter to seven, as he said he was walking … but still didn't get in and was told to stop outside. It is clear that at least that individual wanted to get to his place of work and it was the union picket that prevented him from doing so. When he was dismissed, the AUEW was responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-28a.288.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-29", "file": "debates1987-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "71d6892ba4e1ee62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "—including a consultancy with Alcrafield Ltd. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-29", "file": "debates1987-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "71d6892ba4e1ee62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "epresentations urging that members of the Committee of Selection should be required not to hold outside business interests? Secondly, do you not agree, Mr. Speaker, that until such a requirement is introduced, suspicion that commercial interests exert influence in the House, including the selection of Members to Standing Committees, will remain? Will you also understand that concern will continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-29", "file": "debates1987-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "71d6892ba4e1ee62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": " opportunity of disputing the simple truth that I have explained on several occasions. However, since he has asked this question, I must state that the Opposition have absolutely no responsibility for the current level of taxation. The Government's record is now under scrutiny. The Government have brought taxation to its present level. They are making false claims that I am obliged to knock down —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-29", "file": "debates1987-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "71d6892ba4e1ee62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "on. Member as widely respected as the hon. Member for Dagenham would perhaps offer the House something a little more worthy of the occasion. 6 pm I was very disappointed by the hon. Member's speech, which was unworthy of so intelligent a man. The voice was certainly the voice of the hon. Member for Dagenham, but the words sounded to me rather like the words of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-29a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-30", "file": "debates1987-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "db0964f72ac09fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "When the Minister replied to the hon. Member for Langburgh (Mr. Holt) about the amount of money spent on political advertising, why did he not admit to the House that £42 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-30", "file": "debates1987-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "db0964f72ac09fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.403.10", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "Is it not becoming increasingly clear to the House and to the country that the Conservative party intends to fight the next general election on two manifestos —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.403.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-30", "file": "debates1987-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "db0964f72ac09fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.416.5", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "of Pollution (Landed Ships Waste) Regulations 1987, which came into force on 6 April, which were laid before Parliament on 16 March and which were prayed against by the Leader of the Opposition, when I gather that there were six days remaining? Will the regulations be debated? What will happen if Parliament is dissolved? Will the regulations be in force? May I also press the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.416.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-30", "file": "debates1987-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "db0964f72ac09fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": " have a statement on that? Will there be time, before the House rises, for a debate on the shortage of resources for hospitals in Leicestershire? This is a matter upon which hon. Members on both sides of the House were agreed, and I discovered that at the Groby road heart hospital people are waiting six months for open-heart surgery because of the lack of one doctor, one anaesthetist and two beds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-30", "file": "debates1987-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "db0964f72ac09fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "rder, Mr. Speaker. A short time ago the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart) made a comment to the Leader of the House. His comment would not stand up in a court of law. The hon. Member was not even there. I was there and I am defending my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton). The hon. Member for Sherwood made comments, but he was not even there. It was pure supposition on his part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.424.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-04-30", "file": "debates1987-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "db0964f72ac09fb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.448.9", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "It might be helpful if I discuss clause 33 and schedule 4, which have two main purposes. They introduce an improvement to the 1980 and 1984 Finance Acts and share option schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-04-30a.448.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-01", "file": "debates1987-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "063da6bf4bff5e8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-01a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Licensing (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked the Minister what work had been done to examine the research done by others. The problem is that much of the research done in Scotland is not very objective. In fact, it is very subjective. It is based on the reports of organisations with a clear commercial interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-01a.497.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that what the hon. Gentleman is saying is that one will pay a good deal less poll tax if one lives in a good Tory authority area than if one lives in a Labour authority area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.574.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ards which it gets the trivial sum of £189,000. The Inner London education authority faces an increased pay bill of £20·5 million. It receives not a penny piece extra towards what is, on any calculation, a major additional item. We debated this matter in considerable detail in Committee on the Local Government Bill, which I gather will not now receive Royal Assent this side of the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.622.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment. If hon. Gentlemen wish, I can take another 10 minutes in this short debate to explain them again. I should like to give their ingredients. First, they will return the rights to negotiate pay and conditions for teachers. Secondly, they will establish a mechanism for unblocking blockages in negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ey will encourage the unions and the local education authorities to speak with a single voice. Fifthly, they will give a legitimate and proper role to the Secretary of State. I recognise that neither Burnham nor the joint negotiating council did that, as the right hon. Gentleman rightly said. Sixthly, they will enable some kind of ultimate solution — [Interruption.] — to be enacted, if necessary —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ultimate solution — [Interruption.] — to be enacted, if necessary — [Interruption.] I do not mind how long this disruption continues. I will make my points heard. It is of no consequence to me if Conservative Members intervene. It is their debate. If they want to speak in it later, perhaps they will listen. Our proposals will allow for a process of pendulum arbitration to achieve a final solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State has prayed in aid on many occasions. These proposals, first put forward in the other place, are supported in broad outline by the National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations, the National Association of Head Teachers, the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, the Professional Association of Teachers and the Secondary Heads Association. All those moderate unions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "by the National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations, the National Association of Head Teachers, the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, the Professional Association of Teachers and the Secondary Heads Association. All those moderate unions — [Interruption.] — to which the Secretary of State referred, unions whose opinions in the past he has said he values, support them. But we know —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "was never any mention of negotiating rights being taken away from their unions. The difference between them and this Government and this Secretary of State is that the Government are doing something which not only the teachers' unions but the entire trade union movement cannot tolerate because the reason for the existence of a union is its negotiating right, and it has a right to negotiate freely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "n advisory committee. In Chile, teachers are only an advisory committee. Franco had them as an advisory committee. The incipient and developing tyranny that the arrogance of power among Conservative Members is bringing about is appalling. We believe in a good education for our children and we need no lectures from those who send their childern to private schools and heap inequity on our children —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "t is happening to our children's education. The Secretary of State may say that that does not matter because four unions support his proposals, but those four unions do not represent even a quarter of the profession. Two unions represent three quarters. The Secretary of State should go among them and, instead of arrogantly talking, he should with a little humility try to learn something from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-05", "file": "debates1987-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b85537bb4bcb233c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Earlier Conservative Members below the Gangway called for a fair hearing for the Secretary of State. I hope that they will be prepared to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-05a.687.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.714.7", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "d help for the low paid in our society. If we concentrate on that, we have already said that the mentally handicapped and those in old peoples homes will be exempt, the severely physically disabled will receive 100 per cent. rebates and that there will be generous rebates for those on low incomes. Indeed, 80 per cent. of old-age pensioners will be better off than they are now as single pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.714.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "Reference has been made to the question of a poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "Reference has been made to the question of a poll tax. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax.\"] Exactly. I have the reference here and I am glad that Opposition Members also read Hansard. If hon. Members would read Hansard and go to the dictionary, they will understand the definition of a poll tax —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "e here and I am glad that Opposition Members also read Hansard. If hon. Members would read Hansard and go to the dictionary, they will understand the definition of a poll tax — [Interruption.] If the hon. Member would listen, I will advance his education even further. A poll tax means a tax per head. However, it has nothing to do with the voting register. If hon. Members go back to the dictionary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.717.7", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Newham receives a high GRE of £906 per adult and it is spending £167 per adult on top of that. The community charge will be high in Newham because expenditure is high. Furthermore, the Labour party in its publication \"Local Government Reform in England and Wales\" states that it wants a system of capital rateable values with variations in income, not variations in rateable value —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.717.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e future some oversight body which would review the work of the service, its targeting, its management, its structure and its staff counselling—and if anything was needed, goodness knows, that is. The right hon. Lady did not refer to that. Is the right hon. Lady aware that she has given a partial reassurance by the statement she has made which was drawn out of her by my press comment this morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.725.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.730.7", "colnum": "730", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here it comes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Where is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.730.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend takes a close interest in this matter, but to suggest that the Anglo-Irish Agreement was to be a wand that would have an immediate impact of a major, significant early change —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.740.4", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "to him. That article refers to the fact that there was a forged bank account relating to the hon. Member for Antrim, North. That information has come into the possesion of some hon. Members. I cannot make a judgment one way or another and neither can other hon. Members. It is up to the Secretary of State to assure all of us today that the allegations made by Fred Holroyd, Colin Wallace and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.740.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.774.2", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to intervene, I shall certainly he glad to give way. The alliance has been able to muster only one spokesman for the occasion. Yet hon. Members lecture us and tell us how much we are listened to in this House and how often we should come. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS; \"What proposals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "Gibson, Lady Gibson and the police officers to whom the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths) referred earlier, but regularly takes justice into its own hands in a series of knee cappings and in the rough justice that is odious to the House of Commons and to the British people. My hon. Friends and I give a modest welcome to the proposals that the Secretary of State announced earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ts, that there will be new dispositions in relation to part-time members of the UDR and that there will be further recruitment to the RUC. As I understood it, the Secretary of State did not give a figure for that recruitment. There will also be additional support, as requested, which will help combat, more directly, the present terrorist campaign, and there will be additional helicopter resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-06", "file": "debates1987-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "43bba3adb536b6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.828.6", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Police)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": " point tonight, and it may be taken up elsewhere. I shall refer briefly to the remarks of the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths). Of course the hon. Member knows, as I know, that we sat together through 59 Standing Committee sittings on the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill. When Mary Queen of Scots died, there was a certain name upon her heart. Possibly when we pass on, it will —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-06a.828.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-07", "file": "debates1987-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8401bc8606ee3fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-07a.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "preceding_text": "West Yorkshire Police Authority for their joint use.] I have raised this issue on many occasions. I refer the Leader of the House to page 1397 of the Order Paper. There we have 152 hon. Members supporting the motion in my name. I have only one opponent; there is only one amendment. I cannot identify the constituency of my opponent because he is so unknown to me; it says that he is Mr. Gary Waller.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-07a.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-07", "file": "debates1987-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "8401bc8606ee3fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-07a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are Labour Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Having expected this debate for a couple of months, as a major set piece debate on the City and its regulations, I find it odd that such a central proposal is being smuggled through when the rest of the country, and much of the rest of the House, have their minds elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-07a.905.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-11", "file": "debates1987-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "350f84ff89c7e050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-11a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman constantly decries the work of community insulation projects. When the Government came into power there were six such projects, and there are now 385. It is the Government's determination to ensure that there is a correct balance of groups throughout the country. The ultimate target is a total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-11a.7.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-11", "file": "debates1987-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "350f84ff89c7e050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-11a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "The Quality of Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "way. It is because we have so many difficulties to overcome that we approach them with common sense and real compassion and not with the dribbling, whining crocodile tears of the Opposition or the lunatic meanderings of the absurd Left. The main topic of this debate is the quality of life of our citizens. Like the power of a nation, the quality of life depends upon the primacy of economic success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-11a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-11", "file": "debates1987-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "350f84ff89c7e050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-11a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "The Quality of Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "tleman can contain himself. I know that my speech is moving along at some speed, but I intend to detain the House for some time yet. I hope to come to some of the points made by the hon. Gentleman and to answer them, I hope to his complete satisfaction. However, because of his request and before dealing with the National Health Service I shall happily deal with industrial relations and employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-11a.42.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-12", "file": "debates1987-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "294d386161df0031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.192.9", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "The evidence is the Treasury's own analysis. I think that the average is about 8 per cent. However, it is an extremely distorted average figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.192.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-12", "file": "debates1987-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "294d386161df0031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "in advance on the basis of a 27p basic rate, so it would not be possible to ask them to reverse the tax cuts at this stage. Secondly, therefore, and much more important for the country, employees would receive the tax cuts only to have them clawed back. That is what the Labour party, the Liberal party and the SDP are saying. They intend to claw back the increases in pay resulting from the tax cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-12", "file": "debates1987-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "294d386161df0031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "efield and his loyalty to his county and to Wakefield, which he has served for so long at borough and county level, and now in Parliament. Indeed, I know the county hall there. In fact, I knew it when Sir Alec Clegg was the chief educational officer in Yorkshire. He will be known to all right hon. and hon. Members. Although he and I were on different wings of the educational spectrum at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-12", "file": "debates1987-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "294d386161df0031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "nd I were on different wings of the educational spectrum at that time— [Interruption.] I must not divert or be misled by the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw), otherwise we shall be discussing the future of Blackburn Rovers again. At least Burnley football club has now saved itself, and the prayers of all Lancastrians here were answered by the saving goal in the Birmingham match last Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-12", "file": "debates1987-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "294d386161df0031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Norris) also made a speech which failed to achieve a standing ovation. I did not know that he had much in common with the Secretary of State, but I am glad that he at least has that in common.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-12", "file": "debates1987-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "294d386161df0031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bristol, West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Norris) also made a speech which failed to achieve a standing ovation. I did not know that he had much in common with the Secretary of State, but I am glad that he at least has that in common. [Interruption.] Perhaps he is talking about the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Mr. Patten)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-12a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.270.2", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) requires a lecture from the hon. Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson), who has his own distinguished line in hyprocrisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. There have been only six discernible changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. There have been only six discernible changes— [Interruption.] —in the method of calculation of unemployment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " 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 need for the Prime Minister to set up an inquiry into the role of the late Airey Neave, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in relation to attempts to destabilise the elected Government in the 1970s. The matter is", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bad taste.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ker. That article is headed Tebbit's joy at Wilson's plight. The information has come to light since the Prime Minister turned down the call for an inquiry. I have to persuade you, Mr. Speaker, that the matter is important, because it raises the issue of obligations of hon. Members of this House in condoning trouble made for the elected Head of Government of this country by the security services.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "call for an inquiry. I have to persuade you, Mr. Speaker, that the matter is important, because it raises the issue of obligations of hon. Members of this House in condoning trouble made for the elected Head of Government of this country by the security services.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bad taste.\"] I hear it said that this is in bad taste. I will openly say that the late Airey Neave was a friend of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "State Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": ". Members of this House in condoning trouble made for the elected Head of Government of this country by the security services.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bad taste.\"] I hear it said that this is in bad taste. I will openly say that the late Airey Neave was a friend of mine— [Interruption.] It is important also because a beneficiary of so much of the late Airey Neave's activity is the present Prime Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Rating System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "c. 798.] All local authority associations, including the Conservative-dominated Association of District Councils, have damned the proposals for a poll tax, and so have many others. Opposition to the poll tax in England and Wales is as widespread as it is in Scotland. Ministers, knowing this, have dodged and refused debates in the House, and any detail of the impact has had to be dragged from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Rating System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "and any detail of the impact has had to be dragged from them. [Interruption.] The importance of this is clear. A poll tax is unheard of in the western world outside the United Kingdom. It is a medieval tax. It will hit all those on low incomes, including widows, pensioners, families with adult children and the single unemployed everywhere. It will hit inner London and widen the north-south divide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.285.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.287.8", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "t, I wrote to her on behalf of Opposition Members asking why, for four months, she told the House that no inquiry was necessary into the treason allegations when in fact an inquiry was taking place at the same time. As you know, Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is usually meticulous in replying promptly to correspondence. I have received an acknowledgement, but not a reply from the Prime Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.287.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Just answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman from his partician loftiness is shouting from a sedentary position; he would do well to listen to the changes that were made in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.325.6", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "at currently come from the UGC—which at the moment meet the rates on student accommodation—is a matter of university or higher education finance. Obviously, it must be considered but it is not a matter on which, from the Dispatch Box, I shall either give a projection or make a policy statement. Quite rightly, because that is the purpose of the amendment, I am dealing with the position of students—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.325.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that point, because it is also valid regarding future provisions for non-domestic rates. The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) kept on referring to the fact that the poll tax will rise. The only reason why the poll tax will rise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "why the poll tax will rise — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Poll tax!\"]—is if high-spending local authorities decide to continue to increase their expenditure. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) also made that prediction. If that is his prediction for Labour authorities in Scotland, it is about time that Scottish ratepayers understood that. We believe that once the community charge is in place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": " — those who are not eligible for grant, foreign students, and so on. I believe that those groups will view the amendment as a concession. It is a further concession that I am sure people in the hon. Gentleman's area will appreciate because the original proposal that we made was that the support given through the grant system would attach to a figure, likely to be 80 per cent. of the average poll—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-13", "file": "debates1987-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bd75a580a7e2fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I understand the passion of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Mr. Douglas) on this matter, but when he is speaking as a Member of Parliament he should not allow his passion to cloud his judgment of the facts. My hon. Friend the Minister sought to intervene to make those facts clear to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-13a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Before answering that question, may I add my personal regret that I fear that this may be the last time that my right hon. Friend will make a contribution in this House. I know what a loss so many hon. Members feel that in future we shall not have the pleasure and the value of his contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman has another question on the Order Paper. In case that question is not reached, may I say how much we have admired his contributions to discussions on the subject. He will be sadly missed, personally if not politically, in the next Parliament. We wish him well with whatever he turns his hand to when he leaves the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.411.8", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Gentleman complains that waiting lists are too long. The fact is that Labour Governments have presided over", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.411.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.411.8", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Gentleman complains that waiting lists are too long. The fact is that Labour Governments have presided over [Interruption.] increases in waiting lists and Conservative Governments", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.411.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Both in terms of the numbers on waiting lists and in terms of the waiting time on waiting lists, the Prime Minister is misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.416.5", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This is more in the nature of an RSVP than a point of order, and I am sure that you will allow me to make it. It was extraordinarily kind of you to issue such a privileged invitation to me for these small drinks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.416.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Airbus A330/A340 Projects", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "It is a little unfair of the hon. Gentleman to say that the imminence of the general election brought about the announcement. We had to make the announcement by 11 June because of the Paris air show, which begins on that date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-05-14", "file": "debates1987-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a780b4c9c5633be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.430.7", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I think that we can take the amendments shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-05-14a.430.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-17", "file": "debates1987-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "2728c5a4502dc6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "May I first extend to you personally, Sir Bernard, hearty congratulations and a warm welcome in your new capacity as Father of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-17", "file": "debates1987-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "2728c5a4502dc6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": " House is more orderly. The acceptance speech which the right hon. Gentleman made to the House in 1983 was naturally a model of its kind and in it he made several comments on the task of the Chair as he saw it and some promises to the House. One of his first comments on that occasion was that he had listened to many long and overlong speeches and he hoped that brevity will be the order of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-17", "file": "debates1987-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "2728c5a4502dc6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And their husbands.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "ut it. That task will not necessarily have been made much easier by the outcome of the recent election. In 1983, the right hon. Gentleman told the House that he hoped to do something which all of us can testify that he has done and which has been of great value to us all. That was to make Speaker's House somewhere with \"a family atmosphere\" and to allow right hon. and hon. Members and their wives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-17", "file": "debates1987-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "2728c5a4502dc6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Weatherill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Weatherill", "preceding_text": "straint of hon. Members, managed to make that an average of six. It is for that reason that I constantly appeal—I appeal again today — for short speeches. In response to the hon. Member for Woking, I appeal too for short supplementary questions. They are usually the more effective. In the second year of my Speakership I received a present from my grandchildren—the mumps. As I was on my death bed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-17a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ner-city areas, which are driven out of business. A new partnership is needed between central and local government on the one hand, and private enterprise on the other to regenerate the inner cities and provide industry and commerce with new life-blood. The newly-established Trafford Park Urban Development Corporation is the vanguard of that new partnership. There, the commitment of £160 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andy Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy Stewart", "preceding_text": "being a parliamentary orator with the charm and grace of a pneumatic drill. On this important occasion I have left my drill at home. I have a second reason for pride—I have had the best of both worlds. I was born a Scot and then had the good fortune to live in Nottinghamshire for 26 years. I can recall just a few short years ago when I first entered the House and found my way to the Strangers Bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman announced to the hushed house, \"My grandfather did not send the troops to Tonypandy. Under his orders, they detrained\" — I remember the words well \"at Swindon.\" There was a gasp of awe around the chamber of the Oxford Union. The hon. Gentleman followed that with the unforgettable words, \"My grandfather did not send troops. He sent only 100 mounted police and 200 unmounted police.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "tchedness or the division of which Winston Churchill spoke in 1945. They will insist that all that they propose are means of modifying and modernising in the name of what they call independence and choice. But independence for whom? Independence for the tenant who must pay a decontrolled rent? Independence for the youngsters who must accept whatever training they are given, on pain of destitution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ut, as we do, we know that continually over the past seven years the Government have cut the rate support grant. They have chopped housing support by 60 per cent., reduced industrial development aid and abolished investment allowances. They do not have the desire or the will to commit the means necessary to deal with the corrosion of life in the inner cities and in many other areas of devastation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Trafford Park is outside his constituency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "Loyal Address and the great eloquence and research that they both brought to their task. My hon. Friend the Member for Davyhulme knows well the problems of bringing modern technological industries into the older industrial areas. He was instrumental in trying to get an urban development corporation for Trafford Park, some of which falls in his constituency, because he wants to bring to that area —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.52.5", "colnum": "52", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at he has done for us on his own account. I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood on his excellent and witty speech, and on his tremendous victory two weeks ago. We remember the firm stand that he took against intimidation and on the right to go to work during the coal strike, and this won him the support of local miners and of the overwhelming majority of people in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.52.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.55.5", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng-term efficiency and survival. Unless we had done that there would have been far more unemployment than there is now and British industry is now efficient and doing very well. That is an interesting book and I may have time to quote rather more from it during what I have to say. Nevertheless, Government special schemes will continue to play a very important part. There will be guaranteed places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.55.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Those schools will be on the same financial basis as local education authority schools. Their fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Those schools will be on the same financial basis as local education authority schools. Their fees—[Hon. Members \"Ah.\"] I mean their finances. There will be no fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.58.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.61.9", "colnum": "61", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Britain has taken a lead in shaping the West's position in the negotiations on intermediate and shorter-range nuclear missiles in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.61.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.61.9", "colnum": "61", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Britain has taken a lead in shaping the West's position in the negotiations on intermediate and shorter-range nuclear missiles in Europe. [Interruption.] It is my belief that an agreement consistent with NATO's security can be reached by the end of this year. Opposition Members have not learnt the simple lesson that a strong defence policy and a successful arms control policy are directly linked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.61.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "If that is what the right hon. Gentleman is worried about and is what lies behind the sentence in the Gracious Speech, I can tell him, as he must know perfectly well, that he is dealing with tiny numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-25", "file": "debates1987-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3cb4e82079fd144f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "r of the Exchequer engineered. That boomlet will soon peter out. Nothing in the Queen's Speech will change the underlying weakness of the British economy. All the pre-election carrots, including the minimal tax cuts and other minor concessions in the months before the election, will turn rotten when the chill economic winds of recession begin to hit the British economy in the next 12 to 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-25a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-26", "file": "debates1987-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "a48b2a6604be8038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must understand the importance of reaching conclusions that take account of the overall availability and non-availability of resources. One must take great care about agreeing on any programme without asking oneself, and getting an answer, whether resources will be available to meet the programme foreshadowed within that framework.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-26", "file": "debates1987-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "a48b2a6604be8038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "tified in recent weeks to read some of the French newspapers. I hope that they have been able to observe some of the opinions recorded in the overseas press. For example, L'Express said : Britain has a foreign policy which has made the British proud of themselves again\". Le Nouvel Economiste described Britain under a Conservative Government as the defender of European independence\". I could go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-26", "file": "debates1987-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "a48b2a6604be8038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "seen the replacement of any hope of consensus and of any real care for the people and problems of the inner cities by the men and woman who now swell the ranks of the Conservative party and sit on the Government Benches. We have seen consensus replaced by zealots and place persons who want nothing so much as the destruction of our gains and our party, and who will do anything to achieve that goal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-26", "file": "debates1987-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "a48b2a6604be8038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Voluntary Services (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "ealt with effectively. The hon. Gentleman said that he represents the safest Labour constituency in London. I hope that he will allow the ideas put forward by the Conservative party to take root in his constituency and will not be deterred from allowing that to happen by the prospect that it may cause more people in his constituency to wish to vote Conservative next time than did on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-26a.232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.243.4", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I have already answered a question about the latter point. I do not accept everything that the hon. Gentleman has said. As to his first point, I believe that these enterprises should be profitable and safe. If they are not safe, I shall take the necessary action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.243.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " distinctive needs, as I believe is right and proper. The Opposition wish to draw attention to the differential levels of unemployment, but those differentials have existed for many years, and the Labour party and Labour Governments have been conspicuously unsuccessful in resolving them. To date, no Labour Government have left office without leaving more unemployment than when they came to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "of, for example, the west of Scotland. Yet Members representing Glasgow constituencies speak with pride of the transformation of Glasgow in the past 10 years. They rightly believe that Glasgow is miles better than it was and represents the best example of urban renovation that the United Kingdom has seen. Where do they think the resources came from which enabled that transformation to take place?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.263.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.268.7", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You used to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "time was it suggested that that should be a reason why Labour policies should not be implemented south of the border. The fact is that Labour Members are as unionist as Conservative Members. They fought a United Kingdom election to choose a United Kingdom Government, and they had better acknowledge the result of that election. Opposition Members also attach importance to the subject of devolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.268.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "otland have drawn attention to the enormous damage that would be done to the Scottish economy and to the prospect of attracting investment into Scotland if, as a consequence of the success of the Labour party, such an assembly, or whatever, were created. I am happy that there should be a debate on these issues throughout Scotland, and between the different political parties, over the coming years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I always like to listen to the self-proclaimed Robespierre of the Labour party. The hon. Gentleman claims to be a great man of principle who trusts the people, but we all recall that in an earlier incarnation he was the Member for West Stirlingshire. We notice that he was so confident of his popularity in Stirling that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.271.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "us will want to know which hon. Gentleman will resign. The unexpected promotion of the two hon. Gentlemen—I wish them well—is striking evidence of how hon. Members have had to be promoted into the firing line to fill yawning gaps left by their party's ever-lengthening casuality list. This is not just a Scottish phenomenon. The Labour party has achieved tremendous results in the north and in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman cannot answer that question. Many people write to me saying that we should all get our act together and produce a common position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ntleman cannot answer that question. Many people write to me saying that we should all get our act together and produce a common position— [Interruption.] I am not talking about my own personal act. While it is true that almost all of the people who write about that are not involved in party politics and do not really understand how they function or the loyalties and motivations that they require—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Barney Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Barney Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "we judged then that it would not be a \"fairer\" tax. Of course, I stand by those conclusions. However, what seems to have happened since then? Presumably Ministers have become convinced that it would be \"fairer\" and a satisfactory replacement at least for the domestic rating system in Scotland because that was the legislation that they brought before the House. I was prepared to go along with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "It is not unknown for me occasionally to agree on certain matters with the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (M r. Smith). Occasionally, we agree on one or two political issues rather too often for our respective political good. On this occasion I agree with everything that he said about today's maiden speeches. I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "poken from the Labour Front Bench that I can remember to conceding that Scottish Members, in his vision of things, might give up their involvement in English education, English housing and other domestic matters here. That smacks of opportunism when it comes from a Scottish Labour MP. Scottish Labour Members are wrong if they believe that their position in Scotland is matched in England. They try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-29", "file": "debates1987-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "5fc5e9a48f1947b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ple in the inner cities more access to the good quality employer-led training schemes that we are now introducing. That should happen to job training schemes as well. Through the MSC we have been encouraging the growth of self-employment. Self-employment has been growing most rapidly in parts of the north of England, not just in the south. The biggest increase has been in Yorkshire and Humberside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-29a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.361.7", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend referred to a particular case which he said had been brought to his attention and on which I am not in a position to comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.361.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.366.6", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Look at the jacket.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Safeway Food Stores (Food Contamination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I can only imagine that the hon. Gentleman did not listen to my answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "an vote on which to call, such as in Newry and Armagh and South Down, and where they can go forward under the slogan, \"Let's get rid of the Prod.\" They cannot deal with the opponent which the Anglo-Irish Agreement was designed to help them to defeat—Sinn Fein. It is significant that, in West Belfast, if we combine the votes of Joe Hendron and Gerry Fitt, the SDLP was roundly defeated by Sinn Fein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "r people? They are denied access to the nation's wealth, and denied opportunities that abound for those gentleman on the Conservative Benches every day of the week. They are rarely seen in the Chamber. Between 8 o'clock in the morning and 10 o'clock at night, when they turn up to vote, where are they? They are in the City, stripping the nation of its assets. This is an unrepresentative Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "erything that is in the air. I think that man will go far. My hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead, East (Ms. Quin) made an eloquent speech and I particularly welcome her because we share a record. We crossed the Humber bridge together before it was opened, and when the car crashed I broke my back. She was in the car at the same time and I am pleased to welcome her to the House. We both recovered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "Contrary to what the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East says, the youth training scheme offers training leading to recognised qualifications, and two thirds of trainees go into jobs or into further education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-06-30", "file": "debates1987-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ecca5858b580e0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " on higher rates of benefit. Therefore, we propose that those working on the community programme should be paid an allowance which gives a premium over and above their social security benefit. That will ensure that no one entering the programme is worse off than he would have been on benefit and that no one is deterred from taking up the opportunities for financial reasons. That is a major reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-06-30a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "Again I must tell the hon. Gentleman that I am sorry that he was not present when Sir John Burgh made his interesting speech.