{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.14.10", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be here more often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.14.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.19.4", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Arab-Israel Question", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "I should like to express my own sorrow at the loss of life and the casualties in recent events and my hope that the parties will live together in peace. However, regretfully, I should also say that I trust that in retrospect the Minister will recognise that his tactics and lack of tact, his language and behaviour, were unworthy and unhelpful to peace —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.19.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.20.2", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Arab-Israel Question", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ours unwilling to participate. I made it clear earlier—I am happy to reiterate it for my hon. Friend's benefit—that if progress is to be made, it will require efforts on both sides. I have sought to set out—I shall not repeat it—a few of our ideas about what is required. However, my hon. and learned Friend should be disabused of one idea. He seems to suggest that Israel is willing to give up Gaza—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.20.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman has some new extract to read out, I will give way, but not if he is simply going to read out what he has already read out. There is no suggestion of any compulsion on any individual tenant, and the hon. Gentleman knows that— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "achieved only voluntarily. The position is that Scottish Homes, far from posing any threat to tenants, is an unprecedented opportunity for them, if they so wish, to exercise as wide a choice as they believe appropriate. Secondly, Scottish Homes will be a means of attracting the major private sector investment that is crucial to the contribution required for the regeneration of housing in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will be high.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Gentleman would be the first to acknowledge that, unless we can revive the private rented sector, unless that form of housing is available for those who want it, some of his constituents will not find housing to meet their requirements. So we have to find a means of doing that. The only sensible, civilised way of doing that is to allow proper rents to be charged, but where tenants have an income —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "where a person's rent is being paid, in part or in whole, by housing benefit, and therefore by the public, it is not unreasonable to wish to be satisfied that the housing benefit paid goes towards the rent of accommodation which meets the requirements of the tenant concerned. If a tenant wishes to live in accommodation which is far larger than he or she requires, that is entirely his or her right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am happy to try to respond, Madam Deputy Speaker, but at the moment I am not being given an opportunity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I will not try to give a definition —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.52.4", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.52.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Scotland already has a higher proportion of local authority housing than almost any other country, and we believe that the one thing that it does not require is an increase in local authority housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.53.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Michael Hirst?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": " patronage but that there will be a search for the right person based on qualification and merit. It would be the worst of starts and entirely unacceptable if the chairmanship of this very important body were seen merely as a consolation prize for someone who had given loyal service to the Conservative party in this place or in some other way. I am sure that the Secretary of State gets my message.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.55.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.57.6", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There is your man!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.57.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The Minister says it is rubbish, but it is self-evidently true. It is happening because we believe in variety and in mixing tenants. The trouble is that local authorities are often restricted by the Government's penny-pinching. Let us consider how the new par-value co-operatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "ils of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, which is also negative in its thinking. The Opposition have trumped up many nonexistent objections and have frightened owner-occupiers, local authority tenants and tenants of Scottish Special Housing Association homes. They are creating the fear that the existing rights of tenants may be adversely affected, but nothing is further from the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "n April. Thirdly, disrepair, including such conditions as condensation and dampness on the one hand, and the general lack of local authority funds available for improvement grants on the other, make the condition of the housing stock in Scotland a cause for concern. Since I was elected to the House, I have been trying to get the Government to undertake a house condition survey north of the border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "tuents. There has been considerable misunderstanding among ordinary tenants. I read the original document on this point. I did not think that the original wording was wholly felicitous, but it is an object lesson, because, if there is any possible misinterpretation of the legislation, or an opportunity to see a dark Tory conspiracy behind basically innocuous wording, the Labour party will find it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.80.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.85.2", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ve in houses in such bad condition. People's dreams of moving into houses with bathrooms and with adequate provision for their children were turned into nightmares. They found condensation and water on the walls, and their children suffered bronchial complaints as a result of the damp conditions in which they lived. That was a result of the absence of adequate cash flow into the housing coffers. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.85.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"SSHA.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " problems. It would be nonsense to pretend that it did not. However, the probems were not new. I remember looking at Fintry when I first stood as a council candidate in Dundee. Fintry was built a long time before some of the other ghastly housing schemes. Not long after it was built, it was fairly obvious that Fintry would become a maintenance problem. Furthermore, it was built in the wrong place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "as built a long time before some of the other ghastly housing schemes. Not long after it was built, it was fairly obvious that Fintry would become a maintenance problem. Furthermore, it was built in the wrong place. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"SSHA.\"] I know that part of it was SSHA, but not all of it was. I can list every house in Fintry. I used to live in the next housing estate, which was called Linlathen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-11", "file": "debates1988-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d3978cdb2a2a950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "support. It is a worthwhile objective to give people a wider choice in housing, to improve the supply and quality of that housing, to encourage greater individual responsibility for, and control over, the conditions in which people live and to provide the means of dealing with the problems of homelessness. I am sure that all those objectives will gain support and be encouraged by all hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-11a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Gentleman, who served the National Health Service well for many years, I gather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Life or death operations are being postponed, staff levels are dangerously low in many areas, and beds and theatres are being closed. What is the matter with this woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.140.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "In view of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.141.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry", "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": "ng with possible competition problems. The Director General of Fair Trading would have the power to obtain legally binding undertakings from the parties to a merger over such issues as agreed divestment as an alternative to a reference to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. We are particularly concerned to encourage enterprise in the less prosperous areas of the country and in the inner cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ick the Minister up on one in particular--the Government's competition policy. I welcome the implicit recognition that competition policy under the present Government has been a lamentable failure. If the Minister wishes to examine the ways in which he can open up competition policy, he might start with his own privatised industries, British Airways and British Petroleum. I also ask the Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "t hon. and learned Friend aware that we welcome the change that he has suggested in mergers and the competitiveness of British industry, which is increasing? The Government have got it absolutely right. Unemployment will fall only if we have more small businesses. Unemployment will be reduced as a result of the emphasis on small business and through the grants that will be given to small business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ter's conversion on competition policy will be welcomed on these Benches, but it is regarded, after eight years, as rather late, in view of the Government's record in creating some of the biggest centralist cartels and monopolies in the world, such as British Telecom and British Gas, and his total failure to stand up to the takeover of British Caledonian by British Airways. Will he tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "nt for grant in order to enable a project to go ahead—will be the key point on which we concentrate. For the smaller firms, all that can be too onerous and that is why we have proposed a special scheme for the development areas. Grants for companies under the ceiling of 25 employees will be operated in a much more streamlined way with just a check to make sure that there is commercial viability. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "on people coming forward with applications for selective assistance and on small firms responding to the opportunities that we are presenting in the business initiatives, it is not possible to guarantee the level of spend in any particular locality. Our planned expenditure is what we are aiming at. That is why we will market our policies so heavily to those who we believe will benefit from them. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "have announced today. Large parts of the business and enterprise initiative that I have announced, which will give support to small and medium size firms, are very much drawn from the business improvement scheme. My hon. Friend's constituency will be one part of the country that will be eligible for the higher rate of grant for those companies that wish to have access to the enterprise initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.196.5", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders or the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "cent. back in benefit. I remind my hon. Friends that that is a wholly Socialist idea. It was articulated eloquently and at great length in Anthony Crosland's book, \"The Future of Socialism\", the overwhelming theme of which is the plea that the Government should raise a large amount of money in taxation. Indeed, eight years after reading it, that is the only thing that I remember clearly about it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.196.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders or the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, \"It is tiny,\" but the poverty trap used to be able to reach effective levels of withdrawal of over 100 per cent.— indeed, of 130 per cent. or 135 per cent. As I understand it, under the new system it will never be able to reach 100 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.211.12", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders or the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. We are now on an entirely different matter, the payment of the attendance allowance. There are stringent tests which those claiming attendance allowance have to satisfy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.211.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders or the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Much worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": "ere has been no evaluation of the differences. The Government have taken refuge exclusively behind the barrier that all two-year-olds require substantial care. I am sure that those hon. Members who are parents understand clearly the problems of lack of sleep caused by a child who is under two who does not want to sleep through the night. It may be rather like discussing matters here late at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-12", "file": "debates1988-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "7dd4fed295727808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Industrial Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "tudied. That is as far as it goes. The matter is being considered and I would not like to make any judgments at this stage. The hon. Gentleman has his doubts about whether the levy goes wide enough. The two main limbs of the order cover firms with a payroll of £15,000, which represents a person and a half. I had better not say a man and a half, as I might be leapt at from other areas of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-12a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.278.7", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, like the Liberals and Social Democrats, we in Lanarkshire have a major steel problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.278.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.278.9", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker. I will temper my remarks. Is the Minister aware that the optimistic bleatings that have come forth about the British Steel Corporation are regarded with wide scepticism among many people in Lanarkshire?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.278.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "It is not significant that it is the only amendment to be moved by the Opposition to clause 4, one of the key clauses in the Bill? Clause 4 relates precisely to 16 and 17-year-olds. The message in the clause is absolutely clear to young people: if they do not go out and get a job, stay at school or college, or get training on YTS, the community will not spend its money supporting them in idleness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Committee of Selection (Special Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": " House will know, the Committee of Selection has the duty of bringing before the House motions for the nomination of the 14 departmental Select Committees. On 2 December, I moved motions relating to 13 of those Committees and they were approved by the House. The Committee of Selection has not yet invited the House to consider a similar motion in respect of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Committee of Selection (Special Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "ir M. Fox) said that no proposal was put before the Committee of Selection that included the name of any hon. Member for an English constituency. I tried to follow the exchanges. Using a football analogy, the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras suggested that the Labour party would be prepared to accept an hon. Member for an English constituency—preferably an hon. Member with Scottish origins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Committee of Selection (Special Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Any will do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "t included the name of any hon. Member for an English constituency. I tried to follow the exchanges. Using a football analogy, the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras suggested that the Labour party would be prepared to accept an hon. Member for an English constituency—preferably an hon. Member with Scottish origins. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Then perhaps it is any hon. Member for an English seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Committee of Selection (Special Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Sadly, I must admit the truth of that. shall tell the hon. Gentleman and the House why. I hope that my record of opposing skullduggery, from wherever it comes, is known to the House. When a Committee is presented with evidence, and that evidence confuses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Committee of Selection (Special Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am not particularly interested as to whether the SNP is represented on the Select Committee. I am saying that I will not be dictated to by three hon. Members who just scraped in here by the skin of their teeth. When the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) was a Member of the House previously, she voted with the Tory party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-13", "file": "debates1988-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f6c3290e059fabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Committee of Selection (Special Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "preceding_text": "tences from an editorial in the Glasgow Herald . One refers to Scotland, a partner of the United Kingdom and not simply a UK region. Hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber must understand that. They must also appreciate that, at the moment, Scotland is a willing partner, but that may not always be the case. It may not necessarily be the SNP who will convey that message from the Scottish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-13a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.441.9", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "That is a characteristic of the Opposition, and a rather sad one. It is not doing them any good, or doing any credit to the country as a whole. I found it particularly interesting at the meeting of NEDC yesterday, which I had the honour of chairing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.441.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall not meet them personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That file was withheld in accordance with rules which are understood by the whole House and in precise accordance with some of those rules. It has been withheld for those reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "First, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his remarks at the beginning and say that I am sure the whole House is sad that Lord Whitelaw has had to retire from active politics. We all wish him a continued and speedy recovery, which is going on at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Can't hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " is why he turned down the CBI's request to reduce interest rates. I am flattered that the hon. Member for Suffolk, South (Mr. Yeo) should be so anxious to find out the detail of the policy from the Opposition. That is a welcome development. Conservative Members are finding it hard to obtain answers from Ministers, so I encourage them to ask for answers from the Opposition. I should like to turn —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ll not be followed by the Conservative party. The Chancellor knows that an economic boom that is founded on a massive extension of consumer credit is built on shaky foundations. He knows that all predictions about world growth head downwards. Indeed, they were heading downwards even before Black Monday and are likely to be revised downwards even further as expectations diminish. In that situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " publications to discover what it says about the British economy and to compare that with what the British Government say and, even more, with what the British press says about the British economy. One would hardly think that one was looking at the same set of circumstances. A wise Chancellor would face the problem squarely and adapt his policies to meet it. Let me give the Chancellor some advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ave thought that it was a civilised principle of the first order. The Government have done nothing more disgusting than to abrogate that principle. There is great competition in that sphere. It is dreadful that people who themselves have apparently had a first-class education should introduce measures that will deny a similar education to other people who are just as capable of benefiting from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "tement? What is the proposal, stripped of its pretentions, after taking into account the announcement just before Christmas of another 100 million this year? When the Health Service needs at least an extra 3 per cent. above inflation, the Autumn Statement proposes 0·7 per cent. That is the best that the Autumn Statement can do. We find ourselves with one quarter of the money that is needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "r his Budget. That is not only generous, but curious too, as before that June opinion poll the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his hon. Friends were repeatedly telling the country to expect higher taxes and public expenditure cuts. I am gentler than my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, so I will not quote the explicit words of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "House. Clearly, that was one of the noble Lord's characteristic understatements. The pressures on the NHS are clear. Demographic changes, an aging population, medical improvements and greater expectations have all led to the calls for greater funding. If we are genuinely concerned not about making political points but about getting the best possible Health Service, that cannot be the whole answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ossible Health Service, that cannot be the whole answer. [Interruption.] It is interesting that the Opposition are not genuinely interested in the Health Service but only in making partisan political points about the Health Service. The House is familiar with the growing resources devoted to the service, the increasing number of patients treated and the increasing number of medical staff employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Health Services (Maidstone)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I and everybody else fully accept that the Government do not write blank cheques, but neither does the region nor the district. Somebody must pick up those pay awards, which I accept are agreed by the independent review body, not the Government. All that I am appealing for is that the shortfall should not be such that it makes inroads into funds that should be spent on patient care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-14", "file": "debates1988-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb7dad514a9753e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.559.3", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Health Services (Maidstone)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": " very good hotel and maintenance costs, which is amazing. I am curious to know why it costs nearly four times as much to run the ancillary services at Brighton general hospital as at Maidstone. Perhaps our two splendid lady chairmen, Mrs. Cumberlege and Mrs. Nelson, could get together on that and share lessons. I know that the regional health authority is reviewing its policy on cash allocations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-14a.559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "cal reporting. There is a reason for that. I shall say it, but it will not endear me upstairs. We have manipulated our press for too long. A hallelujah chorus rejoices at every Government handout that is put their way, repeats it as though it were a masterful piece of investigative journalism, and passes it off as though there were veracity in it. That practice has been reinforced over many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.574.5", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the issue?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "\"secret\" — to find out how information could be made available, unencumbered by the question whether to make it available. Secondly, it was the time of the Lib-Lab pact. I was not prepared to come to the House of Commons under the control of the Liberal party on important issues. Not many members of the Liberal party had any experience of Government — rather like today — of writing a constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " not know that his cover was blown? That is all. It was not a very important issue. I did not think that the Blunt case was important years after the events occurred and was prepared not to say anything about it. Parts of the Chapman Pincher book should have been prosecuted under section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. Some relevations in the Wright book should have been dealt with under section 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "It may help the House if I set out at this fairly early stage in the debate the Government's views on the Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd). The House will be grateful to my hon. Friend for providing us with the opportunity for a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman has been following my exposition, he will understand that I cannot answer that question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am coming to an end. I believe that this is the orderly path to a reform of section 2. My colleagues and I will listen attentively to the rest of the debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills has had his success and nobody can or, in my judgment. would want to take away that success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "is to fill a gap in legislation. It is not to be, and has not been, a vehicle through which a private Member should start producing legislation that is complex and which interweaves with security right across the board. That is why I do not believe that this is the right way to do it. The other purpose of a private Member's Bill is to carry forward a vehicle in which the Government are interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.609.5", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is upsetting them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " questions, their resistance slowly ebbed and those journalists jumped up to ask questions. I am absolutely convinced that the abolition of the lobby is the answer to the question of handling information. After all, it is only trying to maintain the situation in which, initially, Parliament was never reported but now it is reported only by the lobby, with its own selection and its own juicy bits —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.609.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-15", "file": "debates1988-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "330de6cec7bdeffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.609.5", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Official Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "obby is the answer to the question of handling information. After all, it is only trying to maintain the situation in which, initially, Parliament was never reported but now it is reported only by the lobby, with its own selection and its own juicy bits — [AN HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is upsetting them.\"] I am not aware of upsetting the lobby. That is not quite so necessary for me as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-15a.609.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Australia (Bicentennial Gift)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "sity of Townsville, Queensland, has written several books on the position of the aborigines. In his third book, \"The Law of the Land\", he describes how, when South Australia was settled in the 1830s, the Colonial Office instructed that the aborigines should be compensated for the loss of land that had been taken from them and occupied. That has never happened. The present Government of Australia —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.675.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.697.7", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "mong the Police Federation. The federation is seeing me tomorrow on this and other subjects. It is absolutely clear on this proposition, which is self-evident. If a man committing a crime carries a weapon, and if he is about to be arrested by an unarmed policeman, under the new provision, that man will know that he faces no greater penalty for shooting the policeman than for throwing his gun away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.697.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "is silly and will not achieve anything. Judges, of course, do not have to impose certain sentences; they are quite capable of imposing the appropriate sentence. The current sentencing powers of the judiciary are wide enough for that. Over the weekend, I have to admit that I read The Mail on Sunday, which mentioned the idea of tagging. We did not receive a clear and definitive answer on that today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "e hon. and learned Member for Burton, with whom I am surprised to agree so much, described the Government's proposals as nonsense and as a confidence trick which would not lead to more convictions. He said that it hurt him to agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook, but I look forward to working with the hon. and learned Gentleman in Committee, three-line Whip or not, as he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.748.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I hope that we shall have constructive debates in Committee. One of the chief contributions which the Labour party can make to law and order and the fight against crime is to use its influence with Labour-controlled local authorities to get them to work with, rather than to snipe at, the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.759.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": " by nine other Conservative Members who are no longer in the House. It is not local authorities that have learnt nothing from last June's general election. It is the Minister who appears to have learnt nothing. The people of Scotland elect the local authorities in Scotland to take decisions on expenditure and services. The only people who elected the Minister are the electors in his constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.773.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ter 1979, have been Government Departments. Their excesses have been criticised, year in year out, by the Public Accounts Committee; and the officers whom they have appointed to quangos—there are many within the patronage of the Secretary of State and his Ministers—have, in many cases, discharged their duties appallingly. Why does not the Secretary of State turn his attention to those Departments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-18", "file": "debates1988-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "fd7ea0cec3136484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": " of chaos and a shambles. For the first time in Scotland, we have seen strikes not just by ancillary workers, but by nurses—who are members of royal colleges, brought out on the streets by the mishandling of the situation by the current Minister of Health, who should resign forthwith, and by appointees of the Secretary of State, who in many instances have replaced good members of the health board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-18a.782.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I say to the Prime Minister, in the words of Mr. Steve McCallum, a member of the west midlands \"Young at Heart Campaign\" yesterday that We are not political.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.818.9", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "If I were to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.818.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.818.12", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will allow me two, not one, I would say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.818.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No, I shall continue my speech. During the next four years, we lost over 10,000 beds for acute specialties and last year we lost 5,000 acute specialty beds. That is three times the rate for the figure for only eight years earlier —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "these resources and the enormous efforts that the National Health Service staff have put into improved efficiency, which must be recognised, have meant in terms of patient care is quite staggering. To describe the service as being on the point of collapse, in the light of these figures, is really appalling. The achievements of the service, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a minute, when I have completed these figures because these are the figures of real patient care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Equally, the average length of stay of an in-patient in general surgery varies between three and a half days and 11 days.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "First, that is factually inaccurate. The Government fully funded —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "First, that is factually inaccurate. The Government fully funded — [Interruption.] Not all. The Government's record on the nurses, as the right hon. Gentleman knows to his discomfort, is outstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "they say, extra resources which no Labour Government could have provided. It was not a lack of North sea oil that forced Chancellor Healey to go to the IMF with his troubled economy and to slash the Health Service, cut nurses' wages in real terms, close hospitals and lead us into the winter of discontent when almost every hospital in the country was closed. I welcome the opportunity for a debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " Member for Livingston looks puzzled, but he must understand the question—I hope that he understands the question. Should expenditure be entirely demand-led? We must think of the implications of allowing the Health Service the privilege of demand-led expenditure, which would give the Health Service the right either to unlimited taxation or to require unlimited cuts in other expenditure programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley", "preceding_text": " about because of RAWP, about which we have heard a lot this evening. Many hon. Members have complained that hospitals in their areas are closing because of RAWP, which means that money is being spent in other areas of Britain. I want to put on record the fact that the money that we in north Staffordshire should be getting as a result of the RAWP formula is not being spent in north Staffordshire —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "tient care which do not show the marked and dramatic increase that has taken place during the eight years that this Government have been in office. However, I must challenge the hon. Member for Livingston on some statistics that I understood him to take from the report of the Select Committee on Social Services. I say in the presence of my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton)— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Their consolation is that the increased resources for the hospitals and services involved create for their children a very much better chance of proper health care than they had eight years ago, when the Government came to office. As the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) has incited me, let me give one more statistic. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. Friend moves away from the main thrust. can he help many of us who are genuinely his friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.908.5", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman. A smile came to my face when I heard the hon. Member for Livingston challenge us on the basis that no problems had occurred in the Health Service under the previous Labour Administration. I have in my hand copies of some headlines from newspapers in 1978 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Rating and Valuation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "using should not simply refer to physical design features. I believe that the facilities could include a shared support worker. I believe that those matters should be clarified. Where communal areas are rated separately, residents would have to pay both the poll tax and the rates for that area. Another concern that merits consideration is the question of live-in staff in residential accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Rating and Valuation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "a. Another concern that merits consideration is the question of live-in staff in residential accommodation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I am not surprised that this matter was anticipated, because the Labour party has followed it carefully. If the Oppostion start teasing me about what I may or may not be doing this evening, I may start teasing them about what they did or did not do to get this debate. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-19", "file": "debates1988-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ec859a1b859b2b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Rating and Valuation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "not think that very many of us like it, but at least there is there an exemption when a doctor is prepared to certify that a certain situation exists in regard to his patient. I would not have thought that it would be beyond the bounds of possibility to extend that to those who are frail, who have physical problems, and are being maintained, often at enormous cost and sacrifice, by their families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-19a.924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-20", "file": "debates1988-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0df712f0a69a919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No one asked the hon. Lady to do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment on any specific proposal for a new settlement for which an application may have been made, or is being prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-20", "file": "debates1988-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0df712f0a69a919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, as a result of the poll tax, some 65 per cent. of Leicester citizens will pay more rates than they used to and that the average household, instead of paying £180 as now, will pay £220 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-20", "file": "debates1988-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0df712f0a69a919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.960.10", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "The Minister has no direct responsibility for Scotland, but will he take into consideration the fact that examples of the Government's financial strictures in Scotland include the possible closure of the only swimming pool on the Western Isles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.960.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-20", "file": "debates1988-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0df712f0a69a919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ocus to the other components. I have taken up that point in virtually every meeting that I have had with any other Government who could possibly be a candidate to receive refugees. I do not think that my hon. Friend is right to say that not one refugee has sought repatriation; I am sure that some have tried to return to Vietnam. He is, however, right to say that the numbers have been very small. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-20", "file": "debates1988-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0df712f0a69a919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "le to move towards a full democratic and independent Hong Kong, that is no reason for us to indulge in a last-minute flurry to salve our conscience by introducing a semblance of that at the last minute which might prove extremely damaging. Nor should we be tempted to try to establish a kind of outpost of a Western-style democracy to stem the advance of an alien creed—of an alien capitalist system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-20", "file": "debates1988-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0df712f0a69a919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Food Protection", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": "Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No. 3) Order 1987 and the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No. 4) Order 1987. It continues the emergency prohibitions imposed by those orders, restricting various activities to prevent consumption of food rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape in April 1986 of radioactive substances from the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-20", "file": "debates1988-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "d0df712f0a69a919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Food Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "can envisage is an aeroplane crash. The hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) is an expert on the matter. There is concern about road and rail transportation and possible accidents. The worse possible scenario is an air crash, a subsequent fire, and the effect of radioactive discharges and the contamination that should take place. We in south-west Scotland consider that the area is targeted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-20a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1085.7", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is yes. The type of work that is being carried out in the Amesbury sub-division of the Wiltshire police area is exemplary. I hope that other such areas up and down the country which face the problems of rural crime will think about going along the same path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1085.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "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, those matters must be addressed to the local management, because it is responsible for the conditions. From 1979 up to March 1988—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "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, those matters must be addressed to the local management, because it is responsible for the conditions. From 1979 up to March 1988— [Interruption.] The Opposition do not want to know the extra amount of money that the taxpayer has found for the Welsh Health Service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "vernment on the firm and proper stand that they are making on the question of extra finance for the National Health Service? Does she agree that there is no shortage of funds, but that those funds are being improperly used and that what we need is greater efficiency? Does she further agree that in the whole 40 years of the lifetime of the National Health Service it has never been properly managed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "oes she agree that there is no shortage of funds, but that those funds are being improperly used and that what we need is greater efficiency? Does she further agree that in the whole 40 years of the lifetime of the National Health Service it has never been properly managed? [Interruption.] Why is it that we have 12 chairmen employing a total of 870,000 people in the other nationalised industries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1094.5", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman would condemn those who take strike action at the expense of the patients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1094.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "old no jobs, official or otherwise—take the House of Commons seriously. If we did not, we would not spend so much of our time here. It is rather unfortunate — I hope that you. Mr. Speaker, will take this in the way that it is being presented and not as a criticism—that if we try to raise a point of order, even before we can get a word out, like yesterday, you shout us down, or tell us to sit down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should study the Order Paper more carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "appens, I have spent a large part of my life among people who own guns. That comes of having been brought up on a farm, and now representing a country constituency. I have always known shooters to be highly sensible and practical people, which is, on the whole, borne out by my experience over recent weeks. There have been shrill, and I think largely unrepresentative, voices in the shooting press —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "d—from the chief constable's report to the police authority on Hungerford. In fact, Ryan's application was received at divisional level on 26 November 1986. The customary checks were carried out to ensure that he had no criminal record and nothing was known to his detriment; that he was a full member of an approved gun club; and that security was adequate for the weapons that he wished to possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Lord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Lord", "preceding_text": "at is important. My hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. Haselhurst) and other hon. Members have said that most crimes are committed with illegally-held weapons. Therefore, how will crime he reduced if regulations are tightened up on people who hold weapons legally? It does not make sense. Little has been said about the fact that most crimes involving weapons are committed with handguns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "sonable in their application. I acknowledge that we have brought our proposals before the House with some dispatch. That was our duty. However, we have consulted widely and shall continue to do so. The pillars of the policy are in place and I hope that they will remain in place. But my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I are not so arrogant as to assume that the Bill is necessarily perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1186.7", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is for Mr. Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. If it is a point of order, that is one thing; if it is an intervention, that is another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1186.7", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. If it is a point of order, that is one thing; if it is an intervention, that is another. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is for Mr. Speaker.\"] I am not giving way to an intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1187.7", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "o meet points made in the debate. Several of my right hon. and hon. Friends have referred to deactivation, and I understand their points. We are now considering the possibility of finding a way, without undue bureaucracy, of certifying that a gun was truly deactivated—that is, that it could not readily be returned to a firing state. I appreciate that there are many points that I have not answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1187.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "rt of increase in the licensing fee. In addition, we should be interested to know what calculations have been made, because the people interested in shooting as a sport are reasonably entitled to know what the new regime will cost. Secondly, the legislation places more duties on the police. There is an extension of the licensing system, and the Government have argued that that has been introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1194.4", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "ook at the principle again. If that is not within the long title, it cannot be within the Act. That leads me to my second point. I declare an interest, having a shotgun or two. If the Government have to pay compensation, on what basis will they do so? Will it be upon the basis existing before the Act or after the Act? If it is on the basis before the Act, compensation will be small. After the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1203.2", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Duchy of Lancaster Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "To the best of my knowledge — I am dependent on a parliamentary answer, and we can all make our own assessments of the accurancy of parliamentary answers—no property of the Duchy of Lancaster appears to be within the whole of Scotland, least of all in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Duchy of Lancaster Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "s protecting the wildlife in the area, we should ban the use of hounds for hunting animals on land that is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. It is barbaric that we should allow that practice to continue. Although it is part of our history—just as it is part of the history of my constituency that we did not allow Scotsmen to walk around the city after dusk and we also used to hang sheep stealers — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Duchy of Lancaster Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " on Duchy land, I share his desire to look after its natural beauty. The amendment seeks to get the approval for every new lease that we enter into of the appropriate national park, the Nature Conservancy Council and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. I have been a member of the RSPB for years. I am not sure whether I have got my new status correct, but I think that I am now a fellow —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Kampuchea", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "on Cambodia. Those 117 countries could hardly be dismissed, as they have been tonight, as \"a group\". But Vietnam, and its Soviet paymasters, ignore the views of that overwhelming number of countries, just as they ignore Cambodian demands for freedom. We cannot, and will not, accept this unlawful, cruel and oppressive occupation. Cambodia is governed by a regime which is utterly without legitimacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-21", "file": "debates1988-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f02624317b413ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Kampuchea", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": " they have been tonight, as \"a group\". But Vietnam, and its Soviet paymasters, ignore the views of that overwhelming number of countries, just as they ignore Cambodian demands for freedom. We cannot, and will not, accept this unlawful, cruel and oppressive occupation. Cambodia is governed by a regime which is utterly without legitimacy. [Interruption.] The dependence of the so-called Heng Samrin —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-21a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "ll then be left in the difficult position of having to vote against the Bill on Third Reading, as my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Dame J. Knight) says. To leave it until Third Reading is to leave it very late, and some of our constituents would be very confused if we voted for the Bill on Second Reading and against is on Third Reading. That would be most unfortunate. Finally —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "It is a lottery —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abortion on request.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kirkcaldy (Dr. Moonie) made it clear that he completely agrees with abortion on demand at every stage and the the foetus has no rights —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1249.4", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "I strongly resent being told that I am not speaking the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1249.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should read the Bill, because that point is covered by it. It has been carefully considered and incorporated by the hon. Member for Mossley Hill. If we send out from the House the message that handicapped people have no right to live, that is a very serious matter, and that is what people will think. I have talked to handicapped people outside the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "o support the Bill are not all zealots. We are not all —perish the thought—Roman Catholics. We are concerned, and we care deeply. We believe that contraception, not abortion, is the answer. We care about the children who are presently dying; we care about the women who often suffer after abortion; we care about the implications of a society that thinks that handicapped people should be destroyed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about Mencap?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": " thinks that handicapped people should be destroyed — [Interruption.] I am worried about the opinion that a handicapped person has a right to live only as long as its mother wants it. The hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) cannot deny that that is what she is putting forward. A handicapped child has the right to live and that right should not be dependent solely upon whether its mother wants it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that there are many reasons for late abortions. The Bill does not deal with the 95 per cent. of abortions that occur before 18 weeks, so it fails to meet the hon. Gentleman's principal objective, which arises from the fact that he is wholly against abortion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1253.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "sending the photographs to their neighbours. That is the kind of crude behaviour that comes from the new Right. The growing new Right in Britain is saying that women should stay at home and bear children and care for elderly and disabled people. They are not in favour of public expenditure; they want to push women back into a traditional role and deprive them of the freedom to control their lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ention of the British people and, indeed, of hon. Members to the fact that we are not talking in grey abstract terms; we are talking about a child who is fully formed in the womb. There was no other way in which we could express, in any detail, what the debate was about. That is why the photograph was used and why the lobby decided that that was the way in which the campaign should be presented. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "d other matters. They are entitled to do so, but surely we are entitled to speak for voiceless, defenceless, inarticulate healthy babies. The House must concern itself with that matter. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) has made his personal convictions clear. The hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith) said that he was not a Roman Catholic. I need not tell the House my religion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock", "preceding_text": "that continue. It has been mentioned that this week the Irish writer Christopher Nolan was awarded a literary prize. That is a grand example of how disability can mask a great talent Hon. Members realise that that young man lacked oxygen during birth, causing his disabilities. We are not suggesting that he was a disabled foetus. However, we can learn a lot. from what Christopher Nolan has to say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1291.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1297.19", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1297.18"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.5", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.9", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.14", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question again proposed, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-22", "file": "debates1988-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "aceab04542eeed50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.18", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-22a.1298.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that this question appears to have come from Conservative Central Office as a plant? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the Minister in response to his inquiry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Stalker-Sampson Investigations)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The decision is that of the Director of Public Prosecutions—a decision with which I entirely agree. As was laid down in a classic statement — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Stalker-Sampson Investigations)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ve the deepest sympathy. I have said to the House that, in weighing the public interest, as I am constitutionally obliged to do, and as the Director is obliged to do, one has to balance one harm to the public interest against another. That is not an easy consideration. It is one that causes me the deepest anxiety. Having done that to the best of my ability, it is my duty to announce my decision. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.28.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Stalker-Sampson Investigations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must not cast aspersions of that kind. He will rephrase that last comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Stalker-Sampson Investigations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I have the greatest respect for your position and your impartiality. But if the rules of the House prevent me from denouncing this cover-up and those who are complicit in it, the rules are wrong and I will not be bound by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.8", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Stalker-Sampson Investigations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I give the hon. Gentleman one final chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.9", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Stalker-Sampson Investigations)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I give the hon. Gentleman one final chance— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] — and if he refuses to take it I shall be forced to name him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.32.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "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": "en the Government and some of our critics is that we aim to use regional policy to change and modernise the industrial economy of the north, Scotland and Wales. A few of our opponents—I am glad to say that the number is declining—still devote most of their efforts to attempts to conserve the old heavy industrial economy which brought prosperity to past generations in the oldest industrial areas. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e in our main instrument of regional policy. I am a little amused and rather amazed that the retention of RSA has suddenly aroused a small debate about how selectivity works. After my statement one of my officials pulled my leg when I returned to the Department by asking about the new powers that we were taking to enable civil servants such as himself to exercise the duty of picking winners again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.49.5", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "he amount that we are going to spend in the regions, he must acknowledge the fact that we are increasing spending on English Estates as well. That increase is significant. In 1987–88, we increased English Estates' planned programme in the assisted areas from £33.5 million to £37 million. As a result of higher asset sales, English Estates is likely to achieve a record programme this year of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.49.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The money that is going into the hon. Gentleman's region — quite apart from support to industry— by way of the grant, the abolition of which we shall determine today, has been slashed to a third of what it amounted to before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what the total figures that I kept reciting demonstrated. That is the hon. Gentleman's point. I trust that he is not seeking to claim that, in talking about the total regional spend, which he makes the main point of his argument, we should ignore continued expenditure on commitments and RDG.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not. English Estates North is putting up 50,000 sq ft of office and small manufacturing space and there have already been 20 serious inquiries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "plies a measure of dirigisme that I would find difficult to support. With regard to his queries about inward investment, in which he quoted the examples of Germany and France. France is already discretionary in its regional assistance and, like us, the Germans are abolishing automaticity. I share my hon. Friend's view of the importance of attracting inward investment and revitalising the regions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.113.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "London Regional Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "preceding_text": "ws him. One may have to drop all one's luggage to get the ticket out of one's wallet, and I can never find it when I want it. Eventually one gets the ticket out and shows it to the man and he does not even look up. Why cannot he be sent to work sweeping the carriages or scrubbing off graffiti? The answer does not lie in trying to keep the public transport system going as a public transport system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "London Regional Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman intervenes from a sedentary position. In the 1960s forward planning led to considerable success—for example, the Victoria line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Deep Mining (East Fife)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": " and the capability to compete against all-comers. We agree with the hon. Gentleman that we have superb reserves and a superb capability for producing coal. There is nothing between the hon. Gentleman and us on that. The only thing that we say is that we must exploit the coal so as to make it competitive. That will create the markets that we require. I should also draw the attention of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Deep Mining (East Fife)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is important.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": " There is nothing between the hon. Gentleman and us on that. The only thing that we say is that we must exploit the coal so as to make it competitive. That will create the markets that we require. I should also draw the attention of the House — [Interruption.] I must say that we are honoured by the presence of a very high-powered team of Opposition Members, considering that it is so late at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-25", "file": "debates1988-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "79d66a5816ccdd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Deep Mining (East Fife)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "e of dependable markets and a realistic attitude on the part of the work force. In conclusion, as the Minister responsible for this issue, I hope that Opposition Members who have great influence in these matters, and many of whom have close connections with the unions concerned, will play their part in ensuring, in the interests of British Coal, and indeed of the country—forgetting party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-25a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.156.7", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "roposals from Bristow Helicopters Ltd., under which the military search and rescue service in the United Kingdom would be put out to civilian contract. We have also been reviewing the deployment of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force helicopters, to ensure that we are deploying these assets as efficiently as possible and providing satisfactory levels of search and rescue coverage around our coastline —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.156.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Clay wrote to me and to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services, and my right hon. Friend will be meeting them very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "When will the Prime Minister realise that reading out cold-blooded statistics at the Dispatch Box —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "When will the Prime Minister realise that reading out cold-blooded statistics at the Dispatch Box — [Interruption.] — despite all the noise that hon. Members behind her make, will not solve the problems of the National Health Service? Only more money will solve those problems. Would it not be a good beginning to give deserving nurses the 20 per cent. increase which they have asked for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Royal Prerogative", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I sense that this is a continuation of what went on yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is always ingenious in finding moments to raise points which he finds of particular interest. As he knows, we have had exchanges on this issue before. He knows that the MOD police in this inquiry are acting under the direction of the Director of Public Prosecutions, so questions on that matter would be for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sean Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sean Hughes", "preceding_text": "e locations to which we are committed. But it makes one pause to reflect on the demands which could be made at any one time on our armed forces, especially if a crisis in any of the farflung regions coincided with a crisis in Europe. That is why it is impossible to embark on any meaningful discussion of the role of the Army without setting it in the context of NATO's strategy of flexible response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " passed the Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure. Why did you pass it? It is under the authority of Parliament that I have been dismissed.\" Or what about a minister who may be dismissed by a bishop, for all sorts of reasons? I will not go into them, but the Bishop of Ripon has recently made some statements about his attitude to the sexuality of those in his diocese. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.270.2", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": ", and half a dozen Members come along and it goes through. But it is more important than that, because there has been evidence of direct political intervention in the Church. I do not have to go into it, because I would be out of order, but the anger at the Archbishop's sermon on the Falklands, the Crockford's dispute, which led to a tragic suicide, the argument for the appointment of a stronger —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-26", "file": "debates1988-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cd21417109ca830", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.275.6", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "ing an undertaking from the Church Estates Commissioner that Synod would at least listen to the arguments put forward, if not actually agree with them. The other argument is one that I have had before with my right hon. Friend. It is a very simple argument about the Church of England. Because it is established, it belongs to the whole nation and that is why the House has every right to discuss it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-26a.275.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I shall answer the second part of the hon. Gentleman's question first. In relation to the distinction between an injunction and an interdict, I would say this. The Lord Advocate has not suggested —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "nt take the view that the media should not be subject to restrictions in Scotland to which they would not be subject in England, and vice versa. Therefore, the Lord Advocate took the view that if the injunction granted by the High Court was in terms less restrictive than the terms of an interim interdict, it was appropriate to indicate that he would not seek to enforce the interdict. In one sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ngland, and vice versa. Therefore, the Lord Advocate took the view that if the injunction granted by the High Court was in terms less restrictive than the terms of an interim interdict, it was appropriate to indicate that he would not seek to enforce the interdict. In one sense— [Interruption.] I will answer the hon. Gentleman's first question later. The Lord Advocate is satisfied that the proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dr. Forsyth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's concern about that article, and I have had inquiries made. The injuries suffered by the reporter concerned can be treated by a padded crepe support bandage or short plaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I noted that the hon. Gentleman has aligned himself with those calling for industrial action in the Health Service, and his photograph appeared in the Glasgow Herald. It is in the interests of the Health Service to maximise the resources available for patient care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ll the Minister reflect on the fact that he has reduced expenditure on regional development grant from £170 million in 1986–87 to £66 million in the current year? That is against a background of three points: first, manufacturing employment in Scotland has fallen below 400,000 for the first time this century; secondly, the figures in the MSC \"Labour Market Quarterly\" report of November 1987", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.305.9", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "I rise to change the tempo of Question Time, to acknowledge that the greatest service the Prime Minister has done for Scotland so far is in appointing Sir Ian MacGregor to the new Tory party think-tank in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.305.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "May I say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I strongly welcome that initiative. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I suppose that that is the new policy for local government announced by the Secretary of State. I suppose that he is going to apply a new principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " the Scottish economy. They are hoping to convince people that, because that heavier taxation would be imposed only on individuals, not on business, such fears are unjustified. The hon. Gentleman knows that that is not the view of Scottish business or Scottish industry. He knows that the unanimous view of those who run Scottish industry is that the Opposition's proposal would be a grievous burden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ponsibilities was to encourage new investment in Scotland, the idea that companies such as Ford would be contemplating Dundee, that Compac would be going to Renfrewshire, that Caledonian Paper would be going to Irvine, if they knew that their employees in those locations wold have imposed upon them a higher level of taxation than if they went into development areas elsewhere in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "and the rest of his employees — the whole work force — were subject to higher levels of direct taxation than in other development areas in England or Wales? If he seriously believes that that would not be a major problem, he is living in a world that bears no relationship to the real problems of industry. There is evidence for what I have said; all the spokesmen for Scottish industry have said so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had been here for the last devolution debate he would have heard two things: first, that I voted for the 40 per cent. rule and, secondly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "en here for the last devolution debate he would have heard two things: first, that I voted for the 40 per cent. rule and, secondly — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because I believed that devolution could only be justified if there was an irrestible demand by the people of Scotland. Secondly, I indicated the day after the referendum that, as that referendum had shown that there was no irresistible demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "This matter is of grave importance, not just in terms of the fate of the schools concerned,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "— who has now given his life story to the Sunday Post — has to accept that his 50-strong phalanx has suffered a shaky baptism … he must … persuade all of his colleagues to trim their ambitions to suit the constitutional reality. Unless he is successful in that, Scotland's Labour MPs will appear to be a rag-taggle, undisciplined crew for which 'feeble' would be too kind a description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "I realise that I should not have given way to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) has destroyed the opportunity for Labour Members to make further interventions in my speech. If the hon. Gentleman had made a sensible intervention, I would have given way now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": " possibility for any citizen to vote for either a county or a regional council. In general, the powers enjoyed by district councils in Scotland are similar to those enjoyed in England and Wales; in Northern Ireland, however, there is a dramatic diminution of the powers enjoyed by the 26 district councils in the Province. The Labour party has a long history of misunderstanding the mood of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": " are similar to those enjoyed in England and Wales; in Northern Ireland, however, there is a dramatic diminution of the powers enjoyed by the 26 district councils in the Province. The Labour party has a long history of misunderstanding the mood of Scotland. [Laughter.] Mercifully, I have evidence to support that proposition. Nearly 10 years ago, the House gave a Third Reading to the Scotland Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been in the House long enough to realise that if we had an assembly in Edinburgh —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ns on important economic matters. There is no way in which that can be side-stepped. All the gloss and good intentions have no bearing. If Opposition Members do not think that there are such disruptive people in their party, they should look below the Gangway. The hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) does things that I would not do and in a way that I would not do them, but I often admire —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "ation on the community charge for England and Wales. It may be all right for the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) to say that she will not vote on English matters, but a large number of Scottish Labour Members will vote time after time on English matters to try to impose their will on English constituents such as mine. The Government want genuine devolution rather than administrative devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "e same way in England. Thirdly, a Scottish assembly—the hon. Member for Garscadden specifically based the need for a Scottish assembly on what he called the Scottish psychology — would inevitably be far more insular than anything that we have seen before. It would lead to increasing calls for protection from competition. We have already seen the obsession with preserving a few jobs at Ravenscraig,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a primary school boy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ng highlights the need for devolution, it is his contribution. He is nothing more than a political Contra; as the Tory party in Scotland cannot muster any of its troops, it pays people such as the hon. Member for Darlington in kind to come here and hurl abuse at us about something of which he knows nothing. He is nothing more than a little primary school boy masquerading as a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.393.3", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "cts is the Government's claim that the devolution of power would necessarily and inevitably be accompanied by a whole battery of additional taxes. Ministers have constantly argued that, but when they are asked to come to the Dispatch Box and state one item within the devolution Bill that would affect taxes, other than the right to vary the rates of income tax, they singularly fail to come forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "rs and therefore can decide its own level of differential help. People would ask why England should go on subsidising Scotland. Alternatively, the Chancellor might take a macro-economic view and, taking account of his obligations to control public expenditure, which has delivered such fine economic benefits, for every increase in taxation he might decide to reduce the Scottish block in proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "ion level promulgated by the Opposition. If the Opposition sought to improve services on top of that, they would need a further increase of 19 per cent. in tax, giving a total increase of 57 per cent. Let us suppose that we have got income tax down to 25p in the pound by then. A 57 per cent. increase would be 14p in the pound extra in income tax for Scotland, leading to an income tax level of 39p.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "rty's policy of slashing corporate tax and consequently also burdening individuals, is easy to predict. How long can we expect regional assistance to stay at the same favourable basis in Scotland after we had our own tax-raising powers? At the moment, we have 10 per cent. of the population, but 30 per cent. of the assistance. We would be on a vicious circle of industrial decline. It is no wonder —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I should like to make this point, and 'then I shall give way. We are still working on changes, along the lines that my right hon. Friend announced on Second Reading, in the handling of Members' representations on immigration cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman is referring to a meeting which took place at the Home Office and which has nothing at all to do with the motion before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "tthew's, Brixton; Pastor Io Smith, co-chair of the Conference for Christian Partnership; Mr. Ivan Weekes JP, secretary for community relations, Methodist division of Social Responsibility; Rev. Kennedy Bedford, executive secretary of the community and race relations unit of the British Council of Churches; Ms. Leela Ramdeen, chair of the Cardinal's Continuing Committee for the Caribbean Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": " JP, secretary for community relations, Methodist division of Social Responsibility; Rev. Kennedy Bedford, executive secretary of the community and race relations unit of the British Council of Churches; Ms. Leela Ramdeen, chair of the Cardinal's Continuing Committee for the Caribbean Community— [Interruption.] —Sheikh Gamal Solaiman, head imam of the Islamic cultural centre, Regent's park mosque—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-27", "file": "debates1988-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f265a8d1688f810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Immigration Rules", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "ve way. I wish to proceed with my speech and thereby give other hon. Members the opportunity to participate in the debate. Will the Minister confirm that there will not be discrimination against visitors because they come from Bangladesh or other parts of the Indian subcontinent? Will he confirm that visitors will not have their period of leave determined by reason of the country whence they come?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-27a.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that our economic prospects are better now than at any time during the —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Official Secrets Act", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "In the interview tonight I simply repeat the arguments that I used in the House when we debated the supervision of the security forces a year ago when the right hon. Gentleman had different responsibilities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.481.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Official Secrets Act", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is there not a strange inconsistency in the Government's position in that they can ban a programme, \"My Country, Right or Wrong\", which contains contributions from a number of hon. Members, including myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.483.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "School Closures (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "to the truth from time to time. His description of Paisley grammar is totally wrong. He knows perfectly well why there is a high poll in that school. He knows perfectly well why they are fighting against moving to a new school in Merksworth. It is because they would be sharing with kids from working-class housing estates. The Secretary of State knows it very well. Secondly, he might come to terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "opment, not its destruction. Conservative Members were concerned about cabotage. As my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) pointed out, only two years ago Opposition Members argued that the Government should do something about cabotage, through legislation, the European Court or by applying our own cabotage system. At that time, no voice was raised on the Conservative Benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " feature is the disparity in spend on these issues between Wales and England. As one would expect, England has two and a half times more derelict land than Wales. Since 1982, or 1983, England's spend has been five times greater than that of Wales. It is putting much more effort into clearance than we are in Wales. I hope that the Secretary of State will bear that in mind when determining the size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.576.4", "colnum": "576", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Finally, I want to respond to the hon. Member for Gower, because he should not be selective in the evidence that he adduces in condemning selective assistance. He asked what evidence there is for the move towards selective assistance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.576.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-28", "file": "debates1988-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd7d7050edd7e2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do not have the figure to hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-28a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-29", "file": "debates1988-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "91d434424fede9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Arbitration Agreements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "I refer to the case of which I have specific knowledge, the British Association of Removers. My hon. Friend will note that a barrister is appointed. I suspect that he will know better than I the costs involved in appointing a barrister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-29", "file": "debates1988-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "91d434424fede9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Arbitration Agreements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "The problem at the time was the Boundary Commission changes. It was nothing to do with that estate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-29", "file": "debates1988-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "91d434424fede9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Arbitration Agreements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is doing well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I apologise for that. I feel a certain sense of nervousness in speaking at the Dispatch Box for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-29", "file": "debates1988-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "91d434424fede9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Arbitration Agreements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I apologise for that. I feel a certain sense of nervousness in speaking at the Dispatch Box for the first time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is doing well.\"] It is a terrifying ordeal, particularly being barracked by the brigades of buckies on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-29", "file": "debates1988-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "91d434424fede9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Sunday Sports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " a great deal more of a family sport than, for example, football. It is a tiny minority who seek to prevent Sunday racing by vociferous objections, based on an ill-founded view of the meaning of morality and religion. In so doing they are bringing the whole spirit of the law in this country into disrepute. I am sure that several hon. Members have received a copy of a letter from Dr. Marvin Shyster", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-29", "file": "debates1988-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "91d434424fede9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Sunday Sports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames) on his place in the Ballot, if not on his suit. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-01-29", "file": "debates1988-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "91d434424fede9bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Sunday Sports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "ceed. As I understand it, at least one of the big four bookies already requires new employees to sign contracts requiring them to work on a Sunday when called on to do so. From a personal point of view, I should be much happier about this measure if this multi-million pound industry were better run and better treated all those who work in it on and off the course. Horse racing has a smutty image —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-01-29a.670.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises a very important point. If we electrify the Redhill to Reading line, we have to decide what happens beyond Reading —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Independence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "BP is most certainly British and will remain so. The acceptability issue is extremely important. As the hon. Gentleman reminds the House, and as I did earlier, we specifically took the power to prevent any unacceptable change of control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Birmingham Pub Bombings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "been open to the rest of the nation and the rest of the world to discuss over a long period. It would be quite wrong for the House to be denied the opportunity to discuss this subject. Let me list the relevant issues. Such a debate would provide hon. Members with an opportunity to test my assertion—which I repeat—that the men responsible for these bombings are alive and well and living in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "School Closures (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "events which I believe were illegally conducted, illegal in their intention and illegal in their effect, about that date. The letter was not written out of the blue by the rector, but solicited from the rector by the Prime Minister herself. We are now told—we did not know this last week—in the words of The Sunday Times, of which the editor is Andrew Neil, a former pupil of Paisley grammar school —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is inventing quotations. He ought to check, and if he does he will find that I was quoting my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone), and that what I said he said was not what the hon. Gentleman said I said. The present arrangements for ILEA became —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "of London borough. — to lead a campaign to destroy ILEA seven or eight months later is the wildest humbug. No doubt we can expect more from the right hon. Gentleman. I understand, Madam Deputy Speaker, that \"hypocrisy\" is out of order. The Government talk about giving power to parents, but that is the last thing that they intend to do in inner London. I do not have a lot of time for opinion polls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.731.7", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ple without criticising them. If people can understand them, my criticisms were directed at the Secretary of State. No doubt they will be directed by the right hon. Member for Chingford at the Secretary of State if he has appointed the person who looks after that monster to a job which, on the standards set by the right hon. Gentleman, he does not seem up to. But that is not my view of Mr. Stubbs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.731.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman's point and am grateful to him for raising it, but that is the downside of the issue which we have discussed. It would not be beyond the wit of the House to find a suitable mechanism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ion. There is not a respectable body — not even the Government's union, the Professional Association of Teachers—that supports the Bill in its entirety and does not see in it sinister and damaging proposals to which it is profoundly opposed. It is not supported even by the parents in whose names it is done, by the National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations and many other parent voices —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "A national parents' organisation? I am certain that an occasional school here and there, with selfish interests of its own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is almost reducing the definition to fit in with the Association of Liberal Councils. I can name an organisation, which I believe will grow and grow — the Campaign Urging Better Education. It was launched last week in Wandsworth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"HOW many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "I have received several representations from parents within my constituency and outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "lict of interest in the offer and acceptance of that particular job? If Mr. Stubbs really believes that there is no conflict of interest, he no longer recognises the nature or quality of his acts, he is no longer capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and if he came before a court of law he would be certified under the M'Naghten rules—and so, incidentally, would the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": " believes that there is no conflict of interest, he no longer recognises the nature or quality of his acts, he is no longer capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and if he came before a court of law he would be certified under the M'Naghten rules—and so, incidentally, would the Secretary of State. [Interruption.] We know that this is about, not certification, but political will power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": " some Opposition Members. As the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown) said, the record for timetable motions is held not by one of my right hon. Friends, and certainly not by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, but by a member of the official Opposition who, when in government, guillotined five Bills in one day, on 20 July 1976. That was truly a black Tuesday in the history of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) obviously wrote his speech before he heard the debate. He has certainly not remembered much of what has happened in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": ". Member for Chingford anticipated all that. He said: In an attempt to show value for money, the official Opposition will insist on having about 80 hours' debate on clauses 1 to 3 or thereabouts in Committee, and then force a guillotine.\"—[ Official Report, 1 December 1987; Vol. 123, c. 809.]. I am sorry to disappoint the right hon. Gentleman, and I am sorry that he is not here to answer my point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " he has spoken for a good deal of that time. But we have not wished to embarrass him by his record. If the Leader of the House had wanted to refer to a filibuster, he might have singled out the hon. Members for Yeovil and for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey). Under the guillotine, there will be fewer than 45 minutes per clause. That is what the hon. Member for Yeovil calls relatively generous — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "rmed by the assertions made during the debate. The Opposition have said that we need plenty of time to discuss all the measures in the Bill that have still to be debated. That is what I want to secure. The matter of a filibuster has been raised. There was nothing on the scale of John Golding's filibuster. He talked for 11 hours on the Telecommunications Bill and I heard every minute of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "hand, has spoken for 475 minutes. He has spoken for longer than all the Conservative Back Benchers put together. It is therefore not surprising that The Guardian has described the performance of the Labour party in Committee as lacklustre. I have to say to the hon. Member for Blackburn, in the words of the old nursery rhyme. \"Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack's tripped over the Liberal stick.\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Farm Land and Rural Development Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "An hon Member: \"The right hon. Gentleman is a Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "give way. We have covered a great deal of ground. I have many answers to give, and I shall try to give them. I have considerable sympathy with the concern that my hon. Friends have raised about horse and pony breeding. We are carefully examining the matter at the moment. Many changes have recently taken place, and they will need further investigation. I understand the points that were put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-01", "file": "debates1988-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "edfb9968e3979f34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Farm Land and Rural Development Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) made clear the need for a diverse society in the countryside. We are trying to carry that through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-01a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-02", "file": "debates1988-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6739cea676bd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.848.7", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Here we go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the nurses in the hon. Gentleman's constituency are doing extremely well and are carrying out their duties to their patients. With regard to revenue provision for the Health Service, in the hon. Member's constituency in 1978–79—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.848.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-02", "file": "debates1988-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6739cea676bd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.848.11", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There has been a statement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.848.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-02", "file": "debates1988-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6739cea676bd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.849.5", "colnum": "849", "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 right hon. Gentleman has asked this question in different terms three times. The answer is the same: that we have never undertaken to fund in full a pay award before we know what it is and what the structure is. Nevertheless, our total record on nurses' pay —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.849.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-02", "file": "debates1988-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6739cea676bd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.850.6", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that the position of the Health Service would be greatly improved if the Leader of the Opposition would categorically condemn strike action in the Health Service before we see the recommendations of the pay review body? Would she agree, further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.850.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-02", "file": "debates1988-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6739cea676bd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.850.8", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister in the course of her busy day think of a way of persuading the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.850.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-02", "file": "debates1988-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6739cea676bd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Industrial Training Levy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "s only one body responsible for the national interest—the Government. But this Government have a total lack of a national strategy. It has always been replaced by a potent and corrosive ideology. The Engineering Industry Training Board has informed the Government often of the crisis in engineering training. We faced a crisis last year and the year before; we have faced it over the last nine years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-02a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.972.3", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not in the Caribbean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Bermuda plays a major part in Caribbean regional matters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.972.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you last week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden), Mr. Speaker. An enormous number of people throughout the country are expressing reasonable and legitimate concerns about the Health Service. I think that you would be the first to wish that Parliament was able —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ce. I think that you would be the first to wish that Parliament was able — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you last week?\"]— to reflect their anger and that Members of Parliament were able to represent their constituents. My point of order is that this afternoon a large number of Health Service workers, mainly nurses, went to Trafalgar square from the hospitals where they had been working or picketing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "doing so by a cordon of police across the road. So the nurses were unable to move freely to Parliament to lobby their elected representatives. I understand that some of the nurses have now managed to reach the House and will be lobbying Members of Parliament. Presumably Conservative Members will wish to hear their points of view since they are not prepared to go to the hospitals to listen to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.6", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, will you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.994.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "If I had been the hon. Gentleman, I should have asked precisely the same question, being anxious to torment the Minister at the Dispatch Box. I must confess that I do not know the answer. I have the figures only as far back as 1979 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1054.4", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "t the Bill is designed to increase the availability of a substance that is already an important contributory factor to approximately one in five admissions to general medical units. It is responsible for 40 to 50 per cent. of violent crime and approximately one third of divorce petitions and cases of child abuse. It is by far the single main cause of death and injury on our roads. Need I say more?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1054.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolute nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "ive Members represent in tonight's debate. As the right hon. Member for Castle Point (Sir B. Braine) said, we are debating what is virtually a brewers' charter. The Bill is a brewers' charter. It is in the interests of the brewers and the business people who sit on the Conservative Benches. The Bill is a present from the Conservative Government to those who have loyally supported them in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"To the charabanc.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": " to diversify will be out of pocket very quickly; all his bottles of wine will be consumed at the off-licence outside on-licence hours. There is a much more serious problem. If the visitors buy a bottle at the off-licence in the hours when the on-licence does not apply, they are not allowed to consume it on the premises. Therefore, arrangements have to be made to take the bottle off the premises —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "onal to the public expenditure totals that were published in the Command Paper on public expenditure a week or two ago. The reply that I received yesterday stated that they were inclusive and that the valley initiative is buried in the public expenditure totals in the Command Paper. There is a lot to be done and some questions need to be asked. If the valleys initiative is buried in those totals —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "t they were inclusive and that the valley initiative is buried in the public expenditure totals in the Command Paper. There is a lot to be done and some questions need to be asked. If the valleys initiative is buried in those totals — [Interruption.] Indeed there should be some answers. My hon. Friends should not be too sceptical. I am sure that the Minister will give clear answers to all of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the initiative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "ince when?\"] I have greater faith in human nature than some of my hon. Friends. Anyway, as a result of yesterday's answer to the question that I had tabled, plus the exchanges that we had, it is at least clear that a largish proportion of the great new valleys initiative is already available in one form or another somewhere in the House, but we cannot find it. We want to know where the totals are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Jones", "preceding_text": "specific Cardiff problems with the WDA, as he would advise any other hon. Members who were raising constituency problems. I want gently to chide my hon. Friend the Minister about that. The south Cardiff redevelopment is no minor constituency matter. It is a most important development. It was the inspiration of my noble Friend Lord Crickhowell. It represents a tremendous prospect for the future — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "astonishing discourtesy to Wales that on one of the few occasions when we have an opportunity to deal in Committee with specifically Welsh legislation the Secretary of State feels that he is too grand to be here. Perhaps he is out preparing yet another press release on the valleys initiative. He will not tell us about that, but no doubt there will be a press release. My hon. Friend the Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "-needed employment to Wales. Expenditure by the agency depends on several factors, some of which are outside its control, such as the needs of Welsh industry for investment finance; the availability of land for environmental projects; the speed with which the agency can devise plans and implement schemes; and the ability of the agency and Wales as a whole to continue to attract inward investment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did the hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I was referring to what the WDA announced last week —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "International Development Association", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "to invest in Brazil to get it. They have been pressurised to do so by the World Bank, which is anxious that Brazil should pay off its foreign debt by an export-led boom through the export of ore. The problems that that development has caused to the people of the region have been horrendous. Many thousands of people have been removed from their homes, land grabs have occurred all over the place — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-03", "file": "debates1988-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3b82ae33eeaf9849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1128.4", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "International Development Association", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Lady; I think she must be the only hon. Member who has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-03a.1128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "In answer to the hon. Gentleman's first point, we shall have to study the judgment and discuss the matter with the Commission. I can, however, assure him that I shall be anxious to sort the matter out as quickly as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " the matter with the Commission. I can, however, assure him that I shall be anxious to sort the matter out as quickly as possible— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman's second point goes rather wider than the review of the sheepmeat regime. However, although these matters are complex, I am aware of the importance of any changes in the agricultural sector for hill farmers who are dependent on sheep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The poll tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question. If the poll tax— the community charge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question. If the poll tax— the community charge — [HON. MEMBERS: \"The poll tax.