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Back again?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Can the Foreign Secretary assure the House that his Government will not seek —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Can the Foreign Secretary assure the House that his Government will not seek — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Back again?\"] May I allay the alarm on the Government Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady speaks with great assertion on matters on which one suspects she is not as expert as she claims. The reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.483.7", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's question is naive, even for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.483.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "were increased to 1·4 per cent. we received an excellent arrangement for rebate which has meant that since the Fontainebleau agreement £3·2 billion has been returned to us by way of rebate. Part of that came from effective control over spending. As I explained, in a minute to the European Council, that has not proved to be watertight. On the contrary, agricultural spending has gone —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is very successful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ting in secret deny freedom of information or involvement not just to individuals but to local authorities and to voluntary organisations as well. Such corporations are not required to cooperate in other local plans; too often, the property market leads their work and it is not led by local people's needs or choices. The London Docklands development corporation is the worst example in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": ". Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) — the first unblushing maiden of this Parliament — made a plea for us to leave matters to inner city local authorities. He asked for the opportunity to do things for ourselves.\" — [ Official Report, 25 June 1987; Vol 118, c. 73.] Translated, that means spending more public money. The hon. Gentleman has been doing that for a long time in Sheffield —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "so that any authority that spends more than its grant-related expenditure should not be allowed to increase its expenditure this year by more than the rate of inflation. That should apply throughout London because, if it does not, the problem of the Socialist desert will spread. I hope that I am allowed to return to that matter at some time in more detail. However, I conclude on a tone of harmony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "my constituency. When I asked a councillor to look into her case the answer came back, \"It's not possible because just about all the houses in her street have been sold off.\" That has happened in the last seven or eight years. The Prime Minister and her colleagues have been in power for nearly a decade. They have deliberately used mass unemployment as a weapon to degrade and humiliate our people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A core curriculum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that point in a moment. May I finish my point about the national curriculum? The hon. Member for Durham, North (Mr. Radice) said that we might find some common ground. There is considerable agreement across the country that we must move this way. There is agreement that there should be a national curriculum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.586.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-01", "file": "debates1987-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a2ee8cb5bf58367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "out wishing to detain the House I would like to comment briefly on the rather unfamiliar procedure that we have before us. We find that no fewer than 31 Ways and Means resolutions have been put before the House to be moved formally by my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary. I believe that we understand the reason for this procedure, it is because it is the intention of my right hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-01a.594.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which statement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree with the statement that her Secretary of State for the Environment made last night in the debate on the Loyal Address?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.623.6", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would not agree that the worst off will be adversely affected. Most single people in houses, single pensioners and widows will be far better off under the community charge. The worst off will be those on supplementary benefit. The less worst off will get up to 80 per cent. rebate of the community charge. The worst off, in addition to an 80 per cent. rebate, will be on supplementary benefit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.623.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.645.7", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "etween 4 and 9 per cent. on items that are currently exempted—fuel, food, children's clothing and shoes, new building, books, periodicals and newspapers. He proposes changes in the standard rate from 15 per cent. to somewhere between 14 per cent. and 19 per cent. Knowing Lord Cockfield as I do, it is inconceivable to me that he made those proposals without receiving the Prime Minister's blessing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.645.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "e tax, VAT and national insurance contributions has—increased since 1979. The family with two adults on average earnings and two children paid 38·4 per cent. of its income in tax in 1978–79. This year, the same family will pay 41·2 per cent. The Government certainly intend to reduce income tax, but I have no doubt that they will compensate for that reduction by extending VAT —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "rnment won some of the arguments on economic policy but not all of them. The area in which the Government lost the election was wisely drawn to our attention by the right hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison) in a very thoughtful speech. He said that he thought that the Government had won on points. Conservatives have to say that. However, he was really saying that the Government lost on points —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Health Service. There are probably few things closer to my heart than the effective running of the Health Service. It is totally true that we can basically go on spending money in an almost unlimited way and there will never be satisfaction, but the percentage of GDP that the country currently spends on the Health Service is inadequate when judged by any comparative standards all around the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "light of what I said about the internal market for the Health Service. In their education proposals, when they are asking for a self-governing school, with the freedom to free itself from local government bureaucracy and run itself, why do the Government not say that entry into that school will be on a non-selective basis, following the same selection criteria as those used by the local authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "lklands factor gave the Conservatives a far bigger majority than was actually there. Their true majority was probably about 70 or 75. I thought that, because of that, in one go we could take that majority from the Conservatives in the 1987 election. Now that they have a majority of 101, I am hoist on my own petard. I admit that it is likely that this is in that sense a larger victory than in 1983—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " was another stage towards realignment. Different opinions may be held on whether Devonport would join Bexley, Sidcup or Bexley, Sidcup would join Devonport. But there are more choices than have emerged from the speeches that we have heard. It is not just a matter of whether one is a monetarist or a supporter of Disraeli; whether one believes in caring and sharing and competence or in paternalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "ndustrial competitors abroad have seen their industries advance, and although we had the oil surplus we were not as successful. In a number of respects oil is no different from any other commodity. I know that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not very happy about introducing any restraints on our exports of oil. He must understand that his enormous advantage lies in a high world price for oil. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "n we suffered the misfortune of Socialism, which kept out-of-date industries in being long after they had become irrelevant. Scotland is not in favour of Socialism. It is against the despair of Socialism. To what did Socialism appeal in this election, if it appealed to anything? It appealed to despair. Socialism even got hold of a little boy who needed a heart operation and said, \"Isn't it awful?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-02", "file": "debates1987-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c3e81c897c27fe64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "There is no convincing evidence that the movement of people of this type from Britain to overseas universities and research institutes is governed by the levels of taxation in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-02a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-03", "file": "debates1987-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "ff586fee132c70fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-03a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "the Government. We need Government attention, Government understanding and Government financial support. Most of all we need Government assistance. Recently, Bradford launched the \"Bradford is bouncing back\" campaign. That was based on the \"Glasgow is best\" campaign. We are desperately trying to improve the image of the city and to encourage: visitors with the hope that they will come back again.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-03a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-03", "file": "debates1987-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "ff586fee132c70fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-03a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a very good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "give me the names of some of the shops in his constituency where one can acquire one or two of the bargains that he mentioned. I am sure that he will have a long and happy time in the House. Unfortunately, the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz) has not stayed, but he made a dignified maiden speech. He referred to \"Red Leicester\" on 11 June. I always thought that Red Leicester was a cheese —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-03a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "\"Today\" Newspaper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. There is more than a streak of hypocrisy in those who claim that somehow it is desirable that Today is owned by Mr. Maxwell rather than by Mr. Murdoch if they are pretending that it will be in the public interest rather than their own narrow political interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "\"Today\" Newspaper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " say that the Secretary of State did not rely entirely on that resolution. I hope that that is the case, because if one accepted everything people said one would not make the independent, objective analysis that the Fair Trading Act 1973 requires of the Secretary of State. Let us consider the other evidence. Apart from the fact that it was well known that there were other purchasers in the offing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "\"Today\" Newspaper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "elieve that, in fairness, it should be quoted in full. The article contains a direct quote from Tiny Rowland, which states: 'We probably have to reach sales of 500,000 to break even. We have already raised the figure to 340,000 and we are confident that if we spend another £25 million to £30 million we should do it'. He likened the paper to a mine shaft which had not reached the ore-bearing rocks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "\"Today\" Newspaper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "ive party, has worsened in the current decade. Ten of the 17 \"Fleet street\" nationals have changed hands since 1981. The Government's view, which they also apply to radio and television, is that all that counts is the depth of a pocket or purse. Newspapers, television and radio stations — they are all for sale. They are simply other commodities that can be bought by and sold to the highest bidder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "\"Today\" Newspaper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "attention of the Opposition that in 1974 there were two separate campaigns. The Sun, which at that stage had already been acquired by Mr. Rupert Murdoch, placed itself firmly under the Labour banner. It is absurd for the Opposition to pretend that there is a substantial case for levelling the charge of political partiality against Mr. Rupert Murdoch when The Sun supported the Labour party in 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.51.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "\"Today\" Newspaper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "week, out of a total of only 32 million sold in this country. Mr. Rupert Murdoch, on \"Panorama\" in January. said: We have enough in this country. We are now going to improve our product. Hon. Members on both sides of the House will have seen from recent editions of The Sun how improved that product has been. Mr. Murdoch, however, should not be taken lightly. He is a ruthless and ambitious man who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.66.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) that, even with his renowned lack of ability and understanding, he is quite capable of working that out for himself. Labour Governments created the Commission for Racial Equality, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Health and Safety Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.90.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-06", "file": "debates1987-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "f99a3ca357830ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "l deal with my question adequately and in some detail. There are many other points to be made. However, I am very conscious of the pressure of time. The debate can last for only 45 minutes, and many of my hon. Friends wish to speak. I am also conscious of the fact that we must give the Minister time to reply, and to deal with specific Scottish points. I hope that he will not think them nitpicking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-06a.156.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-07", "file": "debates1987-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "389cec968083fa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.188.9", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In view of the strong hostility towards the poll tax from members of the Prime Minister's party in the House, and from diehard supporters outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.188.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-07", "file": "debates1987-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "389cec968083fa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman asking that if the EEC comes in with a proposal to change our capacities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-07", "file": "debates1987-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "389cec968083fa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Register of Members' Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": " as the Local Government Bill, those with such interests should not be allowed to vote pending the publication of the register. I would say that they should not vote for all time, but I am a very tolerant and reformist sort of person. The resolution passed in 1975 was specifically for the purpose of ensuring that, when hon. Members voted, people outside the House knew of their pecuniary interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-07", "file": "debates1987-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "389cec968083fa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ere for a while. If we look at the record of those 50 years and then look at the record since we have had direct rule, we can see the tombstones we are erecting every second day in Northern Ireland. The House needs to ask itself whether it made the right decision on that day. All I can say is that we do not rule our Province. If there are no civil rights in Northern Ireland, there is a conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-07", "file": "debates1987-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "389cec968083fa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The community charge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman reminds me of the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-07", "file": "debates1987-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "389cec968083fa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "t in the recent election Sinn Fein increased its vote to 83,000, which is only 17,000 less than its highest vote at the height of the hunger strike. Such was the result of the 1987 election. Those are the facts whether hon. Members want to believe them, or whether they want to close their eyes and allow the Province to run on to the precipice of disaster and destruction. Those are the solid facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-07", "file": "debates1987-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "389cec968083fa48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "hile opposition to the agreement remains firm—I accept that it is an opposition from people in Northern Ireland as well as from politicians—nevertheless there is movement in the sense that the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley and the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) are back in the House of Commons and taking part in our debates. The electricity and rhetoric are back in the air —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-07a.253.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.335.8", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "preceding_text": "Given the strategic importance of the British textile industry and the fact that it recently reported a trading deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.335.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The figures can be circulated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The disclosure of end user certificates is something that is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "The disclosure of end user certificates is something that is not— [Interruption.] It has been the practice of Governments not to make public information relating to end user certificates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.348.8", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that when the poll tax is introduced there is to be a revaluation of business property, which will result in a tremendous increase in the rates on those premises?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.348.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that, despite what the Government say and all the gimmickry, the telephone system is now worse than it was?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "asic rate to fall further. The hon. Member for Dagenham glossed over that when he talked at great length about Great Britain's economy in terms of Great Britain Ltd. and the attitude of prospective investors. Taking the hon. Gentleman's analogy further, every elector is an investor and every investor had an opportunity only a few weeks ago to pass a verdict on the performance of Great Britain Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e past few years. Those fundamental conflicts must be resolved by the Government during the next few years. The consumer boom has become virtually a truism, but growth in consumption during the past few years has virtually doubled economic growth. Department of Trade and Industry figures published earlier this week showed that there had been £3 billion of new loans in May alone—11 per cent. more —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.451.4", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin J. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin J. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " UDR. The Committee was denied the right to call Mr. Calcutt to give evidence concerning the Cyprus spy inquiry. It was also denied oral evidence from the Campaign for Homosexual Equality on matters relating to homosexuality in the armed forces. We recognise that such matters still require consideration, and we hope that in response to the debate the Minister will provide us with more information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.451.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "t section applies. I doubt whether disciplinary action has been taken in this case, and I wish to bring it to the Minister's attention. At first sight my complaint may seem to be trivial, because it relates to material that is on sale at that base, including stickers and a song book. But this is a serious matter. The stickers depicted an F-111 and carried the slogan \"Warsaw pact central heating\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.459.4", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "I am happy to tell the House, as I have been doing, that that material was on public sale at an open day at RAF Upper Heyford, where a British commander is in charge. If the hon. Gentleman will allow me to continue, I want to tell the Minister that I hope that he agrees that the fact that that material was produced—albeit, I suspect, by American service men—and was put on sale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.459.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "here were about 4,700 pilots in 1978 and they were flying 76,000 sorties annually. Those are the Minister's figures. Eight years later in 1986, we had 4,751 pilots—only 51 more than in 1978, so effectively there was the same number of pilots—yet the number of sorties increased from 76,000 to 151,000. In other words, the number doubled. Are we saying that pilots in 1978 were untrained and that now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-08", "file": "debates1987-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ec3362e21f5576a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He may not agree with the hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "t, which would then enable us to exercise those sections in the Act, which would ensure that they are fully disciplined. Indeed, we might then increase the number of courts-martial from one out of 34,000 complaints in 10 years to many more. But the Minister does not seem to want to do that. I say to the Minister that my constituents want that equipment to be installed. He has a duty to install it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-08a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.501.10", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "he hon. Members for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) and for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) on the Opposition Front Bench demonstrate that debility is not necessarily a bar to advancement in the Labour party? In view of the disgraceful scare-mongering that was carried out during the election campaign on the issue of VAT, has my hon. Friend yet received an apology from those hon. Gentleman for the lies that were told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.501.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Why are the interest rates of Belgium, Canada,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Why are the interest rates of Belgium, Canada,—[Hon. Members \"Reading\"]—France, West Germany, Holland, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America all lower than the level of interest rates in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.508.4", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "Does the Chancellor agree that for far too long we have ducked membership of the European monetary system because of short-term arguments that have disappeared on the next prevailing wind of the world currency market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.510.5", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "most hon. Members will agree that it is utterly contemptible to use the privileges and platform of the House to smear the reputation of those who lost their lives in the service of their country. I know that many of us in the House have the deepest sympathy for the families who are now suffering such grief and distress—the family of Captain Nairac a courageous officer of whom Britain can be proud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.510.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.510.8", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before we have any more questions of that kind, may I say to the hon. Member for Suffolk, South (Mr. Yeo), who well knows the rules—and to the whole House—that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.510.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.510.9", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t not be put to that purpose. However, it is fair to reflect to the right hon. Lady, that, as grave allegations—probably unfair allegations — have been made by people outside the House against a former Member of the House who died in tragic circumstances, and an officer of Her Majesty's forces, who was murdered, it may be reasonable to reflect upon the Government's decision not to respond to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.510.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member withdraw that nasty remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, the whole nature of Prime Minister's Questions is being changed by the efforts to use them in a particular way—by the view expressed in the question of the hon. Member for Suffolk, South (Mr. Yeo)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.511.9", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "In view of the appalling shooting in Woolwich today, and the further evidence of the widespread availability of pump-action shot guns, and so on, will the Prime Minister re-examine the whole question of the control of firearms? I have two suggestions in particular. First, will she look at the question of having to present a shotgun licence when buying ammunition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.511.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.545.6", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to advise the hon. Member on tactics. There are opportunities to raise these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.545.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-09", "file": "debates1987-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "c8f0ce3c332f31a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "preceding_text": "ike to deal with only one or two and write to hon. Members on the detailed points. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East raised some points that can be answered reasonably quickly. He asked about the St. Helena order. I understand that the tender has been issued and bids need to be in to the consultants by 25 August. Therefore, the matter is now advanced although it has been delayed for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-09a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-10", "file": "debates1987-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b0fd6320a49c5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-10a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "For the first time today, the Minister sounds as though he believes what he is saying, which is rather sad because it means the disillusionment will be greater when it comes. As for his point about a renaissance, I intend to comment on that as my next point arising out of his earlier comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-10a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-13", "file": "debates1987-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7d597fc78175001d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "preceding_text": "r history, to 1931, to find my Conservative predecessor in Battersea, North. That was Commander Arthur Marsden, who was hot foot from commanding HMS Ardent at the battle of Jutland. Therefore, one can see that I look back as well as around and ahead as I consider my constituency. I can look back at another rare bird in this place, a Communist Member of Parliament. Saklatvala represented Battersea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-13", "file": "debates1987-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7d597fc78175001d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Civil Servants (Pensions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": " House how he would go about deciding which part. Would he select specific pensioners for special treatment or would he pay only a quarter of war service credits? He cannot get away with an airy fairy assertion that he would try to be reasonably prudent. He was coming out with almost an alliance-type policy. I would have expected a more robust and clearer statement from the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-13", "file": "debates1987-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7d597fc78175001d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Workers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": " middle of child's back and more on the right side of her waist. Also a very nasty bruise the size of a large egg on the right side at front waist level and more on her thighs the size of a lop coin. Whilst at the kindergarten Mr. Burridge noted the extent of bruising on the child on a skin map, having observed Joy at play.\" At a subsequent conference, two weeks after the previous case conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-13", "file": "debates1987-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7d597fc78175001d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that he was going to talk to the police about how bad the Government's policies on law and order are. I advise him not, in any way, to try to impress the police with the desirability of his party's policies on law and order, because the police would all fall out of their seats laughing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-13a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman taken note of the exchange in the proceedings in Washington involving Colonel Oliver North, in which he talked about some unofficial British organisation tied up with the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I can tell my right hon. Friend that the accident trend is definitely down, and that 1986 was the best year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " careful consideration to comments made by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley), who said that there was a race on between the economic crisis and the general election? Will she also consider the comment by the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) that there is no immediate prospect of an economic crisis? How does my right hon. Friend square that apparent disagreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.973.6", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take an opportunity today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.973.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.975.8", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to your statement, Mr. Speaker. I presume that it is in order to make a comment or to put a question to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.975.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.975.8", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to your statement, Mr. Speaker. I presume that it is in order to make a comment or to put a question to you—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I will take Mr. Speaker's ruling. My comment is that your present practice allows Ministers to get away with no questioning of their conduct until an hour, an hour and a half or two hours later. Some of us cannot hang about that long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.975.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.976.10", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "use can be deeply offended by remarks made by hon. Members in the House under the cloak of parliamentary privilege. If you are prepared to rule on the timing of points of order, will you please make a ruling, for the guidance of all hon. Members, that the House enjoys freedom of expression but that, if that freedom is persistently abused by the Opposition, we shall be in grave danger of losing it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.976.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Licensing (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "preceding_text": "The profundity of that question eludes me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-14", "file": "debates1987-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a687c9b899df547f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Licensing (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "d and in Wales, but, when we consider such matters, Northern Ireland Members cannot move amendments because of the ways in which we consider such proceedings. That is why I signal a warning to the Government that, unless we do something about the over-use of Orders in Council and the constant resort to one-and-a-half hour debates to ram through Government proposals, we shall have no choice but to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-14a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "it, visited the centre of Leeds and south Leeds last week? If he does, he will find that the Leeds, South council has done an excellent job over the years. However, the particular problem that we face, and about which I should like to get something done, is that we have had to knock down some flats that were built only 20 years ago. We shall also have to knock down some duo slab and other housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1126.6", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I am in a position to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1126.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1126.6", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I am in a position to— [Interruption.] —tell my hon. Friend either how many local authorities support the proposal or how many local authorities oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1126.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his depressing reply. It shows that Hard-Left Harlow council is yet again surpassing itself in fleecing ratepayers. Not only is its grant-related expenditure 162 per cent. above the norm, but it is spending above the norm. It is the highest rating district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1128.5", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "The question that I put to my hon. Friend is that, now that the council is embarking on an illegal and shady deal with foreign banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Military Exercises (Radioactive Contamination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "d not only in that incident but who, it would appear, have repeatedly had to go into a hangar at RAF St. Athan, over a number of years, what degree of radioactivity have they been exposed to? It would appear that the medical checks on them have been cursory. What continuing checks are being done? With regard to the future, can the Minister give us an assurance that, as has been said by one of his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1133.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Military Exercises (Radioactive Contamination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister give us an assurance that in future the type of casual approach that has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-15", "file": "debates1987-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7df25f365fa51e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1134.5", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Military Exercises (Radioactive Contamination)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Antony Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Antony Buck", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that responsible Members—I suspect in all parts of the House—welcome what he has had to say? It is appropriate that there should be training of this type and that there should be true professionalism in our armed forces to enable them to deal with any contingency in the event of the most improbable or unlikely accident that could just happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-15a.1134.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already answered the right hon. Gentleman. He will go on raising scares and we will be able to point out how, on a day when the unemployment figures were down, he tried to raise another scare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept the congratulations of the House on the splendid unemployment figures announced today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member is aware, the poorest will be protected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "British Airways/British Caledonian (Merger)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It was a sound policy in 1984 and it may be that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1282.2", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "British Airways/British Caledonian (Merger)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I said nothing of the kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "lls drilled. At the end of last month 22 exploration and appraisal wells were being drilled, substantially more than in the spring this year, when there were only 13. The number is much less than at the end of 1985, when the total was 50. 5.45 pm The industry is in a severe state. Part of the responsibility must lie with the Government's headlong and unwise pursuit of low international oil prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1348.0", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "re constantly raised within the OECD. My ministerial predecessors raised points on behalf of the British shipbuilding industry and I hope that I, too, shall be in a position to do so. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown), in what was perhaps his vale as a Front-Bench spokesman on the shipbuilding industry, as he moves to higher and more important things in the context of the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1369.4", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "church between me and Haslam.\" It was not long before British Coal went to its lawyers and started negotiating again. I am pleased to take part in this debate because a new Minister is on the Front Bench. I shall not welcome him, because I do not know how long he will be here and I am not into that anyway. However, I hope that he will make a better fist of this than he did the Tory party computer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1369.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-16", "file": "debates1987-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "95fa416ec3cc483c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1372.2", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In South Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is holding a press release. I have seen it. It means nothing. There have been no consultations with any of the trade unions concerned. That is just a bit of sky writing for people like the hon. Gentleman to pick up to try to confuse people in his coalfield. They will not accept six-day working. There will be a majority against it in every area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-16a.1372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-17", "file": "debates1987-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b6b9aa29ceb90e93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-17a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "nels have sprung up. The sole aim of the council is to obtain democratic control of the police. Sheffield city council, as one would expect, has a police panel, a monitoring group and a magazine. In issue No. 1 the then chair of the police panel replied to the question, \"Will the new police panel affect policing in Sheffield\" with: Certainly the aim is to improve police accountability in the city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-17a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-17", "file": "debates1987-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b6b9aa29ceb90e93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-17a.1432.5", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "sise the need to achieve proper design in the construction of estates. There is no doubt that one can design out crime, and one should do so in the early stages of any building scheme. The hon. Member for Greenwich (Mrs. Barnes) made a contribution which, like most Liberal party contributions to the matter, was singularly immemorable. However, she made one or two points that I shall seek to wreck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-17a.1432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an extremely interesting point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "shall try to stick to this important debate. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and their colleagues on their excellent and warmly welcomed Budget. At the same time, my right hon. and hon. Friends will be sustained by the fact that it was so splendidly endorsed by so handsome a victory at the last election. The Government have set the framework—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.80.6", "colnum": "80", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "ed production for the next four months to cope with a rise in orders. The average growth rate forecast by 12 recent surveys was 3 per cent. in 1987. Manufacturing industry's recovery has been underpinned by a strong and continuing growth in productivity. Since late 1980, the productivity in manufacturing industry has risen by 43 per cent. That is the best performance of any industrialised country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.80.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.98.2", "colnum": "98", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. What have the walls of Jericho got to do with the Finance Bill? The House is being abused. We have heard one cliche after another. The hon. Member is pouring forth empty rhetoric, Deputy Speaker, and you are allowing it to happen. The time has come for this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.98.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I know that hon. Members, particularly from Scottish constituencies, wish to get on to the important matters that are on the Order Paper for later this evening. I distinctly heard the hon. Member who has the Floor say that he was addressing his remarks to profit-related pay and pension schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "d improving the right of transferees. There is no doubt that the best guarantee of all for anyone is to have his own assets visible, under his own control and professionally managed—and that is exactly what personal pensions offer everyone. That is exactly what the money purchase type of scheme offers pensioners, within and without the large schemes run by employers. We are offering opportunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "es. The second purpose of the order is to adjust the rate support grant payable to Scottish local authorities in respect of the previous financial year, 1986–87. The overall effect in relation to that year is a grant increase of £28·2 million. The history of grant penalties in one form or another stretches back to the last Labour Administration. mention that not as a political point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "May I begin, Madam Deputy Speaker, by rejoicing in your appointment, congratulating you and wishing you well. I am sure that we are all delighted to see you in the Chair. May I say to my friend, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "d any other authority not also be extravagant? The hon. Member for Garscadden merely says that all those things will fall on the ratepayer. Of course they do, because under the present system, the greater the expenditure by any authority, the more the ratepayer pays and the more the person who does not pay rates spends it. That is how the rating system works, and the basis of the community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.121.5", "colnum": "121", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "reland will have to judge whether they want to pay more for political nonsense or for the services that they receive. That is what the order is about, and let no one forget it. If anyone ever says that Scotland is the guinea pig, he should know that we are not the guinea pig — thank goodness, we are once again, as we have been in so much law reform, the leaders and the persons of true principles —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Just so that we get the record straight, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am Bill Walker. I was elected to the Chamber as Bill Walker in three successive elections and I hope that the Hansard and other writers will note that. All the mistakes that were made by others were not made by me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ibutions. He understands that this is a Chamber for debate. It is a place in which different views are aired, and they should be listened to. The comments by the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston) were interesting. He looks forward to a plaque being erected. He was really saying that, after all these years representing his party, he is impotent. The fact is that he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Do you think you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to give way to the hon. Gentleman because of the extravagant claims that he makes. Does the hon. Gentleman really believe that his voice is the only voice that speaks on behalf of Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "n my speech that I spoke on behalf of Scotland. I never made that claim. However, I certainly claim to speak on behalf of Tayside, North. That is the constituency that I represent and which returned me to this unitary Parliament. That is the constituency that recognises that I an hon. Member of this unitary Parliament and that in debates in this Chamber we are debating United Kingdom legislation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "ent, with rapidly rising unemployment? I know that unemployment has doubled under this Government, but at long last it is declining, because the Government's economic policies are working successfully. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will acknowledge that unemployment has fallen steadily in Scotland this year. The fall will continue in the months ahead, because we have kept down public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are Conservative Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": " We have heard an awful lot about the success of the Labour party in Scotland in the election. In the previous Parliament, there were 40 Scottish Labour Members, and they were no good. Now we have 50, and they seem to be worse. I do not think that we have anything to fear from them. They talk of grinding us into the earth all night, every night, although incidentally only about 25 of them are here", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": " delighted to come to Nithsdale. Does the hon. Gentleman know that Nithsdale received the biggest rate support grant increase in Scotland this year? It received a 44 per cent. increase on housing revenue account and a 114 per cent. increase on non-HRA. No local authority has been better treated than Nithsdale by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State in the current economic year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well done\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKelvey", "preceding_text": "Am I right in thinking that the council is made up of 28 members—seven Conservatives, seven Labour, seven independent and seven Scottish National party — all of whom are totally opposed to any cuts introduced by the Secretary of State for Scotland? The four sevens which go to make up the 28 councillors are together on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "There has often been an alliance between the Scottish National party and the Labour party, and somehow or another they manage to influence one or two independents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "larger neighbour, East Kilbride new town. Although those communities may riot have changed over the years, the new town has grown from a small, rural, residential community of 2,500 people to the most successful of Scotland's—perhaps Britain's —new towns. It is now Scotland's sixth largest town and it is still growing. It is not for nothing that East Kilbride is known as Scotland's No. 1 new town—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "ny. Conservative Members have made much play of the fact that Scotland complains about being treated like a colony. This Government are doing that. Scotland is the only nation in the world to have discovered oil and to have ended up poorer as a result. We see poverty and deprivation in our country but we are not allowed access to those resources. Finally, on the mandate issue, it was said earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth (Mid-Worcestershire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth (Mid-Worcestershire)", "preceding_text": "son has been made between Lothian's expenditure and that of any English local authority. I begin to suspect, as I think many of my Conservative colleagues do, that that is because, as ever in a case like this, there is a cosy Scottish conspiracy to ensure that comparisons are made only between those high spenders north of the border and not between them and any local authority south of the border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth (Mid-Worcestershire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth (Mid-Worcestershire)", "preceding_text": "al authority south of the border. [Interruption.] My ratepayers and taxpayers in Hereford and Worcester would be horrified if they knew what was being spent in Lothian region. My ratepayers and taxpayers, who elected a Conservative-controlled county council on the slogan \"value for money\", would be aghast if they knew the rampant expenditure of Lothian region and all the other regions of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.151.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Be patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " the electorate in each area may make a proper judgment as to the level of expenditure of the elected councillors and the level of local taxation necessary to provide the services. I am sure that few people would disagree with that—I am sure that the hon. Member for Brightside would not disagree with that. All of tonight's debate will be rendered quite superfluous once we get the community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Chair does not always hear everything that goes on, particularly below the Gangway. If an hon. Member did use that phrase, which I did not hear, I ask him, whoever he is, to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.154.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made his speech. Perhaps he will make another explaining why —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Where is Teddy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made his speech. Perhaps he will make another explaining why — [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] My hon. Friends are right, we do not want another. I am sure that the Secretary of State in particular does not want yet another attack on him for the way in which he has handled Scottish business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"List them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I have specifically referred to the creation of individual appointments, and I shall go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-20", "file": "debates1987-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc3491110f18e84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "cs back to street corners, factory gates, shipyards, shops, offices and hospitals. That is what we must do. Clearly. if this is the den of thieves, as Lenin said—the Scottish TUC made this point—the triple alliance of the unions, COSLA and the Labour party can challenge the system and the Government. We are a tremendous force, but we must be organised. It is a question of bringing people together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-20a.168.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend comment on the litter situation in Jamaica and say whether we have anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.204.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "me. Again, the Minister is the man who has such material at his fingertips and a whole battery of experts to tell him when he has not, so I have no doubt that he will be able to clarify that point. I was intrigued by the words of the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier). He paid tribute to the Customs officers at Dover. It is remarkable listening to hon. Members pay tribute to trade unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "o, when there was an industrial dispute at Dover, they were treading on each other's heads to get into the Table Office to table early-day motions deploring those disputes and attacking the unions for being involved in them. It just goes to show that there is nothing like a fairly marginal seat to make the advantages of trade unionism even more apparent to Conservative Members than they are to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape) that if he likes to come with me, I shall take him close to the edge. As I feel certain that the Minister will get the proposal through the House and as this is probably the last time that I shall say anything on the Bill or the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "ment to the motion on allowances proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden). Although I am sympathetic to the objectives of the amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), which would, if passed, abate Members' earnings in relation to their outside earnings, I am extremely doubtful whether the drafting of that proposition is sound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe (Mid-Kent)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe (Mid-Kent)", "preceding_text": "eetings which last late into the night so that they can make merely the first steps of a recognition that they might be eligible to put themselves forward to represent a constituency. That is not an easy apprenticeship and it is not one which most of our constituents would wish to undertake. There is another large difference between our position here and that of most members of the general public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "I think that it is time for a change on this subject. I have found over many years in Parliament under both Conservative and Labour Governments that it has never been a right time to pay Members of Parliament or their staff more. In 1964, we received no secretarial allowances, and had to pay for telephone calls outside London. Those things we built up slowly and painfully over a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "rvice. It is wrong for Members of Parliament to be linked with civil servants. Hon. Members have had many arguments used against any increase in their salaries. Writing yesterday in the London Evening Standard , Mr. Enoch Powell suggested that we were gentlemen and that we did not need an increase in pay. I do not know what Mr. Enoch Powell's fee was, nor do I know what Mr. Julian Critchley earns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I recognise an intervention when I see one. I shall give way in a moment if my hon. Friend will permit me. The second qualification is that it may be better to include earnings for which one is paid that come from activities such as interviews, as a result of being a Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.6", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter of principle —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.8", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e points. First, will my hon. Friend explain where or how his amendment would differentiate between earned and unearned income? Will he explain that, because, as I read the amendment, any interest, even from investments, would have to be taken into account? Secondly, may we assume that if an increase is agreed tonight he will waive the extra £4,000, or alternatively resign his practice at the Bar?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.9", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I will answer. On the first point, all income would be included as the amendment is at present drafted. On the second point, the amount recorded as being my earnings at the Bar in the past year is about £900—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.308.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "This debate is one of the occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "o which Tory Members have outside interests; and the Liberal amendment deals with that in some respects. There are many Tory Members sitting opposite me to whom whether the salary is £18,500 or £22,500 is largely immaterial. It is just pocket money to them. Unlike Labour Members, 99 per cent. of whom have as their only job that of Member of Parliament and the income that comes from it, the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.317.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I intend to deal with that point in the latter part of my speech. But, briefly, the answer is no. I shall vote against the increase. If the rise goes through, I shall take the increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Just a second, I said. Some 12 months ago the House decided that, as a matter of principle, 400,000 young workers who were on £40 or £50 a week—hairdressers, those who were working in pubs, clubs, shops, restaurants and clothing establishments—were pricing themselves out of jobs. Yet tonight those same Tory Members are prepared to vote for an increase which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "councils in Scotland. It is true that hon. Members work long hours, but it is ironic that we debated the matter until 3 o'clock this morning, yet on Friday we will have a vote on a three-month recess. Parliament could be organised on a more equal basis and the hours could be shared out over the year. Members of Parliament work long hours, but there are some 3 million shift workers in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "oduced. instead of being on about £28 a week they would be on £49 a week. Those young workers have seen 43 per cent. of their allowance cut because there is no linkage. They have lost some £21 a week because of the freeze. If it is good enough for hon. Members, why does not some Tory Cabinet Minister propose it for the 500,000 youngsters on the youth training scheme? I shall come to my conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " more sociable hours, especially for those who are parents of young children. As a parent of three young children, one of whom is only 10 weeks old, I would agree with that. The other letter from which I shall quote comes from someone in West Sussex. It reads: Dear Mr. Nellist, I applaud your attitude to parliamentary salaries that you expressed two days back on the 'Today' programme of Radio 4.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Sanctimonious.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "r letter from which I shall quote comes from someone in West Sussex. It reads: Dear Mr. Nellist, I applaud your attitude to parliamentary salaries that you expressed two days back on the 'Today' programme of Radio 4.\"— [Interruption.] My hon. Friends who are commenting from a sedentary position will understand the point of this in a moment. The letter continues: I do so all the more when I think\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "It is quite simple. It is the figure over four years, and it works out at between £80 and £90 a week of my take-home salary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "No Stan, not to Militant, to Walworth Road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend from Salford, East (Mr. Orme) would be in a better position tomorrow morning to say to the National Executive of the Labour party that there would be no need for 40 redundancies and the closure of Labour Weekly, Socialist Youth and New Socialist if 229 Labour MPs each gave 5 per cent. of their gross salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.325.5", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Tomorrow morning my right hon. Friend could then attend the National Executive as Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour party and report on additional £250,000 income for the Labour party and stop —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.325.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ith us is a sign of the kind of people we are and the kind of world we expect for those we represent. I welcome the assurances of the Leader of the House about tightening up the procedures and monitoring, because if people outside were aware of the poor conditions in which those whom we employ have to work and the pay on which they have to do it they would want us to double the amount that we pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " hope that they would, because I think that your words, Mr. Speaker, at the beginning of the Session about holding a Government to account can be fulfilled only if hon. Members put in the necessary work and are adequately serviced and supported. Successive Governments have been happy to ensure that all Back Benchers are inadequately serviced to carry out that task. We have only ourselves to blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We already have\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "te in us when it comes to other activities and employment. It is not moonlighting that we are engaged in; it is daylighting. I hope that we shall ensure that we do not continue to work silly hours. We must work in the daylight hours to do the job which we were sent here to do. If we followed market forces and some people's ideas through to their logical conclusion, we would have sponsored Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "It was unfortunate that we were an hour and half into the debate before coming across a dissenting point of view. I suggest that if we took a stroll up Whitehall and conducted a straw poll among the first few citizens we met, we should discover that a different view was held by —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.4", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "andards of many are lower than at any time in living memory, we should be voting ourselves such a massive increase. Last week I was approached by a lady who lives on £30·40 per week supplementary benefit. She was not complaining about that. She contacted me because her benefit had failed to arrive and she was faced with destitution. I have a wages slip from a young woman in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.4", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "ssing factory in my constituency. Her gross pay was £52·20 for a 41-hour week. After deductions she received £47·56. That is not uncommon in this country. Many hon. Members could point to similar cases in their constituencies. As I have said, I cast no aspersions on the motives of any hon. Member. I am simply saying that I am unable to look such people in the eye and to vote myself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.4", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "#x00B7;20 for a 41-hour week. After deductions she received £47·56. That is not uncommon in this country. Many hon. Members could point to similar cases in their constituencies. As I have said, I cast no aspersions on the motives of any hon. Member. I am simply saying that I am unable to look such people in the eye and to vote myself — [Interruption.] I shall come to that point in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "I have no problem with that point and I shall deal with it in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": ", the national average industrial wage would be appropriate. I do not suggest that we should accept exactly the national average industrial wage, but that our wage level should be pegged to that rather than to the wage level of some mythical civil servant over the road whose lifestyle has nothing to do with those of most of the people whom we represent. The question of allowances has been raised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.328.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-21", "file": "debates1987-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b7b1b02db00d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.329.5", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Members' Salaries and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "ances I am left with about £2,240 for the rent and rates on an office in the constituency. There is nothing remarkable about my plans—many of my hon. Friends and, perhaps, some Conservative Members follow the same practice. I am left with £2,240 to pay the rates and rent on the constituency office, pay for a photocopier and more besides. I intend to put the proposed increase towards the allowance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-21a.329.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Not only would the creation of an Assembly of the kind proposed by the Labour party inevitably lead to a reduction in Scottish representation in the House of Commons, but one is entitled to assume that the achievement of what could be called Scottish home rule would lead inevitably to an expectation and requirement for English home rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.357.4", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " as a member of a party seeking to try to achieve a United Kingdom Government. While 5 million Scots returned 10 Conservative Members of Parliament, 16 million Englishmen in the south of England returned only three Labour Members of Parliament. Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that a Labour Government, if it had been elected, would have had no mandate in the South of England? I also remember that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.357.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for his reply—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] I can read; hon. Gentlemen cannot. Is the Minister aware that in the United Kingdom, excluding Scotland, unemployment among the under-25s fell by 13·7 per cent. between April 1986 and April 1987, while in Scotland it is claimed that it fell by a mere 3 per cent? Is he also aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.358.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that Conservative Members are fed up to the back teeth with the carping of Scottish Members? [Interruption.] Is he not also aware that although there may be young people in Scotland who may have been unemployed for a long time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.358.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.372.8", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Polytechnics and Inner London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "horities facing genuine difficulties over the division of colleges and polytechnic assets include some Conservative authorities such as Essex and Hampshire? Why is the Secretary of State now seeking retrospectively to control not only the disposal of land by ILEA but every contract worth over £15,000? Is that not astonishing even by the Secretary of State's standards of megolmaniac centralisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.372.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Polytechnics and Inner London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "artment of the Environment matters, and this matter touches upon such matters. The Government would be accused of gross negligence if, by the time the Education Bill is presented to Parliament, which has been clearly signalled, polytechnics and colleges were mortgaged or leased. That would be to the detriment of students. In the papers that I have seen there is evidence that certain polytechnics —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.374.4", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Polytechnics and Inner London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his support. He is quite right. Members in all parts of the House should take great pride in the polytechnics. They are highly successful institutions of higher education and they have expanded dramatically. As we said in the White Paper, in many cases they are now larger than universities and the number of students—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.374.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.378.6", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Polytechnics and Inner London", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Just one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "n that he will not have my consent for that, even after midnight. I can also assure the hon. Gentleman that the action that I have taken is necessary. Since June, ILEA has been considering what action it could take over its assets. From papers that have been drawn to my attention, there is a clear implication that Nottinghamshire county council is moving against the interests of Trent polytechnic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Polytechnics and Inner London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "It is not retrospective. It would have been retrospective if I had said that it operated from a week, a fortnight or a month ago. I have declared my intention as from midnight tonight and I shall be taking powers to implement it. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that directors of several polytechnics have seen me in the course of the past few weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Polytechnics and Inner London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that declaratory legislation of this type is never popular but that the entire polytechnic world will welcome the action that he has announced today in order to protect the future of education in polytechnics? In the light of the cries from Opposition Members to name names, while he cannot name the authorities which might take action in future —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Polytechnics and Inner London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the irresponsible behaviour of some of those local authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.382.8", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Live.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "If you are aware of that, I am grateful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.382.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "mentary on question 7 about appointments to health boards in Scotland, the Under-Secretary of State said—I paraphrase—that, although it was right that the Secretary of State made these appointments, he was not aware of the politics of the people that he appointed to these boards. I have in my possession four nomination papers from last year's round of appointments to the Forth valley health board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Well, that was my view. I put this point seriously and, I hope, in a reasonably constructive fashion. There was a fair degree of smirking and something of a self-satisfied atmosphere on the Conservative Benches. Indeed, it was the atmosphere of a Sunday school outing —or the parliamentary equivalent of it. Outside in the Lobby, I happened to hear the comment, \"This has been a splendid operation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "As this is the first time that I have spoken since you have been in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, perhaps I may add my name to those who have congratulated you. Perhaps the ladies among us are more pleased to see you there than the gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I should finally say a word about finance. The Commission's original proposal envisaged that the Community's total expenditure on the RACE main phase would be 800 million ecu, or about £560 million. During extensive negotiations in Brussels, in which we played a prominent part, this figure has been substantially reduced as the programme has been refined to cut out duplication and unnecessary work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Those are not my words—they are the words of the Financial Times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-22", "file": "debates1987-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef6cde8ce40fb46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "That may be true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-22a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.479.10", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We had an excellent Cabinet meeting this morning. We issued a statement as follows: The Cabinet had its usual July discussion of public expenditure today. It reaffirmed the policy\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.479.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.10", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I answered that question in detail last week. I am not quite sure to which of the three aspects the hon. Gentleman is referring. He is probably referring to the proposal before the Commission that there should be some approximation of value added tax. That proposal could be passed only by the unanimous vote of all countries. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.10", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nswered that question in detail last week. I am not quite sure to which of the three aspects the hon. Gentleman is referring. He is probably referring to the proposal before the Commission that there should be some approximation of value added tax. That proposal could be passed only by the unanimous vote of all countries. — [Interruption.] It is not a question of vetoing—we should vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.10", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "referring. He is probably referring to the proposal before the Commission that there should be some approximation of value added tax. That proposal could be passed only by the unanimous vote of all countries. — [Interruption.] It is not a question of vetoing—we should vote against it. [Interruption.] That is not a veto; it is a vote against. A veto is the phrase used for the Luxembourg compromise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.480.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.503.5", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guarded.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Did my hon. Friend give a Guardian welcome, or did I mishear him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.503.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.506.4", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must understand the point. He seemed to miss it again. He said that Gateshead could protect jobs and services only at the expense of the ratepayers. That is to put jobs at a low priority because jobs are provided by people who pay rates. Until he and his hon. Friends understand that high rates cause unemployment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.506.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ember for Ealing, North (Mr. Greenway) and others starts criticising, will he realise that the substantial rate increases in those boroughs were caused by years of dereliction when the Conservatives controlled those councils? When will he start defending the system of local democracy and local government accountability instead of coming here and acting like some Stalinist bootboy on the orders of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ch are rate-capped, such as Manchester and Liverpool? Why, for example, should the Prime Minister's costs at No. 10 Downing street have increased 100 per cent. beyond the rate of inflation since Jim Callaghan left, as we have been informed in answers this week? Why has she not been rate-capped? May we have a guarantee that the right hon. Gentleman's statement today will stand up in a court of law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "n councils inevitably have been forced to increase their rates? Does the right hon. Gentleman realise and accept that this poor settlement means more rate increases for Wales in the coming year, or is that perhaps what the Government want? Is this to soften up the public in preparation for the introduction of the poll tax? The Secretary of State says that he has maintained the percentage of grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "alify them for the purposes of the occasion, but nevertheless that is the reality behind his contribution. I noted that, last year, when I announced a generous settlement for local authorities. the hon. Gentleman informed me that it was because of the imminence of an election. Today, when I announced a generous settlement for local authorities, he informed me that it was the result of an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The settlement that I have announced today has already been referred to by a number of the hon. Member's hon. Friends as an extremely reasonable and fair settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.528.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.530.4", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.530.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": " and Railway Company has to acquire new legal and operational limits. If it acquires that new area, the company will be taken into an area of jurisdiction which, at present, belongs to the Ipswich port authority. That expansion will take a chunk out of the Ipswich port authority, so the Bill, in effect, alters the boundaries. Whereas Ipswich is a scheme port — that is relevant — Felixstowe is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.571.5", "colnum": "571", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Retread.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "it clear for the record that the Keighley and Worth Valley railway is a co-operative effort and has never paid a dividend because it is run largely by volunteers who want to see the railway succeed and have no intention of lining their pockets— unlike, I suspect, the people who are promoting the Bill. The amendments have been put forward in a constructive way. As a recent re-entrant to Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-23", "file": "debates1987-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "83647f0e0b6af1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "to respond briefly to the points raised by hon. Members. The hon. Member for Leicester, South (Mr. Marshall) asked why we had rejected various Assembly proposals. I understand that a voluminous document has been prepared and submitted to the Assembly, explaining why a number of the proposals were rejected. I shall be happy to obtain a copy and send it to the hon. Gentleman for his holiday reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-23a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Chile", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "o business, is headed by a murderer. He murdered Salvador Allende in cold blood and he has murdered thousands more since then. The teeming prisons and refugee camps and the appalling poverty of the slum areas of Santiago, Valparaiso and other cities are testimony to the type of Government that he operates. It is a Government of the multinational companies, a Government of repression and of murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Chile", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "they have been corrected. Gross domestic product growth in 1986 was more than 5 per cent., unemployment has been reduced to less than 9 per cent. and there are positive trends in the economy. I do not say that as an apologist for Pinochet, but to ensure a balance and objectivity, although I appreciate that those are alien concepts to the hon. Members for Islington, North and for Bradford, North. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "s. Company managements should lay down proper operating practices. The hon. Gentleman made severe criticisms of the management of Townsend. Indeed, so did the judge. What the House must, in fairness, also take into account, because it is extremely important that the public should understand this, is that the judge specifically went out of his way of say that the new management that has taken over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman has a precedent, I shall be very glad to have a look at it, but I am advised that there are no precedents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly examine the hon. Gentleman's point. Conditions for crossing the Atlantic are different from those for cross-Channel operations and requirements may prove to be different in practice. As the hon. Gentleman knows, I have announced a programme of research into ferry design and doubled the funds that are available for that. I am not sure how quick —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "He is the Admiralty judge. He is the one expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Secretary of State has powers of his own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "is. It is most unreasonable and unfair of him to make those comments. This afternoon I am merely reporting to the House what the judge has found. The suggestion that I have been conniving with the judge is astonishing and from an experienced Member of Parliament like the hon. Gentleman I find it surprising indeed. I have not made the decisions about the master and the chief officer: the judge has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "nt of Transport are not echoed in the judge's report. The hon. Gentleman will have a chance to study that in full and then he will be able to make up his mind. We can return to the subject when we have all had a chance to study it. There have been some reductions in the number of inspectors in my Department. The decline in the fleet has been far faster than the decline in the number of inspectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "and then he will be able to make up his mind. We can return to the subject when we have all had a chance to study it. There have been some reductions in the number of inspectors in my Department. The decline in the fleet has been far faster than the decline in the number of inspectors. [Interruption.] The percentage of inspectors compared with the numbers of the fleet is still virtually unchanged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Herald of Free Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " it. There have been some reductions in the number of inspectors in my Department. The decline in the fleet has been far faster than the decline in the number of inspectors. [Interruption.] The percentage of inspectors compared with the numbers of the fleet is still virtually unchanged. [Interruption.] If anything, it may have increased. Hon. Gentlemen are trying to create an issue out of nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-07-24", "file": "debates1987-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "3df0f12f76340d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Prisons (Overcrowding)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "as well as to turn their attention to the important issue of crime prevention. Overcrowding is not a new phenomenon that has suddenly occurred since 1979. The average prison population in this country has grown steadily and sometimes dramatically since the second world war. As the hon. Members for St. Helens, South and for Bradford, West, like me, came to the House after 1979, I cannot blame them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-07-24a.699.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.709.9", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "While we are on the subject of Central America, will the Minister confirm——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.709.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "SBG Engineering Ltd. (Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": "t of privatisation. A couple of years ago I led a delegation to Michael Ancram, alias the Earl of Ancram, who was then the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. We warned him then that the Government's policies would lead to a disastrous reduction in public transport services and a disastrous reduction in job opportunities within public transport. However, he would not listen to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Palace of Westminster (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "int that I wish to draw to your attention, Mr. Speaker, is that your decision has enormous constitutional importance, far beyond the question whether a person has been badly used. However, anyone in such a position would find it impossible to obtain employment because it would be said, \"Mr. Speaker has said he is a security risk, because by withdrawing his pass he has tried and convicted the man\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Palace of Westminster (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "e way or the other, whatever the implications of what was mentioned. Will you accept, Mr. Speaker, that some of us are alarmed that we have to take the say-so of the security services on this matter? While I would not dismiss it, I would have been happier if the information from the security services had at least been made available to one or two of my right hon. Friends who are Privy Councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about food?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "n. We in the Labour party are opposed to the proposal to sell off the nation's electricity and water industries to private control and perhaps major foreign influence, not least because we cannot accept any argument in favour of private monopoly control of two fundamental resources such as water and electricity which are vital to the social and economic health and well-being of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "e concept of river basin management, so praised by Ministers just 12 months ago. A National Rivers Authority will deal with a wide range of crucial issues, not just regulatory powers on discharges and pollution. It will be responsible for water resource planning, abstraction, water quality, land drainage, flood protection, fisheries, conservation, recreation, navigation, research and sea defences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.801.2", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "preceding_text": " have not thought through their proposals. They are producing mess after mess, and it is no wonder that those of us who admire the paintings of the Secretary of State for the Environment would like him to stick to that and keep his artistic mind off essential issues like water supply and rates reform. I say that with some feeling because I have bought two of his paintings and they hang on my wall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.801.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "If the hon Gentleman is saying that we need different regulatory systems for different industries, that is an easy point to concede. I do not concede that we do not have firm ideas, although we have not yet announced them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "I should like the hon. Gentleman to be aware that there are some hon. Members who, unlike him, are not prepared to do anything in order to climb the greasy pole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.843.8", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ntribution. Those facts were supplied by the Minister's own Department in a parliamentary answer on 4 February 1987, at column 714. The gross budget has declined and the Scottish Office contribution has declined even further. If that is represented as a triumphant endorsement of the Government putting their full muscle behind the SDA, we are in the land of double talk and bordering on the absurd.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.843.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The migrations of SNP Members are beyond my ken and my understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "e a better return for Government money if the factory is established where it is most likely to be successful and where market forces suggest it should be. That is especially important for rural industries because much of rural Scotland is outwith the assisted area map. There are forestry and infrastructure problems in terms of European grants, which are not available except within assisted areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Yes, it extends both to the Devonport Druze and the Selkirk shi'ites. That comment is perfectly parliamentary as a reading of the middle east situation at the present time will show. I should like to underscore the importance of the rural infrastructure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary's intervention was extraordinary. We have just come to the end of a recess which lasted for almost three months —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The people of Scotland will find it astonishing that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "t we were avoiding an examination of other aspects of the Scottish economy and Scottish industrial policy. Perhaps the Government do not want to discuss these issues. But perhaps even more appalling was the fact that the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), in the initial debate that was taking place through the usual channels, appeared to acquiesce in the decision to report progress —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.873.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "rt interrupting and adjourning Second Reading debates. Opposition parties have precious little weaponry available to them in their armoury in any case. We have become accustomed to the Government having increasing recourse to guillotines. I understand that there are occasions when Governments have to use guillotines, but guillotining Second Reading debates is altogether different. It is new to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Yes, including the hon Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson), who keeps meeting me in the Lobby and asking whether I am looking after his interests. I find that a difficult thing to do for a Labour Member who is a gentleman farmer. However, that is a different point. The hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross (Mr. Fairbairn) is a sensible enough parliamentarian to realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "rage of his contradictions and explain the changes in his attitude to the SDA's role in international investment. The motion shows the embarrassment and uneasiness with which the Conservative party views the SDA. Although it welcomes SDA and Locate in Scotland successes in inward investment, it is uneasy because this is a public body, established by a Labour Government under pressure from the SNP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-21", "file": "debates1987-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9c7e0f80bb81135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Encore.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ve trouble in the future, they have another think coming. The only way that the Government can achieve a majority on the Select Committee is to have a Committee of three and press-gang two unwilling Tories to sit on it. That is the ridiculous position that they are in. Then they must consider the Scottish Grand Committee and Scottish Question Time. That will keep Ministers on their toes. Finally —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-21a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.912.8", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "That was not the view that I received when I went to Peterhead and Aberdeen recently. On that occasion it was suggested to me that we had got things the wrong way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.912.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.916.4", "colnum": "916", "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 must understand that there is little I can say about an issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.916.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "With regard to education and the Government's welcome and radical election commitments, may I ask my right hon. Friend to comment on the proposition that they should be introduced as quickly as possible and in their entirety, so that children may benefit from better education and the educational establishment is challenged —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.923.4", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Vancouver)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out of date\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman objects so strongly to straightforward IMF trade figures. I was prepared to have our figures published in that way, but there is no earthly reason —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.923.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Vancouver)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Vancouver)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "it, that sanctions would damage the people in their own countries. We understood that, and I would ask them to understand our views on sanctions. Let me deal with another point concerning the people from those countries. Certainly, we have good civil trade with South Africa. The fact is that South Africa has the best-run and most prosperous economy in the whole of Africa. On its economic results —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Vancouver)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " deal with another point concerning the people from those countries. Certainly, we have good civil trade with South Africa. The fact is that South Africa has the best-run and most prosperous economy in the whole of Africa. On its economic results — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".] On its results, it is the best economy in Africa — a fact which is recognised by many black Africans, of whom 1 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.952.4", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": " not be independent at all but will be merely an exceptionally expensive subscription by the British taxpayer to a missile library owned by the United States. We are all spending £9·265 billion on Moss Bros missiles, to be returned to the proprietors for refurbishing after non-use. Even without this latest disclosure, the Bill contains ironies enough of strange dealings by the Government. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.952.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.959.2", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian today. The right hon. and learned Gentleman did not do that because he could not, because the stories were true. If they were not, he would be able to deny them in his categorical way instead of producing a years-old press release which did not respond to the point made today in the press and the point which I have been making. Those stories are clearly true —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "enter into the details of a defence policy. Instead, it is a time to be extremely cautious. I suggest to the hon. Member for Buckingham with great humility that no party has the perfect defence policy. In engaging in the difficult analysis of international relations on which we have all now to embark, it does not help if we castigate others for insincerity or lack of national vigour. I would add —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.975.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "An Hon Member", "cue_text": "That was one-sided.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "Did I hear the hon. Lady say that NATO is not interested in disarmament? What does she say about the Montebello process, whereby the number of nuclear warheads held by NATO has been unilaterally reduced from over 7,000 to just over 4.000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "artillery because of all the Russian tanks. No doubt the conventional talks will address themselves to trying to reduce those Russian tanks. I see no reason why there should not be simultaneous talks on battlefield nuclear weapons. That, I believe, is the view of the German Government, and of Chancellor Kohl. Alas, as so often in these cases, it is unfortunately not the view of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "annot allow ourselves to do business exclusively on the part of the agenda that is determined by Mr. Gorbachev. We face a tremendous Soviet advantage in chemical weapons, which we unilaterally repudiated, but on which the Soviet Union showed no reciprocity whatever—that shows the futility of unilateral gestures — so we must consider the potency of the Soviet chemical and biological weapons threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-22", "file": "debates1987-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e9abb0de2e423198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I have set out our position with as much clarity as I can muster. Just as the right hon. Gentleman has to discuss matters of defence policy with his hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East, so we have to discuss with our allies what the arrangements should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-22a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Health", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "s just about to mention it as the hon. Gentleman rose to his feet. There are major preventive elements in mental health and it is a matter to which I have asked my Department to give increasing attention. The hon. Gentleman is right; we tend to concentrate on acute illness because, when we look at how much preventable disease costs us, we can see that heart disease is still at the top of the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Health", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "e shall try to take that on board. Much has been made of the difficulties of those in hard circumstances. But the inequalities of health and social class can be tackled and the changes in perinatal mortality show what can be done. Perinatal mortality is down for all social classes. The death rate for social class 5 is roughly where it was for social class 1 when the Labour party was in Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Mr. Frank Larsen and Others (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I shall gladly answer that one. Naturally, I have made inquiries. I am given to understand that there is and has been no connection. I have been asked whether there has been any connection with the Security Service. The security and intelligence services do not fall within my ministerial responsibility but —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Mr. Frank Larsen and Others (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The decision to drop the case was taken without reference to me or to the Solicitor-General and I make absolutely no complaint about that. I have quite enough to do without considering every case in which the Director of Public Prosecutions believes it right to withdraw proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Mr. Frank Larsen and Others (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was it classified?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It was on the basis of that examination, in the circumstances that I described in my statement, that it was considered by leading counsel that there was insufficient evidence to warrant continuation of prosecution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1097.8", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Mr. Frank Larsen and Others (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The matter was referred to an official in my Department at the end of July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1097.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1097.8", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Mr. Frank Larsen and Others (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The matter was referred to an official in my Department at the end of July. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] If I have brought some excitement to a lead-clouded afternoon, I am glad. An official of my Department was notified of the fact that charges had been brought in the sense that the House now knows. No request for direction was made and none was given. I was notified of that communication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1097.