\"] If the community charge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Following the statements by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury yesterday, and other statements and counter-statements by Members of the Government over recent weeks, there is considerable public confusion about the Government's policy on nurses' pay. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1153.5", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The pay review body will consider the proposals put to it from both sides. It will consider the new structure, which is vital, and which has been agreed. The review body will put figures to that. May I point out to the right hon. Gentleman that there was not a review body for nurses in his time. May I also point out that the way in which his Government dealt with the review body proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1153.5", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman the way in which his Government dealt with the review body proposals for doctors' pay. May I remind him that in 1976 and 1977 the then Government did implement the doctors and dentists review body proposals in full, but when in 1976 inflation was 16·5 per cent., the review body recommendation was 2·2 per cent. It protested to the Government about the restraint measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that the hon. Gentleman did not get a reply to his letter. It does not seem to have prevented considerable increases in cash coining to Rochdale health authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that the hon. Gentleman did not get a reply to his letter. It does not seem to have prevented considerable increases in cash coining to Rochdale health authority— [interruption.] The hon. Gentleman may wish to know that the cash allocation to the Rochdale health authority went up 10 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that the hon. Gentleman did not get a reply to his letter. It does not seem to have prevented considerable increases in cash coining to Rochdale health authority— [interruption.] The hon. Gentleman may wish to know that the cash allocation to the Rochdale health authority went up 10 per cent.— [Interruption.] —in cash terms and capital was up by £6·3 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman is the leader of the Liberal party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1178.6", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "ary of State aware that I, as a representative of the borough of Lewisham, have received not a single letter from a parent, teacher, parent-teacher organisation or governing body seeking to have the education of children of the borough removed from ILEA and transferred to the borough of Lewisham? I note that hon. Members representing other constituencies in Lewisham are not present in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "It does have some children. Tower Hamlets has also clearly expressed a view. Earlier—I would not say that this is the view expressed now—there was considerable interest in some Labour-controlled authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I warmly thank my hon. Friend for saying that. That is the whole purpose of what we are trying to do. We are trying to improve the basic education of children. In the past, far too many have not had a good deal, particularly at secondary level. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Are not these points of order rather synthetic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Human Fertilisation and Embryology", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"New Socialist\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "through one or more miscarriages with the accompanying distress. Research could enable doctors to detect the reason for some miscarriages and, I hope, to prevent them in the future. I hope that hon. Members have had the opportunity to read a serious article written by Dr. Anne McLarendirector of the Medical Research Council's mammalian development unit — in the \"New Socialist\" of 10 December 1987.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-04", "file": "debates1988-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "644b62034eb107b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Human Fertilisation and Embryology", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "onsider such questions carefully. I will be satisfied with the answers. If I am the son of a mother who received AID, I am entitled to my name and I am entitled to know who my father is. The Minister said that a child would not be entitled to the name of his lather and that therefore the child would have no link with his father. The child might have a passport but would have no link with identity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-04a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-05", "file": "debates1988-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "63920732432a0dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-05a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "2013;30 times its weight. We must remember, when discussing children in car accidents, that the biggest and most vulnerable part of a baby, the part that suffers most damage, is the head. Children's heads are proportionately larger in comparison to their bodies than those of adults. Adults' heads are considerably harder than those of children, and in this House we all learn to be very hard-headed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-05a.1312.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.26.6", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Ford Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that the Government insisted that there should be a ballot before workers took action? The workers have had two ballots and have decided to take action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.26.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. All this is of great interest to the House, but has nothing to do with the subject under discussion. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will start to address himself to clause 3, or resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.9", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "as that clause 19 deals with assistance by the commissioner. I hope that I shall not say anything that may tempt you to tell me to sit down, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall kick off by saying, in passing, that I notice that not many of the Conservative Members who served in the Committee are on the Benches today. One or two of them were here earlier — the little boys, as I called them in Committee — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.9", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "of the Conservative Members who served in the Committee are on the Benches today. One or two of them were here earlier — the little boys, as I called them in Committee — — [Interruption.] It is true. They have not lived yet. They do not know what life is about; they do not know what work is about; and they certainly do not know what trade unions are about. They are no longer here, they have gone —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.9", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "amber at 5.37 pm and departed two minutes later. He is not really meeting his responsibility, is he? He has left his junior Ministers to take responsibility for the Bill. My right hon. Friend the Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot) — he is from that beautiful country of Wales, the Principality —mentioned the junior Minister. I can tell my right hon. Friend that the Under-Secretary is a nice chap —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.57.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "hardly ever attended. From the Conservative point of view they have not done a bad job, but we have done a better job. We did a better job in Committee, we are doing a better job today and we are pulling the Bill to pieces. The new clause clearly shows what lies behind the appointment of the commissioner chappie and the sort of assistance that he will give trade unionists. It is a scabs' charter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.58.4", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "sive infiltration of the trade union movement by the Conservative Trade Unionists. That has been the cause of the problems. They have attended branch meetings and stirred up trouble. Now, they can run to the commissar to try to bring the unions into disrepute. That is not on, and the Government jolly well know it. When the Opposition return to office, we will know what to do with this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.58.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I am going down no road other than the right one, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because you asked me to do that. You asked that right at the beginning of my speech. Indeed, you have pulled up hon. Members for going down the wrong road. I shall not allow myself to be persuaded to go down the wrong road by either Conservative Members or my hon. Friends. I intend to stick to the rules, of course —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " signatures, the national executive committee confirmed the dismissals. At least one of the members involved had been a trade unionist for 30 years. The clause does, indeed, go beyond strike action and is intended to meet the case that I have just cited. Throughout the Committee stage Opposition Members consistently said that a member who found himself in such circumstances should leave the union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows the answer to that question. I will not discuss the detail of the NUS case because it is still before the court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "nce than its effect merely on the Employment Bill. Without overstating the case one iota, we are seeing a fundamental attack upon democracy. A central tenet of our democracy has always been that, whatever one's own view, if a majority freely accept a certain course of action, we should all follow such a course. In all parties throughout all societies, that has been a fundamental rule of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "t must be abided by. If not, by penalty of law, the weight of the state will descend, funds could be sequestrated and one could even go to prison. According to the clause, if the vote goes in favour of industrial action it does not have to be abided by and everyone can do as they like. That surely undermines the principle of the ballot. Why have a ballot at all if no one has to take account of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "One or two hon. Members have asked what the Bill is all about, and some of my hon. Friends have made some very good arguments against it. I am waiting to hear one of the Tory Back Benchers have a go. I am sure that they must have something to say. I do not know whether they managed to say anything in Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to follow such a powerful exposition of the tortuous nature of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "preceding_text": "ation that will seek to destroy majority decisions in a secret ballot? Will the Minister comment on the Prime Minister's quotation from St. Francis of Assisi in 1979, which conveys the sentiment that where there is discord he shall bring harmony? I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is acquainted with that. Perhaps he will relate that to the industrial action by the nurses for the first time ever — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.116.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "And ballot-rigging in the NUM.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "on reflection, that it is not a terribly good one, but it is that, if it is good enough for the trade union movement, why is it not good enough for the Conservative party? All that I would say, without a trace of irony, is that if the hon. Gentleman cannot tell the difference between a trade union and a political party, I feel for him. There is a difference, which is apparent to his hon. Friends —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "When the delegation met my noble Friend Lord Ferrers in another place, they were able to have a full discussion about the recommendations made by the AMA. The hon. Gentleman cannot fly in the face of the fact that there is a 22·1 per cent. increase in the level of expenditure but in 1986–87—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I am trying to finish my sentence.—and the proposed amount for 1988–89 as listed in the order itself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for me but for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.5", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": " in relation to the fire precept and the fire expenditure in West Yorkshire there has been a longstanding disagreement between my hon. Friend's Department and the local fire authority? If it was purely a matter for our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, would my hon. Friend be prepared to advise our right hon. Friend on what he would wish to see for the fire expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.6", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "tative council on local government finance —where proposals for changes can be tabled either by a local authority or by the Department of the Environment. The intention is that the development work on the fire grant-related expenditure assessment should he taken forward in the coming months. I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey regards that as an adequate answer to his direct question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.142.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Manchester?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman can give me an example of a Labour-controlled authority that does not now support neighbourhood watch schemes, I should be interested to hear from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-08", "file": "debates1988-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f9362c19e291634d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Police, Fire and Civil Defence Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, at the sitting on Tuesday, 9th February notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1)(b) of Standing Order No. 14 (Exempted business), Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions on the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Channon relating to Local Government not later than one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon.— [Mr. Maclean.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-08a.161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.182.6", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "nister aware that it is becoming very noticeable that, during the past few months, she has been reading out long, detailed answers whenever my hon. Friends, with the exception of one, ask her questions? When my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) asks a question, he gets a very short answer, something like, \"I have nothing further to add.\" I have some advice for the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Frit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My concern is quite simply this my concern is very much for the good reputation of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "For centuries we have had this place reported. The public come into the Gallery and for 10 years we have had the House broadcast. What reasonable cause can be given for not using modern technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.185.4", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. I read the full speech of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. I thought it was excellent in all respects, as we would all expect. The purpose, as I think is perhaps not fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.185.6", "colnum": "185", "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. The purpose of having religious education as, until now, the only compulsory subject in the curriculum—it goes back to 1944—was to ensure that children were taught what was right and wrong. Strange things have happened to religious education since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.185.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You have just undertaken to the House not to give Privy Councillors precedence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": " undermined by this measure. To some extent, this debate seems to have taken place already this afternoon. I hope that no firm conclusions will have been reached from earlier exchanges, even though they took place at a rarefied level. Although my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is the most eminent Member of the House, in this matter she is, inter pares, a simple Member, with us, of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "My newspaper column is read by 9 million people. The people who decide whether I write a newspaper column are the readers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.215.6", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They are boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, televising the other place has certainly done no harm there. I would judge that their Lordships, the quality of whose debates has always been high, have gained in public esteem. That is the impression that I get from those of my constituents who have raised the matter with me. They enjoy listening to debates in the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.215.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "the odd terms that we use and the conventions that we observe. All these will have to be explained if much of what we do and say is to be intelligible. But I do not think that that is an insuperable obstacle to presenting Parliament visually to the nation. It is not a matter that can be left to the media, and I want to make it quite plain that they must be guided and controlled in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.223.8", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas", "preceding_text": "We had a full and frank discussion this morning with the broadcasting authorities and representatives of the ITN and BBC; those discussions are normal. We do not conduct vendettas against the broadcasting authorities—unlike the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit). That letter is part of an on-going discussion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.223.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.224.5", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman understand that the discussions arose specifically out of a letter sent to us by the broadcasting authorities? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas", "preceding_text": "It is a great privilege for me to follow the right hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery); I agree with all he said. I also agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley). I regret that this has become a partisan political debate in the worst sense of that word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.244.2", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "he conduct of our debates and the timing of our business and procedures, and even the numbers of hon. Members attending on the Government and Opposition Benches would all be altered, primarily by television. The parliamentary programme would disappear, and be put in prime viewing time. Prime Minister's Question Time would take place not at 3.15 pm, but at 7.15 pm, when viewers have their high tea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.251.6", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "rs) talked about Privy Councillors. Why does the House not pass a resolution on a Friday stopping the precedence of Privy Councillors? My hon. Friend sits here as though they are the result of some law of God. It is only because the House lets Mr. Speaker get away with the practice, which is wholly unjustified—I say this as a Privy Councillor — that some hon. Members have precedence over others. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.251.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "or publicity, for a mention in the media. One of my hon. Friends, not a thousand miles away, got a little mention in The Times for reporting his wife for breach of privilege. Why? Because she tried to force him, by threatening to divorce him, to vote against the Bill of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton). The hon. Member concerned—I shall not embarrass him by recognising him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.258.11", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I have been an unmitigated benefit to this dreary place. I am simply explaining the dangers that will certainly arise in the future were we to be foolish enough to allow the intervention of the camera lens. Could there exist a greater temptation to the demonstrator or even to the normal nutter—we get some of those up there—than to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.258.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "the facilities.\" Once it comes in, we will not vote for it to go out, because if we did so in those circumstances, the perception would be that we had been frightened off by the appalling picture that we had presented of ourselves to the public. We would not have the courage to do that. That is why we cannot do it. Let us have the sense to keep our proceedings unencumbered by publicity seekers — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": "s debate, even after another hour and a quarter, but it is not the sort of thing that makes a good broadcast in the eyes of the media. I ask the House why, given the power of the broadcasting authorities to transmit the debate and all our proceedings on radio, the very important debate which has been talked about at great length on the radio and television and in the press is not being broadcast —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "r scintillating, have spoken common sense. If the proceedings were being televised, those speeches should be shown as well as the robust contributions, which have not necessarily been full of common sense. I want those speeches to be shown on television as well. I want to see my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) on television. He said things with which I agreed completely. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": " is the argument: the Lords Chamber is televised, so why cannot we do it here? As everybody knows, the Lords Chamber is a completely different shape and size. There is more room for equipment in there than in here. We are dealing with a different Chamber. The Lords Chamber is not overhung by Galleries on either side. Look at the shine, or lack of it, on the Back Benches. There is no light there. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "n other chambers—my hon. Friend the Member for Boothferry (Mr. Davis) made this point earlier—has been to lead to stale presentation and to speeches being read to camera. Debate based on an exchange of views has disappeared. Members in other legislatures go into their chambers and read set speeches to camera; they do not take part in debate. We must ask whether that is what we want for this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "came up with a Dutch Member of Parliament — a doctor — who would support it. Some hon. Members will have heard him on the radio this morning. He began by saying that television cameras were not intrusive. By the end of the interview, two and a half minutes later, he conceded that television cameras were intrusive. Last night in the Strangers Bar I was talking to a friend from an Opposition party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "rests, who would forget the needs of the other regions, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. One of the revealing things to emerge from our debate has been the strong feeling against the media. That has come through again and again. The BBC and the IBA have done much good work in the way of educational and political programmes, and when I go home in the evening I watch the \"Newsnight\" programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "nd. One of the revealing things to emerge from our debate has been the strong feeling against the media. That has come through again and again. The BBC and the IBA have done much good work in the way of educational and political programmes, and when I go home in the evening I watch the \"Newsnight\" programme— [Interruption.] It is a good programme and often more interesting than radio programmes— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "hich there is no real political discussion forget its history. Some say that Prime Minister's Question Time is now worse than before. It is true that it is worse than when I first entered the House, when there was cut and thrust between Harold Wilson and Harold Macmillan—not to mention Rab Butler—at the Dispatch Box. But that has nothing to do with radio. The deterioration of the past seven years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.281.6", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Televising of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the problems of terrorism. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.281.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I think it may be for the convenience of the House to take the three orders for West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. I honestly thought that the hon. Member for Keighley was one of the new breed of minibus drivers, wearing the new uniform for the new high-fares, high-society bus service on offer in the Keighley area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The Minister has already been savaged by his hon. Friends on the important issue of the Mersey tunnel. I am a little surprised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "because we are on the western seaboard, it is important that we have an airport to enable us to compete. All those services cost money and we are expected to impose a levy comparable with areas such as Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. The people of St. Helens are expected to pay the price of being part of Merseyside. I do not criticise Merseyside, but this state of affairs is not fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "y tunnels away. The hon. Gentleman said that the burden of meeting debt charges was causing serious problems. We have taken into account six months of interest charges. Many observers might say that if the Mersey authority had faced up to the problem over the years it would not be so serious now. The sooner that the authority addresses its mind to the problem, the sooner we shall obtain results. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "nsport system. So are we. The difference is that the Labour party is committed to it whatever the burden on ratepayers. We are seeking to obtain better value for money for ratepayers and to maintain a decent system of public transport. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Broadgreen (Mr. Fields) said that no level of argument would influence the Government. He cannot have listened to the opening speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "man cannot have it both ways. He cannot say that there is a contract which cannot he renegotiated and that it can close a line, which is obviously in breach of the contract. In any case, while the hon. Gentleman is bringing out these various morsels with which I o entertain the House, he has failed to mention the fact that the PTA was planning to carry £5 million of reserves through to next year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-09", "file": "debates1988-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "19fd25d7da04f679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "said that many face real problems in doing so. However, if significant numbers are travelling, as he claims, there may well be sufficient to warrant operating a bus. However, if there are not sufficient for that, it may well be that that a taxibus is appropriate. The PTE might wish to consider a flexible approach to its tendering documents to encourage people to come forward with smaller vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-09a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "In the first nine months of 1987 the British Phonographic Industry Ltd. reported sales to retailers of 11 million compact discs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.344.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Hong Kong (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that the I-louse will think it fair if I now give preference to those who were not called in the debate on Wednesday 20 January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Hong Kong (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "the Foreign Secretary aware that it will not be lost on the British electorate that the Government who are handing over Hong Kong are the same Government who fought for the Falklands? They will be drawn to the irresistible conclusion that, whereas the Government were prepared to fight for the Falklands, they dare not do anything with Hong Kong because there are 1 million Chinese around the corner?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am aware that it is Wednesday because in Liverpool today the North-West TUC has called a great demonstration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "d travelling construction and agricultural workers—but at sea, in trawlers and lighthouses and on oil rigs and construction sites. Furthermore, the union has a membership turnover —and I say this in answer to the question of the hon. Member for Lancaster about the post—of about 20 per cent. a year, or about 25,000 members a month. That is why the TGWU would have difficulties with postal ballots. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not on this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "y few years we change our constitution. We do so by going back to the members who vote. If the members want to change to a postal ballot, that is their decision. It is not a decision for the Government — it is the members' right. When the Government impose that on union members, they are being authoritarian. Although I know that, in a sense, I am unfortunately talking to the wind, I ask the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.407.11", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " marginalise the trade unions. The boards are likely to be much smaller, with no more than 12 or 15 members. Again, employers will be in a majority, with the remainder of board members drawn from local authorities, trade unions, the education service and voluntary organisations. Significantly, the membership will be determined by the chairman, and who appoints the chairman? The Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.407.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "preceding_text": "5 per cent. have received a positive offer in the form of a place on a community programme, in a job club or on a job training scheme, and the like. A second source of help provided by the employment service is the work of the claimant advisers. They can help to ensure that the person involved receives the right benefit. They can also show people with high benefit entitlement that it pays to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ssue; training for the employed must also be encompassed. 7.30 pm The theme of the work of the Training Commission must be and will be training through life. The aim will be to fit people for a labour market which will change substantially during their working lives. Of the clauses that the Opposition seek to remove, clause 23 enables me to appoint up to six additional employers to the commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.418.3", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "amme. The Government are not concerned with economic policies. They are telling the unemployed, \"Look, we are helping you out because your deficiencies have created your position.\" That smacks of the old Poor Law mentality that some of my older colleagues may recall—although perhaps that is before their time. This is a fundamental shift in the Government's approach to unemployment and training — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "er cent. So in the last two years alone, overspend has reached some £135 million. ILEA is automatically designated for precept limitation in 1988–89 under section 68 of the Local Government Act 1985, as it has been for the past two years. But even if designation had not been automatic, ILEA's continued high spending would have brought it well within the criteria for selective designation. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ion in 1988–89 under section 68 of the Local Government Act 1985, as it has been for the past two years. But even if designation had not been automatic, ILEA's continued high spending would have brought it well within the criteria for selective designation. — [Interruption.] If hon. Members who do not represent ILEA areas wish to speak on ILEA matters, we should welcome it. I am glad that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours). As I was saying, against the background of overspending that I have outlined, the Government are clear that a firm approach is needed to limit the burden that ILEA is placing on London householders and businesses alike. Members should note that I have been prepared to listen and respond to the representations that ILEA has made to me. I have been prepared to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I think I should pursue my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to give way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I have spoken to virtually all groups, although not to the Liberal group. Conservatives came to make representations to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.457.4", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ed a completely new situation with the proposal to abolish ILEA and that they would have to revise the order? That would have been the only honest thing for the Government to do. However, he is ploughing on with his paranoid hatred of the authority. We have still not discovered what the Conservatives have against ILEA except that, on the whole, ILEA has been a beacon for good education standards —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.457.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "as ignored every practical problem. Therefore, ILEA wins the argument and tonight the Secretary of State wins the votes. However, things will get worse. I shall end on this point because many people want to speak. Phase two of the awful mechanism that the Secretary of State is putting into effect comes next Wednesday when we shall witness one of the constitutional outrages of the post-war years. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "preceding_text": "entleman's membership of our Standing Committee. We have grown used to his predictions for the future of hon. Members and, indeed, members of ILEA and so on. I am amazed that the hon. Gentleman, who had such a distinguished career at the Bar and in the Civil Service, and had wealth and influence, should while away his evening years on Opposition Benches. We welcome him and enjoy his contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "s in the press about schoolboys being encouraged to dress in girls' clothes as part of a scheme to eradicate sexism. I read that boys aged up to seven years dress in skirts and petticoats and carry handbags. It seems that they are taught embroidery and play with dolls while girls play with engineering sets and toy cars as part of ILEA's scheme to combat sexism and stereotyping. This is happening —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.464.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us another.