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Mr. Frank Larsen and Others (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The inquiries that I have made have established to the best of the information available to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-23", "file": "debates1987-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f0bff13e5ad8df9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Mr. Frank Larsen and Others (Prosecution)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ere is anything sinister in it at all. I venture the thought that, had he acted differently in the face of the advice that he received, he would have been open not only to much more criticism but to much more justified criticism. The prosecution was not consulted concerning the defence application that the court go into camera yesterday. That is the end of the matter. I am sorry if that has shot —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-23a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "The reason why I will not be led along that path is that life is not as simple as the hon. Gentleman makes it out to be. He is asking us to impose a policy on local education authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.14.8", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend list those PAC reports for which the Government still have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.14.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.24.4", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Rooker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.26.8", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Conservative Members have been referring to the subjects of today's debates. May I make it clear on behalf of the Opposition that if the Chancellor will come to the House at Seven o'clock to take part in a debate we shall propose that the subject of the debate be changed to cover this urgent topic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.26.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "uest was made for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make a statement to the House about the financial markets and their economic implications for the United Kingdom. The Chancellor of the Exchequer chose not to make such a statement, but in exchanges thereafter the Opposition made an offer to change the next debate to cover that subject and to enable the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take part —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "at every pressure is being applied to stop a statement being made and to prevent the Chancellor being questioned. It is extremely unfortunate that once again the House is being treated with contempt. The Chancellor is to make a statement later tonight on the subject on which we wish to question him, but he refuses to come to the House. In view of the importance of this subject to our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. One of the changes that has taken place today in the fall of the stock exchange and the changes throughout the world is that it is reported that the underwriters have asked for the BP flotation later this week to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.75.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "rrespondence with the hon. Gentleman — I believe that it was public correspondence — that we do not intend to include proposals on charging in the first draft of the Bill because the consultation process has been extended. Local authorities have asked us to clarify the law on charging, and it is a very complicated matter. The first draft of the Bill will therefore contain no proposals on charging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. F. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. F. Pawsey", "preceding_text": " the consultation document referring to the national curriculum were distributed and that about 7,500 replies were received. The Department of Education and Science received a massive response to those documents and that underlines the fact that, while the timetable may have been tight, it certainly was not impossible. The consultation documents are neither the beginning nor the end of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "of unease. Last year we went from month to month with consultation on the replacement to Burnham and teachers' pay and conditions. That consultation led to disagreement and stalemate. The only thing on which there was agreement was that everybody disagreed with what the Government were doing. Consultation tends to reinforce the prejudices of the education establishment and the teaching profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.106.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is clear from the events of this evening that we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.119.6", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Is it not disgraceful and demeaning that, given the problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.119.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.120.9", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "It is not nonsense. Where is the Chancellor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.120.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-10-26", "file": "debates1987-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "f05189ba1c9032cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it the wish of the House that the three statutory instruments be taken together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-26a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I sometimes wonder whether the hon. Lady and other Opposition Members might consider what they say in regard to the relative comparators between our country and the rest. The hon. Lady may not be aware that health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "During my right hon. Friend's busy day, did she have a chance this morning to hear Sir Nicholas Goodison, the chairman of the stock exchange, whose motto is \"My word is my bond\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Financial Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "lieve that they are no longer assuming a proper underwriting risk. I have been informed by N. M. Rothschild and Sons, on behalf of the United Kingdom underwriters, that a majority of them now take that view. They therefore sent a written representation to the Treasury yesterday afternoon seeking consultation with a view to terminating the offer for sale. I have to say that I was surprised by this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.169.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Financial Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Underwriters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "nd lead them to believe that the state of British industry and commerce is less strong than it is? At the same time, would it not be very bad for the long-term future of this country if emergency measures were sought to be taken at this time? Does my right hon. Friend agree that we should carry on with the rules as they are and that the undertakers should not be relieved of their responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.175.5", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Financial Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the offer for sale in formal terms remains open, with all its full legal impact? Will he take steps to ensure that when the privatisation programme is resumed, measures are taken to ensure that the undertakers—the light off", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": "s, leaving aside the element for domestic rates, would be some 4·5 to 5 per cent. higher; including that element they would be 7 to 9 per cent. higher. So, overall, income support claimants would be receiving higher real levels of benefit than under the previous figures. The number of gainers from the structural reform would rise by a million — from 2·2 million to 3·2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "oduced as a consequence of their appalling failure to manage the economy or to understand that pensioners have an income beyond that which is given to them by the state. We are concerned with the real well-being of pensioners and not simply, as are Opposition Members, with electoral promises. In terms of real well-being, the pensioner saw a real improvement between 1974 and 1979, a real increase —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I always listen carefully to the right hon. Gentleman. Indeed, I do more than listen. The Government have an outstanding record, as do other Governments, on the disabled. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will remember what I said. The reform structure will increase help to the disabled —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "we are focusing £320 million on families with children — 3 million-plus children. I fully understand people's attitude towards child benefit, but we are talking about a child benefit system that is still spending £4·5 billion on top of the amount that I am talking about, so I find it a very unusual set of priorities for the Opposition to focus on the degree to which we are trying to target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "product for income support recipients. For singles over 25, the net product will be 80p higher in real terms compared to the technical annex; for singles between the age of 18 and 24 the net product will be 50p higher in real terms; for couples the net product will be 30p higher in real terms; and for 16–17-year-olds the net product will be broadly unchanged. With regard to income support —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.188.5", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Let me repeat that those people will not be worse off, but with regard to the housing benefit taper —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "y reassurance about those who are already registered. Clearly, those who register after 1 April 1988 will come under the scope of the new system, but we must find a way of targeting more effectively those few people whom we have not been able to recognise within the system. With regard to my hon. Friend's previous question, I recognise his dryness and his long history of support for child benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Is he right or wrong?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I compliment the hon. Gentleman on his ability to put many reasonable points. He will obviously expect me and my hon. Friend the Minister for Social Security and the Disabled to stay in close touch with the disabled lobby about these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "reveals the real Labour party policy; there is no doubt about that. It clearly spells out that it is against the retention of any nuclear weapons; it wrongly says that our weapons cannot be used without the consent of the United States and outlines a future that will be free of all military blocs. The amendment tabled in the name of the.Leader of the Opposition is the most remarkable of all three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " have seen what damage they can do. The danger to the Royal Navy is far greater than it was when the original decision to send it to the Gulf was made seven years ago. There is a real danger that we could be dragged in behind American involvement in the Gulf, especially as the Government foolishly agreed to reflag Kuwaiti tankers with the British flag. That was an unfortunate and serious decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was the hon. Gentleman there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can help the hon. Gentleman. The remarks that appeared in that newspaper were wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.218.4", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "No, it was not my right hon. Friend's analogy and I do not know that he would have used it. That is a matter for him. I said that the position was like the calor gas system. One buys a cylinder when one buys the stove. It is one's own property and one can use it as and when one wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.218.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "t speak to each other. There is only one continent that has remained free from war for 40 years despite those factors, and that is western Europe. The reason for that is clear—it is that each side has deterred the other. Although we may argue about the detail, surely no one doubts that. Had that been the case in other parts of the world, it is possible that wars could have been avoided there also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-27", "file": "debates1987-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "7fe720b6298b8c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I want to get the record straight. During the passage of the Ministry of Defence Police Bill—an extremely amicable process; some might say too amicable—we dealt thoroughly with the business. There was no party rancour and it was a constructive process. We did not need the type of flippant, inaccurate remarks which the hon. Gentleman has made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-27a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.282.6", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "a direct consequence of privatisation and nothing else. As the Government are major shareholders in British Telecom, will the Minister use his influence to try to get British Telcom management to improve the quality of service? We must ensure that manpower levels in the industry are raised in line with the recommendations of the telecommunications unions. If this were done, the quality of service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.282.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is aware that we take action whenever we can through the auspices of the GATT and through the European Economic Community. Secondly, I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.290.7", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The Opposition are struggling to find bad news when the fact is that if one travels, as many hon. Members should do and have done during the recess, among British industry, talking to companies and listening to what they have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.290.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Comments of that kind have to be set against the historical basis, whereby I think it is right to say that Britain has always imported more manufactured goods from western Europe than it has exported to western Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. and learned Friend meets the Director General of Oftel, will he point out that I have never had any cause for complaint about the telephone service and have received no complaints from my constituents?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.301.15", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Mr. Adolfo Calero", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "SEVERAL. HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": " of the House of Commons. I am sure that you will agree that it is important for you to be seen to be even-handed in the matter and to treat both sides and all Members of the House on an equal basis. As my hon. Friend said, I understand that Adolfo Calero, a Contra terrorist leader, known to have led that band of terrorists, killing innocent civilians in Nicaragua, has been invited into the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.301.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Mr. Adolfo Calero", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "I should like to support your ruling, Mr. Speaker, because it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.302.5", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Mr. Adolfo Calero", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is terribly kind —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.302.8", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Mr. Adolfo Calero", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it a different point of order?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.302.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "ing seems to be that the Secretary of State—who, in his days as Secretary of State for Scotland, was a strong supporter of Scott Lithgow—is now using every opportunity to trample it into the mud of the Clyde. That is a source of regret to the Opposition, because, at the last election, most of the shipbuilding areas returned Labour Members, and it is to us that they look for support and confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "ich rescued 28 people from the Kowloon Bridge in November 1986. At the moment the search and rescue facility at Brawdy, along with the other search and rescue facilities in RAF and Royal Navy bases around the country, is the subject of a review. I understand that Bristow Helicopters has made an offer to take over the running of those facilities. It would be wrong for us to privatise that activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "nuclear deterrence. In fact, there was considerable confusion amongst them about the concept of deterrence. That was shown by the hon. Member for Rhondda (Mr. Rogers) when he backed up his hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Ms. Ruddock) in questioning the Secretary of State. They have a policy that has been cobbled together for internal political reasons and it varies from day to day —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made two helpful interventions. He laughs and jokes about Soweto. I have been to Soweto, and he has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "th anxiety the decision to cut defence expenditure\".—[ Official Report, 1 July 1986; Vol. 100, c. 885.] Like his grandfather, the hon. Gentleman might turn out to be a beacon of rightness against a background of Tory wrongness. If the outcome warrants it, the Government should amend their policies to take account of the changes. We in the Opposition have a vested interest in defending our country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-28", "file": "debates1987-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "748aa88ee48082a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Foodstuffs (Radioactive Contamination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is always helpful with his detailed and important questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-28a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I will answer the question. Water is not due to be privatised for several years. I am confident that when that moment arrives we will obtain good value for the taxpayer. We intend to press ahead with our privatisation programme, especially with regard to the water industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that instead of opposing wider share ownership, we should set about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "Even taking into account the minimal drop in unemployment figures in areas such as mine, is the Chancellor not prepared to accept that, if lost taxes are added to benefits paid in areas such as Yorkshire and Humberside, the cost of unemployment to the Exchequer is more than £6,000 per person? Is he not prepared to accept that that works out at nearly £900 per household and that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.441.6", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.441.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.445.8", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ated. With regard to work on space, I have nothing to add to what I said previously. As my hon. Friend is aware, we give a subscription of about £100 million to the European Space Agency. At present we simply could not do any more than that because the amount of taxpayers' money that goes to research and development is very considerable. At present, further money is coming from the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.445.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.447.5", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "With regard to the response of the international finance markets to the United States deficit problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.447.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I remind the hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Is it not a little strange that in a modern society succession to the throne is by the eldest male heir rather than by the most suitable heir? Would it not be better if it were either male or female—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that later: it is relevant to some of my illustrations. I was disappointed with the speech of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": ", almost as grey as the right hon. Member for Goven, in the late hours of the night, it was clear that neither the hon. Gentleman's heart nor his mind had been recruited to his case. Another thing that I find extremely upsetting is the general negativism of speeches made in the debate by Opposition hon. Members. Putting down 2,000 questions to Ministers is not intended to achieve accurate replies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thatcherism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "s if capitalism were in some way a plague bacillus that was bad for employment, for Scotland, for wages and for our prosperity. That is a fundamentally wrong approach. But for capitalism, there would be nothing in Scotland and there would never have been an industrial revolution there. Capitalism is not a plague bacillus to be abhorred; it is a generous tonic and support that is to be encouraged.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "ool with the trade unions, and there is dereliction as a result. Scotland has a poor reputation for trade union relations. The English saw what happened at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and at Linwood years ago and it is not forgotten. All the good that the SDA has done over the past 10 years will be undone if the Labour party does not encourage the trade unions in Dundeee to buckle down. What is more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "st industry that makes the Lake District, Dorset and Devon look like a desert. We have excellent facilities. We have 80 per cent. of the inward technological investment, 40 per cent. of EEC grants, and the majority of regional aid for only one eleventh of the British population. We also have more employed people in Scotland today than have ever been employed in Scotland, with a smaller population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.476.5", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "will remember the great difficulties that arose after the first world war. The opinion, not of the late Lord Clyde, but of his grandfather, was that no person could occupy two offices. As prosecutions were conducted in their name and not in the name of the Crown, they could not be seen to be unable to undertake prosecutions. When I listened on Wednesday night to the speeches of Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.476.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The only people who have been trying to make political capital are Opposition Members. We have already seen that they had the chance of a Supply day last Thursday, which they refused. Further to that, is it not the constant case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.505.4", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell me whether he was one of the Labour Members of Parliament who opposed the investment of about £300 million for a new private hospital to be built on the banks of the river Clyde?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.505.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ber for Darlington is more in tune with that tendency, which is making progress, than is the Minister of State. The lack of enthusiasm with which the Minister opened the debate was also commented upon. There is a need to pose the question whether the SDA will survive during the next five years the new thrust of the coming men who have taken control of the upper echelons of the Conservative party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "and that has marked the successful administration of my hon. Friend. The SDA is now attracting more money than ever before and with regard to industrial investment every £1 of public money attracts £13·50 of private sector investment, compared with £5 only two years ago That marks a substantial difference in opinion and philosophy between Opposition Members and my hon. Friend the Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "the majority party on this side of the House, with the three minority parties facing us. What is the role of the Government in all this? Of course, there was a lot of briefing from the Scottish press office. It was unofficial, but we now know that it was being done by a man who, at least, will now be paid honestly by the Tory party for the job that he has been doing for the past five or six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " but that he and his colleagues are responsible for regional aid in Scotland. He went on to say that he believed that a reduction in the level of regional support was not being considered. That is not correct. I accept that the Secretary of State is responsible for the administration of regional aid, but he is not responsible for deciding what sums of money will be made available for regional aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "olicy for administering regional aid in Scotland is entirely my right hon. and learned Friend's responsibility. The policy formulation is a matter for the Government collectively. My right hon. and learned Friend has a strong interest and he constantly assesses and reassesses its impact on Scotland. My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to cut the funds for regional assistance in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.538.3", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Development Agency Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Ian Lang)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Mr. Ian Lang)", "preceding_text": "jects, the speed with which the agency can devise plans and implement schemes and the ability of the agency and Scotland as a whole to continue to attract inward investment. The new financial limit does not, therefore, pre-empt or anticipate decisions on the agency's future expenditure plans. It has been arrived at on the basis of a realistic assessment of the agency's expenditure in recent years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "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": "onditions the sale could have an adverse effect on market sentiment, particularly in markets outside the United Kingdom where underwriting is concentrated in relatively few hands. And the prospect of an unsettled after-market is naturally of particular concern to BP itself. I have therefore agreed with the Bank of England arrangements designed to prevent a disorderly market in part-paid BP shares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "It is hardly satisfactory to be handed this statement as the Chancellor walks into the House of Commons. However, I can appreciate his difficulty after days of dither and confusion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ational interest. Is it not the case that the first victim will be BP, Britain's largest company? Has not BP made vigorous representations to the Government that the sale should not proceed? I invite the Chancellor to tell us what BP said to him. Is not BP appalled that over 30 per cent. of its shares will be held by the most unwilling shareholders in financial history? Is it not the case that BP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " 30 per cent. of its shares will be held by the most unwilling shareholders in financial history? Is it not the case that BP— [Interruption.] I hope that Conservative Members will listen with a little care to the fate of British Petroleum. Is it not clear that BP will suffer from an inevitable over-hang in its shares which will greatly weaken the company's ability to finance its future operations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.2", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " an orderly after-market in the company's shares. Finally, he has failed to understand the whole point of this operation. Under the operation which I have mentioned, the underwriters will bear the full loss of over £1 billion on the shares between the price at which they had to take them and the floor price that I have set. Under the right hon. and learned Gentleman's proposal of pulling the sale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.2", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "er £1 billion on the shares between the price at which they had to take them and the floor price that I have set. Under the right hon. and learned Gentleman's proposal of pulling the sale— [Interruption.] Oh yes, he said that we should not go ahead with the sale. He would have handed back the £1 billion to the underwriters. We know that the Labour party today is simply the friend of Goldman Sachs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.541.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "What I will tell the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-10-29", "file": "debates1987-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "a761e27a3bf9e402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BP Share Issue", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman fails to grasp the fact that there can be only substantial benefit to the taxpayer from this. If the taxpayer sells the shares at 120p and then buys some of them back at 70p, he will have made a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-10-29a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.644.11", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there has never been an exhibition by a woman artist at the Hayward gallery? Is he further aware of the real frustration and anger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.644.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Sylvia Wright (Imprisonment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ion for the severely disabled of £37 a week. She has never appeared before a court previously and has never had a police record. She had no representation when she went to the Derbyshire magistrates court, with the result that those heartless people threw her into New Hall prison in Wakefield for 30 days. Since then I have been constantly in touch with the Home Office to try to secure her release—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I was looking surprised because, although I understand the intricacies of this matter, I made it clear in answering one of the many interventions of the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) that I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will make it clear that we shall look more than sympathetically at any amendment that might be addressed to the clause to ensure that any cases in the pipeline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "s not a little break in the net. I refer especially to some disabled people who are newly reaching the stage of needing multiple additions. It is possible that they might be worse off. I know that the Government do not intend that those in real need should be worse off as a result of the Bill. I hope that my hon. Friend will consider the position of those few people who may be caught in that trap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "l deeply and strongly that it is high time that 16 and 17-year-olds were no longer able to claim benefit in their own right. Many teachers have complained to me that it is difficult to secure regular attendance at school from 16 and 17-year-olds or those even younger. They have complained that it is easy and enticing for youngsters of that age to leave school, do nothing and claim social security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "or being poor. Beveridge did not seek to punish them for being poor: he sought to construct a social security system to eliminate poverty. Beveridge recognised that the elimination of poverty also arose from an economic policy that eliminated unemployment. This Government glory in mass unemployment and in punishing the poor for the poverty that they suffer as a result of the Government's policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "oats. even though all those young people wanted was a decent life and job. Above all, the Government have lit the candle of opposition to their proposals. Thousands of people now realise the common interest between young unemployed people, claimants, mothers who want decent maternity pay and poor pensioners. The Government are building up a coalition of opposition that will eventually defeat them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks what skills. If he had listened quietly to what I had to say, he would have heard a number of them. Those skills are giving some 90 per cent. of the people on those schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "be introduced in a sensitive manner. The measure provides for a new YTS bridging allowance between the drawing of child benefit and before the take-up of a YTS place. We are saying to young people, \"If you can't get a job, get trained. The option, at the expense of the taxpayer, is not to sit on your backside and earn benefit, because that money will be better spent on our schools and hospitals.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "l go to any lengths to get rid of the welfare state. The Bill is another nail in its coffin. This measure is also damaging to democracy. The Bill provides for a further expansion of ministerial powers. This detailed legislation gives one person the right to decide who can eat, who can be looked after, whether a person will he paid if he refuses to go on a scheme and, ultimately, who lives or dies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "cies? Will he extend attendance allowance to chronically sick and disabled children under the age of two? The Storer family have twins, Vicki and Alex, who are 18 months old and so physically and mentally disabled that their mother needs to have oxygen cylinders permanently on hand, as well as all the ancillary requirements for children of that age. She is unable to get an orange badge for her car", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "the total. Therefore, 50,000 will disappear from the official dole figures. Yet again, the Government are interested not in creating genuine work for the millions of unemployed people, but in gerrymandering the procedures for claiming benefit so as to reduce not unemployment but the statistics. You will be aware, Mr. Deputy Speaker, even if Tory Members do not appear to be interested in this fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.751.3", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "In a minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-02", "file": "debates1987-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "37cf909530d77b24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.751.7", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " for Employment who tried to bring conscription into the YTS, will he exceeded in the months ahead and that the young will take action against the YTS provision in the Bill. Tonight we discussed the case of Vicky and Alex Storer, 18-month-old twins who are so physically and mentally handicapped that in their short lives they have already had heart surgery, suffered brain drainage and resucitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-02a.751.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.774.10", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.774.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.780.6", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister a question about another form of shark. These are rather lovely, pleasant and harmless sharks. I want to ask about basking sharks, and that is not a description of the Cabinet on holiday. Is the Prime Minister aware that the basking sharks in British territorial waters are being fished dangerously close to extinction by the Norwegians, and the Nature Conservancy Council has asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.780.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Used to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend represents a constituency in Birmingham, which is one of the hearts of manufacturing in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.804.5", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Electricity Industry (Financial Targets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. The industry is about to embark on a £40,000 million investment programme. It did not order any new power stations for eight years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.804.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Electricity Industry (Financial Targets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that now that he has heard what has been said from the Labour Benches, his statement is a disgrace and he is a disgrace for making it? Is he aware that his party and his Government knew about this increase before the election, but said nothing about it? They never said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Electricity Industry (Financial Targets)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I will do that. I think that I know the answer to the hon. Gentleman's question, but I do not wish to give it in case it is wrong. These matters are in the province of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "entleman worked out this matter on the basis of logic? The Government insist that there must be a ballot. A majority of members may decide to take certain action, and a minority may decide not to do so. Will the Secretary of State apply that principle to a regiment of soldiers? A minority may say that they will not go over the top and not participate in a certain battle. What would happen to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.829.9", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "s? Why do they not provide a right to reinstatement when an industrial tribunal so orders? Why do they not provide the right for women to receive equal pay for work of equal value, or maternity rights so that they can return to their jobs after having a baby? Why do they not provide protection against victimisation by an employer when an employee complains of a breach of statutory employer duties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.829.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had listened, he would have heard me say that the package as a whole enjoys the CTU's support, but there are mixed feelings about certain aspects of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "preceding_text": " to do that in furtherance of their own selfish ends and political prejudices; people such as Mrs. Irene McGibbon, who came to prominence during the miners' strike when she organised the \"miners back to work\" movement. Both she and her husband were paid-up members of the Tory party. She was a Tory local government candidate in 1983 and received a standing ovation at the 1984 Tory party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "The money resolution should not go through on the nod. We should point out that the £3 million that the Bill will cost could be put to much more important uses. For example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.912.5", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Woolley and Redbrook Collieries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has put his point of view. I understood that 220 people had already applied.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.912.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-03", "file": "debates1987-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec045f84f3ebf5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.912.5", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Woolley and Redbrook Collieries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "right that the hon. Member for Barnsley, Central should publicise that fact in the House of Commons. No doubt he has done the cause a good service. However, the review procedure is a matter between British Coal and the unions. British Coal believes that it is an uneconomic pit. It had been made even more uneconomic by industrial disputes and the problems that have existed in industrial relations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-03a.912.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.916.5", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "rested to know that there is no harm in dumping sewage sludge into the sea. Many countries do it. The harm is done when there is heavy metal content in that sludge. Our contribution has decreased to only 1 to 3 per cent. of heavy metal being deposited in the North sea. Therefore, on that ground, the hon. Gentleman is wrong, too. He may not have realised that a large programme has been instituted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.916.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, what you have just said is new to the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": "with regard to local government by keeping their ever-meddling fingers out of local government matters? Why will not the Government accept that local people know what they want and that they are able to express it through the ballot box? I see that the Secretary of State for the Environment is in his place. This afternoon many accusations have been made against Labour-controlled local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": " of our experience in the largest of all urban development corporations, the London Docklands development corporation. A great deal of development has taken place in docklands. Anyone who saw the area in 1979 and looks at it again today could not fail to recognise that there has been an enormous amount of activity. I consider that much of that activity would have happened with or without the LDDC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " in hand to Government and have their finances debated in the House, yet the Government give a quango the power to obtain money as and when it wants, without obtaining any parliamentary approval. It is paradoxical that the Labour party here will not declare its opposition to the Bill. I declare my opposition to it, and, if it is not amended, I and my colleagues will vote against its Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am not against more money being made available —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Davyhulme (Mr. Churchill) said that there were only five hon. Members on Opposition Benches, including the Front Bench spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "That was an aesthetic argument. I was talking about entrepreneurial risk taking. That man is doing that and seeking to make a profit. You asked me to be brief, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ower throughout inner cities, give them enormous privileged status, give them vast sums—sums that local authorities can only dream about—subject them to no democratic accountability, and then say, \"What a wonderful job they are doing.\" As I said, any fool can make a success of an area in those circumstances. I look forward to the day, as all Opposition Members do, when we have a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " successful programme of privatisation a little further and privatise unused public sector land which has not been brought into beneficial use. I should be very gratified if the money that we will vote tonight would help us to use that land in the great task of regenerating our urban areas. It is good news that the Government are doing a job which was not done by the squabbling local authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-04", "file": "debates1987-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cc8ebfd9b8702ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ERS: \"Untrue.\"] it is true, and hon. Members know it. Methinks they do protest too much. If local authorities cannot agree or will not get a move on, the Government can now create mini urban development corporations—this is what the Opposition do not like—with powers for land assembly, clearance, redevelopment and refurbishment. This is another important aspect of the Government's policy. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-04a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1059.7", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's synthetic indignation deserves a statue in Pseuds corner. He knows that 1·4 million households", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1059.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1064.2", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman is aware—he was in for part of the Autumn Statement—the proceeds available to the Health Service have been increased overall by about 30 per cent. in real terms during the lifetime of this Government. I remind him that during the lifetime of the Labour Government the amount of money that was applied to the Health Service actually went down in one year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1064.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The waiting list money was extra money and was a special allocation. The authorities were asked to put forward bids for it. They did. Once again, in 1979 spending on the Health Service was £8 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1078.10", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That was just about as bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1078.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that to be the case. What should happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1090.16", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " room for British exports in American markets. If it fails to reduce the deficits and interest rates have to rise, that will push the American economy into recession and there will be consequences for Britain. Therefore, it is vital that we do not wait for the Americans to find a solution before we adopt a strategy for our country. The Opposition advocate a targeted increase in public investment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1090.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ad again what happened on the radio programme in which he took part. The interviewer said: What view do you take of the underwriters' request for postponement? The right hon. and learned Gentleman replied: I think that it is hard to justify. That is what he said, but two days later he said that the sale should have been postponed. That deals with the right hon. and learned Gentleman's point on BP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I shall quote the Leader of the Opposition who is interrupting from a sedentary position. In a speech on 19 October 1984, at the presentation of the Welsh marketing awards in Cardiff, the right hon. Gentleman said: There is a vitality in the US economy and no one doubts that it was initiated by Government spending. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": " at present. That is something practical that we can do. We should talk to our trading partners about how we can reduce existing tariff barriers. That would do more good than any amount of confabulation about the pace at which we should advance and how much money we should pump into our respective systems. I do not know whether any hon. Member has woken up in Kansas City on a bright sunny morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Woodcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Woodcock", "preceding_text": "uccessfully. It is why so many overseas Finance Ministers have increasing respect for the United Kingdom. We need only to look around the world to see examples in the number of so-called Socialist republics now introducing capitalist principles. China, the oldest civilisation in the world and with 25 per cent. of the world's population, is now experimenting successfully with capitalist principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Woodcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Woodcock", "preceding_text": "t. of the world's population, is now experimenting successfully with capitalist principles. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the time?\"] I know that the debate is drawing to a close, and I am about to conclude my remarks. The reality is that if the Governments of other countries had been as prudent as this Government, there would not be a world financial crisis. I must repeat that The Sunday Times said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's facts are wrong, and he has repeated word for word what he said in his speech. There has not been an 18 per cent. loss in competitiveness. I shall give the hon. Gentleman a percentage, but it is not 18 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-05", "file": "debates1987-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "792d2d597ee27be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1167.4", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ion in the name of Mr. John Wakeham relating to House of Commons (Services) have not been disposed of before Seven o'clock, Mr. Speaker shall at that hour 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. David Hunt.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-05a.1167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-06", "file": "debates1987-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9c7e9c193bf5524e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " citizens in their own areas, whether through neighbourhood watch schemes or through other measures. However, crime prevention is about more than locks and bolts. It is about more than trying to persuade people to be more responsible, and more responsive, in regard to themselves and their neighbourhoods. We must also turn our attention increasingly to striking at the root of crime and criminality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-06", "file": "debates1987-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9c7e9c193bf5524e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "There has never been any suggestion that there should he political control of the operational aspects of the police.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-06", "file": "debates1987-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9c7e9c193bf5524e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "rime Minister certainly does not. She thinks that we are effectively always alone, and the devil take the hindmost. That is the philosophy that unfortunately comes down from the top of this Government, and it is not surprising that it gradually works its way into the attitudes of all people in society. We in the Labour party do not consider neighbourhood watches to be inherently evil or dangerous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-06", "file": "debates1987-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9c7e9c193bf5524e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1216.2", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Indeed, deliberately. This is a rare occasion. Hon. Members on both sides of the House are clearly trying to approach the debate in a highly objective fashion. I am finding it very difficult to control myself under such circumstances. I am striving \"personfully\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-06a.1216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"If\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will bear in mind two factors. The first is that in litigation it is the ultimately successful party that is normally awarded costs. Secondly, we are claiming an account of profits against Heinemann and Wright in Australia and against newspapers in New Zealand, Hong Kong and here. If those claims are ultimately successful —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "were they offered alcohol, they would take it as the normal round of social intercourse. There has never been a candidate for judicial office, either in the United States of America or in Great Britain, who has withdrawn his nomination because, as an undergraduate, he experimented with alcohol. In Great Britain, alcohol is the acceptable addiction of the middle classes and most of us in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you known?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "e patient. I wish to deal with several issues raised in the debate, including that mentioned by the hon. Lady. The first and principal question is whether the Bill, if passed, will lead to a significant increase in the consumption or misuse of alcohol. I want to make it plain that I do not accept that the Bill, if passed, will lead to a significant increase in the consumption or misuse of alcohol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "North-West (Dr. Hampson) asked us to make a substantial change in the licensing laws operating on a Sunday. My hon. Friends the Members for Gillingham (Mr. Couchman) and for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) put it more modestly and suggested that we should make a small change. The Government's position is plain. It was explained candidly by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. I shall be equally candid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "r. Stewart) put it more modestly and suggested that we should make a small change. The Government's position is plain. It was explained candidly by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. I shall be equally candid—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"] It is nice to make such a well-received remark. I have no objection in principle to the proposals of my hon. Friends, but we want to get this Bill through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is a Standing Order of the House that the Scrutiny Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I would certainly include a much wider range of foods, because they are presumably still available. I would define much more widely and generously those entitled to receive free food and I would ensure that the local authorities were involved because, of all our organisations, they are the best equipped to pick out people in need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "Môn (Mr. Jones), both of whom supported the views of my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark). I welcome particularly the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer).\" I assure him that it is in a sense of comradeship that I say his speech was moderate, well thought out and constructive. I look forward to continued contributions by him in that light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": ", an acceptable spread of such commodities throughout the different parts of the country? I am well aware that some counties that were first off the mark last time were those in the south of England—I make no criticism or party political point—and were geared up because of their network of social support. Frankly, they have a network involving the Women's Royal Voluntary Service and the Red Cross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "uite wrong if the WRVS, in establishing its criteria, determines that one individual is entitled to receive free beef, and the Red Cross or the Royal British Legion, in adopting their criteria, say that that individual is not entitled to it. I do not ask the Minister to lay down guidelines or to dictate. I ask him to state whether he will advise charities that certain broad criteria should be met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to be narrow on behalf of the poor, arid prepared to be tough when it comes to defending the interests of some of the poorest nations on earth. I will take no seated attacks from the hon. Member for Bradford, South on that issue, because I have a record on that issue that bears examination. Perhaps he would like to refer to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.133.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.135.5", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Object\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question proposed, That Mr. John Cartwright, Mr. Churchill, Mr. Dick Douglas, Mr. John Evans, Mr. Bruce George, Sir Barney Hayhoe, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Michael Mates, Mr. Jonathan Sayeed, Mr. Neil Thorne and Mr. John Wilkinson be members of the Defence Committee.— [Sir Marcus Fox,on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.135.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.135.8", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question proposed, That Mr. David Evennett, Mr. Martin Flannery, Mr. Harry Greenway, Mr. Win Griffiths, Mrs. Maureen Hicks, Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson, Mr. Timothy Raison, Mr. Gerry Steinberg, Mr. Jack Thompson, Mr. Malcolm Thornton and Sir Gerard Vaughan be members of the Education, Science and Arts Committee.— [Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.135.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.135.11", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question proposed, That Mr. Simon Coombs, Mr. Ken Eastham, Sir Philip Goodhart, Mr. Greville Janner, Mr. Ron Leighton, Mr. lain Mills, Mr. James Paice, Mr. Ernie Ross, Mr. Andrew Rowe, Mr. Lewis Stevens and Mr. David Young be members of the Employment Committee.— [Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.135.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-09", "file": "debates1987-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "b578d9032cdda787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.136.12", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Aid", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Mr. Nicholas Bennett, Sir Raymond Gower, Mr. Gwilym Jones, Mr. Richard Livsey, Sir Anthony Meyer, Mr. Paul Murphy, Mr. Keith Raffan, Sir John Stradling Thomas, Mr. Dafydd Elis Thomas, Mr. Gareth Wardell and Mr. Alan W. Williams be members of the Welsh Affairs Committee. — [Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-09a.136.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will know, we rotate the ships on the Armilla patrol. They have a variety of layers of air defence, including long-range surveillance radar, medium-range Sea Dart missiles and point defence Sea Wolf missiles, close-in weapons systems such as Phalanx and Goalkeeper, and also soft-kill measures such as jammers and decoys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " missiles, close-in weapons systems such as Phalanx and Goalkeeper, and also soft-kill measures such as jammers and decoys. [Interruption.] It may be a matter of amusement to Opposition Members, but the protection of our ships in the Gulf is a matter that we take seriously. None of our ships is likely to have the whole range of all the available weapons systems. I should like to add a final point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Data Protection Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Data Protection Act 1984. Data protection is a complicated subject. Some people think it has its own language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Data Protection Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "d data protection principles. Instead of the subject access fee, which I have already said is exorbitant, my Bill provides for a maximum fee to be prescribed for all personal data held by a user. I get rid of the crazy non-disclosure provisions, which are complex and confusing, and fundamentally designed to deter people from realising that they can obtain computer information that is held on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Data Protection Act 1984 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "power to extend those principles to manual records. The National Consumer Council has already said that some people are putting information on manual files to avoid the Data Protection Act and that should be stopped. My Bill is based on the Data Protection Act as far as possible, as many data users, as well as the registrar, have already established procedures to deal with the current legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "House of Commons (Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "House of Commons (Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way. [Interruption.] If Conservative Members do not wish to listen to the serious attack on democracy that is taking place they are free to leave the Chamber, as I am sure you are well aware, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "House of Commons (Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "same way that every other hon. Member has been elected by constituents, whom they represent. Therefore, if the House approves the motion, which will prevent Mr. Bennett from having a pass, because it believes him to be some kind of risk—nobody has ever said what sort of risk he is—obviously the message that will be received outside the House is that I am somehow or other unacceptable to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "House of Commons (Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I was seeking to refer to the description of the way in which members of the security services sought to flout the democratic results of several general elections in Britain, to undermine, destabilise and ultimately remove the elected Government of Harold Wilson, now Lord Wilson of Rievaulx. There are many other examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "House of Commons (Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "dford who was assassinated only a few years ago. We cannot allow known supporters of the IRA to have the access to hon. Members' offices that a pass affords. I am mindful of the time, but I shall finish with the challenge that I wanted to extend to the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn), who I note is not here. It is interesting how Opposition Members talk about the rights of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I would not stop the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. There are wider ramifications to my hon. Friend's point. We are accustomed to the fact that various businesses make substantial contributions to Conservative party funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "f his speech right when I say that he said that the developments envisaged under the Bill would have a severe effect on the port of Southampton and that, despite the best efforts of management and trade unionists at that port, its future prospects would be considerably and adversely affected by the uncontrolled growth of a port such as Felixstowe, which is outside the dock work regulation scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.250.7", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "or Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) will accept your strictures in the spirit in which they were made, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We can continue with the debate about the dock labour scheme and the impact that this great expansion at Felixstowe will have not only on individuals who work within that scheme but on the other non-scheme ports throughout the United Kingdom. As my hon. Friend the Member for —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.250.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"To withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ng ports. I do not want to get involved in the controversy aired earlier about social functions within the precincts of the House or anywhere else. I am sorry that I did not get an invitation, because in that convivial atmosphere I could have explained the view that we would take. I understand that in that convivial atmosphere there might have been an attempt to arrive at a compromise on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " exploit its valuable land bank and use multi-port ownership to boost customer loyalty and develop efficiency. The kernel of the problem is starkly outlined there by Mr. Finney. I do not know anything of Mr. Finney's political affiliations, but I would hazard a guess that he would not donate much to the election effort of my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) or indeed towards mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "hose two ports to Felixstowe, he has a reasonable — or unreasonable — argument to put forward. Time after time Ministers say that the Bill is essential in order to protect Britain's trade and that the delay that the Opposition have, for good reason, inflicted on the Bill is having a severe impact on British ports. They say that there is a danger of traffic being diverted from United Kingdom ports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.253.7", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ut lingering long on the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish, who referred to land in Southampton, it is fair to state that any new development outside a statutory harbour authority must be sanctioned by an Act of Parliament, or more rarely through planning permission. That is one of the reasons why we are here tonight and why we have debated this issue on many nights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.253.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is quite conceivable that the House of Commons could sit throughout tonight and into the early hours of tomorrow morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.257.6", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": " is sitting tonight or tomorrow morning. If the Leader of the House were not prepared to accept that a Minister of the Crown in this House should go to the Dispatch Box when the House is sitting and tell the House of Commons what the Government will do in respect of the referral of the British Airways and British Caledonian merger, it would be the greatest contempt of the House that he could show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.257.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "h it may not be our concern, is the fact that the rights and privileges of their lordships are at stake. The other place is part of Parliament and I should have thought that their lordships would be extremely upset that Lord Young is not to make a statement to them. In the past, the custom and practice has been that parallel statements are made at the same time in this House and in the other place", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "My point of order is that the standards we have come to expect as Back Benchers are being flouted by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.266.8", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I like to kid myself that, if I am still doing this job, I might be involved in that. I make it up as I go along. I can always be outvoted at some time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.266.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.266.8", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "o him — I always like to be fair to Conservative Ministers, but I do not often get the opportunity — he also spoke of the difficulties. The transcript shows that he started his speech by saying: Thanks for lunch and for the toast and the courteous speeches both Sir Frederic and Mr. Cooper made. I am not sure whether it was Sir Frederic Bennett and Mr. Tommy Cooper who were involved in that lunch —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.266.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.275.9", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "I immediately declare an interest. As the House may be aware, I am a member of the council for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. I have a substantial interest, but it is not financial. Amendment No. 2 seeks to alter clause 2 by leaving out the words \"or any land reclaimed\". The aim of the amendment is to remove the activity of creating reclaimed land from the work —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.275.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "I will explain in due course. Those of my hon. Friends who are interested in ornithology will be aware that there are quite a number of species of wild bird in the locality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.285.8", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "I shall have to curtail my speech to assist my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.285.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": " It is about 23 in long and, if I have to use the decimal measures, it is about 58 or 59 cm on average. The smallest of the geese has a totally black head. The one to which I am referring is the smallest of the wholly black-necked geese. It has a black neck and upper breast, with a white patch on each side of the neck, back and rump. The wings are a dark grey-brown and the tail feathers are white.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.293.7", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "he importance of the habitat. I said at the beginning of my remarks that I would illustrate the arguments on this batch of amendments with the widgeon and the Brent goose. We shall refer on subsequent amendments to that delightful bird, the ringed plover, which has commanded the attention of my hon. Friend. The second species with which we should illustrate this group of amendments is the widgeon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.314.6", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "a period of one month, but the amendment would change that to three months to bring it in line with the notice that must be given to the Nature Conservancy Council if sites of special scientific interest are disturbed. Amendment No. 16 would include environmental factors, and seeks to insert the words \"and environmental\" after the word \"engineering\". In any construction, the ecological importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.314.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "Certainly. Schedule I is a list of rare British breeding birds. They include such species as the barn owl, which is becoming very scarce, and other scarce breeders such as the bee-eater —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.323.6", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "e no knowledge of schedule 1 of the 1981 Act. However, I have been told that my hon. Friend the Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) is a renowned bird expert. Are any of the birds mentioned in schedule 1 migratory? I have not taken part in the earlier proceedings because I have been tied up with the Local Government Bill, so I am now trying to pick up some of the necessary information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.323.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is not the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths) outrageously out of order in suggesting to the House that he has arrived at a private arrangement with the people who are paying him to pilot this legislation through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to make any such statement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "the promoters as well as those of Labour Members. That would have saved the House a great deal of time. It is unsatisfactory that only at this late hour are the promoters starting to decide to make the change. I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) will press on to find out what other concessions may be coming so that we may be able to make faster progress —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.329.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that amenities of New Brighton and other resorts have been destroyed and that there could be similar blight along the east coast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.348.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "he Bill's promoters are prepared to accept the amendment so ably moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Garston (Mr. Loyden). I do not wish to carp, because the hon. Gentleman has heard me express gratitude in response to his earlier acceptances. Unfortunately, although I in no way blame the hon. Gentleman, the fact remains that other acceptances have not provided the necessary harvest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.357.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have sat here for about 12 hours waiting to speak, but on every amendment procedural motions have been moved to destroy debate. I should like to draw attention to my hon. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy (Dr. Moonie) who has tried to speak in every debate but has not been called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.362.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.366.4", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "order to make some progress, and as it seems to be quiet in the Chamber, the issues before the House are fairly simple. We have made some progress; it has been recognised that there is a wider interest than navigation needs. The Minister has stated that they will be taken into account, as will environmental interests. I would be more impressed if the Bill had something specific for the promoters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.366.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "He should, because I am a jolly nice chap —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.373.9", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will recall that last night—if I may describe it thus—we asked you whether you had been informed by the Government whether they intended to make a statement on the proposed merger between British Airways and British Caledonian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.373.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "referred to a statement being made in the House. I hurriedly dressed, washed and came to the House to hear the statement, like many other Labour Members. As I listened to the report, I realised that the statement would not be made to the House but to a press conference at some point in the morning. I felt it incumbent on me to come to the House to raise points of order should the House be sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.376.5", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ion regarding the BP sale, it would seem to me that, when it looks possible that the normal business for Wednesday will not proceed, it is practical for the Minister to come to the House before 2.30 to make a statement on British Caledonian and British Airways. Outside this place, it is an important day. It is 11 November. Some of the idiots on the Government side would say that it is 10 November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.376.7", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I was speaking generally, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.376.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.379.7", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. There is another important reason why the House should adjourn and that is the interest of hon. Members on both sides of the House in the crowded agenda that is scheduled for the coming parliamentary day. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.379.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Whether it is a private Bill or a public Bill, the Chairman of Ways and Means is in a position to produce more time, if that is necessary and is the wish of the House. I suggest that that is the wish of the House, or ought to be the wish of the House. Later today a number of items are scheduled, for example Scottish Question time at 2.30—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "also have strong feelings. Because the House wishes to debate the Bill, the Government should not relentlessly insist on continuing the debate at the expense of other business, when the business can be easily rearranged to encompass a proper debate of the Felixstowe Bill and to allow the other business of the House to proceed. I would think that I am speaking for the vast majority of Hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.382.6", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "We have been obstructed by the hon. Gentleman's friends from England and Scotland. We are prepared to carry on with this debate and we are not prepared to sit here and listen to your arrogance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.382.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.382.8", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "In response to the rather synthetic anger on the Conservative Benches,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.382.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "In response to the rather synthetic anger on the Conservative Benches, [Interruption.] will my hon. Friend explain to those Benches that, far from waiting since 8 o'clock last night, Scottish Members have been waiting for a month to ask questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.382.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.384.4", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": " why are we not dealing with them in a far more practical way? Perhaps the proceedings are about something else altogether. Those of us who were here in the early hours of the morning were conscious that a deliberate exercise was afoot. It had, and has, little or nothing to do with the port of Felixstowe, and has everything to do with trying to ensure that the Government's humiliation in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "e double standards come in. I am sure that Conservative Members are exhausted, but if they expect to be taken seriously they must tell the people that an element of consistency is involved. All their noise and synthetic anger counts for absolutely nothing to a populace that recognises that a device is being played here that will drive this sitting right through the morning specifically to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "We should review the events of the past 13 or 14 hours before we are lectured by the Opposition about us somehow wanting to talk out Wednesday's business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " them. The humbug goes even further than that. Let the Scottish people listen to this. The hon. Gentleman says that we are all tired little men and that because we have been up all night we are not fit to talk about the Bill. We are mentally exhausted; we cannot think. But these are the people who will have to consider Scottish questions. So if the hon. Gentleman wants a lot of dead-beat flunkeys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ermore, when they had not been up all night and had only just got out of bed for the previous time we had Scottish questions, they gave the impression to the people of Scotland that the 50 Opposition Members were zombies. They say that they want devolution, that they want an assembly, and that we in the Conservative Government are not entitled to rule in Scotland because we do not have a mandate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " your dog-tired malingerers filibuster all through the night in an attempt, for doctrinal reasons, to defeat an excellent Bill\"—which will have considerable effects on Scotland—\"we shall lose Scottish business.\"? I say to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary that if the firearms legislation requires amendment, it should be a measure to protect the Labour party from shooting itself in both feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I well remember the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood). He was scathing about the Labour party's tactics, which lost us a debate. I was present and I clearly remember my hon. Friend's speech. We lost a debate on the Scottish economy which would have brought the Secretary of State for Scotland to the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.402.5", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Can you assist me on a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker? In the previous two Divisions, Labour Front Bench spoksmen voted in both Lobbies. Since I understand that Labour Members are in a state of warfare, perhaps the House could adjourn for five minutes to allow Labour Members to meet in separate rooms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.402.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "ns. They are very anxious to make progress with the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill. One of the reasons why we are anxious to make progress is, as my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross (Mr. Fairbairn) explained that we want to get on with Scottish questions and other Scottish business this afternoon so that we can hear just how successful our Ministers are being in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.403.5", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I accept that you and Mr. Speaker have already ruled on this issue. However, I want to stress that on many occasions Mr. Speaker has said that he does not approve of the way in which the Government refuse to make statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.403.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.404.11", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "Although I am speaking for myself and cannot commit any of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.404.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.404.13", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "we, Harwich and East Anglia will be extremely interested in how we proceed. The amendments deal with disturbance to birds and bird life. Many people are members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and an even larger number are desperately worried about the plight of birds and bird life in the United Kingdom. Amendment No. 21 seeks to give the Nature Conservancy Council a little scope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.404.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "I was drawn into this debate only a few minutes ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "I was drawn into this debate only a few minutes ago. [Interruption.] I arrived at the Bar of the House and realised what the amendment was about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "atter will be cleared up. We ought to have regard to other organisations in the area. During his speech on the last group of amendments one of my hon. Friends said that a number of organisations must be consulted. They include local authorities, charitable organisations and organisations that have the good of the area and of the nature reserve at heart. They should be consulted about these issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his important intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should like to raise my point of order with you as the recipient of the next issue of \"Erskine May\" because the introduction is, by tradition, addressed to the right hon. Speaker of the House of Commons, and to The Speakers of the Commonwealth, within whose hands the priceless heritage of Parliament is securely held\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.449.5", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Member for St. Ives (Mr. Harris) has raised a point of order about \"Erskine May\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.449.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should not allege that hon. Members laid on anything for Members that was likely to be drunken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.454.6", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "at it was free. Is it proper that such an action could take place within the Palace of Westminster, Mr. Speaker? It was mentioned that planning laws have been circumvented by the Bill. It seems that the whole planning proposition has been circumvented, anyhow. We have heard of bribery and corruption outside the House. For bribery and corruption to take place by laying on sprees for people to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.454.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.454.9", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend address his remarks to an aspect that, as far as I know, has not yet been discussed — that is the cancellation of the shindig last night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.454.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "der a bottle of Taitinger 1980. Suffolk Coastal district council would have opposed the development that now arises in the Bill had it had the opportunity through the normal planning procedures to do just that. It is a serious matter because the district council will achieve benefits of some enormity as a result of the Bill's passage in the form of employment and rate revenue. It is on that basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.460.4", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for Ministers to come here and deliberately mislead the House into thinking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.460.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.461.4", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Hon. Members had to go to another place to hear a very important statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": " Leader of the House, the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and the shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry have all asked for statements. If the debate on the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill were to be concluded rapidly — for example, by the Opposition desisting from the filibustering tactics that they have employed for the past 25 hours—we could then hear the important statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, requested a statement on Scottish homes. During the weekend, the Minister with responsibility for housing in Scotland said publicly on television that a statement would be given to Parliament. From his television statement, I understood that the proposals were ready to be submitted to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.463.19", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Do what you like Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.463.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.464.22", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must tell —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.464.22"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "e House. We made a great mistake in our treatment of hon. Members on both sides from Northern Ireland. I tell the House that we will not be treated that way. If Conservative Members believe that this is a United Kingdom Parliament and if they are interested in keeping the United Kingdom united, they will need to have a care about how they treat Scottish parliamentary business and Scottish Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.500.10", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The amendment has not been moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.500.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "l affect Felixstowe as a port and render some of the changes sought by the Bill's promoters less than useful. We also condemn the Bill because the Government's ports policy fails to be rational. It consists of a piecemeal approach whereby some are rewarded and some find themselves disadvantaged. We also criticise the Bill because it begins the process of erosion of the national dock labour scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "it in order for the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson), to impugn the honour of the Prime Minister and Conservative Members who supported the Bill? Is it not cant and hypocrisy of the highest order when we all know that the reason why Labour Members opposed the Bill is that the Labour party is in the pocket of the Transport and General Workers Union and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The 30,000 pieces of silver having been satisfactorily earned, I should like to draw your attention to an item on the tapes this evening under the heading : Labour Chief Whip Quizzed on 'Tea Room Punch-up'.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.521.7", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "hallenge. It is claimed in the communication on the wires that one of the 50 Scottish Labour Members of the House was involved in a punch-up. Within that claim there is guilt by association. Is it in order for individual Members to seek to create publicity by smear, to disseminate lies and fabrications about events that did not take place, in order to gain cheap publicity and diversion? I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.521.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-10", "file": "debates1987-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "62a824a4d62a5b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.522.7", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for you, Mr. Speaker. It is not my style to raise matters of frivolity. I have listened attentively to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). I know we all have good fun in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-10a.522.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.545.4", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State take it from me that none of the eleven people who died in the massacre at Enniskillen wanted to be associated with the Anglo-Irish Agreement? They did not die —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.545.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "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 is critical of the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "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 critical of the decision. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"]. I will answer in my own way. The right hon. Gentleman is critical of the decision taken on British Airways and British Caledonian. That is the meaning of his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.548.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.549.5", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is what the right hon. Lady said.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "Presumably the Prime Minister did not mean to say that the legislation would be more restrictive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.549.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.562.7", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I never completed my sentence, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.562.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.562.15", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "er for me to answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker), because these are important matters? The Government's view on the need to strengthen local government accountability for its financial behaviour is well known. By their actions they will continue to press for that accountability to be the subject of the voting judgment of those electors it affects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.562.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "European Space Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Member for Chertsey and Walton (Sir G. Pattie) raised it at the Rome meeting. Everyone in ESA knows about Hotol, but there is no interest in taking it on. It is not meant to be a criticism of my French colleagues, with whom I get on very well, but at the moment it is perceived by the French and the Germans as a competitor, and they do not want Hotol to go forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "European Space Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " think that we agree with the companies involved that we need international collaborators. If the ESA would collaborate on Hotol, we would have discussions with it. Meanwhile, we have to explore the position with others. I expressed strong scepticism a moment ago about whether the European Space Agency would take Hotol on board. Apart from anything else, it has spent miles over the limit already —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that this is going down an unhelpful track.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.587.18", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sentence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "r I was walking from this building to Norman Shaw and I saw the hon. Gentleman with a television camera crew. It is clear that what happened during the business statement was set up for the purpose of cheap publicity on the hon. Gentleman's part. I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on this point. 'Will you take into consideration in the sentence that is imposed upon the hon. Member for Linlithgow —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.587.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-12", "file": "debates1987-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "814655745f11cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Social Security Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "ember for Chesham and Amersham. I hope that he will not dispute, now that he has heard the figures, that in general the disabled will be benefiting from the package of measures that we are debating. He said that 40 per cent. of disabled pensioners would be losing under the reforms. That figure is based on a false inference. The implication of what he was saying is that all pensioners are disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-12a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-13", "file": "debates1987-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d8d15c06d36b63f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-13a.682.5", "colnum": "682", "heading": "The Commonwealth and South Africa", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "argues that there is a fundamental distinction between the position of the ANC in South Africa as it is today and the position of the IRA in Northern Ireland as it is today. I accept from my hon. Friend the qualification that the opportunities of the ANC, or of any African political organisation, to present its views in South Africa are not as ideal as any hon. Member in the Chamber might assume —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-13a.682.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Question Time", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not intolerable that the House should have to listen to the incompetent blatherings of the third choice for shadow Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.783.6", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " they will have to satisfy the same requirements in the immigration rules as those who do not benefit from section 1(5). We already apply the full range of requirements in the immigration rules to those who have come to settle here after the beginning of 1973. After 14 years, it seems right now to bring these special benefits under section 1(5) to an end, and to treat everyone on the same footing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.783.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "It will count from the last time that they entered this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.798.4", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "that it will make a vast difference to the nation. It will remove certain discriminatory elements and make immigration law simpler and easier. I hope that our record for accepting people for settlement will be seen in its proper context. We are an open and welcoming community. Some Labour Members are utterly wrong and crass in the open-door immigration policy that has been voiced by some of them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.798.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because I wish to continue with my speech. Our 1979 manifesto said that we would help those immigrants who genuinely wish to leave this country but there can be no question of compulsory repatriation\". I endorse in its entirety that statement of intent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "e alternative to describe the indigenous community. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was offended, but I think that it is perfectly all right to comment on a division made by the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington. In 20 to 25 years will we have that sort of harmonious society, or will we have a society in which immigrants and, for want of a better word, host, indigenous whites —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "r came to my surgery and churned out the sort of nonsense that I often hear attributed to us. I never hear people say, \"We don't want these people here. We want them sent back.\" I never heard that sort of nonsense. However, I heard consistent representations to the effect that people were worried that, for example, 80 per cent. of a class of children did not speak English as their first language.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "If my understanding of the law is correct, such a person would be a member of this country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.826.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "If my understanding of the law is correct, such a person would be a member of this country.— [Interruption.] If Labour Members would be quiet, they may be given an answer to the question. Do hon. Members want an answer?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.826.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "ies and job opportunities. As we know, in many parts of the country unemployment is still acute, although we also know that the situation is improving day by day. We shall begin to improve our education system by giving more choice to parents. I greatly sympathise with the parents of Dewsbury whose children were sent to a school in which the dominant language and culture had altered substantially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": " many parts of the country unemployment is still acute, although we also know that the situation is improving day by day. We shall begin to improve our education system by giving more choice to parents. I greatly sympathise with the parents of Dewsbury whose children were sent to a school in which the dominant language and culture had altered substantially—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] It should not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": " I was surprised by the concern of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, West about the clause that makes it impossible for a second polygamous wife to enter this country for settlement purposes. I believe that the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook is in favour of women's rights, but he also appears to be in favour of polygamy. I find that an odd attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "We have sent forms to citizens' advice bureaux throughout the country and to community relations councils. If anyone is in any doubt, they have only to get in touch with Lunar house in Croydon. My hon. Friend asked me about DNA testing, which could be an important development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " had a right to come here have now passed the age where they can legally enter the country. The Home Secretary knows that what I am saying is absolutely correct. He also knows that the Bill builds on a whole series of attitudes of the immigration service and the Home Office which, frankly, border on the racist and the disgraceful. I spend numerous weekends in endless telephone calls about people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "p 24 hours later. It was only by a stroke of luck that there was not serious injury or death among those on board. I regret to say that that ship was taken out of service, not as a result of representations from me or my hon. Friends, but as a result of the hurricane. I would be grateful if the Minister of State would give us an undertaking that there will be no repetition of the use of the ship —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": " seriously, so perhaps they had better shut up and listen instead. Recently I drew attention to one case of asylum seekers who had arrived in this country and the way in which they were treated. Mr. Abdul Behvand and his wife Parivash Moosavi are an Iranian couple. Mr. Behvand is an opponent of Ayatollah Khomeini's regime and an opponent of the Islamic republic. He has been active in trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "tion to one case of asylum seekers who had arrived in this country and the way in which they were treated. Mr. Abdul Behvand and his wife Parivash Moosavi are an Iranian couple. Mr. Behvand is an opponent of Ayatollah Khomeini's regime and an opponent of the Islamic republic. He has been active in trade unions— [Interruption.] He was an active member of trade unions in Iran. After several of his —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "executed in Iran so amusing. Conservative Members are producing a disgraceful performance after a disgraceful showing of ignorance and an uncaring attitude in the debate on Second Reading earlier. When the Iranian family concerned were able to escape from Iran, they went first to India and from there to Sweden, where they sought political asylum. Their application for asylum in Sweden was refused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-16", "file": "debates1987-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4f90f49b1728a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We were here. Where was the hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State spoke of the need to eliminate every pointless bit of paper that we could get rid of, in order to minimise delay for others. It is good to see at this late hour so many Conservatives on the Government Benches, because they were not there this afternoon. They were not here earlier this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-16a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "d be taken outside and ritually slaughtered for that piece of nasty non-information that he offered? Is the Minister further aware that the area manager, Mr. Spicer, investigated the matter and found no reason to make a formal complaint, that such translations are a normal feature of the office and that, in the past, they have also involved political speeches by Conservative Members? Will he also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.901.4", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.901.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.909.9", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that 40 years' experience of the national dock labour scheme shows that employment controls of this kind are positive obstacles —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.909.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.912.5", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. If the right hon. Gentleman heard the speech, he will have noted that the 50 per cent. reduction applied to American and Soviet Union intercontinental ballistic missiles, and he will know that there is no question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.912.