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "studying for a postgraduate diploma in architecture. For my final comprehensive design, I have chosen to design a brothel. Although it is a hypothetical exercise the aim is to make our projects as realistic as possible in preparation for the real world after college. I therefore need to collect as much information as I can on my subject in order to form a thesis to support my scheme. That is ILEA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "tical exercise the aim is to make our projects as realistic as possible in preparation for the real world after college. I therefore need to collect as much information as I can on my subject in order to form a thesis to support my scheme. That is ILEA—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us another.]\" No doubt there are many others. Not only does ILEA vastly overspend in the wrong ways, its children and schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " 7 per cent. cut would be a tough target to meet, yet this year, on top of that, there is this further cut. ILEA has not said that it will not talk or is not willing to make savings. It has said that it accepts that the Conservatives, with their 41 per cent., won a general election, even though in inner London they won hardly any seats. It has said that it accepts that it must reduce its budget. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sedgemore) considered that Mr. Neil Fletcher has a one-man moral majority—I believe that the hon. Gentleman said that he had moral force. The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) stressed that the funding of ILEA and its abolition were inseparable. The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) asked whether there would be any extra expenditure by ILEA in the next year— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-10", "file": "debates1988-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e954ce493d4097c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.471.5", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": " They do not get a decent night's sleep and however well money is spent, however good the teachers and the standard of education, it is hard for children to learn when they are tired. Many children have no quiet place in which to do their homework. That is another disadvantage that the Secretary of State is not taking into account. Many children have no books at home and do not get a head start. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-10a.471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.488.8", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Cuts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the one subject on which Opposition Members are expert is spending other people's money? Does he also agree that throwing public money—taxpayers' money—at, for example, ILEA, with its poor academic record, would be a complete and utter waste of money, just as lavishing taxpayers' money on the National Health Service without cuts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.488.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "We have not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "We have not — [Interruption] If hon. Gentleman— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I have never before been compared to the noble Lord Jenkins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.499.5", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The Lord President either deludes himself or seeks to deceive others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.499.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.501.4", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I do not recognise the analysis that the hon. Gentleman gave. The Health Service is receiving this year the greatest increase in income it has every received. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister left me a note for the hon. Gentleman when she went away. She told me that I was to remind him that capital expenditure in his district increased by £16·5 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.501.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.512.5", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend arrange for an early statement from the Secretary of State for the Environment on the dissemination of information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "The Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "ime it would also be appropriate to congratulate Air Chief Marshal Sir David Craig on attaining not only that post but that of Chief of the Defence Staff. We are confident that the country will be well-served by this distinguished and able officer. Today's debate will be much poorer without the special contributions previously made by my friend Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones, the former Member for Eccles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.537.3", "colnum": "537", "heading": "The Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "We do not have to go that far back to find officers who have left the services. Many tens and hundreds of officers are leaving the Air Force at the moment, perhaps because of bad morale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "The Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "It is not wishful thinking. If we can convince the voters of the desperate state of our defences, we shall be in office sooner rather than later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.541.5", "colnum": "541", "heading": "The Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "heard exactly the same words from the Minister about the EFA. We are still in that position. The project is no further along the road. Regardless of the answers that are elicited, the fact is that the project is not developing as it should do. The radar suite has still not been ordered, which means that when the plane comes into existence it will not have the radar capability to carry out the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-11", "file": "debates1988-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "3acbd448049fb5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.541.5", "colnum": "541", "heading": "The Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": ". Regardless of the answers that are elicited, the fact is that the project is not developing as it should do. The radar suite has still not been ordered, which means that when the plane comes into existence it will not have the radar capability to carry out the job. [Interruption.] Do not tell me that the radar suite has been ordered, because I found out this morning that it has not been ordered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-11a.541.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-15", "file": "debates1988-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "4680a0bdf8d4dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "European Council (Brussels)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "mmunity expenditure taken by agriculture, so reversing the trend of the past. As the second main element, the Council completed the review of the level and objectives of the Community's structural funds—the regional, social and agricultural structures funds. The Council concluded that commitments on the structural funds should increase annually over the period 1989–92 by 1.3 becu a year — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.705.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-15", "file": "debates1988-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "4680a0bdf8d4dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.758.7", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "guaranteed automatic mechanism for each commodity where there is over-production beyond a certain point, or over-expenditure. This is a major achievement. When I first became Minister and we started to talk last summer about stabilisers, it seemed to me that it would be a massive task to get the Community to sign up on stabilisers in all major commodities. That has now been achieved. That is why —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.758.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-15", "file": "debates1988-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "4680a0bdf8d4dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "This is a debate on agriculture and the right hon. Gentleman is the Minister. In the light of the recent malicious and squalid attacks of the Minister of State on the clergy, will he now sack the Minister of State? He is an embarrassment to the Government and he is offending people throughout the country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-15", "file": "debates1988-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "4680a0bdf8d4dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "or, perhaps more accurately, in the words of Simon Gourlay, the president of the NFU, on yesterday's BBC farming programme, an air of uncertainty. As I travel up and down the country meeting farmers, I constantly hear of the lack of direction and leadership from the Ministry, and a sense of confusion. British agriculture does not know where it is expected to go. Indeed, it is in a state of crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.765.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-15", "file": "debates1988-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "4680a0bdf8d4dff5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.766.6", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman cannot take it. He has obviously been listening too carefully to the Government's propaganda machine, which has been put into overdrive over the past 48 hours, in an effort to turn the truth on its head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-15a.766.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.822.9", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.822.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.823.5", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to see the leaflet that was recently circulated by the Labour party from Walworth road, which says that anyone who does not register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.823.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Training (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And they do it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "When taking up the kind invitation extended by the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) to examine Government funding for training in Sweden, will my right hon. Friend also take the opportunity to examine the position in Japan, where the Government put virtually no money into training, and where training is considered the responsibility of private industry and is done extremely well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Training (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to take lectures from the hon. Lady on voluntary organisations; nor do I recognise her power to speak on behalf of voluntary organisations in this country. I believe that many voluntary organisations — I hope, all of them — will want to cooperate in this programme. The hon. Lady has done her best over the past few months to sabotage and damage the programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I have made a special note of this matter. I keep saying, \"Next time I get the chance to raise it in the House of Commons, I shall do so.\" Well, now is my chance. The delays are not caused by Customs and Excise. It is passports that cause the often long delays at Dover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has finished.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "vice, and as yet it has not been fully costed. We intend that this operation should wash its face completely, but we did not think it appropriate to cost it until we had received agreement to this enabling power from the House. Those who say that we did not discuss the matter in Committee, such as the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, West (Mr. Randall), are wrong. We discussed it in Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the end of my remarks, and I hope that the hon. Gentleman will have a chance to speak later, if he catches your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker. The ethnic minority in Britain have much to fear from the Labour party, with its ill-thought-out promises completely to repeal the Immigration Act 1971 and the British Nationality Act 1981. Opposition Members have never given any thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.897.4", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "nd certain regulations where they have been abused or found wanting. The Bill will do much to reassure people that their concerns have been properly addressed. There is a real worry about people who come to Britain without the necessary bona fide credentials. It may surprise Opposition Members to know that, despite the Bill, some people in Britain still feel that our regulations are extremely lax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.897.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "xamples. My hon. Friends the Members for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden), for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms. Abbott) and I have come forward with solutions, but he chose not to take those solutions. Four days after I went to Lunar house and released my findings to the press, the Minister got on his broomstick and went from Queen Anne's gate to Croydon, where he had discussions with the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "I went to Lunar house and released my findings to the press, the Minister got on his broomstick and went from Queen Anne's gate to Croydon, where he had discussions with the unions. [Interruption.] I am delighted that, four days after my well-publicised visit to Croydon, the Minister made a visit himself to meet the unions and to come up with his proposals. It is important to show the Minister — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.908.4", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For political purposes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "ince they came to office they have allowed in, for permanent settlement, more than 600,000 people, over half of whom have come from the Indian sub-continent? How can a Government be racist when, since 1979, they have allowed in more than 25,000 refugees—and, of course, 20,000 Vietnamese boat people? This cannot be a racist Government. True racism is choosing to exploit race for one's own purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.908.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": " Bill will make immigration control fairer. On the contrary, it will inevitably lead to separated families. The Minister talked about the Bill protecting the rights of people who are already here. On the contrary, in many instances all that the Bill will do is take away peoples' rights. The Minister talked about the Bill making controls fairer, yet the Bill will put overstayers in double jeopardy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is wrong. In that particular case I allowed detention, after careful examination, for up to six days under the powers of the PTA. Under ordinary law, I would have been unable to do so and, in all probability, that terrorist would not have been brought to justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ey word—terrorism by a group of the Abu Nidhal gang, whom I deported. This year, a man suspected of working for the Libyan Government as an intelligence officer was likewise deported. Without the powers in the Act, it would have been impossible to arrest and deport that man. If Opposition Members are arguing that we should wait until a crime has been committed and there are corpses on the streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.941.2", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "ed during the debate, and which, tied together, almost look like a provocation of the Irish people and the Irish Government. We know that Sir John Hermon and the Government together have prevented justice from being done to the people who carried out those shootings. It is no good the Government hiding behind the Director of Public Prosecutions: it is the Government who are intervening in the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.941.6", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The fact that he was told off means that we have been subjected to less than usual. In 1974 the Act was passed against a background of fear and terror among our people. Many went along with it. Enniskillen is at the back of the order. Fear is causing a kind of semi-lynch law approach. People know that the Act is not working. Thousands of innocent people who have been fingerprinted are on the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.946.5", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No. I have two minutes more and I propose to proceed. Is the exclusion order necessary and in the public interest? Secondly, is the exclusion order, if used, used in a fair and reasonable manner? On the latter point Lord Colville made it plain that he thought that the powers were being used in a fair and reasonable manner. He wanted to stop the use of those powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.946.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Dr. Frank Skuse", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. John Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. John Patten)", "preceding_text": "oped his particular interests. It is unremarkable, therefore, that among the cases he handled was one that later became known as that of the Birmingham bombers. Dr. Skuse's career continued on these lines until the early 1980s, when his managers noted some falling off in his performance as a principal scientific officer. It was that deterioration in performance, noted in a number of staff reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Dr. Frank Skuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " a number of occasions. The most comprehensive review was one made by the then director of the Chorley forensic science laboratory, Mr. George Walker, in 1984 and 1985, at the request of the controller of the forensic science service. Mr. Walker used all the available records at the laboratory. These covered Dr. Skuse's written evidence in some 350 cases, dating back not just to 1975, but to 1966.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-16", "file": "debates1988-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f52bd204b623996b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Dr. Frank Skuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " spent on the issue. The hon. Gentleman said that Dr. Skuse gave evidence for four days. It was about the only fact that the hon. Gentleman referred to in his speech and even that was wrong. Dr. Skuse gave evidence, not for four days, but for three and a half days. If the hon. Gentleman wants to report facts to the House, he should at least take the trouble to make sure that he has got them right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-16a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ot be justified\" to call in the application. Although the council has followed the proper procedures by notifying the changes to the local plan in public notices, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, the hon. Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Mr. Trippier), as recently as 11 February said that the Department had changed its mind and was calling the planning proposal in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "the RUC of those offences in respect of which he concluded there was evidence. The Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary has today announced that he has invited the chief constable of Staffordshire, Mr. Charles Kelly, to consider whether disciplinary charges should be brought in the case of RUC officers of chief superintendent rank and below, and if so what charges would be appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "e Royal Ulster Constabulary has today announced that he has invited the chief constable of Staffordshire, Mr. Charles Kelly, to consider whether disciplinary charges should be brought in the case of RUC officers of chief superintendent rank and below, and if so what charges would be appropriate. [Interruption.] Mr. Kelly has appointed one of his assistant chief constables to help him in this task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.977.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Royal Ulster Constabulary", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "reann to get through extradition, the searches of nearly 50,000 houses in the Republic, and the pressure that was placed upon the Irish Government are all as good as lost by the Attorney-General's statement. The mounting confidence between the Gardai and the RUC and the co-operation at all levels have been put at risk by the Attorney-General and the Government by their actions. The final casualty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I answered that point a fortnight ago, but I am happy to answer it again. In the manifesto we clearly signalled the end of a unitary authority in London because we allowed London boroughs to opt out if they wished to do so. Because three London boroughs have already decided to do so and two others have also shown their interest in doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1004.5", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes to resign and offer his services in various capacities in inner London, I am sure that many will at least consider him, if not offer him something. Eight of the clauses tabled yesterday relate to staff transfer and follow closely those arrangements established for the abolition of the GLC. They are designed to prevent any disruption to the education of children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1004.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us the figures, Jack.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e to a London-based service. That fact is also true of the Health Service and of social services. Per head the social services costs of Westminster city council, which is Conservative-controlled, are three times those of boroughs outside London, and in many cases Westminster's costs are much higher than those of other inner-London boroughs. Above all, that fact is true of the Metropolitan police —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he merits of that decision, anger about it is a wholly inadequate reason, 11 years later, for running a vendetta against ILEA and for placing London's education service at such serious risk. The case for a single unitary authority has been examined with considerable thoroughness four times during the past 10 years. Lord Marshall, then vice-chairman of the Conservative party, conducted an inquiry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Mr. Shore) explained, in the exchanges on the statement, that it is a supreme irony that the Government, after years of mindless abuse of London boroughs, should hold up the councils as paradigms of administrative virtue, ready and willing to do the Secretary of State's bidding. I have made it clear that the Labour party, unlike this Government, will not play politics with other people's children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "o-day running of state sector schools, but what is at the heart of my right hon. Friend's legislation—and rightly so—is the belief that central Government must recognise, openly and more directly, their responsibility for the standards of education. That is not in any way inconsistent with a delegation of wider responsibility and choice to parents, teachers and governors locally. They should play—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1022.5", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1022.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ducation responsibility if the Government of whom he is a member fail to ensure that local authorities are capable of administering all the other local authority services. That brings us to the heart of the ILEA debate. I have always been appalled by the argument that ILEA is essential because the inner London boroughs are not capable of administering an education service. If they are not capable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "he obsession of ILEA with politics, and, secondly, by the incessant strikes which have been promoted, encouraged and comforted at every turn by his party. If anything has damaged the children's chances, it is the strikes that have been taking place in the schools over the last few years. I will not try to pretend that everything about ILEA is bad. It is not. There are some good things about ILEA.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "tively little. Today I received a letter from a constituent whose daughter is at an ILEA primary school in the constituency. She says: I am seriously thinking of putting my 74½-year-old daughter into private education. In the 2½ years that she has been in school she has not learnt anything. She learnt more in the private kindergarten when she was aged between 2½ and 4½.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lewisham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "nts are in place and that if we are not satisfied with the voluntary arrangements that the boroughs make there is a mechanism to allow us to insist that the necessary cross-borough arrangements are made. Secondly, whatever is wrong with ILEA is doubly wrong with one or two London boroughs. ILEA may be profligate and heavily politicised, but the London boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth are more so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": " be asked about our choice?\" They do not believe that their children's future should rest on the whim of the right hon. Members for Chingford and for Henley; they want a say. This measure was never in the manifesto. The Tories could not have won seats in inner London with this in the manifesto. The hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Maples) is just one Conservative Member who will lose his seat —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ief, which is more than some other hon. Members have been, so that as many hon. Members as possible can speak. I worked for 13 years as a headmaster in ILEA. The old London school board was well respected throughout the world and the old LCC education committee was well respected throughout England. Indeed, when I started teaching, if one got a London first appointment, which was called an LF A— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": " length and breadth of the country. At that time, people from all over the world came to see, not just the schools, but the standard of education in London. I worked for four years under the old LCC education committee with no political interference and in high standard schools, until we came under ILEA. It must be said that ILEA has never won the reputation that the LCC education committee had. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ng way, not even to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) for whom I have great respect. I sometimes wonder why, but I always finish up with the same respect for him. I am answering some of the questions that have been raised. At that time, applications to the old LCC came from all over the country, but since ILEA there has been a shortage of teachers, despite good conditions and pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ve great respect. I sometimes wonder why, but I always finish up with the same respect for him. I am answering some of the questions that have been raised. At that time, applications to the old LCC came from all over the country, but since ILEA there has been a shortage of teachers, despite good conditions and pay. [Interruption.] Obviously, what I am saying is hurting, but the truth always hurts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "In common with my right hon. Friend, I was a member of ILEA and the LCC education committee for some 23 years. From his experience and knowledge of London schools, does my right hon. Friend agree that there are schools today, not far from this House, where packs of children trot around completely out of control —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "preceding_text": "court of governors meeting. I shall not name him. He has gone on to bigger and better things. I am sure that he does not wish to be reminded of the pressures that he was under when he worked out of county hall. We were being pressured by the Labour group in control of ILEA to pass a political motion about a certain aspect of Government legislation, which was only tangentially related to education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "preceding_text": "der when he worked out of county hall. We were being pressured by the Labour group in control of ILEA to pass a political motion about a certain aspect of Government legislation, which was only tangentially related to education. [Interruption.] It was to do with overseas students and funding. It was tangential to the control that was exercised by the governors of the polytechnic of central London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I am not a London Member, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I am therefore grateful to have caught your eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "preceding_text": "tion and stress once more that the birth rate is now rising in inner London boroughs such as Lambeth. The Lambeth nursery education group advises me that only 23 per cent. of three and four-year-olds enjoy nursery education, as compared with 100 per cent. in France and Belgium. ILEA has the best record in the United Kingdom, with provision for up to 40 per cent. Nursery education is non-statutory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "A clear sign that other boroughs such as Wandsworth, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea were making plans to become independent education authorities, so they would destabilise the current ILEA. I had serious concerns about the effect of that upon the remaining authorities. I should like to refer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1071.12", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. First, may I remind you that you constantly remind us at Scottish Question Time that this is a British Parliament —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1071.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1071.15", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1071.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1071.17", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fairy story\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "I shall continue with my story —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1071.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1072.4", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "in from that wonderful Mr. Steven Cowan, member of ILEA. Indeed, this is even more important, as it appears in London Labour Briefing. He said: Progress needs to be made to reduce the proportion of school places under the control of the Church. Their presence and practices are racist and segregationist. We should aim to achieve a secular comprehensive and community-based education in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1072.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1072.4", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "t, as it appears in London Labour Briefing. He said: Progress needs to be made to reduce the proportion of school places under the control of the Church. Their presence and practices are racist and segregationist. We should aim to achieve a secular comprehensive and community-based education in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"] If you cannot hear, it is because you are not listening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1072.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has explained the extension of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1088.7", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Education Reform Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to speak. He has spoken once already. I think that we have heard quite enough from him for the moment. I believe that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1088.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Education Reform Bill [Money] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Soames?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-17", "file": "debates1988-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd0728ff26e346e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Education Reform Bill [Money] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " be lost, they will be lost at the level of the most basic but most essential tasks within Inner London education authority schools. I refer to the cleaners, the dinner ladies, and those who provide the ancillary services. Those at the administrative level of the authority will find that ample opportunities will suddenly produce extra opportunities for advancement and enhanced salary projection. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-17a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1137.7", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware of my personal anxiety about the Common Market Council directive, approved in September last year, which affords member states —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Although the Minister appears to be satisfied in respect of the National Health Service demonstration, is he satisfied with what happened to the Christians—priests, nuns, laity and monks—who went to the Ministry of Defence yesterday and were arrested because they took the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I indicated to the House on Tuesday, there was no legal requirement on the Government to make those payments. We, however, calculated that the total estimated social security underspend was £109 million, of which special payments of over £101 million have been made to over 12 million people. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on Tuesday, there was no legal requirement on the Government to make those payments. We, however, calculated that the total estimated social security underspend was £109 million, of which special payments of over £101 million have been made to over 12 million people. — [Interruption.] Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would listen. A very small group have been under-compensated, out of 12 million.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n people. — [Interruption.] Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would listen. A very small group have been under-compensated, out of 12 million.— [Interruption.] Out of 12 million, 175,000 have been under-compensated, and the under-compensation is £1 million. Over 2 million people who have lost nothing by the error, but nevertheless receive an £8 special payment, which of course comes to £16 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n people who have lost nothing by the error, but nevertheless receive an £8 special payment, which of course comes to £16 million. [Interruption.] It was necessary to do it that way in order to get the payments there very quickly, so the under-compensation has been about £1 million and the over-compensation has been about £16 million for 2 million people. Nevertheless, that is not the whole story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Civil Service Management", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman's points in order. First, I am not responsible for speculation in the newspapers. It gets wider of the mark every single day, as we all know. Secondly, generally the executive agencies will be set up within the Civil Service, but on some occasions they will not. That is why I said \"generally\". There are occasions when it will be better to set them up outside the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Civil Service Management", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what the right hon. Lady said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In so far as the agencies are within the Civil Service, the National Audit Office arrangements will, of course, continue to apply. In so far as they are set up outside, that would not be the case, as far as I am aware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Civil Service Management", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y are set up outside, that would not be the case, as far as I am aware. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what the right hon. Lady said.\"] It is what I said before. I said that, generally, the agencies would be set up within the Civil Service. That does not mean that they will be in all cases. In so far as they are within the Civil Service, the normal rules of accountability and audit continue to apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ask Shirley Porter about it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "s that are now being sold off by local authorities as a means of saving money on their maintenance? Will my right hon. Friend particularly note the case of Hanwell cemetery in west London in which people have been buried as recently as this year but which has now been sold? There are now proposals to build on that consecrated land and that is causing huge upset to families, widows and many others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is labouring under a misapprehension. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Social Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "discretion will always operate to the disadvantage of the claimant. That is not so. Under the existing single payments scheme, a claimant may be turned away because his claim lies just outside the letter of the regulations. Discretion can operate to the benefit of claimants. Social fund officers, who will be specially trained, will be able to exercise their discretion sensibly and compassionately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Social Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "the community, be put into a position in which they can manage their own resources without recourse to single payments. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) made great play about loan sharks. I cannot believe that anyone in his right mind, given the opportunity of getting an interest-free loan from the social fund, would want instead to avail himself of the facilities offered by loan sharks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Social Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Social Fund", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was the only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "First, let me respond to some of the points made by the hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell). I disagreed with almost everything that he said, but at least he is one of the few Conservative Members who not only attended the Committee but has made an effort to participate today", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Social Fund", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "providing loans at an interest rate of 300 per cent. of annum. I am sure the Minister is aware of the kind of problems that we have faced in Cleveland during the past two years. About 40 per cent. of people in Cleveland are dependent on some form of supplementary benefit or income support. That problem should be looked at alongside low incomes, because it creates poverty, higher infant mortality —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Hackney has accepted the rate limit proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be confusing current account, which we are talking about in relation to rate limitation, with the completely separate capital account. I am not prepared tonight to go into the circumstances of individual authorities because it is not the practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "That is the old trick that the hon. Lady is playing. One puts up front for cutting the things that one thinks will get the maximum public sympathy. For instance, I also read about the Lewisham council: Cash for gays but NSPCC grant axed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "e enlightened, he should look at clause 96 of the Local Government Finance Bill—the poll tax Bill—which is currently in Committee. He will see that even these powers are not sufficient for the Government. Under clause 96 of that Bill, the Government are to give themselves powers to limit and control the poll tax in every authority in the country. They are giving themselves powers retrospectively —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": " which was totally irrelevant. Let us talk about the real position. My area has problems of unemployment, housing and drugs — you name it, we have it. The problems have arisen not because of the dreadful activities of the local council, however the council has been made up, but because over the years the port of Liverpool, because of the change in world trade and our entry into the Common Market —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "d to spend money on things which the ratepayers want, but instead wastes it on activities which are not in their best interests. In the borough of Lewisham, in which I live, there are 1,331 empty properties. We have the 12th worst record in Britain on rent arrears, with 12 per cent. of the total rent roll outstanding—it was £4·1 million in 1987 and that has now risen to £5·6 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member does not pay the rates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "As a ratepayer in Lewisham, I care about how the money is spent. In the introduction to this little booklet, we find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1244.5", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Rate Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The Minister should give way because he has to answer questions. Hon. Members must ask themselves whether rate capping makes for better local government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1244.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-18", "file": "debates1988-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "499fe85c8797e1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1253.6", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Abernant Colliery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the opportunity to raise the matter of Abernant colliery. The recent announcement by British Coal that it intends to close the colliery and Wernos washery is a severe blow, not merely because of the loss of jobs in an area which at present has one of the highest unemployment rates in the United Kingdom, but because the hopes of the whole Welsh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-18a.1253.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-19", "file": "debates1988-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "1eac8b0ea44701fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1259.5", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Parliamentary Debates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "y the actions of Conservative Members. Opposition Members are moving to the view that either there is a deliberate organised effort on the Conservative Benches to crowd out hon. Members who have a legitimate right to speak, which was characterised during Scottish Question Time not long ago, as you may recall, Mr. Speaker, or there is a case for some increased discipline on the Government Benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-19", "file": "debates1988-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "1eac8b0ea44701fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1259.5", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Parliamentary Debates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"There is no point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "ing to the view that either there is a deliberate organised effort on the Conservative Benches to crowd out hon. Members who have a legitimate right to speak, which was characterised during Scottish Question Time not long ago, as you may recall, Mr. Speaker, or there is a case for some increased discipline on the Government Benches — [HoN. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"] My point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-19", "file": "debates1988-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "1eac8b0ea44701fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Parliamentary Debates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "d made clear at the beginning of my comments, is that order in this House is dependent not simply on slavishly following the letter of the Standing Orders of the House or on accepting your rulings—which should be accepted—but on general behaviour and attitudes. It would have been possible for us today to have arranged for the Labour Benches to be full of Labour Members representing constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-19", "file": "debates1988-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "1eac8b0ea44701fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Rural Development", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "that time is getting on so I shall pass quickly to my next subject. The price of petrol is another problem. When will the Government insist to the petrol companies that the price of petrol should, if anything, be cheaper in rural areas than in urban areas? For far too long those who have to travel to work by car, or who share cars, have had to pay a premium for travelling longer distances to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-19", "file": "debates1988-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "1eac8b0ea44701fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Rural Development", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right. In a few days' time, on the Ides of March, we shall have the Budget. Figures have shown that the Chancellor will give away anything up to £11 billion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-19a.1293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-22", "file": "debates1988-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8da2575e5c47a212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.3.2", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that my right hon. Friend the leader of the Liberal party was not being alarmist when he last raised this matter on 8 February? Does he accept that we are seeking a proper investigation into what is going on? One does not want to be alarmist, but I, too, fly regularly up to and down from Scotland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.3.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-22", "file": "debates1988-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8da2575e5c47a212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "Local businesses have no vote and no great influence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-22", "file": "debates1988-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8da2575e5c47a212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I noticed that the hon. Gentleman just picked a few names out of a hat in any old fashion. These proposals were very much part of our election manifesto and have been endorsed in the House by a substantial majority. I do not see present any of my right hon. Friends that the hon. Gentleman mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-22", "file": "debates1988-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8da2575e5c47a212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.44.2", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am glad to put on record what my colleagues have achieved. The hon. Gentleman's assertion is untrue, because the one concession that the Government have made has been in response to an amendment moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll and Bute (Mrs. Michie).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.44.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-22", "file": "debates1988-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8da2575e5c47a212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "d have. The Opposition have been taking far too long to make their points. Speeches lasting 20 minutes or more are common and 15-minute speeches are the rule. I would not object to that if it were not for the great amount of repetition. Countless times I have heard the Opposition suggest that people will evade the tax. It shocks me that they can suggest that so many people are keen on tax evasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-22", "file": "debates1988-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8da2575e5c47a212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ly undermined the Government's case. It is astounding that one of the most telling contributions against the Government's case and in favour of wind-shielding came from Dr. Cook, a Government employee and one of their foremost experts in wind—outside the Chamber, at least—who had not even been consulted on the matter. No one had thought to lift the telephone and say to the Government's top export—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-22a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.133.11", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is utterly wrong. There is no hold-up in the Trident system, which is absolutely up to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.133.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Why will the Minister not come clean and lay the facts before the House? The two Tucano prototypes that have been delivered and are undergoing tests have only flown for three quarters of an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "It is related because of the interest of the European Community in the incident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.141.8", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "What is the Government's attitude to the new Franco-German defence council and brigade outside NATO?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.141.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.142.9", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Is there any intention to include the three dual-capable aircraft, which are capable of nuclear use, in conventional—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.142.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the Prime Minister is a regular visitor to Cornwall, but is she aware that in so doing she and many others are adding to the burden on the Health Service in Cornwall? Roads are congested and ambulances are less able to move around the county as hospital closures increase. Will the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.145.9", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree with Lord Denning that it is better to have one or two innocent people remain in gaol than to risk undermining the credibility of the legal system by having to own up to a mistake?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.145.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ely well in Scotland. We hope to undertake the privatisation of electricity, including Scottish electricity, during the lifetime of this Parliament. There will, I hope, be a White Paper out soon about our proposal. I understand that the hon. Gentleman was asking a third question about coal, in connection with the ending of the coal contract, which I believe is due to terminate at the end of March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman was asking a third question about coal, in connection with the ending of the coal contract, which I believe is due to terminate at the end of March—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland is aware that the existing arrangements between the South of Scotland Electricity Board and British Coal are due to terminate at the end of March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not read any newspapers today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his remarks. I am quite sure that there will be no backsliding by BP. BP has given solemn assurances to me and, through me, to the House of Commons. But of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Sir Hector Monro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. On the timetable, BP will carry out that transfer as soon as practicable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Surely what is best for British business and thus for British jobs is that there should be no politically imposed Scottish solutions on British business —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.159.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.159.9", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that in answering questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.159.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "l am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is closely in touch with the opinions of steel workers in his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " decisions which were required to try to prepare for what was to come until far too late. The losses were thereby made much worse. I have been asked how many jobs were lost in consequence. A large number of jobs were lost. I hope that Opposition Members are not about to assert that it would have been a sensible policy for steel to keep all those people on the books and to keep all the plants open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ms because there is surplus capacity in hot strip at the moment throughout Europe, and British hot strip mills are running at very low capacity indeed. But, even there, because of the strength of BSC's present position, having reviewed the position thoroughly, the corporation has concluded, on the basis of commercial judgment, that the Ravenscraig mill will continue to operate until at least 1989.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The assurance on which my right hon. Friend relied and, to the extent that I was pressed about it, I relied as well when I went to Scotland during the election, was subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "community, with the full support of the Labour movement, will fight, both politically and industrially, to save the plant, the industry and those jobs, and to make the Government face their responsibilities. If the Government think that they can shuffle off their responsibilities by claiming that the decisions are for private owners and have nothing to do with them, they have another think coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Lord Beswick.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "ecession. Any hon. Member faced with a threatened closure in his constituency is bound to fight tooth and nail — whatever the general arguments may be in favour of that closure — against it. It is no criticism of the hon. Gentleman that he did so. My criticism is of Governments, in particular the Labour Government of 1974, for fudging the issue and postponing the decision. They are the guilty men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coleman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coleman", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member for Esher (Mr. Taylor) that I am an hon. Member of the House, and when I say something of that nature it is the truth. I challenge the hon. Gentleman to challenge me outside. If he says the same thing outside, I will take him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "hat that is a serious matter which will be open to widespread criticism far beyond the Opposition Benches. Our position on privatisation is clear. I make that point because, with all respect to the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce)—whose speech entertained me greatly—I have to say that I had considerable difficulty in understanding where he, or indeed his party, stands on the privatisation issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "preceding_text": " debate, I am fascinated by the fact that although this was supposed to be one of the most controversial issues facing the Scottish Labour party, prior to the windup speech of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), there has not been what one might call a full complement of the Scottish Labour party present this evening. To make progress, I should like to try to summarise the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Robert Atkins)", "preceding_text": "which I noticed the hon. Member for Garscadden referred at the culmination of his speech when he talked about \"glitzy\", show business, television, walking on cliff tops and a variety of other things. He even mentioned red roses which, dare I mention it, were pinched from my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and those other Lancastrians who deserve to wear them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "It would help if Labour Members, having posed questions, tried to listen to the answers. At this time of the evening the House would expect a Minister to try to answer the debate. People who have made contributions deserve comment upon them. Labour Members who have asked questions will get some answers if they belt up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.241.7", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ies sponsored by Motherwell district council and backed by local Members of Parliament. Supporters of the idea argued that it would make for a viable, integrated company and remove doubts about the plant's future, but union representatives, particularly from Shotton, doubt the scheme's feasibility. The executive argued that, if British Steel is to be privatised, it should be sold as a single unit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.241.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.241.7", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": " during the course of which I visited Huta Lenina, which is the largest steelworks in the country. It employs over 30,000 people, using equipment more than 30 years out of date. Some of the expert business men who were in the mission with me reckoned that the figure of 30,000 could be cut to 10,000 because that was all that was needed to run the plant more productively, effectively and profitably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.241.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The Poles who met us at the steelworks wanted to know about the British Steel Corporation and why it had achieved such efficiency. They wanted to know what equipment the British Steel Corporation was using —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ation was using — [Interruption.] I am fascinated by Opposition Members. They have made great play of the Bill being controversial and of how concerned and upset they are, and all they can do is giggle and laugh about the issues that they claimed were serious. That sums up the fraudulent, synthetic opposition to this important Bill. We shall not forget the attitude Opposition Members are adopting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Steel", "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": "measures which place a temporary limit on steel exports to the United States of America, thus safeguarding access to the American market. As the House has now satisfactorily sorted out the problems of the British Steel Corporation privatisation, it is obviously a suitable occasion to go on to this debate where we concentrate on the international, particularly European, aspects of the steel market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-23", "file": "debates1988-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "611e67be38441504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hot mills are working flat out anywhere in western Europe. They are working flat out up to their present manned capacity. To the best of my knowledge and belief—I shall look into the matter because the hon. Gentleman is extremely well informed in these matters and almost as close to the steel industry as I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-23a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.281.7", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Is there a Scottish Office Minister among the ministerial group set up by the Prime Minister to review the funding of the National Health Service? If not, why not? Will the Scottish Office be bound by any scheme dreamt up by the right hon. Lady in this important and sensitive area? The Opposition unanimously feel that the day of protest in Scotland today is fully justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.281.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am glad that we now have that on record. The hon. Gentleman, with all the authority of the position that he holds in the Labour party, says that he and his colleagues are fully behind the disruption of the NHS. Presumably, they are accepting —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.283.6", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "The Minister's answer does not surprise me. Roughly translated, it means that he cannot be bothered to work it out. Is the Minister aware that his attitude of studied indifference to the consequence of his policy resembles that of Marie Antoinette, because, in effect, he is saying, \"Let them eat cake\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.283.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "e Government are increasing aggregate Exchequer grant by more than 8 per cent. there is no justification for any local authority increasing the rate above the rate of inflation? My hon. Friend said that there were considerable advantages to business men from index-linking. Will he comment on the rumour that the discussions between the Scottish Assessors' Association and the Inland Revenue valuers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the grossly inadequate nature of that reply, I give notice that I shall raise the matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.294.9", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I noted the hon. Gentleman's comment that those taking part in industrial action included people with no direct connection with the National Health Service. He might like to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.294.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.301.5", "colnum": "301", "heading": "VAT (European Court Ruling)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "o extend VAT to the retail margin. The National Association of Optometrists calculates that, at most, it will involve increasing the sale price of spectacles by 3 to 4 per cent. Of course, it is open to retailers to absorb the costs. I remind the House that since we abolished the opticians' monopoly, the cost of spectacles to the final consumer has gone down by considerably more than that amount —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.301.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.319.7", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The truth is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.319.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman shows the difficulties that I have as a Member of Parliament in representing all my constituents. Will not the hon. and learned Gentleman put the pressure that he wants to bring to bear on the Minister? In Scotland, as a result of the Government's policies, waiting lists are 8,000 higher than in 1979. The number —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "act of the recession on revenue spending. There is little evidence to suggest that increases in public spending in 1974–75 led to the inflationary surge of that period. I have studied this carefully. The main engine of inflation was the burst in commodity prices, the oil shock and the accompanying pay explosion. In any case, the situation today is very different from that in the mid-1970s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "tion and residents' group has begged the Government to use some of their windfall money to invest in our housing, with all the jobs that would flow as a consequence. Today, when everyone in Britain is begging the Government to invest in our industries, services and people, Conservative Members have spoken like the tired old politicians that they are, ignoring the facts that stare them in the face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": "990–91. Let me add — this is particularly geared to the comments of the hon. Member for Bridlington—that in Wales personal income per head is also well below the United Kingdom average. The United Kingdom average was taken as 100 in 1975, when the figure for Wales was then 90·5. By 1985, the gap had increased, and we were 12·5 per cent. below the figure for the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is a resolution which, according to the report, was carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "rse very sensitive to changes in interest rates, and we are again applying an average rate of interest to authorities' individual volumes of debt — 10·2 per cent. has been assumed in this settlement for 1988–89. If, however, in practice, interest rates prove to be significantly different from our current assumptions, we will bring forward an appropriate variation order in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "d contribution limit aggregate is £21 million lower than for 1987–88. and that has contributed substantially to the £24·5 million increase in the provisional HRA allocations announced for next year compared with 1987–88. In setting an aggregate limit to rate fund contributions of £22·2 million we have consulted widely about the implications of the individual limits set.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "May I continue? Perhaps I shall give way a little later. I was mentioning that 12 of the 20 authorities received an increased rate fund contribution limit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "er cent. against 164 per cent. Of course, if tenants have genuine difficulty in meeting their housing costs, relief is available to them through the housing benefit system. The assistance is targeted directly at those households which need it arid is reflected in the level of housing benefit payments in Scotland of some £570 million in 1986–87. For 1987–88 the figure is £664 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.403.5", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "By choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.403.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-24", "file": "debates1988-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1aa4f3e413ae3258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "and Bute district do anything to help solve its rural housing problems? Based on a technical adjustment for interest rates, it would be better for these sums to remain within the housing system in each of the districts. In other words, the money is going in the wrong direction. The calculations sum up the Conservative Government's attitude towards one of Scotland's major and long-lasting problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-24a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "preceding_text": "How can the Secretary of State claim any credibility for the disciplinary proceedings when senior officers who have perverted the course of justice are still in command? John Stalker was suspended as soon as any accusation was made against him. Given that the E4A unit was responsible for murder —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.434.6", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "n the future of Harland and Wolff? He will be aware that in the Belfast Telegraph on Monday of this week there was an article which said that closure was an option being considered by the Government. Will the Minister take the opportunity to deny that closure is on the cards? As the Minister knows, the economic future of Belfast and of Northern Ireland will be disastrous if the shipyard is closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.434.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in August 1986—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "e time, we have heard that he will protect monopolies. It is not a question of private competition; it is a question of monopolies, oligopolies and regulated control and has absolutely nothing to do with competition. Any close reading of the White Paper would certainly show that. If that is contested, the Secretary of State, in both his statement and the White Paper, talks of \"natural monopolies\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "lity had not operated against the public interest? That is the judgment of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which was set up by the Government. Does the Secretary of State accept the recent Electricity Council report, which shows that, on the latest figures for electricity prices, Britain is the sixth cheapest of the 20 major economies in the world—cheap to the consumer and cheap to industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "urage coal imports in a newly privatised industry, can the Secretary of State tell us what effect that will have on the British industry? Will it not mean an estimated import of 30 million tonnes of coal and add £1 billion to the balance of trade deficit, which already stands at a record level of £14 billion? Will job losses be as high as the 75,000 estimated by the Coalfield Communities Campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.458.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "e so strongly in the market solution? This is intervention by the Government, which is totally inconsistent. Why is privatisation going ahead when the Secretary of State has singularly failed to present the House with any evidence to counter the charge that it will lead to higher prices, job losses and poorer service to the consumer? Is this the price to be paid for future tax cuts? In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Will it be cheaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": " recognise, is that at present the industry is totally producer-dominated. Electricity is produced by a single supplier and the customer has no choice but to accept whatever cost that supplier hands over. We are putting the customer in the driving seat. We are tilting the balance of the industry so that it will not in future be producer-dominated but will be dominated by the needs of the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "atever cost that supplier hands over. We are putting the customer in the driving seat. We are tilting the balance of the industry so that it will not in future be producer-dominated but will be dominated by the needs of the consumer. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Will it be cheaper?\"] Yes, in due course it will be cheaper because competition will exert downward pressure on costs. It will not happen overnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "he cross-Channel link, and we have two or three private generators feeding into the system. There will be many more in the future. The area boards will have the right to generate, and most are already making plans either to purchase direct or to install capacity of their own. The hon. Gentleman asked about a golden share. We shall make arrangements to ensure that the industries remain independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Britoil?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "m. There will be many more in the future. The area boards will have the right to generate, and most are already making plans either to purchase direct or to install capacity of their own. The hon. Gentleman asked about a golden share. We shall make arrangements to ensure that the industries remain independent. [Interruption.] There are other ways which are very effective, and they will be adopted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "choice, on the basis of its performance. That is why the Government are making available £2 million a day of the taxpayers' money so that Britain has a modern, competitive coal industry. If the hon. Gentleman really cares about the future of coal, I advise him to talk to the unions in the industry and explain to them the need for flexible, modern working to go with the flexible, modern investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks why we cannot have coal use to produce electricity. But we shall: coal will remain a substantial supplier to the industry. It will still be overwhelmingly the biggest single source of power. That will be built into the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his remarks. It is a fact that the structure which I have proposed today is supported by all the area boards and by the Electricity Council. We have yet to hear the reaction of the CEGB.