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Road Traffic (Random Breath Testing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I accept my hon. Friend's argument. There are advantages in having point-to-point trains— for example, from Manchester to London. However, there is also a case for having trains that stop and pick up passengers at other stations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " about as fresh as a wilting red rose. and reading it is like experiencing time travel. I felt like Dr. Who in one of those early serials, going back in my Tardis to about the time of the Romans. In that document one sees all the failed notions and policies of the 1960s and even that hoary old chestnut the integrated transport policy that the Opposition have been hammering away at in this debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Marshall", "preceding_text": "be completed? We also need the A8 from Baillieston to Newhouse to become the M8 to complete the Glasgow-Edinburgh link. A motorway from Ayrshire to the M8 and the M74 is essential, as is completion of improvements to the A75 from Stranraer to Gretna. The A96 between Inverness and Aberdeen is totally inadequate. The Hamilton road route in my constituency is needed but I believe is somewhat delayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "ch is lighter, whereas when the weather is cold it is heavier. Not everyone minds about aircraft noise, but a great many people do mind—some of them very much. Some people find it deeply annoying and upsetting and it spoils their lives. In a few cases, as has been shown by a study undertaken at the West Middlesex hospital, it is a cause of mental illness. For some, any addition to aircraft noise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "e of the collapse of the British merchant fleet. In 1979, when the Government came to power, the merchant fleet had nearly 1,300 ships and about 80,000 serving seamen. By September this year there were about 465 ships and fewer than 30,000 working in the industry. At the same time, we have seen the flagging out of Britain's trade, dependency on foreign ships and even dependency in strategic terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman looked out of the window while the train taking him to his constituency was passing through Hemel Hempstead he would see other new bus services serving local hospitals which did not have services before. Scores of estates throughout the country now have bus services that did not have them before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As you well know, you and I have had correspondence on this issue about this person, and you were kind enough to call me at Prime Minister's Question Time when the matter was raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": " 18 can participate? The Government need to answer that point. The Government also need to deal with the much greater powers in the regulations to exclude all student governors, regardless of whether they are under or over the age of 18. One of the more distressing aspects is that the Government have not even bothered to consult the National Union of Students about how the regulations should work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Robert Jackson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Robert Jackson)", "preceding_text": "Of the regulations before us tonight, regulations 1 and 2 are routine. Regulation 3 is an extension of the principle of open government, requiring agendas, minutes and other papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "sed to give way to several legitimate interventions. That characterises the attitude that he has taken over the regulations whenever he has been questioned about them, whether by the National Union of Students or any other body. It is indicative of the arrogance and lack of consultation that has characterised the way in which the Government have pushed through their so-called consultation paper. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "oned about them, whether by the National Union of Students or any other body. It is indicative of the arrogance and lack of consultation that has characterised the way in which the Government have pushed through their so-called consultation paper. — [Interruption.] No doubt those Conservative Members who are sniggering are among those who would regard this as a matter of not very great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-17", "file": "debates1987-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "38f730445fe22c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "onsultation that has characterised the way in which the Government have pushed through their so-called consultation paper. — [Interruption.] No doubt those Conservative Members who are sniggering are among those who would regard this as a matter of not very great importance. [Interruption.] Madam Deputy Speaker, we have a limited amount of time and the more that Conservative Members interrupt me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-17a.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Unemployed People (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The response of the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) is even more nonsensical than usual. The hon. Gentleman has once again gone raving over the top in his typical way and has avoided all the points that have been announced. Let me try to tell the hon. Gentleman about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Unemployed People (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "llion and will provide training for 600,000 unemployed people a year. That is an improvement on the 400,000 people who receive training at the moment. I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would welcome that. The fact is that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues made exactly the same mistake with YTS. They condemned it at the time and have been shown to be totally wrong in their judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Unemployed People (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "hat. I can certainly give the hon. Gentleman the assurance that we are retaining the good features of the community programme. We want the continuing involvement of the voluntary organisations which do useful work. However, I must advise the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench that at the moment training does not take place on the community programme. It is part-time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1069.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Unemployed People (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State and some of his colleagues seem to question the attitude of Opposition Members and imply that there is some cynicism. That is understandable, because the right hon. Gentleman has not given us the facts. He keeps saying —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1076.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Unemployed People (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the MSC gives training in the skills that are needed to fill vacancies in Sheffield —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "printed and in envelopes ready to go on to the letter board for hon. Members who have put questions down, it would have made good economic sense for the answers to be issued. Because we played stupid games in the House, last Wednesday's business was lost. It would have been sensible automatically to transfer all the questions to the following day and still have them answered. If any hon. Members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1083.5", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that all the questions were answered. There may have been some delay in printing them in Hansard , but they were all answered in the normal way. As I said, I sympathise with the hon. Gentleman's position. I hope that we shall not lose the day's sitting again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1083.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "of the Community is that it is a democratic organisation. That is its strength. The ideals of Western European democracy are embodied in the Community. That is why I remind hon. Members of the importance of that in the events leading up to the entry of Spain and Portugal. Hon. Members are perhaps better placed than anybody to appreciate that, because the Community is not a democratic organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Member for Wallasey (Mrs. Chalker), this is, by any test, a gloomy time for the European Community. I say that with no sense of pleasure or satisfaction, because I, too, am a citizen of Europe, and, like all hon. Members, I represent citizens of Europe. In my constituency one in four are out of work, and we all deserve better from the organisation at this point in the 20th century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1117.5", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks impossible questions. I have often tried to answer his questions, but have now given up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1117.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "t it covers 321 million people throughout the Community. With all the fuss that is made about an attempt to increase own resources, one would have thought that it was dramatic — that it was hundreds of times the size of the British budget or any departmental budget. We have got the matter out of proportion. We have become nit-picking in a way that has stopped us from having a vision of the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They hit their targets every time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman chose a bad example. The profligacy of Labour councils makes the organisation of European Community budgets look efficient and parsimonious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-18", "file": "debates1987-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6a6b010a00cbdbf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": " that the internal market increases concentration, centralisation, unequal competition and barriers to entry to the small firms that are supposed to flourish in such larger market areas? The Minister's claim that not just a few companies will benefit is contradicted by the facts. The right hon. Lady says that there will be more jobs. Let us consider what the big firms have done on jobs since 1969.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-18a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr. Patten) has made great efforts to ensure that European food is distributed in the Third world, but the inability of Third-world Governments to accept Oxfam or other organisations and the habit of Third-world revolutionaries of shooting at food convoys does not help the smooth distribution of that food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1193.9", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in my constituency we produce beautiful, delicious English beef? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1193.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. I know that everyone wishes to thank all the emergency and hospital services. They were the first to thank members of the public for coming forward so readily and so quickly. Indeed, I think that there was unanimity of praise for almost everyone. Later today my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport will be announcing the setting up of a public inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hank all the emergency and hospital services. They were the first to thank members of the public for coming forward so readily and so quickly. Indeed, I think that there was unanimity of praise for almost everyone. Later today my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport will be announcing the setting up of a public inquiry— [Interruption.] I thought that it was necessary to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "King's Cross (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "re; 20 were seriously injured. There has been extensive damage to the station ticket hall. The injured have been taken to St. Bartholomew's hospital, University College hospital, Queen Mary's hospital, Roehampton, and the Wittington hospital. I am sure the whole House would wish to join me in expressing our deepest sympathy to the families of those who have died and to those who have been injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "King's Cross (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "lly trains will not stop at King's Cross station. It is too early to say when normal services will be resumed. Every year the London underground carries over 750 million passengers. I deeply regret that its generally fine record of safety has been marred by this accident. I am sure the thoughts of all hon. Members of this House are with those who have been bereaved, the injured and their families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1204.3", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "King's Cross (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "As we on this Bench recently had cause to be grateful for the sympathy that was expressed by right hon. and hon. Members, on behalf of the Ulster community I express our sincere condolences to the bereaved and our concern for the injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1205.5", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "King's Cross (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "preceding_text": "6 years before coming to this place, I understand the conditions that were encountered and the tragedy that last night's events have inflicted on families. I add my condolences to those families, particularly to the family of Colin Townsley, a 45-year-old station officer from Soho, and to the other firemen who were injured. They typified the dedication and self-sacrifice of our emergency services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1205.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1207.7", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "King's Cross (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have no knowledge of which right hon. and hon. Members have constituents who have been killed or injured in the fire. The hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea) has summed up the feeling of the House. We all have sympathy with the injured and with the families of those who have been killed as a result of the tragic fire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1207.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Curriculum and Assessment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "le, and I am glad that we have common ground about it. The hon. Gentleman went on to ask why the Government are proposing the limited testing in English and mathematics at primary level. The reason is simple: first. it is surely important, and not a matter of political controversy, that we should be able at an early age to identify whether a particular youngster is having problems with the basics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Curriculum and Assessment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " it. The hon. Gentleman went on to ask why the Government are proposing the limited testing in English and mathematics at primary level. The reason is simple: first. it is surely important, and not a matter of political controversy, that we should be able at an early age to identify whether a particular youngster is having problems with the basics. [Interruption.] If hon. Gentlemen will allow me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1227.5", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Curriculum and Assessment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I speak as someone who sat the qualifying examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1227.5", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Curriculum and Assessment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He was a late developer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I speak as someone who sat the qualifying examination— [Interruption.] — and passed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1227.6", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Curriculum and Assessment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " extra help. The hon. Gentleman asked what would be done with the results of those tests. I have already said that the results will be made available to parents, individual teachers and children. The individual results of each child will not be made known to his classmates or to the school generally. The headmaster will inform the school board in due course about the overall results of the school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1227.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Curriculum and Assessment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not available.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will read paragraph 43 of the consultative document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1237.4", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "This is a remarkable constitutional proposition. The Labour party which has managed to lose three general elections on the trot wants to negotiate with the Government about the pattern of housing policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "g costs, will rise not to £70 but to the grand total of £36 a week. In other words, because of the effect of the poverty trap that young person will have experienced an increase in income of £44, of which he will be left with only £10 in his hand. It would be difficult to come up with a scheme better designed to discourage young people from seeking work and from seeking to maximise their earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": " will say, \"that is not what I pay my 20 per cent. of rates for.\" That is a good thing. Let the searchlight of public understanding fall on some local councils' expenditure and we will be all the better for it. I am extremely glad that the preferential treatment built into the income support for disabled people will be reflected in the housing benefit calculation. That gave me particular pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "ome increases —the kind of benefit dealt with in these regulations— and the kind of benefit that increases when one's income increases. Mortgage interest tax relief falls into that category. Let me make it perfectly clear that I do not advocate the abolition of mortgage interest tax relief, but that I certainly advocate that mortgage interest tax relief should be granted only at the standard rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-19", "file": "debates1987-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "b26352269c7b3078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1279.5", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What about other taxes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "otes of those who do not pay income tax. It could therefore be held that there is not sufficient national accountability of Government to people. The logical extension of their doctrine of accountability in local government is that only those who pay income tax should have a vote in national elections or alternatively that everyone, regardless of income, should be brought into the income tax act.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-19a.1279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1312.4", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "I can tell my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) that I intend to go into the details of British Coal Enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1312.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "in the next 10 days the future of Linby colliery will be discussed. I hope that I have illustrated clearly that even in a successful coalfield there are closures and job losses. Recognising the need for rationalisation, the Government introduced generous redundancy terms for those who wished to leave the industry before 31 March this year and arranged alternative jobs for those who wished to stay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1355.5", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "ill be paid out of the restructuring grant. Privatisation of the electricity supply industry will be the most important challenge to the coal industry over the next few years. Whatever structure we decide for the electricity industry, we believe that the coal industry will continue to be a large supplier to the electricity industry. However, a privatised electricity industry will be free to enter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1355.6", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I may not be the world's brightest, but I can read. The motion deals with the coalfield communities—that is, the communities in both former and present coalfield areas. What the Minister has to say about the proposed privatisation of the electricity industry surely is a matter for a different debate. There are many hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1355.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1366.4", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "e are left with seven mines employing 7,000 men. Those mines are under threat, with some of the problems that have been discussed today. From 1951 to 1971, when there was a Labour Government as well as a Conservative Government, there were seven collieries in the area to the south of north-east Derbyshire, near Bolsover, and in the Heath, Clay Cross, North Wingfield, Shirland, Pleasley and Morton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "pent 15 months of hard work and research as a member of the Select Committee on Energy. Hon. Members on both sides of the Committee attempted to present an honest report and I believe that, to a great extent, we were united. From paragraph 31 to paragraph 144 the Committee addressed itself to the social consequences arising out of the rapid pit closure programme and made certain recommendations. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1377.2", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "e Opposition Benches who represents a Nottinghamshire coalfield seat was called. It was important that an Opposition Member with such a seat should be called because today is the day when the Housing Corporation's bid to British Coal to buy 2,000 homes in the Nottinghamshire coalfield finishes. Will the Minister instruct British Coal to sell those homes to the Housing Corporation, which will give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance and advice. We have had a very important debate today on the coal mining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "e is a motion relating to financial assistance to Opposition parties. Yet again we have seen the Opposition in total disarray. A motion was tabled by the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron), which was voted on by only two Opposition Members — the hon. Members for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) and for Mansfield (Mr. Meale). Forty-six members of the Labour party represent coal mining constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1379.4", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": ", suddenly hon. Members happened to be making points of order. One in particular, who was not here for the debate —the hon. Member for Derby, North (Mr. Knight)—intervened on an almost asinine point. Does not that suggest, as my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) said a few moments ago, that there has been something of a put-up charade by the Conservative Members this afternoon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1379.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-11-20", "file": "debates1987-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "728295fd7575d2b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1380.9", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "withstanding the provisions of paragraph (1)(b) of Standing Order No. 14 (Exempted business), Mr. Speaker shall at Ten o'clock put any Questions necessary to dispose of the Motion in the name of the Prime Minister relating to Common Agricultural Policy reform and Agricultural Stabilisers, and on any Amendments thereto which have been selected by him and which may then be moved. — [Mr. David Hunt.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-20a.1380.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.4.8", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that the lack of investment in coal mines, which obviously has something to do with the question of new power stations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.4.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": " looks back at the debates in the Scottish Parliament leading to the Act of Union of 1707, one finds there a very clear division of opinion. There were those who were certainly in favour of the Act of Union but who believed that that should be brought about in a quasi-federal manner — that there should be retained a legislature in Scotland that would be able to deal with Scottish domestic affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "f 1707, one finds there a very clear division of opinion. There were those who were certainly in favour of the Act of Union but who believed that that should be brought about in a quasi-federal manner — that there should be retained a legislature in Scotland that would be able to deal with Scottish domestic affairs— [Interruption.] Unfortunately, those who were dealing with the matter at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "ge for which there is no evidence of popular demand; acknowledges the benefits that Scotland enjoys from the existing arrangements; and rejects any proposals for constitutional change that could undermine the unity of the United Kingdom. I congratulate the leader of the Liberal party on his speech. I found the first five minutes to be particularly well-phrased, felicitous and entirely persuasive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "eral party, and now that he cannot be captain of the team he does not want to play. On a whole series of matters we have seen that the Labour party, whose original commitment to devolution arose from its fear of the Scottish National party, now considers devolution merely as a means of seeking to achieve the political domination of the whole of Scotland that it presently has in Strathclyde region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the general election?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "knows that his proposals have been rejected by Scottish industry and by those who seek to bring new investment and employment to Scotland. Finally, I shall deal briefly with the suggestion that, despite all the anomalies and problems, we must recognise the demand for devolution that we are told exists in Scotland, notwithstanding the result of the referendum that was held eight or nine years ago.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "motion because it is unamendable and Mr. Speaker in his wisdom has decided not to call our amendment. The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood), however, has a ten-minute Bill later this week. I shall support that Bill and I suggest that many of my hon. Friends will do so because if that Bill is given a Second Reading we can then amend it to take out proportional representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ople of Scotland. There is no other explanation. In one debate after another in the past, the Secretary of State said that he believed in the principle of devolution. During the Report stage of the 1978 Bill he said: Many of us on both sides of the House have believed for a long time that there is a majority in Scotland who want devolution.\"—[ Official Report , 15 February 1978; Vol. 944, c. 595.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I always knew that the Liberal party puts proportional representation above the principles of devolution. The hon. Member has just proved that yet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "on so that the views of the Scottish people can be represented and so that they can control their affairs. Even without the current political position, there should still be that level of political and democratic devolution. How absurd it is, and how more pressing is the need for devolution, when the Secretary of State with his Ministers — now only four, rather than five — and five Back Benchers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "e miserliness of Westminster.\" There would be revenue-raising powers under the proposals of the Liberal and the Labour parties. However, let us not be deluded as to what that would mean for the direction in which the levels of taxation would go. Of course, taxation would go up. No one could seriously suggest that taxation would go down. If the assembly had power over income tax that would go up. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. and learned Gentleman was there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I hope that the next Speaker will not be the hon. Gentleman. Nobody is more informed than the leader of whatever party it is at the moment, the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel) about the future government of Scotland. However, it is quite obvious from his speech that he has not read the debates of 1706.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " no longer the position. Scotland is half populated now by Irish people and greatly populated by English people. There are many races in Scotland. It is no longer the homeland for the Scots. Let us be humble in our concept of the quiescent right of a people. There are 10 times as many Scots outside Scotland as in it. There are 10 times as many Scots in Holland as there are in Scotland. In Canada —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "history if we imagine that what was a thing of the past should be a thing of the future. We shall not return to Wessex, Northumbria and Mercia. We shall not return to a Europe before the movement of the Goths, the Visigoths and the Huns. There is a romantic fantasy about the kingdom of Scotland. The kingdom was united with England after seven previous attempts had been made to achieve that unity —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.59.5", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. I thought that the speech of the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel) was facile and fatuous. Let us take the concept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.59.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.59.5", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": ". The Liberal party advances a federal principle. Is it saying that we should restore the grand kingdom of Perth? Is it the idea that we should have the kingdom of Fife? If we find that there are political differences, is it right that we should have the kingdom of Inverskiething and the barony of Fordell as separate political institutions? We must understand the arguments that are being advanced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.59.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.60.4", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "forms will do other than improve education and housing, he is wrong. We are independent; Scotland has benefited enormously — economically, politically and in every other way—by joining the Union in 1707 and by the reforms that resulted from the two Jacobite risings. Any concept of devolution involves returning not to the little puddle but to the south sea bubble. We would be going back in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.60.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ernment on a future occasion — they should do what many of the constituency parties at the Labour conference have begun to realise they must do and embrace proportional representation. I speak as one who would very much like to see the Government removed from office, but who does not think that the Labour party can achieve that by itself at the next election in the current political circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "been on parade. That does not bode well for devolution. What happened on 11 November did not bode well for the Labour party. It made so many mistakes that the business of the day was lost, including the Labour party's Bill. It is wrong to con the Scottish people into believing that a Labour party Bill can be legislated for in this Parliament and that eventually it will become an Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "rogress and development of local government since the 1970s and I believe that the relationship between COSLA, local authorities and the Scottish Office does not seem to be an ideal platform from which to launch an assembly. That is why I plead with hon. Members to consider a much broader brush in terms of the total government of Scotland than the present assembly superimposed on everything else —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the leader of the Liberal party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ed to open a factory. This shows that we must consider the many aspects that affect the government of Scotland. We should not debate this issue frivolously. It is much too serious to be treated flippantly. It is sad that the only form of devolution that the Leader of the Opposition and his party are prepared to support is devolution that embraces proportional representation, as its first priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "indeed, any other House of Commons. Once the proposals are properly evaluated, people begin to ask pertinent questions. Devolution in Scotland means different things to different people. People will say, \"Yes, I am in favour, but —\". It is the \"but\" that is important. It is like marriage. One says \"I am in favour of marriage in general terms, but not in favour of my children marrying just anyone.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "posed during debate in the House. That 80 per cent, of the electorate will tell the hon. Members representing them, from whatever party, that they do not expect them to vote for such a proposal. Every hon. Member knows that there is one notable absentee from the Opposition Benches this evening. The voice that used to be the voice of West Lothian is missing. Why is that voice missing this evening?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.74.5", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "To be totally honest, I have no idea. However, if my right hon. Friend feels strongly about these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.74.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": "It was once said that if ever the meek were to inherit the earth there would be precious little in it for the Scots. During the debate, and especially during the speech of the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing), some of that not unendearing characteristic has been very evident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Irvine", "preceding_text": " During the debate, and especially during the speech of the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing), some of that not unendearing characteristic has been very evident. [Interruption.] I hear the Opposition muttering that I represent Ipswich — I suspect that that is because Ipswich is in England, not Scotland. They are probably saying, \"This is the first Member for an English constituency to intervene\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "That is all very well, but may I give another reason for my intervening —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "I remember that the hon. Gentleman was strongly opposed to devolution when it was first suggested. I am not harking back to Argyll county council. I want to move forward with an all-purpose Argyll and Bute district, in conjunction with a Scottish Parliament. I would remind the Secretary of State, if he were present, that there is an old Gaelic saying —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Ibrox?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": ". It is there. It is a daily, living reality in the workplace, the pubs, the shops, the streets and the homes. It is a feeling of being Scottish. If the Secretary of State or anybody else doubts that, I suggest that the next time he pays a visit to Hampden park he comes with me to the terraces instead of languishing in the royal box with his friends. He might then understand the Scottish heritage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.99.4", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be the hon. Member who would be in charge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ers and can bring problems in its train. I accept that and recognise that one-party rule in perpetuity would be difficult. I would say that no matter what party was in power. Even if my hon. Friend the Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston) was in charge of Scotland, I should still make that point, but would make it more quietly. I should still say that it would be a bad thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.99.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An assertion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " dishonest.'\"—[ Official Report ,14 November 1977; Vol. 939, c. 185.] I would not go so far as that, but those who believe that the creation of a Scottish Parliament will not inevitably affect the office of Secretary of State and claim that it could be retained with a seat in the Cabinet are being wholly unrealistic. The leader of the Liberal party, to his credit, made an admission to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-23", "file": "debates1987-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c59ec766834afe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.107.5", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "vil servants.\" [ Official Report ,14 November 1977; Vol. 939, c. 161.] Higher rates of tax would be likely to lead to higher wage demands, and that, too, would act as a constraint on the creation of new jobs. Higher income tax in Scotland might cause a brain drain to other parts of the United Kingdom and abroad. Indeed, further taxation would be damaging to jobs. In the past, various hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-23a.107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.136.8", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. What I am saying—as the right hon. Gentleman is aware—is that student nurses receive more than those at universities who receive student grants. That is the reason for the difference. I note that the right hon. Gentleman tries to masquerade as being on the side of the nurses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.136.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "In view of the repugnance felt in all parts of the House about the horrific atrocities committed by the IRA, will my right hon. Friend seek a meeting with the Leader of the Opposition on Privy Councillor terms in order to ensure that the Opposition withdraw all support from the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.139.6", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I heard my hon. Friend say from the Dispatch Box that the unit of the Birmingham hospital is today back to full strength. It is hoped that the operation will now take place as soon as possible. My hon. Friend also explained that previously there was a shortage of peadiatric nurses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "British Rail Engineering Ltd", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Springburn is not part of my announcement today because of the earlier decisions to which the hon. Gentleman referred. I understand his concern about that, but he knows what was announced about that some months ago. I am trying to create a viable industry with a secure future. I have had some experience of that in other industries in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Concessionary Television Licences for State Retirement Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Miss Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "ary licences. The House has been kept informed and aware of the issue by the hard work and perseverance of my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. McKay), who has introduced no fewer than four ten-minute Bills since 1980. I know that he would agree with me that, ideally, the answer is not to introduce concessionary television licences but to pay pensioners a decent pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Concessionary Television Licences for State Retirement Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "onising claptrap contained in the Bill today. Another difficulty with this kind of measure is that yet again it is an example of the blindness of Opposition Members when it comes to the indiscriminate giving of benefit. Opposition Members are quite happy to give taxpayers' money without question to everyone, regardless of whether they need it or not. They are not remotely cognisant of the concept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Overseas Development (Mr. Chris Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Overseas Development (Mr. Chris Patten)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.155.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-24", "file": "debates1987-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15f28d53df8aaf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillian Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillian Shephard", "preceding_text": "lives. To care for such patients is one of the most demanding tasks in the whole of the health care field, and our society is indebted to the doctors, nurses and other staff who undertake the work, not least because society is at best ambivalent about its expectations of the special hospitals. Public opinion, as we all know, veers from the shock-horror treatment of so-called revelations of abuses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-24a.232.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister encourage industry to plough back the improvement in productivity into investment in manufacturing, which is still showing a decline in areas such as the north? Investment needs to be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.253.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.265.6", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \" About consultants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I express my gratitude for the first part of the hon. Gentleman's comments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.265.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have noticed that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "ite Paper. Those of my constituents who are employed in the pharmaceutical industry will welcome the statement that the Government are to encourage the maintenance and development of a strong and efficient pharmaceutical industry in the UK and that the Government have no plans at present to extend the selected list scheme into other therapeutic areas or to introduce compulsory generic prescribing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "nment's test of public support appears to amount to people having to take to the streets to demonstrate their interest. That, indeed, is what the Government may eventually face if they continue their prolonged inaction. I introduced a Bill in the last Parliament to establish a Scottish Parliament. I was voted down, having been opposed by Mr. Gerald Malone, the then hon. Member for Aberdeen, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.293.7", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "Perhaps that is an exciting prospect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "t I could have the telex but kindly said that he would mention in the debate that I had not got a copy of the telex earlier. I have a copy of the telex now. It does not come from the chief scientist of the radiochemical institute. It does not come from the Government. It comes from a company called Large and Company. What is Large and Company? It is a consultant company. With whom does it consult?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.324.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.329.6", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "There are two matters that I wish to raise with the Minister and I should be grateful for his response. First, does he not agree that the Soviet authorities have been quite uncharacteristically open about the Chernobyl incident —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.329.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "d that came from the chief scientist of the radiochemical institute. It turned out that that telex was sent to the chief scientist of the radiochemical inspectorate. That is what happened. The hon. Gentleman said the opposite—I have the transcript before me—and the hon. Gentleman was wrong. That telex came from an organisation that advises those local authorities that are opposed to nuclear power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Manchester.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ll take some 2 hours 40 minutes. The daytime services from stations such as Berwick will be fast and efficient. After the enormous investment on the line, I think that the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire can rest assured that those services will be much more secure. There are precious few places in this country where sleeper services are run for journeys as short as two hours 40 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liverpool.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "s from stations such as Berwick will be fast and efficient. After the enormous investment on the line, I think that the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire can rest assured that those services will be much more secure. There are precious few places in this country where sleeper services are run for journeys as short as two hours 40 minutes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Manchester.\"] I shall come to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-25", "file": "debates1987-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aae6b881ea0e9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ear's timetable for people who use the service now. Passengers can travel by sleeper from Euston to Edinburgh. They will have the benefit of better terminal facilities at Euston and more comfortable sleeping compartments. First class passengers can use the new lounge. Passengers who use the new service will obviously be inconvenienced by having to change trains, but there will also be advantages —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-25a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.378.5", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that David Barber has received his operation, that it has gone well and that the hospital has coped well. I have already said that the number of paediatric nurses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "made only out of greater growth in Britain's economy, and that is being provided by the Government. Out of that greater growth about 6,000 extra doctors, 64,000 extra nurses, more specialist paediatric nurses, far more provision and far more operations have been provided. This is paid for not by the Treasury or by some mythical person, but by the taxpayer. When we came to power the average family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Health Service is not free, it is paid for by the taxpayer. In 1979 the average family contributed £11 per week to the Health Service. That is £570 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "nsider his decision to offer only one day's debate on the Education Reform Bill? The Government rightly claim that the Bill will bring about a radical transformation of the education system. It consists of 145 clauses and 11 schedules, and many right hon. and hon. Members will wish to express their views on it. I am astonished that the Leader of the Opposition has not asked for further time on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.386.5", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "er the cost of reprinting was £50,000 or the £24,000 that I have seen quoted, is the Leader of the House aware that, according to the private hospital that offered to operate on David Barber, the cost of that operation would have been £15,000? According to The Birmingham Post this morning, two children have died because facilities were not available at that hospital. Why the hell was that £50,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.386.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I do not accept for a moment the hon. Gentleman's allegations,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.394.8", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "on for defence questions on 8 December. Labour Members took the top 11 of the top 15 places for defence questions and Defence Ministers, who are afraid of the barrage that will be raised, are therefore trying to deflect hon. Members like my hon. Friend who came third in the selection by shuffling his question off to the Foreign Office. Defence Ministers are cheating on the procedures of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.394.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman means statistics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "ent's achievement in establishing the sound economy necessary to support the continued development of the health service . Despite the observations of the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) in the last few minutes, I make no apology for beginning my speech by setting out the essential facts that should form the foundation of any debate on the NHS and the Government's record of commitment to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ease their output as they have done without the extra resources that we have put in. That is the point on which the Opposition should focus. Let me measure also, in perhaps more direct and down to earth terms, particular conditions and types of treatment and ask the hon. Member for Livingston whether he is aware of where things were when the Labour Government left office and where we have come to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "from fewer than 1,000 in 1978 to nearly 1,500 in 1986. The number of people being treated for serious renal failure more than doubled from slightly over 5,000 in 1978 to over 12,000 in 1985. The number of hip replacements has gone up from 28,000 to over 38,000. I wonder whether the Opposition can tell me how many heart transplants were performed in this country in the year that Labour left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members obviously do not like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "There is a notorious and notable reluctance among the Opposition to hear this, but my hon. Friends are anxious to hear the information. The number of heart transplants carried out in 1986 was not three, but 176.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "t for this year of £1,100 million. For Opposition Members, with their record, to suggest that they would have done better is ludicrous to those of us who were present when they were last in government. We remember what they did to nurses' pay and the hospital building programme. The situation was reached when porters were deciding who was to be admitted to hospital and the dead were left unburied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "the Health Service and where further consideration must be given. I shall also try to provide such an analysis. We must recognise the fact that there is a serious decline in the morale of those who work in the NHS. That lack of morale has been communicated to patients and their relatives. It has also manifested itself in some perfectly disgraceful examples of unprofessional conduct by consultants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I have plenty to say. We remember those doctors who, when the limited drugs list came in, put wrappers round the pill boxes and said, \"You will not be able to get this under this Government\". That was an absolute tissue of lies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.437.8", "colnum": "437", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "he pressure on finance come from? It comes from more new medical technology and ever higher standards of treatment, with more and more general practitioners referring more and more patients for cataract operations, hip replacements and so on. However, there is no escaping the fact that district health authorities are underfunded. There are problems because of the RAWP formula in South West Thames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.437.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.437.8", "colnum": "437", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "nd more general practitioners referring more and more patients for cataract operations, hip replacements and so on. However, there is no escaping the fact that district health authorities are underfunded. There are problems because of the RAWP formula in South West Thames. [Interruption.] Yes, I acknowledged it earlier and I repeat it. A classic example is the Eastbourne district health authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.437.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "tedness and meanness and of wanting to get rid of the National Health Service. Charges are flying as fast as Indian arrows at Custer's last stand. However, their charges simply do not stick. The enormous extra funding of the National Health Service outlined by the Minister and the undeniable truth that many more patients are being treated in many specialties are absolutely clear and on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "asis must be on securing more patient services and better health care by using new and creative means of making funds stretch further. Above all, it is a question of planning. The Griffiths management system has made an excellent start. Those of us who believe in and support the National Health Service—even as I speak, my wife is about to give birth at UCH, one of our great inner-London hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mrs. Edwina Currie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mrs. Edwina Currie)", "preceding_text": "my congratulations to those of the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) to tonight's maiden speaker, the hon. Member for Coventry, North-East (Mr. Hughes). I merely say to him that his concerns about the Morris engine factory are recognised, but that he may want to think how many of his hon. Friends are toddling around in foreign cars and whether they might give that company a little more support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "per written by another brainy lady, who said: demand will always outstrip our capacity to meet it. That was said by Mrs. Barbara Castle when she was Secretary of State 10 years ago. The Health Service, as has been said repeatedly, is partly a victim of its own success. In 1975, 11 babies in every 1,000 born alive died within the first month of birth. Now it is fewer than half that. Ten years ago —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "No. Sit down! — we would see an immediate and swingeing increase in tax. We would see rapid rises in inflation and we would see a reversal of recent improvements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "We would see an increase in unemployment instead of a fall. Ten years ago a British Chancellor, who had cheerfully let rip with pay rises and spending increases, was hauled off a plane at Heathrow and forced to go to the IMF, not as one of the wealthy lender nations, which we are now, but cap-in-hand like some poverty-striken Third world country to beg for help to pay his debts", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "he year after that. By the time the Labour party lost power the real income of, nurses had declined by more than 20 per cent, and it took a long time to catch up. The Labour party closed beds and hospitals. Indeed, under the previous Labour Government more than 270 hospitals were closed—far more than we are ever likely to close. We could increase spending, but if we did what the Opposition wanted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "National Health Service Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "ith all the money that they bring in. The Labour party would squeeze the drug companies so that many would stop undertaking research. And then the Labour party would nationalise them. That is the kind of Health Service that the Labour party would run. Worst of all, the Opposition would run the Health Service, not for the benefit of the patient, but for the benefit of the unions, their paymasters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Financial Assistance to Opposition Parties", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Wakeham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Wakeham)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Resolution of the House of 20th March 1975 shall have effect with the omission of the proviso to paragraph (2) of that Resolution. The motion will not, I hope, detain the House for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.490.8", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Financial Assistance to Opposition Parties", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "at, it took his money as well. It took the equivalent of the money of the hon. Member for Orpington. It took the number of votes that were cast for that hon. Member as well. I think that it would be a fair bet—I am prepared to have this checked out—that every member of the Tory party who qualified under the rules in 1975 contributed towards that total of Opposition money that they kept until 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.490.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Financial Assistance to Opposition Parties", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I never took any. This measure does not deal with the problem faced by the Leader of the House. I believe that there will have to be some hard thinking done to sort out the mess on the Benches beside and behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-26", "file": "debates1987-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "bbe3439d5119c53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Financial Assistance to Opposition Parties", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "eral election of 1987 in that precise form? In view of the fact that this is taxpayers' money I believe the public have the right to know. The Leader of the House replied by saying that the matter was under review. When I receive letters like that, I know that there is a problem. I received another letter this week in answer to another problem in which it was said that I would be answered shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-26a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-27", "file": "debates1987-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "88ad9c2f6e00997c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-27a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Britain to become great again in the eyes of the world. That has certainly happened under this Government. Even members of the royal family drew attention to it. The Duke of Edinburgh was one of the first to point out that there was far too much knocking in the press. The press has responded to the demands of public mood and to the fact that the Government have brought about a change in attitudes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-27a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-27", "file": "debates1987-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "88ad9c2f6e00997c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-27a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "to go on the air without those services. In the morning, if people do not hear about train delays and traffic problems, and if there are not the news bulletins that people want to hear, one does not get an audience and it goes elsewhere. We in Kent enjoy the station that I have the privilege to be involved in. BBC Radio Kent also offers a good facility. In television, we have a problem at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-27a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "We all agree with the Government's tactics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fear?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " cent. higher than last year's gross grant. We do not yet know what the loss of grant will be, but the current estimate is £265 million. Taking that aspect out of the equation, both increases are very generous and should enable local authorities to maintain current levels. Indeed, I fear that it will allow them to increase the levels slightly, as the increases are well above the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.615.2", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The needs of Liverpool and every other city and district in the country are assessed in the GREAs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "The key Act — the 1974 Act — was introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the private sector?\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": " proposals in the Bill. Unlike Opposition Members, I welcome especially the right that we are giving to local authority tenants to change their landlords. On the basis of figures that I think were entirely spurious, the hon. Member for Hammersmith claimed that almost all local authority tenants are satisfied with their landlords. I advise the hon. Gentleman that, alas, that is simply not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.648.2", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It should be welcomed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "tor, between the public and the private, but not of either. I hope that by the end of the Bill's passage we shall have sustained the independence of that sector and truly enabled it to grow and flourish. The Government had the good fortune of the announcement last week by Nationwide Anglia, which has featured in every speech by every Department of Environment Minister that I have heard since then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "preceding_text": "the landlord and rent collector have given way to the district housing office, so the tenant has become alienated and isolated from the landlord. I wonder whether this poor management is the reason why some £250 million is owing by local authority tenants to their landlords. I wonder whether this is the reason why many local authorities keep houses empty for three months, six months, or 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "preceding_text": " strands. The Daily Telegraph recently suggested that the Prime Minister was thinking of appointing a Minister for the inner cities. I sincerely hope that she does not do so. We do not need any more Ministers — we already have plenty, each with different Departments and jobs. If there must be a Minister with special responsibility for the inner cities, that Minister should be my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Laissez-faire\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": "Mortgage tax relief is a great incentive to home ownership and home ownership is the greatest freedom that we have ever had. I am in favour of continuing it. It harnesses market forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": "Mortgage tax relief is a great incentive to home ownership and home ownership is the greatest freedom that we have ever had. I am in favour of continuing it. It harnesses market forces. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Laissez-faire\".] We do not want everything to be laissez-faire.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": " had. I am in favour of continuing it. It harnesses market forces. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Laissez-faire\".] We do not want everything to be laissez-faire.— [Interruption.] The Opposition want \"Gooseberry Fair\" with the Government constantly between what the people want and economic forces. For Opposition Members, it is gooseberry fair, rather than laissez-faire; the Government should be into everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "That is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "ds of the private rented sector, so we do not intend to go down that road, either. In so many ways, the Bill is typical of the Government's approach to all aspects of our problems in the inner cities. It is a combination of muddle on the one hand and the market on the other, with a great dollop of malice for good measure. Muddle, market and malice characterise the attitude of Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "t in far more than has been the case up to now in order to renovate and improve property and, what is more, to give some hope to property owners that their properties will be useful in the future, that they will have a proper return from them and that it will be worth while to do things to them, thereby giving tenants, as the hon. Member for Brent, South said, a better quality of life as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "the Government are taking on board the need to give a grant higher than 50 per cent. in London, if housing associations are to continue to do that. I am pleased to see him nodding his head. The main employers in London, almost to a man, woman and authority, confirm the difficulty in recruiting and holding staff. It would be worrying if, as a result of this legislation—I hope to serve in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is the last person I would wish to misquote. I was unintentionally and wrongly transferring to him the views of Liverpool council. Liverpool will not work with the co-operative movement or housing associations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-11-30", "file": "debates1987-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "79f4cad9dd5c15f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "t is why those rents are affordable. It is the short-term operators, the wide boy operators, who have to get the quick buck and the high rents. That is why we want to make it clear that we have to get the serious flows of savings back into providing accommodation for rent. I know that some Labour Members, including, I suspect, some on the Labour Front Bench, know in their hearts that we are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-11-30a.718.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.758.7", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, I would say that nurses, including paediatric nurses in intensive care, are earning far more under this Government than they were under the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.758.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.758.9", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " earnings have risen by an extra 30 per cent, in real terms. Secondly, I would say that the very scheme that was criticised a few days ago from the Opposition Benches means that nurses working in key specialties such as intensive care stand to benefit from the proposals currently being considered in the nursing and midwifery negotiating council. For the first time the new structure will recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.758.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.760.8", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's hope that Mrs. Chertkova will be released. I am aware that a number of people have been released since I went to Moscow and indeed before that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.760.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.761.0", "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 money spent on the National Health Service has gone up enormously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ents, including national tests. It has three purposes: first, to tell a parent or teacher what a child knows, is able to do and is able to understand; secondly, to identify problems which need further diagnosis and whether the child needs extra help or more demanding tasks; thirdly, to indicate through the results of assessment the achievements of schools and local education authorities generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e undesirables, the special needs children and those with educational handicap. Indeed, if Baroness Hooper has her way, they will be able to keep out the blacks as well. For how else could those opted-out schools make themselves suitable for the children of this Cabinet? How else could they make themselves sufficiently different from the existing local authority schools which Ministers so despise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that there was an election, and indeed there was, but whatever doctrine on the mandate that one likes to hold—and they are many and varied — that does not justify any Government failing to provide a proper opportunity for Parliament and in particular the House of Commons to discuss Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "hey can do that. That cannot be anything other than a caricature of parliamentary government. My hon. Friends should be ashamed. If their constituents hear about this, they will tell them so. Because the Opposition are incompetent, ill-led, ineffective and unable to get an extra day's debate out of the Government, that is no reason why hon. Members on the Government side should be limited in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady had been democratic enough to force the Leader of the House to give us two days for this debate I would happily give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.794.5", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "aning for today's educational system. I wish to deal with the vital question of opting out, because it destroys the system that was built up by Disraeli, Balfour and Butler. One of my hon. Friends on the Benches behind me said in an intervention that opting out represents the choice between freedom and not opting out. That implies that to remain in a local education authority is a form of tyranny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.794.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "m. It has borne fruit and has weaknesses, but we are trying to rectify them as best we can. Every normal growing pain of the system has been put under the microscope and magnified beyond belief. The kept and venal press, which is owned by the Tories for the Tories, has attacked every democratic advance with brutal determination. That is the reality of the education system that is now under attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.850.4", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "To start with, I do not recollect actually saying that. That is one good reason why I will not join the hon. Gentlemen in the Lobby. Another reason is that the Opposition have no idea what to do about education policy. They even swapped their spokesman because one was no good and they had to bring in another. They have no policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.850.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Viggers)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Viggers)", "preceding_text": "ifferent skills, and the difficulties encountered have caused delays in the programme and losses on the contracts. The increased support is required to cover additional contract losses and to meet work-in-progress costs to cover instalments payable to Harland and Wolff but which have slipped into next year. None of this provision is to assist with the auxiliary oiler replenishment vessel contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is that the number of Catholics employed by Harland and Wolff is minuscule. I refer the hon. Gentleman to the Scarman report and to the Fair Employment Agency report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-01", "file": "debates1987-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "feaaf6995dcf6ae0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "o examine carefully the implications for Harland and Wolff. For all the reasons outlined already by hon. Members and for the economy of Northern Ireland it is crucial that the jobs of the remaining 4,000 employees in Harland and Wolff are maintained and that everything possible is done to expand the industry because of the reliance of many other industries in Northern Ireland on Harland and Wolff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-01a.899.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.939.4", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Firearms White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "We shall have to refine and develop that matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.939.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.944.5", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Firearms White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I was in Edinburgh at the time and, therefore, know of that incident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.944.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Post Ofiice (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "e delivery of the Royal Mail and the working conditions under which the men and women who deliver it throughout the year are now forced to work. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has already intervened in the dispute in that he has instructed the Post Office that it must not concede more than a one-hour reduction in a 42-hour working week. No other working person works a 42-hour week —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "The Real Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. We need a Government who are prepared to intervene in the interests of the real economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "The Real Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "sonal taxation was 83 per cent. The taxation rate on investment income for individuals was at the ludicrous level of 98 per cent. — now it is 60 per cent. Under Labour — the party now interested in reducing the burden on business—corporation tax was 52 per cent.; we have reduced that level to 35 per cent.. The small companies rate of corporation tax has gone down from 42 per cent. to 27 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "The Real Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "y right hon. and learned Friend touched on that matter. As to exports, I discovered that the CBI, which has been prayed in aid by Labour Members with great enthusiasm, concluded in its latest survey that 84 per cent. of directors thought that their companies were doing well, or very well, and were optimistic at their prospects. Over the past quarter, exports have increased by 10·5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "The Real Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "scovered that the CBI, which has been prayed in aid by Labour Members with great enthusiasm, concluded in its latest survey that 84 per cent. of directors thought that their companies were doing well, or very well, and were optimistic at their prospects. Over the past quarter, exports have increased by 10·5 per cent. [Interruption.] Manufacturing industry in Britain is beginning to improve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "The Real Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "its budget deficit that will have a recessionary impact. We know that the main and immediate effect of a falling dollar is for the United States to shut out our exports from its markets. We know, too, that there is no way in which this country can avoid the cold recessionary winds that will blow around the world. In the London Evening Standard a few days ago, Stanley Kalms, the chairman of Dixons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Health and Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " message is transmitted by the infrequent inspections, rare prosecutions and derisory penalties. If the Government put such a low value on enforcing health and safety regulations, why should not employers do the same? The Government like to consider themselves a law and order Government. That is why they have built up the police force to investigate, deter and punish law breakers in the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1000.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Health and Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "preceding_text": " careers offices of when a young person became employed, because it was said that that was too burdensome. The inevitable result was that young people were injured, maimed and killed on some of the Manpower Services Commission's schemes. The latest figures that I have for YTS — as of 15 September — show that since the YOP schemes which the Labour Government unfortunately brought in as a stop gap —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "man of the Committee of Selection drew attention to the long period that had to pass after the general election in 1983, and again this year, before we could reach this stage. It is only right that we should take time to consider who should sit on the Committees. The Committee of Selection must have got it very nearly right because all the amendments before us seek to change only two of the names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "ious point. I understand what he says and I hope that nothing that I have said suggests that I expect a Select Committee to do other than to choose its Chairman as it thinks best. However, the system by which there are discussions through the usual channels gives Committee members some understanding of the overall basis upon which they should then make their judgment. That is all that I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1047.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "rters of the Conservative party are of social services. It is the biggest spending Department of State, £45 billion, and not once in 20 years have we taken the Chair of that Committee. I believe that the chairmanship was offered to the Conservative party on this occasion, but that it was declined because the party was not prepared to trade off another Committee. I think that that is a great shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1058.5", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to give way to the hon. Lady. No doubt she will have ample opportunity to display her talents on the Select Committee. I plead with the House to safeguard the integrity and independence of the Social Services Select Committee and all other Select Committees of the House. One day, the Government may be on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-02", "file": "debates1987-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "164c740c913f35a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "h proposals and come back to the Floor of the House with proposals for improvement. One such proposal is the direct election of members to Select Committees, with each hon. Member having one vote for a member of each Select Committee. With one vote per hon. Member, there would be no question of a slate of 10 or 12 getting elected. Indeed, a broad cross-section of hon. Members would be represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-02a.1059.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "What will be done to ensure that women can walk freely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1098.9", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As a way of paying for local government the community charge will expand the base of payment to people who do not pay at present, but who we feel should contribute to paying for local government when they benefit enormously from the services that local government provides. We all pay income tax and VAT —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1098.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1099.4", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not realise yet that neither nurses nor patients are interested in the past, but are interested in the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1099.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find time today to write to the Leader of the Opposition and invite him, on behalf of his constituents, to seek to ensure that in the forthcoming contest for the leadership of the miner's union the vote is carried out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1101.4", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alien", "preceding_text": "The people who listen on the radio to Prime Minister's Question Time will not be aware that the Prime Minister does not answer questions off the cuff, but reads her answers from a prepared brief. Is that because the Prime Minister does not have the wit to answer the questions, or is it because she has no confidence in her policies?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1101.7", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman has referred to broadcasting, I hope that people will also have the wit to know that one does not have a clue what will come out from the other side at all and I hope —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1101.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1102.4", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "In preparing her efforts to ensure common sense in the Common Market at Copenhagen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1102.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "BCal-SAS (Negotiations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with any of the right hon. Gentleman's points about the definition, or with his reference to my right hon. Friend attacking his successor. As one of my right hon. Friend's successors, I can say that he has never attacked me yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "te their stubborn and undemocratic refusal to provide proper time to debate the Education Reform Bill this week, the Government will change their ways and allow at least two full days for the Second Reading debate on the poll tax Bill? Also on the poll tax Bill, when will the regulations setting out the income levels for the operation of any poll tax rebate be published? Clearly, it is essential —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "emocratic refusal to provide proper time to debate the Education Reform Bill this week, the Government will change their ways and allow at least two full days for the Second Reading debate on the poll tax Bill? Also on the poll tax Bill, when will the regulations setting out the income levels for the operation of any poll tax rebate be published? Clearly, it is essential — [Interruption.] Shut up!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-03", "file": "debates1987-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "5db7bdda2d3995bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1126.5", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Undeserved, Sir. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the incompetence of British Telecom percolates into even these premises? Does he realise that we spent some millions of pounds on a new telephone system two or three years ago but that I am having frequent experience of malfunctioning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-03a.1126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "United Nations force, Britain could have forestalled the first Turkish invasion … Britain had a legal right to intervene, she had a moral obligation to intervene, she had the military capacity to intervene. She did not intervene for reasons which the Government refuses to give. I point to the Opposition Benches and condemn the guilty men who at that time had the right and duty to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": ". However, there is every question connected with the duty of the Government to protect the confidentiality that is owed to them by members and former members. Had the BBC been prepared to meet the reasonable request of the Treasury Solicitor to see the passages of the transcript limited to the contributions from members and former members of the service, great difficulty would have been overcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1227.2", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "In congratulating my right hon. and learned Friend on his robust, timely and entirely necessary action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "strued as a breach of those proprieties or an attempt to seek to attain such a breach. I shall explain what was done by the Government yesterday. We read in some detail, from other journalists, that a programme was to take place that contained the names of considerable number of former and serving members of the security services. We read that there were \"jitters at Broadcasting House\" and so on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Is not the nature of the question another sign of a grubby little campaign by the sneaks and narks on the Opposition Benches to undermine national security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1274.2", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes. In accordance with Standing Order No. 11, it would have been far better for this pathetic Government to tell the Attorney-General to make a statement. Because he has not made a statement but has put the Chair in this predicament and been dragged here kicking and squealing for a private notice question, he should be brought here now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There are no procedures by which any Minister can be brought to the House now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1274.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-04", "file": "debates1987-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "6214c090e991b08e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1276.5", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "There is no departmental Select Committee overseeing the security services, and we cannot even examine the moneys that are allocated to those services. Therefore, we depend wholly upon the freedom of the press, so-called —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-04a.1276.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-07", "file": "debates1987-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "04b3f4f155fa8545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Parliamentary Language", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": ", and it will be within the recollection of the House. May I draw your attention—the attention of your office has been drawn to it — to column 1124 of the previous Thursday's Hansard? It will be within your recollection, Mr. Speaker, that the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) used an extremely abusive word that was not withdrawn, namely, \"twerp\", in referring to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-07", "file": "debates1987-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "04b3f4f155fa8545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "BBC (Injunction)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is a hypothetical matter — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-07", "file": "debates1987-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "04b3f4f155fa8545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ding Health Service solely with demand for additional financial resources. I thought that one of the weaknesses of the statement issued by the presidents of the royal colleges last night was that it contained little or no serious discussion of the complex causes of some of the difficulties, including, for example, the nursing shortages which have been acknowledged recently in the Birmingham area —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-07", "file": "debates1987-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "04b3f4f155fa8545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I do not need the Minister to confirm or deny what I am saying. I am making a speech, not the hon. Lady. The Government have made across-the-board cuts throughout the land. All services have been cut —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-07", "file": "debates1987-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "04b3f4f155fa8545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Yes, you have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "hospital run by separate bodies, especially as some district health authorities seem to have difficulty running what they have. The aim is to make the family practitioner committees as effective as they can be, so that they do a proper job of monitoring health and the family health services. That is what we intend to do through the Bill. Nobody can say that we have been stingy with these services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.107.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-07", "file": "debates1987-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "04b3f4f155fa8545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.129.4", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Cinematographs and Cinematograph Films", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I am sure that the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher) will wish to make his own speech. I wish to develop my argument slightly further —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-07a.129.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the Royal Navy's strategic options have broadened somewhat since 1979 in view of three facts: in 1979 we had not a single carrier-borne fixed-wing aircraft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.152.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that answer. Since the Prime Minister spent yesterday trying to cash in on the success of the INF talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "t most of yesterday trying to cash in on the success of the INF talks, will the Secretary of State for Defence now tell us that the Government are prepared to negotiate the removal of all nuclear weapons and that they are prepared to play a positive role in the disarmament negotiations rather than spend all their time and energy attacking the CND, which has done more to bring about the INF treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "If, after her return from the Palace tonight, my right hon. Friend hears that an INF agreement has been signed in Washington, will she convey her congratulations to the American and Russian leaders? Will she also accept on behalf of all Conservative Members congratulations for what she and the Government have done in achieving this unique agreement and will she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.162.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e £8 million extra that is referred to is mainly an adjustment that is needed to recognise the fact that in the past public debt charges have been based on public expenditure White Paper figures which have been wildly out of date and which have led to the Welsh authorities being robbed in the past? Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that the failure to recognise the impact of salary increases —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e planning stages, which will be considerable, for the introduction of the community tax? Will he further confirm that the settlement does not make any provision for the extra costs that councils will incur in preparing for the Government's education initiatives, such as the decentralisation of school spending, which again must be prepared in advance, and therefore, must be financed by ratepayers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Sale of War Toys (Prohibition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "cture and sale of replica guns and rifles. The assembly noted that, in West Germany, the EEC's major toy manufacturer, opinion polls have shown that 83 per cent. of the population were in favour of banning war toys. It is encouraging to report that I have received dozens of letters from all over the country in support of the measures proposed in the Bill. I have had only two expressing opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "erest to have a more open approach to the issue of Blunt's treachery, which had been buried by successive Governments and successive Prime Ministers with the time-honoured formula, \"We do not answer questions about the Security Service.\" I believe that that move by the Prime Minister, which I applauded at the time, would mean a new openness in the discussion of sensible, Security Service policy. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "nd water or in a way that might lead to injury. The hon. Member for Eccles (Miss Lestor) gave us a timely reminder that there are many children in various parts of world, unfortunately including this country, who are suffering and will be suffering at Christmas. I accept the hon. Lady's point. I shall be sharing the joy of Christmas with three sons at home, which is one more than I had last year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner-city areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "rince of Wales. It is timely and appropriate that, at the earliest opportunity, the House should discuss the matter. I think that nearly all hon. Members—although the House is rather thinly populated tonight—are concerned about design and architecture. We look foward to hearing what the Minister says when he winds up the debate, for he is well known for making provocative and constructive remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Minister has heard what the hon. Gentleman has said, and that he will reply to both of us in due course. Let me move on to what I would call Thatcherism in sport. I hinted at this earlier—the standard Tory attack on sport, the cutting of the annual grant to the Sports Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "for sports debates, but I wonder whether the Opposition, in view of the generous time that they give to lost causes, would consider sport as a topic for debate on one of their allotted days. Judging by the attendance on the Opposition Benches tonight, there may be a better attendance for that debate than they get for the so-called important issues of health and other matters in parliamentary time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "In public terms local authorities are reluctant to publish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "ings, grounds, sports services, plants and equipment, supervising activities, life guards at swimming pools, providing instruction in sport and recreational activities offered, catering and the provision of refreshments, provision and hire of sports and other equipment, paying for heating, lighting and other service charges and securing premises. That is not a minute minority approach, nor is it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Radioactive Waste Disposal", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "s are chock-a-block with tourists. Only a couple of years ago there was a sign on the Menai bridge, which affected many of the constituents of the hon. Member for Wirral. South (Mr. Porter), saying that Anglesey was full and had no room for any more cars. That is a measure of the road problems of that area. To think that we might have armoured convoys with lethal radioactive rubbish on such roads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Radioactive Waste Disposal", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Gentleman understand that the sort of speech he is making, like that made by the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Mr. Wigley), is precisely the reason why people in these remote areas think that this is all very dangerous? I happen to live in and represent an area that has a fairly dense population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "London Ambulance Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": " 1986; Vol. 103, c. 598 .] That was the Minister's justification for the massive cut of 44 per cent. which affected many people in east London. Elderly ladies wrote to me saying that they had had no fewer than eight out-patient appointments cancelled during 1986 because the non-emergency ambulances did not arrive. I have no sympathy whatever for the Minister having to reply to two debates tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-08", "file": "debates1987-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "368ea7fc7ea927ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "London Ambulance Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "as produced, several conclusions were reached, and I want to highlight two of them. First, incredible secrecy surrounds the London ambulance service and the regional health authority. In the days of the GLC it was easy to get information on the number of controllers, vehicles, and so on, available at any one time, but that is now difficult to obtain and it should be freely available to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-08a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The question of the Aberdeen college of commerce is a matter for the Grampian region. Students are able to continue to attend their classes in different locations, and for those students who are taking advanced courses I have ensured that grants continue to be paid from the Scottish Education Department. It is for local authorities to determine their own priorities within the capital programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.432.8", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like getting a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "man does not read the British Medical Journal. If he did, he would know that in January and April there were a couple of articles about the research commissioned by the Medical Research Council on that matter. None of that research provided evidence to support his theory. Experts agree that people can help themselves and their families to stay healthy by making simple changes to their life styles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.432.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.433.10", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must be quite clear that I have to answer on behalf of the Lord Advocate and ensure that the law is properly carried out, enforced and that the correct procedures are involved. I believe that the hon. Gentleman's question goes beyond my sphere of responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.433.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "The question is, will the Minister have the grace to apologise to Brian Barr, Duncan Campbell and their colleagues for the besmirching of their reputations that this investigation has caused? Now that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "Now that Mrs. Thatcher —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I should make it clear that on 27 November the Lord Advocate announced that, having considered a number of reports from the procurator fiscal in Glasgow, he had instructed —following consultation with the Attorney-General and having regard in particular to public interest— that no criminal proceedings would be instituted in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "what matters to people in Scotland is how much is to be invested in the housing stock of local authorities, the Scottish Special Housing Association and the Housing Corporation. Whatever the hon. Gentleman says, he cannot avoid the fact that, as I said in my statement, £30 million more will be available for investment in the public sector housing stock in Scotland, which will be highly beneficial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman to keep his patience for a while. I can assure him that any policy developments in regional aid will have been come to in the full consideration of how we can best boost employment and economic development in the various regions of the United Kingdom. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for conceding that my announcement today represents an increase in real terms in health expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State reflect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman, if he is going back to 1978–79—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I make a brief plea on behalf of Scottish Members. The Leader of the House will know that the Bill has ramifications for Scottish legislation. Scottish Members were not able to get on the Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ing be rate-capped with an expenditure limit that is actually below its grant-related expenditure assessment? What can possibly be the justification for that? The grant-related expenditure assessment was introduced by this Government. It is supposed to denote what local authorities are required to spend to support an adequate level of service. The expenditure limit in Ealing is below that level. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ays delighted to have my hon. Friends helping me. I am sure that my hon. and learned Friend the Minister has heard what was said and that by the end of the debate he will have found a way to make that possible. When I go back to Brent, the people will be waiting in the streets and I shall ride through the streets in a chariot with my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells). —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.528.4", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "No, of course, I am not giving that guarantee, and I have not said that such a guarantee would be appropriate. Local authorities will not incur any penalty with regard to spending on housing benefit unless they exceed the GRE, which is specifically provided in the settlement for housing benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.528.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-09", "file": "debates1987-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5a0c8bd1a92d3689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Fisheries", "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": "the hon. Gentleman will accept that we try to enter into discussions with all sections of the fishing industry. That is why it is extremely difficult to make any such decisions in terms that the whole fishing industry wants. That is the difficulty about the problems of mesh sizes. Many parts of the fishing industry do not share the view of my hon. Friend the Member for Bridlington (Mr. Townend). —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-09a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "Following the remarks of the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea), will the Secretary of State please confirm that my party is the only one from Northern Ireland represented in this House that has no association of any description, and never has had, with any paramilitary or violent organisation?