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Tebbit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.467.4", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "opolies and therefore will be subject to regulation in the private sector. That is necessary, and I believe that it will be acceptable to the House. As for customer rights, I explained to the House—perhaps the hon. Gentleman was not here — that performance standards will be set. If those standards are not met, the customer will have the right to a rebate for any failure by the industry to perform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.467.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote Labour.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy Stewart", "preceding_text": "In view of my right hon. Friend's statement, and the transformation of British Coal's performance in the past three years—production is up by 60 per cent. and coal prices at the power stations are down by 22 per cent. — can he advise my constituents what they should do to secure the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.469.5", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "t step in privatisation, after the fattening-up process of increasing prices in the electricity industry, which means that poor pensioners will have to pay the bill for the privatisation which will follow in order to line the pockets of Back-Bench Tory Members, many of whom will be anxious for directorships arising out of the legislation, including the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.469.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.484.5", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "he security forces, and the Attorney-General's decision, with regard to no prosecutions following the Stalker-Sampson inquiry, have undermined the rule of law, and confidence in the RUC. Secret disciplinary procedures behind closed doors are no substitute. It is a nasty story, a grubby tale, with the fingerprints of the Prime Minister all over it. The hayshed tape lies at the heart of this story —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.484.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "There are four Members from Northern Ireland in the House. We are getting until 7 o'clock. The Government Front Bench spokesman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.5", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "It would be better for the House if we knew before that. It is unfair to the House and to other hon. Members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.5", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman will still be speaking at 7 o'clock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "It would be better for the House if we knew before that. It is unfair to the House and to other hon. Members — [Interruption.] Hon. Members may heckle me as much as they like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.5", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "It would be better for the House if we knew before that. It is unfair to the House and to other hon. Members — [Interruption.] Hon. Members may heckle me as much as they like. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman will still be speaking at 7 o'clock.\"] That is all right. It would not be the first time that I had talked out a debate. Opposition Members too have talked out debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "machinery, which he borrowed from the Northern Ireland authorities, to help his search. Those of us who live in Northern Ireland keep our ears open, and we know what is happening. The search took place because Mr. Haughey saw that his Government could go down. Is the House aware that in the hands of the IRA is a bomb which, if it alights on a Land Rover, can penetrate 6 in of steel and destroy it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "son), who was locked in with a Republican rebel, especially chosen, no doubt, on the orders of the Secretary of State, thinking perhaps that he would be able to proselytise and convert the hon. Member. It was very interesting that the next day they removed the Republican quickly from the Protestant influence of that prison cell because they thought that he would be converted to proper convictions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.498.9", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "e was a move by Sinn Fein IRA gunmen, in that council, to remove Queen Elizabeth's name from the parks, and that they were backed unanimously by the SDLP. Every one of them voted in favour, including a justice of the peace. That is what is happening in Northern Ireland and that is what I wanted to say before 7 o'clock. I understand that if I sit down at 7 o'clock I shall be called first next time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.498.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hampshire (Lyndhurst Bypass) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "He does, indeed. As my hon. Friend pointed out, the elected member of Hampshire county council appointed to the court of verderers was kept away from the meeting to which hon. Members were invited to be shown the route. Hon. Members were only allowed to hear one point of view, and the Hampshire county council representative who was a verderer was prevented from attending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-25", "file": "debates1988-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c422b71d372bf43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hampshire (Lyndhurst Bypass) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "that is being discussed. Indeed, the evidence goes further. Section (ii) states: It has become apparent in recent years that Members of the House of Commons find it increasingly difficult to take part continuously in the quasi-judicial work of the Committees; and thus there is a widening gulf in the quality of the decision making process between the two Houses. Those who now suggest that the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-25a.514.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": " doctors and the lowest number of hospital beds available since the Health Service was set up, but of unforgivable waiting lists. Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that, on the basis of his published spending plans for the next three years, he could spend £230 million more on health in Wales if he achieved only the average annual increase that was achieved under the last Labour Administration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's desire always to depict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's desire always to depict—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\"]. He really should have the answers. I am delighted to say that the figures for youth unemployment and for long-term unemployment in Wales were the best of any region in the country in the past 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.647.12", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend watched the televising of the House of Lords, and has he noticed that when controversial Bills are under discussion the commentators do not leave the viewers to decide for themselves, but add such comments as \"This is the fifth speaker against the Government.\"? That is quite unnecessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.647.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas", "preceding_text": "I assure the Leader of the House that the attachment of Plaid Cymru Members to Wales is not sentimental, so whether the debate takes place on St. David's day, the day before or the day after is immaterial. The important thing is to have regular debates, unlike the position under some Labour Administrations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The South African Government believe that sanctions would work, which is why they have prohibited CSATU from advocating them. Sanctions will have an effect on the South African Government, and I shall be coming to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will the Government do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": " Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) when addressing himself to this question. The entire fabric of his speech was founded on the presumption that he, and he alone, and those who think like him, have any insight into the horrors that must be corrected in South Africa. It is founded on a premise of simplicity and injustice to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister that will not withstand examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " solve that problem; it only makes it much worse in the longer term. Opposition Members do not have a monopoly of virtue in their denunciation of apartheid. Let it be absolutely clear that on both sides of the House our judgment is the same. At the heart of all these problems lies the system of apartheid. Our position on that is clear. Apartheid is repugnant. It is a blatant abuse of human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ere there is racial discrimination, but South Africa claims to be a part of Western society and to share Western democratic values. Yet, tragically, South Africa is the only country which has institutionalised racial discrimination at almost every level of society. It must be acknowledged that until a few months ago we could detect some encouraging signs of reforms by the South African Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "that there is no panacea, no quick fix, and no easy way through. The argument that I have used many times is that there is no place in this immensely difficult, tragic problem for what I call the Jericho school of diplomacy. If it were possible, by blowing a loud trumpet and by taking some dramatic world action, to transform the situation, it might be effective. There is no place for quick action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "er the age of 15 has so far been detained. A lot of nonsense has been talked by the Opposition about the number of children who are detained. We should remember that the crimes committed by those children in the black townships would not have been accepted in this country. Let me tell the hon. Member for Eccles (Miss Lestor) that one 15-year-old is being held after arson was committed at a school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "tions. That was contained in the so-called RTX proposal. Therefore, some universities would do research, some would offer a combination, with the balance towards teaching. Our consultations on that strategy advice have generated a considerable number of detailed and interesting responses. I have been impressed by the constructive way in which the scientific community has moved the debate forward —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "Did the Secretary of State ask Olivetti how much it had paid for Acorn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.757.6", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": " House. The purpose and effect of the two amendments is to remove from the map of the Broads, as defined by the deposited map, two separate small areas of Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft respectively. In each case the area forms part of these two ports. After discussion with both harbour authorities we agreed that, at this time, there would be no real benefit to the Broads Authority from these areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.757.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "that they may conduct between themselves, but the Secretary of State does himself a disservice by trying to pretend that these regulations were his idea and that he wanted to act in the way that he has acted. It is not just The Sunday Times that has produced that version of the events. I shall quote a short BBC précis of what happened. There was a description on television of what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "on of the events. I shall quote a short BBC précis of what happened. There was a description on television of what happened. [Interruption.] The Minister laughs, but the précis says: Mrs. Thatcher confronted her Scottish Secretary with the background and told him that she wanted a swift and positive solution. He returned to the Scottish Office to bang civil servants' heads together\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen Adams", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Eastwood. People talk blithely about a community school. It must be a far-flung community, as it stretches almost 25 miles. Indeed, two pupils come from Kirkintilloch. The solution is simple and I want to put it on the record. Castlehead high school in the centre of Paisley should have been designated as the town's Catholic school, and it should have been renamed St. Mirren's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.785.7", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "f Paisley grammar school. He was critical of Paisley grammar. It was to be damned because it indulged in Rugby in an overwhelmingly football-playing area, the school motto in Latin, `Disce Puer Aut Abi' (Work, Boy or get out!) hanging over the school war-memorial; a rigidly enforced and distinctive school uniform; a prefect system; and a constant wallowing in the school's 400-year history\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.785.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Of course I shall try to help the hon. Gentleman. I do not think that it is a misuse of the time of the House for me to point out that a former Paisley grammar school boy, a leading figure in the Labour party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "r a school has 80 per cent. occupancy will be a matter to be determined by the education authority. Under these regulations, if the education authority thinks that the school is 80 per cent. full or more, it is required to present to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State any proposal for closure or any proposal to alter the catchment zone of that school. It is clearly spelt out —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"May?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ether they are for or against them. I suggest that that is the proper way to go forward. If any school meets the 80 per cent. capacity rule, a proposal for closure or for alteration of the catchment zone will have to be referred to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State. That will mean in Paisley that the matter of the Castlehead and John Neilson schools, may have to be referred —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-02-29", "file": "debates1988-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3b1efff8164744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "t that is the proper way to go forward. If any school meets the 80 per cent. capacity rule, a proposal for closure or for alteration of the catchment zone will have to be referred to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State. That will mean in Paisley that the matter of the Castlehead and John Neilson schools, may have to be referred — [HON MEMBERS: \"May?\"]—will have to be referred —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-02-29a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "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, the overwhelming majority of low-income families will gain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has always taken every opportunity to condemn any act of terrorism, with the notable exceptions of the invasion of Grenada —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many people, particularly in the west midlands, will be saying that, if the £2.9 billion that was handed out as a subsidy to keep the ailing Rover Group going finds its way into the pockets of the new group —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Unemployment Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my hon. Friend would pause to consider the dilemma of the Conservatives, who have run out of speakers. The Whips have been scouring the highways and byways and have brought in the hon. Members from Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) and for Lancashire, West (Mr. Hind) with whom we should have some sympathy, as they are studying the order as we speak —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Unemployment Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. Let me highlight the ways in which the Government have altered the unemployment count. We reckon that there have been 28 changes in the eligibility criteria, statistical adjustments, intensification of the benefits regime and the introduction of schemes and other measures such as restart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.858.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.858.8", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Unemployment Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "s now a pressing need for an independent inquiry into how the philosophy, policy, powers and procedures of the present Government are being used in a great assault on the unemployed. My hon. Friend the Member for Redcar (Ms. Mowlam) made the salient point that Opposition Members tackle unemployment, whereas Conservative Members tackle the unemployed. If the Government had any pride in their craft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.858.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Unemployment Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman does not live in the same world as most of us. I cannot advise my constituents to seek legal redress in such circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "ench, and it gives me no personal satisfaction to do so, that I cannot conceive of this even being considered by the Ministry of Defence in Her Majesty's Government a decade ago. It also needs to be borne in mind that it has tended to be the poorest sections of the Catholic population whose members, young and old, including children, have borne the brunt of the British Army's attacks on civilians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "h labouring that one point. It is, of course, absolute nonsense. The fact is that the enemy of terrorism is democracy — and there was no democracy for the minority community in Northern Ireland. The terrorists battened on the lack of democracy, especially on the part of the Democratic Unionist Members who did not understand, and still do not understand, and who want to go back to the old Stormont.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.907.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I made it clear to the House last Thursday why I spoke. I spoke to obtain justice for those who represent the Northern Ireland people in the House, and to obtain time for them to speak. Let me put it on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-01", "file": "debates1988-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "8aa2043d3742c970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. John Stanley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. John Stanley)", "preceding_text": " of schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974. The order has two purposes. The first is to authorise the expenditure of some £76 million, included in the 1987–88 Spring Supplementary Estimates. That amount, when added to the £3,447 million previously approved by the House, brings the total Estimates provision for Northern Ireland Departments to some £3,523 million for this financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-01a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend please take note of overwhelming world opinion, which is that the Soviet Union should withdraw its army of occupation immediately and that it would be in its best interests to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "Whatever the hon. Gentleman may think he sees, I can assure him that all my hon. Friends are at one in condemning the action in South Africa", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.4", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.6", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that some of the organisations that had their activities controlled and curtailed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.8", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.972.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Leaving aside the contemptible remarks of the hon. Member for Luton, North (Mr. Carlisle) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "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": "existing structure of the industry in Scotland and ensure that it maintains its distinctive characteristics. I have considered carefully the attractions of other structures. I do not consider that it would be acceptable to create a single monopoly which would place the ownership and control of the entire Scottish industry in a single set of hands, whether or not involving a regional sub-structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "y oversight. This option is inconsistent with the Government's overall objective to maximise the competitive potential and commercial pressures within the electricity industry, and it would be contrary to the interests of consumers. The two-company structure will provide competitive pressures within the industry in Scotland. In the short term, there will be potential for competition by comparison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "f Scotland's electricity consumers have contributed to the creation of these assets, and it is therefore right that they should benefit from that investment in terms of economic baseload of electricity. I propose that the nuclear stations should be owned jointly by the two companies, with each receiving its proportionate share of the benefits and meeting its proportionate share of the total costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.981.6", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is an absolute abuse of a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.981.7", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " way Scotland can have competition is to have separate boards. I suggest that the Opposition get their act together. Clearly they have failed to do that so far. The hon. Member for Garscadden then asked about the safety of nuclear power stations. If he had done his homework, he would be the first to appreciate that the ownership of a nuclear power station has little to do with questions of safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.981.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have his views about the principle of privatisation, but he should appreciate that, if privatisation is to take place, we will be interested in hearing his views as to the form of privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have his views about the principle of privatisation, but he should appreciate that, if privatisation is to take place, we will be interested in hearing his views as to the form of privatisation—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I will answer the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that there is an element of farce in suggesting that the disposal of a public utility will be the principal engine of growth in the Scottish economy? Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman agree that there is an element of farce also in introducing the concept of competition by comparison? We oppose privatisation but of course we welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.985.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman were aware of his party's history, he would have been aware that Tom Johnston's great achievement was the creation of the North of Scotland Hydro-electric board and that his main interest would undoubtedly have been to ensure the preservation of a board serving the interests of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State explain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Scottish Electricity Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State explain — [Interruption.] Mr. Speaker: Order. I hope that I did not hear an unparliamentary remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have had no notification of a statement today, and I know of none that may be forthcoming—but we will have to wait to see about that. I did hear what the right hon. Gentleman asked yesterday, and I heard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.996.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.998.5", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Cheeky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chairman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "ons of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) and they are seeking an urgent ruling from you, Mr. Speaker. It is quite unreasonable for us to expect them to do their duty on those Committees while they are under such pressures. It is an urgent and important matter, and I urge you, Mr. Speaker, to give a ruling as quickly as possible, or to ask the Chair of the relevant Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "on those Committees while they are under such pressures. It is an urgent and important matter, and I urge you, Mr. Speaker, to give a ruling as quickly as possible, or to ask the Chair of the relevant Committee — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Chairman.\"] — to adjourn the proceedings until your ruling has been made; otherwise members of that Committee may feel abused simply for carrying out their ordinary tasks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1000.8", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the point that I wish to raise with you. I wish to raise an article which was published this morning in The Guardian under the name of Mr. Andrew Rawnsley which has caused offence to many of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1000.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1000.14", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "rs to yesterday's proceedings. Yesterday, I was in the Select Committee on Members' Interests. At 4.15 pm, there was not a quorum to enable that Committee to commence. I had a choice: I could either attend the Chamber or attend the Committee. I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that in the event that journalists write articles suggesting that Labour Members of Parliament are drunk, lazy or incompetent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1000.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1000.14", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "r attend the Chamber or attend the Committee. I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that in the event that journalists write articles suggesting that Labour Members of Parliament are drunk, lazy or incompetent — [Interruption.] — that may be a matter which my hon. Friends have to take into account when they decide on the allocation of their time to the carrying out of their public duties. I put it to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1000.14"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1002.7", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Were you notified by the Serjeant at Arms about what happened yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Government to increase their annual spending, after deductions for inflation, by 4·1 per cent. That is still below 4·6 per cent., which is the rate at which it increased under the previous Labour Administration. I do not want the Secretary of State to anticipate what is to come, because I am sure that he will be delighted with the comments that I intend to make about his programme. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e are too good natured. I thought that those figures might be unfair to the Secretary of State and that he merited a chance. Why should he be lumbered with what happened over four years? He has been Secretary of State for only six months, so I thought that I should look at the past six months, because perhaps it is true that we have done better over that period. Sadly, the position is even worse —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "iend is right. I cannot improve upon his devastation of the Secretary of State. I was the Minister responsible for the derelict land unit in 1969–70. My predecessor was Mr. Ifor Davies and the unit was established by Lord Cledwyn. I cannot recall the Secretary of State being involved in any such initiative. The Welsh Office led that initiative as a result of the terrible tragedy at Aberfan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ot have the capacity within itself. It is so financially weakened that it can solve its problems only with more public expenditure. The resources are not available within Wales itself, yet the Chancellor of the Exchequer has £6 billion to £9 billion at his disposal in the Budget. No Government in our history have ever had such freedom to solve problems in this country, if only they chose to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) had a good deal of pleasure in making his speech. He seemed to enjoy himself hugely, but some of his comparisons were extremely far fetched. I cannot understand why he should have compared the standard of living in Wales with that of the south-east of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dismay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "leman must realise that. It cannot be gainsaid that for the past two years there has been a steady and sustained improvement in, and better news of, the Welsh economy. There is every reason to hope that that will continue for a good time to come. For 20 successive months unemployment has decreased. I do not know whether Labour Members when listening to the figures were reflecting shock or dismay —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": " not done as well as others, but the improvement in the unemployment figures has been spread over most of Wales and that is encouraging. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State mentioned the decline of our basic industries which is a most painful process. I tend to agree with him that the worst may now be behind us, but occasionally another coal mine is closed. Coal mining is labour-intensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "improvement in the unemployment figures has been spread over most of Wales and that is encouraging. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State mentioned the decline of our basic industries which is a most painful process. I tend to agree with him that the worst may now be behind us, but occasionally another coal mine is closed. Coal mining is labour-intensive. [Interruption.] Recently we had one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "preceding_text": "tchery of jobs and electricity privatisation could be our death knell. It is an extremely unwise move, as the dependence on imported coal will undermine our industry. There are not enough real jobs in Wales. There are 211,000 people in part-time jobs, 50,000 on part-time training schemes and 145,000 out of work. We need real jobs, especially for males, who have lost so many jobs in heavy industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan W. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan W. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have in mind one of my predecessors who was the first Nationalist Member of Parliament, Mr. Gwynfor Evans, who, 20 years ago, won Carmarthen in that famous by-election. Although those were my formative years politically, I have never been attracted to the cause of nationalism, despite feeling very strongly for the language. By definition, nationalism is about eventual separation. It is divisive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "homelessness is rife. The South Wales Argus recently spotlighted the problems in Newport. There have been widespread reports of abuses in the so-called bedsitter land. Threats of violence and intimidation are commonplace. There have been rip-offs with rents, and death-trap accommodation is the norm. The Government's policies are bringing about the return of Rachmanism, with all its attendant evils", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Coal Industry (Deficit Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I was going to mention that, because the Union of Democratic Mineworkers has attempted to erode safety standards in the pits by the offer virtually to take over from the deputies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Coal Industry (Deficit Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " may be diminished because of the pressure for negotiations. If those are kept to a minimum, safety can become a priority watchword, as it has been for many years in the industry. There has been an attempt to undermine the established safety position and the position of the deputies by a so-called union, which is in fact a company union, very much like the Spencer union during the inter-war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Coal Industry (Deficit Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "parliamentary discussion, I am still prepared to say that Opposition Members cherish the system of safety in the coal industry. We want to ensure that the money is used for that purpose and to build up the industry, not to damage industrial relations. We cannot hope for real developments and security for the mining industry until we have a Labour Government reasserting decent industrial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Coal Industry (Deficit Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It is one of the scandals of the past few years since the strike. The NUM has by far the greatest membership and is represented by my hon. Friend and many of us who have mining constituencies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-02", "file": "debates1988-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "e07a025a16698e77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1106.5", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Coal Industry (Deficit Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "o the order, never mind what the hon. Gentleman has to say. At the beginning of the first debate the Minister talked about £9,000 million. He did not say that some of that consisted of loans. Compare that to what the farmers receive. None of that is loans. That is all dead money. That is the distinction we have to make when the Minister talks about money. I was referring to alternative employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-02a.1106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-03", "file": "debates1988-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c025e5115ac7204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Gentleman is not against sheepmeat stabilisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-03", "file": "debates1988-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c025e5115ac7204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "s under housing beneift changes is 85p for every extra pound that they will get in one way or another. I am interested to know whether the right hon. Gentleman can tell us what he would say to a pensioner couple who come into his surgery and who receive the national insurance old-age pension and, say, £10 to £15 extra from an occupational pension and have lifetime savings of around £6,000 a year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-03", "file": "debates1988-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c025e5115ac7204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman does when people come to his surgery. The first thing I do is to check on what they are entitled to and see that they get it. That is very important. The second thing I would do is explain to them that at present one household in three is getting housing benefit. I do not believe that the rest of the country should be paying that amount of housing benefit to one household in three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-03", "file": "debates1988-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c025e5115ac7204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "not yet returned from the NATO summit meeting. I shall certainly pass on to her the right hon. Gentleman's comments about a statement when I see her on her return. On the question of cemeteries and the local authority, I do not believe that this is a matter for a statement by my right hon. Friend. The Government consider that it is a matter for the council, its ratepayers and the district auditor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-03", "file": "debates1988-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c025e5115ac7204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": " paid for by me. I have now put that matter right and I apologise for what was a technical mistake. May I also tell any hon. Members who feel that they may have been in any way wronged by anything that. I said in the letter that I distributed to a small number of people, that if they give me the undertaking that they are in no way involved in any filibuster, I shall happily withdraw any criticism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-03", "file": "debates1988-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c025e5115ac7204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Tim Sainsbury)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Tim Sainsbury)", "preceding_text": "hat vessels have to offer at a particular stage in their life. Another factor is flexibility arising out of our developing experience in running the new ships. In this context I was asked about type 23 orders. Tenders for up to four type 23 frigates were received on 12 January. These are being evaluated. The precise size and timing of an order arising from the tenders have not yet been determined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-03a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": " out of order. However, electricity privatisation is a case in point. I am not at all enthusiastic about the Government's plans; I state that quite openly. Parts of them are good, but has the proposal really been triggered by a genuine problem that needs tackling, or did the ideological motor start it off somewhere in the recesses of the Centre for Policy Studies—which itself should be privatised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman did not listen to the point that I made earlier. My key point was that all those industries that failed during the late 1960s and the 1970s received vast amounts of Government money. The Government subsidised businesses that had failure within them. However much money one puts on the table, one cannot turn a business round when the work force does not want success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "970s received vast amounts of Government money. The Government subsidised businesses that had failure within them. However much money one puts on the table, one cannot turn a business round when the work force does not want success. [Interruption.] Management—and I criticise British management—in the 1960s and 1970s did not understand the requirements of success. That was a very significant point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall make a statement about the meeting of Heads of State and Government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "educe battlefield and short-range nuclear weapons on their soil should be commenced as soon as possible and that separate and simultaneous negotiations can proceed without waiting for the completion of one agreement before others are pursued? There has been a certain amount of semantic anarchy between our various allies since the summit ended. As words are actions in communiqués like that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Bench today. This country's Socialist party is out of step with every other one in Europe. That is no wonder, because it is virtually a CND Socialist party. The Government got precisely what we wanted out of the summit in modernising nuclear forces, and that was endorsed by 16 nations, including the United States. Many of those countries supported us, and others agreed with the communiqué —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1283.