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.574.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.578.4", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "l the statistics … but the basic fact is that we are spending less on our health service than any other developed European country. The bottom line is that we had a service which was the envy of the world which we ran very cheaply. We are now trying to run it too cheaply. The statement says: In spite of the efforts of doctors, nurses and other hospital staff, patient care is deteriorating.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.578.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In the 40 years of the NHS there have never been more patients treated, whether as inpatients or out-patients. There have never been more accident and emergency cases treated. There have never been more heart bypass operations or hip replacements —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ent and emergency cases treated. There have never been more heart bypass operations or hip replacements — [Interruption.] Of course hon. Gentlemen will interrupt, because they cannot bear to hear the facts. There are more cataract operations, more bone marrow transplants, more kidney transplants, more cervical smear tests, more people treated for kidney transplants and for chronic renal failure. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware of the early-day motion that I am tabling today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.599.4", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "have clean texts. We have copies of the text, but they are not in clean form. We have been kept in touch with the drafting as it has gone on, and as I have explained to the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson), all the arrangements affecting the United Kingdom had to be cleared with us before they were accepted. A clean copy of the treaty in proper form will be deposited as soon as possible. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.599.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not doing himself justice. How can we lay before the House a document that has not yet been signed? He suggests that the basing country agreement has an existence independent of the principal treaty. That is true only in part. Of course, the basic formulation—the content—does not relate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "It is not satisfactory that the House of Commons should see a document, which is not controversial, only after it has been signed. The House of Commons has been asked before now to give its assent to treaties. It is a peculiar proposition that only when the Government have signed something should the sovereign Parliament of Britain be allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " important development for which the legislation provides. Quite properly, the House is dealing at some length with the intermediate nuclear force provisions under clause 1(2) of the Bill. It is a small first step, but it is welcome in all parts of the House. However, it represents only an 8 per cent. reduction in the total number of nuclear warheads that are available to exterminate civilization—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.631.5", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) would treat Pravda with respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-10", "file": "debates1987-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f47349ed30d16c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.631.5", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "European Union, as well as in the House. The WEU is a useful body, as I discovered when I was there last week. Hon. Members participate in it to try to achieve agreement within the Alliance on key issues. My hon. Friend asked about the number of inspectors. We expect it to be not more than 10, which is a relatively limited number. He asked about conditions for inspections behind the iron curtain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-10a.631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-11", "file": "debates1987-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfc900ca02b181e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.681.8", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Scotch Whisky Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "p early enough to see the television programme will have seen me appear with a spokesperson for the association; it was on his advice that I made my comments. The last thing that I would wish to do is mislead the House. The provisions are judged to be essential and deemed to be in the best long-term interests of the industry and of its customers, some of whom, I believe, are Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.681.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-11", "file": "debates1987-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfc900ca02b181e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Scotch Whisky Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "anyone doubt that in future we may find Moscow Scotch whisky being sold or that this famous product, which has built a worldwide reputation and sales on its quality and brand name, may somewhere, some time, be piled high and sold cheap? I remind the House that 85 per cent. of all Scotch sold is sold outside the United Kingdom. What other United Kingdom product can lay claim to sales on that scale?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-11", "file": "debates1987-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfc900ca02b181e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Scotch Whisky Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Donald Thompson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Donald Thompson)", "preceding_text": "join in the congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) on bringing the Bill to the House and underlining the importance of the Scotch whisky industry. By doing so he has also initiated a great many after-dinner speeches on this Friday morning, and they have been very welcome. I have no constituency interest to declare, other than that in Todmorden, Hebden Bridge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-11", "file": "debates1987-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "2dfc900ca02b181e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Scotch Whisky Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Typical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "isky consumed in Britain is at that level, and there is an increasing demand for it. I agree with the SWA that we do not want widely differing strengths. We do not want the 30 per cents., the 25 per cents. and Albanian whisky. I even received a bottle of Argentinian whisky the other day, for reasons which hon. Members may guess. Fortunately, I did not drink it, but gave it to someone as a present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-11a.720.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has just said that the Opposition have rather changed their tune, having learnt what is happening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.805.8", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": " in other countries. Of course, we have been through difficult times and I do not think that anyone disputes that. Despite what has been said from the Opposition Benches, I believe that things are improving because of the policies pursued by the Government. For once we have a Prime Minister who has stuck to what she believed was right. Other Prime Ministers may have started off on the right road —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.805.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "ot the case. I am not, as some Labour Members would say, some southern banker who has not seen unemployment. I know Sunderland, North rather well because I operated as a CBI director there. I well remember at least 20 managing directors in the constituency who said in conversation to me, \"If only my work force would try to moderate their pay claims, I would be able to preserve jobs in my company.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "to companies in the northern region and in Sunderland, North. As we have been told, they were non-competitive companies and could not afford to meet such claims. But would the Opposition listen to them? No, they would not; nor did the work force. That is why unemployment increased until soon after the Conservative Government took power. I do not blame the work force for what happened. My view is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "I shall not. I gave the hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) the opportunity to intervene, but he did not take it. There were far too many managers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.819.7", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "It is not insulting; it is a fact. If the hon. Lady cannot recognise facts, that is her problem. I see also far tougher management than I have seen before in my life. Those factors and Government policy have resulted in what the Opposition do not like to see —an economic miracle, the like of which I have never before seen in my lifetime —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.819.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nt. My hon. Friend has drawn attention to that very subject in his motion. I do not argue with hon. Members who say that unemployment is bound to go down for a period. Of course it will go down—just as it will rise again later as long as this system is in existence. The very nature of the economic system under which we live leads to booms and slumps; after a slump there is inevitably another boom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ault of the workers who had demanded higher wages and better conditions of employment and that if they had accepted low wages, everything would have been all right and we would have had full employment. That was in the 1930s, and matters improved only relatively. It was the war, and nothing else but the war, that got rid of unemployment. I will tell hon. Members a story that amazed me at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ght than they have so far. The growth of technology clearly means that fewer workers will be employed. If increased wealth is then produced, the question that immediately arises is how to redistribute that wealth and ensure that more people are employed. That can be achieved only by reorganising society in an intelligent manner, not by putting profit before the interests of the mass of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ns. There has not been a rise in the standard of living for all the people there, because in my opinion they have not had sufficient democracy; but democracy, combined with their planning, could have led to a decent society. What is wrong in the Soviet Union is not the planning, but the lack of democracy. Our democracy, with the right kind of democratic planning, could bring about full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "d in American legislation they will be able to continue to claim the adherence of the black community to the Labour party. I believe that they do the black community a great disservice. I believe also that they are deeply patronising to the many members of the black community who are making or who have made their way in our society without the benefit of any special privilege. In Wolverhampton — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "If it was not that my hon. Friend asked that question I would say that I had never heard such a silly suggestion. As it is, I will not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.842.4", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am happy to answer the other points that are made from a sedentary position. If hon. Members are seriously suggesting that in a mixed racial community or indeed in an area where there are a majority of Asian people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.842.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " we have of a racial nature in the forces has nothing to do with contract compliance because it does not apply there. However, the reality is that in Britain there have been recent examples of discrimination in the armed forces. I believe that it was the Prince of Wales who pointed out that we do not have any black guardsmen. It is clear that in the armed forces, and the police to a lesser extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "rmed in my belief that it is nonsense for Scotland. It bears no relation to the workings of Scottish local government and Scottish geography or demography. The Bill is irrelevant to my country. The Government expect certain standards of conduct from local authorities. Why should local authorities be unable to expect certain standards of conduct from those whom they employ to carry out contracts? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "r constituency. When I was campaigning in Huddersfield it became clear to me—it seemed that this had not been apparent in the past, which is probably why the Tories had not won elections in Huddersfield, West — that I had to deliver the coloured vote to the Conservative party. That vote amounted to 12 per cent. of the local population. I did not get the coloured vote by pandering to the coloureds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "it became clear to me—it seemed that this had not been apparent in the past, which is probably why the Tories had not won elections in Huddersfield, West — that I had to deliver the coloured vote to the Conservative party. That vote amounted to 12 per cent. of the local population. I did not get the coloured vote by pandering to the coloureds— [Interruption.] I went to the Sikh temples and I went—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "ou, Mr. Speaker. I was saying, before I was interrupted, that I went to Sikh temples, mosques and Caribbean groups. I visited them all. I said to them all—Opposition Members might be astounded to hear this—\"Many of you, and certainly many of your parents, would not be here if it had been left to me.\" As a result, they trusted me. They knew that I was truthful. Opposition Members cannot take this —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause gives a brief exemption to the competitive tendering part of the Bill. It in no way contests the Bill's main thrust for compulsory competitive tendering, but it has some regard to the practicalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ivity in house. In our consultations, we established that the Government might be amenable to allowing local authorities flexibility and allowing them to retain 5 per cent. of their activity in house to cater for special circumstances. They clearly decided not to do that. We think that they should reconsider. I shall not give the many available examples that show why authorities might wish to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "th it very successfully there, and there has not been massive civil disobedience as a result of Northern Ireland people deciding not to pay the new dog licence fee. The problem of sheep worrying and other problems caused by dogs have been largely solved in Northern Ireland. For once, would it not be worthwhile taking a leaf out of the Northern Ireland statute book and having such legislation here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "a dog licence in the first place. They could be eradicated, or at least seriously tackled to the benefit of the wider community, if we had funded dog wardens. We object to having such a system funded by the poll tax. If the dog licence system does not fund the dog wardens, they will have to be paid for by the poll tax. We are not prepared to accept that because our constituents will not accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-14", "file": "debates1987-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "475b5d73b4b2627d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.888.12", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "s of the homes of irresponsible dog owners.\" The baker and the milkman do not have to do that. In 1986, no fewer than 5,560 postal workers were attacked by dogs. The Daily Telegraph of 20 August 1986 carried a report about a postwoman in Gloucester having been attacked by three alsatians, who tore off one of her ears. It is a damned serious business when one of our fellow citizens is put at risk —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-14a.888.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall set out the Government's excellent record in providing more resources— about 30 per cent. more in real terms over the past eight years—and in increasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.918.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.919.5", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Free speech, Mr. Speaker. Free speech. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.919.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.919.7", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Tory Members are only proving their sensitivity, Mr. Speaker. Following what the right hon. Lady said, the infinity of demand for health care is understood to be a reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.919.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.919.9", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Following what the Prime Minister said, the infinity of demand for health care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.919.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The doctors' petition this morning asked for the proportion of GDP to be maintained. I therefore repeat that this Government have done better than that. The last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.920.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Time is up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " east end are responsible, but, unfortunately, problems arise from keeping dogs as pets. The immediate problem in an urban environment is the dog mess produced in car parks, streets, open spaces, parks and many other areas where children play and people go. That is very distressing. I find it distressing when I am walking to my newspaper shop in the morning to get my copy of The Daily Telegraph. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "t that money in the box for cancer research because it is the only way that cancer wards and the Cancer Research Campaign will receive adequate funds. The Government will not provide the funds needed for cancer research. In this country, we rely on charity to deal with the serious aspects of society. When it comes to such matters as defence, there is no such thing as charity appeals or flag days —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has considerable experience in communicating with people in those areas. If we are talking about the same Glenelg, I suspect that it may come as a surprise to its residents that the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Patnick) thinks that Glenelg is an island. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ible local authorities do not promote homosexuality. As the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey says, the clause has gone much further than that. While I go along with the objections of my hon. Friend the Member for Edgnbaston, I do not accept that only those objectives will be served by the enactment of the new clause. Therefore, I shall not vote with my hon. Friends against the amendments.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.995.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "at I said. Therefore, the amendments are not necessary. Having listened to everything that has been said and having read everything that has been sent to me, I am absolutely clear in my mind that the things that the clause seeks to prevent are happening, that they create a problem and that there must be a limit on what people can do when they seek to encourage others to behave in a particular way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend. The second motive is a desire to change the climate so that to be gay or lesbian is to feel and to be treated as a second-class citizen. The climate has changed. There is more intolerance now than there was five or 10 years ago. The House cannot have failed to notice that last Saturday there was an arson attack on the offices of the Capital Gay newspaper, or that, during that same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is not a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1009.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " protection of diversity that clause 27 and the motives that underpin it seek to undermine. I plead with Conservative Members that they should not go in for the all-too-easy, all-too-prevalent sport of gay bashing which is on the increase. Instead, they should acknowledge that true decency and morality exist in recognising and respecting the dignity of all citizens, no matter who or what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "ow will the amendment tackle that? We need to ask how we are to protect chidren, but we must also ask from whom we are protecting them. I was a member of the Inner London education authority for 13 years. Every example of child abuse in our schools was reported to the chairman of the schools committee, and in every example we were dealing with a heterosexual male teacher sexually assaulting girls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief because last week in Committee the longer the debate went on, the more concerned I became about the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1016.5", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "hout qualification. Those of us who served on the Standing Committee on the Bill will have been surprised by the difference in tone that has distinguished this debate from the discussion of the clause in Committee. It is a fact that when the matter was debated in Committee the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham), who is the Opposition spokesman, declared his intention to vote for the clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1016.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1016.5", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " Cunningham), who is the Opposition spokesman, declared his intention to vote for the clause. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, the hon. Gentleman did. The hon. Members for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) and for Burnley (Mr. Pike), both of whom have denounced the clause in passionate speeches today, did not vote against it in Committee. In fact, it was accepted by the Committee without a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1016.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister define, for those of us who are not au fait with English educational definitions, what is meant by maintained schools? Does it exclude Eton, Harrow, Rugby or Winchester, from which Conservative Members come?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The Minister's slick barrack-roomlawyer approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I must confess immediately that I do not think that I have ever felt so frightened in the House as I do now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "e word \"promote\". Let me ask the Minister a specific question about the arts. The clause adds censorship and attacks freedom in the same way in which it attacks civil rights. For example, all gay theatre companies are touring companies. They perform in local authority theatres or local authority-funded theatres. For example, Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company is the leading gay theatre in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "rity theatres or local authority-funded theatres. For example, Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company is the leading gay theatre in this country. [Interruption.] That sort of babble only confirms my worst suspicions of today's Conservative party. Its members are intolerant, bigoted, and they are not even prepared to sit and listen without hissing and making animal-type noises. That is an insult to animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Let me ask the Minister a question. During the past year, Gay Sweatshop has played in local authority theatres in Liverpool, Stockton, Reading, Birmingham, Camden, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and York. What happens when its members perform in one of those theatres? Will the local authority —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "t question; I will sit down if he will do me the courtesy of answering it. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) that we shall have a great deal of trouble because of the word \"promotion\". If a teacher who is homosexual or lesbian tells the children in the class that he or she is thus, will that in the mind of the Minister be regarded as promoting homosexuality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "This may not be the first Bill to receive its Third Reading in this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1039.5", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1039.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1039.9", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary of State said that this was the first Bill to complete its stages in the House this session. There will be few Bills more obnoxious than this one. It takes powers away from local authorities, it curbs their rights to use the media, it supports the Fascist apartheid regime in South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1039.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-12-15", "file": "debates1987-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "597dbe9de3344a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ", That Sir Antony Buck, Mr. Bob Cryer, Mr. Frank Field, Sir Marcus Fox, Mr. Terence L. Higgins, Mr. David Howell, Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Mr. Ron Leighton, Sir Ian Lloyd, Mr. David Marshall, Mr. Michael Mates, Sir Hugh Rossi, Mr. Robert Sheldon, Mr. Nigel Spearing, Mr. James Wallace, Mr. Kenneth Warren, Mr. John Wheeler and Mr. Jerry Wiggin be members of the Liaison Committee.— [Mr.Lightbown.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-15a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": " those conflicts. The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong to describe the outcome of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting as negative. There was widespread recognition that there is no quick solution and that the momentum for change must come from within South Africa. There was full endorsement of the United Kingdom policy of practical help for the front-line states and for black South Africans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1093.4", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Health Authority (Financial Allocations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1093.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Health Authority (Financial Allocations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ninety million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The additional £75 million that the Minister has announced will be welcomed by the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Health Authority (Financial Allocations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "clear, unequivocal undertaking that the Government will fully fund whatever increase the nurses get? I draw the Minister's attention to today's figures on the public sector borrowing requirement and point out that they show that this year the Treasury has received £3,000 million more in revenue than expected and has incurred expenditure of £1,000 million less than expected, leaving the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Health Authority (Financial Allocations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "May I first make it clear—perhaps this ties in with the fact that the hon. Gentleman obviously believed what he heard on the radio at lunchtime rather than what was in my statement—that the increase for the health authorities in England is just under £90 million — not the £75 million to which he referred —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Health Authority (Financial Allocations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "s this ties in with the fact that the hon. Gentleman obviously believed what he heard on the radio at lunchtime rather than what was in my statement—that the increase for the health authorities in England is just under £90 million — not the £75 million to which he referred — [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman has failed to read on, to where £13·3 million of storm damage money is announced —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Health Authority (Financial Allocations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The Minister will agree that, in considering NHS funding, one must correct any increases for the pay and prices NHS deflator. When one considers that, one sees that the increase announced for 1988–89 in fact represents a cut in expenditure in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Health Authority (Financial Allocations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "It was not until a throwaway supplementary answer of the Minister a short while ago that I, as a Welshman and Welsh Member, was sure that Scrooge's belated conversion was not merely an English phenomenon and that it might apply to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Will he confirm —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. During questions on the health authorities statement, a number of hon. Members were called. Perhaps you, Mr. Speaker, could help some of us who will no doubt face criticism in our local press about not being called and not appearing to be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "National Health Service (Improved Provision of Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "t straight and simple question, not with figures or squawking like a parrot, but with philosophy. Let us see and hear the quality of the Prime Minister's care and compassion. Let this small Bill be the beginning of a great national debate on the most important social institution, the National Health Service, once a matter of great national pride but now, although it hurts me grievously to say so —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "National Health Service (Improved Provision of Services)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "not with figures or squawking like a parrot, but with philosophy. Let us see and hear the quality of the Prime Minister's care and compassion. Let this small Bill be the beginning of a great national debate on the most important social institution, the National Health Service, once a matter of great national pride but now, although it hurts me grievously to say so — [Interruption] I am absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1116.5", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State remind the House that the high-spending local authority of south Buckinghamshire is run by his Conservative colleagues while Pendle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1116.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1121.6", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I hope that he will understand that I have given way to everyone so far, with one or two exceptions. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1121.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "To whom.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "This is the last time I am giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1124.8", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " the resource equalisation transfer from high-value to low-value areas would need to be greater. On top of the administrative problems of a local income tax, there would need to be another collection system for rates and a complete revaluation of domestic properties based on capital values. The result would be to compound the unfairnesses of the present system, particularly for the less well off —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1124.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1124.9", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is an exceptionally important piece of legislation but even the Opposition spokesman is having trouble hearing because of the barracking from his own Benches. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1124.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1126.12", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "It is the same technique that we saw last night, of trying to get the mob to suppress opinion. It is exactly typical of what happened in the Strangers Gallery last night. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1126.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1131.6", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "they get. It has nothing to do with how rich you are. In this country we are too sold on the idea that the rich should he made to pay for other people's … services. That is an example of the right hon. Gentleman's philosophy. The argument is that non-ratepaying voters can exploit their ratepaying neighbours and that councillors can buy non-ratepayers' votes with domestic ratepayers' money —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1131.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman thinks that that is a threat, he cannot have been reading his own written answers. I have put down a question. I have already asked him to do the work and provide the information, and he refused. To get the matter on the record, I shall read from a document on the subject, in answer to my question, which the right hon. Gentleman put in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "a threat, he cannot have been reading his own written answers. I have put down a question. I have already asked him to do the work and provide the information, and he refused. To get the matter on the record, I shall read from a document on the subject, in answer to my question, which the right hon. Gentleman put in the Library. [Interruption.] I shall quote from the Official Report of 9 November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "get the matter on the record, I shall read from a document on the subject, in answer to my question, which the right hon. Gentleman put in the Library. [Interruption.] I shall quote from the Official Report of 9 November. [Interruption.] It is in the Library; the right hon. Gentleman put it there. It is about rateable values and capital values. I shall happily put the question down again tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "leman put in the Library. [Interruption.] I shall quote from the Official Report of 9 November. [Interruption.] It is in the Library; the right hon. Gentleman put it there. It is about rateable values and capital values. I shall happily put the question down again tomorrow. [Interruption.] The question is set out. It is long and complicated. It takes up almost a full column of the Official Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ly, yet it will be far easier for young people to evade the tax if they leave home and seek more anonymous accommodation. We urge families to look after their elderly parents, but the elderly relative pays a poll tax at home and none in a local authority home. We will have created a granny tax. Many mothers stay at home to look after their children. The poll tax will send more of them out to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "any hon. Members agree about the unfairnesses and anomalies of the rating system. It has been with us for a long time. However, there is one basic difference between the anomalies and unfairnesses of the rating system and those of the poll tax. The anomalies and unfairnesses of the rating system are accidental. It is, at any rate, a tax which, in theory, bears some relation to the ability to pay —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has not heard the price yet. It has another bathroom, workshops, two garages and stables. There is also an inner hall, dining room, kitchen, sun room, utility room and a separate toilet downstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1149.5", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The Opposition are clutching at straws. That property is not classed as an agricultural dwelling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Knew my father.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cousins", "preceding_text": "I have only just started. When we are offered a simpler system in the legislation, we should be very cautious about what we are offered. I find some features of what is proposed quite remarkable. Lloyd George —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Knapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Knapman", "preceding_text": "o him to congratulate him on his 32 years in the House. Sir Anthony will do the same for me when I have been here for 32 years, but there will be one or two small problems, not least Sir Anthony's handwriting, because by that time he will be 105. I know that right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House will join with me in wishing Sir Anthony and Lady Kershaw a long and happy retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "he occupation of houses could ever be. It is not a tax on franchise. I suppose that it is a tempting play on words for the Opposition to pretend that it is, but it is not. I am on a voting register that is now held by a local authority, and I am on a rating register that is now held by a local authority. No one uses the one as a sanction against the other and there need be no fear on that count. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "for abuse that are presented by the system have been and are being exploited by the most irresponsible councils. By their actions they are bringing local government into disrepute. My right hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) made an eloquent speech to which the House listened intently. My right hon. Friend has said that he would have liked to have been here for the wind-up, but was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1182.4", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I recall that when Opposition Members were making their speeches my hon. Friends listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1182.10", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend was responsible for some. I believe that what my right hon. Friend said about Opposition Members' abdication of responsibility was entirely correct. However, I was slightly disappointed with my right hon. Friend's speech. He voted in support of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 I fail to see any major distinction between that measure and this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1182.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "ose to hearing an alternative from the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham), which seemed to be based on capital revaluation. Now that the hon. Gentleman has had a chance to see the detailed question to which he referred he may wish to withdraw what he was suggesting to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State—that my right hon. Friend had dismissed any idea of considering other proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-16", "file": "debates1987-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "88916b4b550a1231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Comptroller and Auditor General", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "cerned and so on. As the House knows, the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General are almost invariably taken up by the Public Accounts Committee, under the chairmanship of the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne. The PAC does splendid work in checking the propriety and value for money of public expenditure. However, the PAC is hard pressed. It examines all areas of Government spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-16a.1187.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1219.7", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "In relation to those new plans, what has the Minister to say about the 39 farms in Scotland which were brought into monitoring in August of this year, but which had not been subject to restrictions for the 16 months after the Chernobyl disaster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1219.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Well, shut up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "Since not even one member of the Cabinet will oppose the Prime Minister on her heartless policies towards the National Health Service, and nor will one stand up and fight for Britain on the flat rate poll tax, now appropriately christened the \"Tory tax\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will find that collective responsibility is vital to produce a prosperous Britain, a good Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will find that collective responsibility is vital to produce a prosperous Britain, a good Health Service— [Interruption.] —and to be returned for a second, third, fourth and fifth term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1229.7", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Yesterday's announcement on National Health Service funding was very welcome. In the spirit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1229.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1230.5", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that for the year 1987–88 the Trent regional health authority, has been allocated £989 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1256.11", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " State imagines that this is some sort of Labour party ramp opposition to the poll tax, let me draw his attention to the comments on accountability in a statement that was issued this week by Archbishop Winning, the Archbishop of Glasgow, Bishop Derek Rawcliffe, the Episcopal Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, and the Rev. Maxwell Craig, convenor of the Church of Scotland church and nation committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1256.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "It is strange that a Scotsman should be introducing a debate on an English Bill when he does not find Englishmen acceptable on Scottish Bills. If the hon. Gentleman objects to a standard charge for the services of local authorities—which, let me remind him, is already the law in Scotland—how does he stand in the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolutely right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "the mind, in the same way as my right hon. Friend the Member for Henley said it had been banished ever since until the Bill was brought forward. When I say that the Bill is not fair, I do so because it is not related to the ability to pay. In fairness to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, he has declared in speech after speech that the tax should not be related to people's ability to pay", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about rebates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "r since until the Bill was brought forward. When I say that the Bill is not fair, I do so because it is not related to the ability to pay. In fairness to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, he has declared in speech after speech that the tax should not be related to people's ability to pay [HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolutely right.\"] My hon. Friends are absolutely wrong, and I shall tell them why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? Don't they use local services'''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "iends or the Secretary of State give way to pressure for rebates, the less fair they are making the tax. If it is fair to have a poll tax, as soon as it is changed the fairness is removed. I believe that the poll tax is unfair in any case, so I can, therefore, advocate changes in it. If the Bill reaches the statute book, I hope that students, nurses and those in similar positions will be exempted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1261.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1274.2", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) said last night, there is nothing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1274.6", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I must agree with the hon. Gentleman —we shall not hang, draw and quarter anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1274.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Whether we agree or disagree with the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) we all concede that he knows a great deal more about local government than most of the rest of us in the House. The right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) said that the Government were behaving as though they had a God-given right to govern. We all know that God is a Conservative —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "the basics right? Has the move away from formal rote learning—whatever the merits of the new teaching methods — carry the skill of deskilling a generation, by failing to equip them with the hard-headed basic skills of literacy and numeracy which they need to survive' What are our proposals for monitoring the progress of each individual child against their peer group and against national standards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "nts in local government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Like you?\"' Like Councillor Les Hough whose boots the hon. Gentlemen have neither the wit nor the ability to lace. That gentleman died not many weeks ago still striving in the service of those whom he represented for years as leader of Salford city council. He was succeeded by Councillor Ken Edwards, who was another giant in northern local democracy. Like —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1300.5", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "No. I will not give way for a moment.——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1300.5", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "med opinion and all that informed opinion is now very much against the poll tax and the uniform business rate. Even the Conservative party's poodle organisations such as the Confederation of British Industry and the Institute of Directors have expressed their opposition to the uniform business rate. The Government just ignore them. The Government are bloated with arrogance and dripping with venom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "0,000 to 1,500,000 per annum in Newham. It is estimated that the number of summonses issued for non-payment will rise from 8,000 to 35,000 per annum and the number of distress warrants will rise from 6,500 to 30,000 per annum. Statistics can be exceedingly boring when hon. Members are not aware of the area covered. Conservative Members know nothing about the problems of deprived inner-city areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1303.2", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Throughout the debate we have heard how the Labour party has become the party of reaction. The Conservative party has become the progressive party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "ur wage earners living next door. The annexe said the same. In the Nick Ross phone-in programme on 21 July 1987, the Secretary of State referred to a single widow living in one house, four earners in the next house. The Minister for Local Government, writing in the Financial Times on 16 November 1987, said: Then there is the widow in the family house paying the same as the four earners next door\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "hat is more than would suffer under capital or rental revaluation. The argument was that the House and the country would not stand the turbulence created by the other measures, but that turbulence would be worse under the poll tax system than under either of the alternatives. As many Conservative Members have said, the Government are about to score an own goal. We do not want to win on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "ng on a moment,\" he said \"What's our policy on local government?\" He was told that it did not exist. He said: \"Putting it at its baldest we haven't got a policy. That's the actual truth.\" What a reflection on his hon. Friend the Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) who has been his party's principal spokesman on these matters for years and still has not been able to come up with any policy at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The vast majority of pensioners will benefit from the change. A total of 69 per cent. of single pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1325.5", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I shall deal in full with ability to pay. There is no satisfactory answer to the questions that I have posed. The rating system is manifestly unfair and its unfairness can no longer be tolerated. Nor is it a system which provides accountable local government. Of the 35 million people who are entitled to vote in local elections, no fewer than 20 million never pay a rate bill. Even those who do pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1325.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "be found out by the new system that it is so terrified of it. It is because this Government tackle the matters that need to be tackled that they have set about the task of identifying the alternative to the discredited existing system that offers the best prospect of removing unfairness and increasing accountability, so that we can once more have a healthy and effective system of local democracy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1327.11", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "e existing system or any alternative system that has been put forward? If they ask themselves that question I believe that they will find that there is only one answer to it. Let us look at some examples. Let us take the case of a single elderly person living in her family home in Luton. Her rates on a three-bedroom semi might be £400, 10 per cent. of her income, which is just high enough to keep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1327.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-17", "file": "debates1987-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8b4e06babe61bd8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is unfair not to give the Minister an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-17a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1987-12-18", "file": "debates1987-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d482c906f0026d30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-18a.1368.2", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Southern Africa", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "A recent report in the Financial Times on 22 November 1987 concerns the so-called factional fighting in the Natal provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg — in particular in the Edendale valley—in which 150 blacks have been killed in recent months. Buthelezi rejects the accusations by social and church workers, and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1987-12-18a.1368.2"}