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1330.18", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AID (ASSISTANCE TO THE POOREST) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1330.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-04", "file": "debates1988-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "21f7cf5769b4f866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1330.22", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPTICAL APPLIANCES (BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PERSONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [12 February].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-04a.1330.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The Minister cannot have it both ways. He cannot tell my hon. Friend he Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) that the staff will continue to be part of the Civil Service, and at the same time agree with his hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton) that maximum flexibility is to be welcomed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "'s reaction to what we have announced. I thought that the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) summed up the right note of pessimism and cynicism, which he and his colleagues tried to whip up over the weekend, but he was unable to put much energy into it. The hon. Gentleman criticises the booklet that we have produced. I commend it to hint and I believe that he might read it some time with profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "First of all, I agree with the broad proposition that policies make best progress when they are conducted in agreement with local people of good will; that is what our inner-city policies do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Sheffield UDC will bring to a derelict area in the Don Valley the ability of a UDC to assemble land for grant, to give it positive value and to take decisions quickly. There is no doubt that UDC spending is up. The idea that compact is an invention of ILEA is an extraordinary proposition. The hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) knows that it came from Boston in the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that the hon. Gentleman is such an avid reader of White Papers. I did not want a White Paper, because a White Paper is suitable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "hat their policy is: they would produce a White Paper. White Papers are almost as unread as Acts of Parliament. It is an extremely suitable document when one is contemplating a change in legislation, but it is usually published, read the next day and never referred to again by anyone. What we have produced is not a consultation document, as the hon. Gentleman described it. He should obtain a copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister consider a special problem and answer more directly the point made by the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes)? I represent an inner-city area. Like many others in the House, two weekends a month I hold constituency surgeries, and 98 per cent. of the issues discussed are local matters. They include jobs, unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have not read the work to which the hon. Lady referred and I do not agree with the analysis that has been put forward, if the hon. Lady has described it accurately, as I am sure she has. I do not agree with the proposition that the only problem in inner cities is poverty and that all that we need to do is to alleviate poverty, there being no need for other policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.45.4", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Inner-city Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ems daily. They arise directly from Government policies. Newham has lost £127 million in rate support grant since 1979. Poverty and unemployment have doubled since 1979. Those are the root causes of the problems in inner city areas. Why does the Minister not just come clean and tell us that the statement is part of the process of dismantling Labour-controlled local authorities in the inner cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.45.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " is no Government interference, whether the industry is in the old or new form, is nonsense. The only rule of the market will be for the coal industry, which will have to face massive imports and which will be encouraged to do that. Indeed, we can see what is happening in Scotland at present. That is the only area in which the Secretary of State says that we can make savings of about £500 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "s been estimated that it will affect about 100,000 jobs. I wish that the Secretary of State had given us an indication of what he thinks the effects will be on jobs, instead of lecturing us about how to work harder, especially those in the mining industry, which produces the cheapest deep mine coal in Europe, when he knows that its record in the past few years has shown a considerable changeabout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "the changes in the White Paper is that the Goverment need to sell the industry to get the money. That is an ideological requirement, which has nothing to do with efficiency or the consumer. It is about maximising money for the Treasury so that it can utilise it for tax cuts. If one considers the fattening-up prices—the 15 per cent. price increase — which the CBI has rejected in its Oxford report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " the Secretary of State for Energy made it clear that, in transmission and distribution, we are dealing with natural monopolies. Opposition Members fail to understand the real world because they seem to argue that, because it is not possible to achieve perfect competition, we should therefore make no attempt to introduce into the electricity industry such competition as is possible and attainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "that, in transmission and distribution, we are dealing with natural monopolies. Opposition Members fail to understand the real world because they seem to argue that, because it is not possible to achieve perfect competition, we should therefore make no attempt to introduce into the electricity industry such competition as is possible and attainable. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend pointed out that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "refore, in future, that power will be sold to the North West authority in England. That is an excellent example of how the export of Scottish power to those parts of England that need it is in the interest of the consumer, the public and the industry. It is significant that if I give a specific, concrete example to Opposition Members, they do not like it because it conflicts with their prejudices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.6", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.117.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Well, the hon. Gentleman may say that, but I had the benefit of listening to him when he was interviewed on Radio Scotland on Friday morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.118.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.119.5", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman appears to be more concerned about the deep pits in Scotland than he is about the health of the steel industry in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.119.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.119.10", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Millan) knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.119.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.119.10", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Millan) knows— [Interruption.] Opposition Members do not like to listen. Barracking does not impress the people of Scotland any more than people in other parts of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.119.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.3", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I repeat that, if there is flexibility on the part of both British Coal and the SSEB, I have every reason to believe that an agreement can be reached. If the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends spent as much of their time impressing upon the SSEB and British Coal the need for flexibility in the manner that I have just done, they would be making a constructive contribution. This debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.5", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "This debate about the privatisation of the electricity industry has arisen because the Government firmly believe that throughout the United Kingdom there are enormous benefits to be achieved for the consumer, for industry and for all those who depend upon electricity for their prosperity. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.6", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is intolerable for the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.7", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that the Opposition have a deep-seated hostility to any attempt to return the electricity industry to the British public. I am well aware also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.7", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that the Opposition have a deep-seated hostility to any attempt to return the electricity industry to the British public. I am well aware also— [Interruption.] We see now a substitute for reason on the part of the Opposition. They resort to barracking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.10", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is understandable that you, Mr. Speaker, and the Secretary of State for Scotland — it is especially understandable that you should be in this state of mind, Mr. Speaker, because your job is reasonably secure—should be calm, but it would not be understandable if about 50,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-07", "file": "debates1988-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "aa190468964e21ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.10", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Electricity (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is understandable that you, Mr. Speaker, and the Secretary of State for Scotland — it is especially understandable that you should be in this state of mind, Mr. Speaker, because your job is reasonably secure—should be calm, but it would not be understandable if about 50,000— [Interruption.] The Secretary of State is deliberately betraying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-07a.120.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.174.5", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ometimes ignored by Opposition Members, that half pensioners' total net income in the United Kingdom does not come from the state basic pension. The level of inflation under the previous Labour Government was a contributory factor to the fact that the increase in the real net income of pensioners was only 0·6 per cent. a year, compared with 2·7 per cent. a year under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.174.8", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman, who I regard as an old friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.174.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.177.6", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may be too young to realise that beds have been lost ever since the Health Service was established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.177.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.179.10", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the figures peddled by the Leader of the Opposition and his friends in Strasbourg are grossly misleading and bogus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.179.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.182.7", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Hospital Alert represents the authentic voice of men and women throughout the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.182.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.185.9", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister, as a mother and a mother-in-law, spare a thought today for the women in my constituency and other parts of Grampian region? Is she aware that the local health board is proposing to close no fewer than six local maternity units, which means that women in my area and other parts of the region will have to travel 60 to 70 miles whilst in labour to the Aberdeen maternity hospital?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.185.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know of the hon. Lady's concern, and she was kind and courteous enough to give me notice of her supplementary question. As the hon. Lady knows, there has been a recent review of maternity beds in the Grampian health board area, which has revealed problems there, including the widespread under-use of facilities in the outlying and smaller units; hence the proposal to close some of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.6", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that throughout the last year, and, indeed, for about 18 months now, unemployment has been falling —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.6", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that throughout the last year, and, indeed, for about 18 months now, unemployment has been falling — [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"]. Unemployment has been falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.9", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen that, following the reports last week that Haringey council was funding a bookshop selling anarchist literature to five-year-olds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.186.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Clyde Ferry Services (Industrial Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "se, under Standing Order No. 20, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the continuing industrial dispute that has halted ferry services operated by Caledonian MacBrayne on the River Clyde. Several thousand people who live in the island communities that are affected by this dispute are now facing severe difficulties as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Clyde Ferry Services (Industrial Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Agricultural and feeding stocks are almost running out; some consumer goods are becoming increasingly short in supply; passengers in both directions are stranded; and the Easter tourist trade is threatened. We have had the extraordinary intervention of the Royal Navy on a strike-breaking foray, which is unlikely to encourage an early settlement. Islanders are offended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Scottish Constitution (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the holding of a referendum in Scotland to establish the level of demand for constitutional change. In seeking the leave of the House to introduce the Bill, my key aim is to enable the people of Scotland to express freely and democratically what changes, if any, they seek in the way that they are governed. At the 1987 general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Question of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "d to Sid Yobbo. I am not claiming that Andrew Rawnsley is entirely innocent. I am not sure how I am supposed to respond, as a paid-up member of the National Union of Journalists, when he argues in his column, as he argues every day, that politicians are even more odious than journalists. You will be aware, Mr. Speaker, that I am not one of those hon. Members who believes in vulgar, personal abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Question of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The final comments of the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) were important. We must remember that in this relatively comical exchange across the Chamber there is an attempt to hound a journalist. We may well be inexperienced, but he has an absolute right to report this Chamber. I regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Question of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Rawnsley in The Guardian to say what he said and for complaints to be made in the House about those comments when we consider comments made in the columns in various newspapers last week? For example, The Daily Telegraph called my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Critchley) A restaurant critic who … occasionally visits the Commons. The hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Question of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Would it not be wise for the hon. Members for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) and for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) to remember the old Chinese proverb which goes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "preceding_text": "mage and natural disasters. However, I advise my hon. and learned Friend that, in financial terms, none of the disasters he mentioned were of anything like the same scale as the storm in October. There is a precedent for Government assistance in that the last great storm in Scotland—I think that it was the 1968 storm that he mentioned—achieved a Government grant for the transport of fallen timber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": " trees are planted in their place. We must use all our present knowledge of woodlands to ensure that we leave cover for animals, the natural habitat and for the flora and fauna that the hon. Member for Caerphilly mentioned. That was a point well made and I am sure that he will make it even more forcefully to my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, who sends his apologies tonight from Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman will not be going on public transport after that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "ed today, partly on what hon. Gentlemen were expecting to be the rigidity of the Government—it is clear that there is no such rigidity—partly on what was seen as the parsimony of the Government—obviously, in the light of the magnificent record and other action being considered, there has been no parsimony—and partly on how we shall treat other sectors. I am going to see the vineyard owners myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "it has done that only too often—the private sector should have the opportunity of taking that pit over and making a go of it. We know that private sector consortia — they could be mining co-operatives—would like to have a go at proving that some of the pits that British Coal has said are not economic are, indeed, profitable when run with less bureaucratic management and improved working practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "en used for political ends at the sharp end of political activity. That is sad because miners, like many other tightly knit groups of people in Britain, are loyal to their mines and country, as they demonstrated effectively in two world wars. There is no question but that the mining communities have contributed handsomely to Britain's well-being. I believe that that loyalty has often been abused —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "stry, but they tell me what they are earning and how they have paid for nice new cars, houses and so on. They have explained to me that that has happened because they have been able to increase their earnings substantially since the introduction of the new scheme. I can say only that I have seen with my own eyes how their standard of living has improved and how they want it to continue to improve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "ulating ourselves from the international threat. We are a trading nation and we have proved that industries that we did not think would be profitable can be made to stand on their own, make a profit and face the international threat. It is folly for us to say that the only role for British Coal is in the public sector, dependent upon the good will of Ministers and upon supplies of deep-mined coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "he issue; that is what they are doing, a little synthetically in view of the conflicting interests which undoubtedly exist. When will Members from Scotland or elsewhere defend the consumer of electricity and saying that his interest should be paramount? How can Opposition Members say that on one occasion and on another occasion jump up with almost orchestrated violence, as was the case last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "will not continue to provide funds indefinitely, irrespective of circumstances. The current rate of capital expenditure in the industry cannot continue unless fuller use is made of the existing equipment. The refusal of certain trade union leaders to consider modern methods of flexible working and their senseless industrial actions are jeopardising the industry's prospects and their members' jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-08", "file": "debates1988-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "b1b55ee8b379d960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "current rate of capital expenditure in the industry cannot continue unless fuller use is made of the existing equipment. The refusal of certain trade union leaders to consider modern methods of flexible working and their senseless industrial actions are jeopardising the industry's prospects and their members' jobs. [Interruption.] Opposition Members need to be reminded of that time and time again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-08a.278.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.308.9", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Terry Lewis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.308.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Local Authorities (Rating and Capital Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ould be affected if we did not put it right in the future. That is what we want to do, and we look forward to his support. In relation to compensation, as I said in my statement, there are precedents for dealing with the matter. I have nothing further to add to that. The hon. Gentleman asked about the court judgment. Yes, I am accepting the court judgment; that is why it is necessary to legislate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.329.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Local Authorities (Rating and Capital Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Westminster!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Far from my hating Labour local authorities, when will the hon. Gentleman stop hating ratepayers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "and and Wales should keep to the same dates, whatever they may be.\" —[ Official Report, Standing Committee A, 10 November 1987: c. 620–24.] It is perhaps slightly ironic that I am responding to the representations of those hon. Members when they are absent today. However, I am sure that in due course the hon. Member for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) will bear that news to his colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "In response to the Minister, although Labour Members are not present", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Employment to review employment for disabled people will prove to be a better way forward. 6 pm Having listened to the debate carefully, there appear to be two misconceptions about what the Lords amendments would achieve and what they mean. The hon. Member for Barking (Ms Richardson) went off on to the subject of women. I would be out of order if I were to discuss that matter under this amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "I can confirm at the outset that my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) has just repeated exactly what he said in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "leman made it clear that he would not support the Government and that he stood by the all-party group in the belief that the Lords were right in putting the clause in the Bill. 6.15 pm If the hon. Gentleman comes into the Lobby with the Welsh Nationalists, Liberals and Labour Members of Parliament, and, indeed, with at least one Conservative Member who is sitting behind, him, he will not be alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "nt changed their position? I believe that they have done so for the basest and most contemptible political motives. I believe that they have done so because they seek some political gain from aiding and abetting bigotry and discrimination against gay and lesbian people. In the absence of any other explanation, that is bound to be the conclusion that people will reach, inside and outside the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "nd in the name of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition deal with the issues of civil rights and the provision of services for a purpose other than the promotion of homosexuality. I am grateful that they have been selected for debate. I do not want to be too unkind to the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) as we are probably speaking on the same side of the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "he amendment provides that where a service is provided for another purpose and where the provision is necessary to meet a need within the community, it should fall outside the terms of reference of the clause. The amendment seeks to highlight the areas of activity that are undertaken as part of a council's provision which might be thought to have an indirect consequence in the terms of the clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.376.6", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has asked for examples and perhaps I can assist. I have in my hand a leaflet that was handed out to 15-year-olds at a Bristol school. I will not read out the details of that leaflet because I do not think that I should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.376.6", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "lds at a Bristol school. I will not read out the details of that leaflet because I do not think that I should—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"] Opposition Members may want that, but suffice to say that the leaflet describes and illustrates homosexual activity and underneath that description says: Go for it! Share the pleasure with a friend. That was handed out to 15-year-olds at a school in Bristol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.378.6", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not selected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "preceding_text": "e amendments have left untouched the central flaw at the heart of the clause — the undefined, hopelessly vague and dangerously widely interpretable word \"promote\". The amendments in the name of my right hon. and hon. Friends attempt to circumscribe that word to a certain extent. That is why I support them. If the amendments tabled by the Liberal party are put to the vote, I shall not support them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.378.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.382.6", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "not a reason to condemn him for all else that he does. In wartime, lots of people indulge instincts of aggression and sadism which they keep in control if they are not given the opportunity to exercise them. I have appeared in capital cases for many people who failed to keep those sentiments in check. But that is not an alternative of the diversity of the expression of psychosexual activity which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.382.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.382.6", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " opportunity to exercise them. I have appeared in capital cases for many people who failed to keep those sentiments in check. But that is not an alternative of the diversity of the expression of psychosexual activity which— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) may laugh, but he should understand what motivates people who want to shoot, kill, stab, hit children or be aggressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.382.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "every drama involving the eternal triangle promotes adultery; and Mr. Richard Branson's condom campaign promotes fornication. The House had better be very careful before it gives to judges, who come from a narrow section of society, the power to interpret \"promote\". The hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross used vivid language, which no doubt will guarantee him a place in The Sun tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "dds something to the law—the Government say that it adds something necessary and Conservative Members support it for that reason—or, as the Government argued 15 months ago, it adds nothing to the law and in that case it should not be here. Other aspects of the clause are open to misinterpretation and were fallaciously added. Inherent in the clause is the belief that homosexuality can be promoted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had not just walked into the Chamber, he would have heard, over the past hour. Conservative Members giving examples of what has happened in the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the schools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "I have repeatedly given a list of local authorities in whose areas this has been going on. It seems odd to me that Opposition Members are apparently unaware that local authorities run local schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "I have named them. The hon. Gentleman must not nit-pick with me. If he does not understand that local authority education runs the schools, he ought to go back and start learning about how these things are done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.408.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.410.2", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "es that have been made in defence of the Government's position have talked not about children, but about all sorts of practices and ways in which promotion is taking place. As many hon. Members have said, although some people are supporting this in the genuine belief that it will be a help, they are wrong. What they are really talking about is re-criminalising homosexuality, as it was in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.414.5", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "just as we believe it is right that they should recognise that homosexuality exists, that people do not make a choice and that homosexuality should he recognised and fully understood. In the last debate on this issue I referred to two letters which clearly made that case. One was from a teacher who expressed concern and doubt about the clause. I have had a number of such letters since that debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "homosexual fraternity an opportunity to run gay clubs, gay centres and gay pubs that specialised in a homosexual clientele, where magazines could flourish and contacts be made, enticing and corrupting others to join their ranks who perhaps would never have done so. Much more serious than that are the memories of grandparents who remember Cambridge in the 1930s, when the intellectuals of Cambridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "ddressing an audience from the stage of \"La Cage Aux Folles\". I should like to remind hon. Members of that well-known hymn \"I am what I am\", and this is no illusion. I return to my point about Cambridge university in the 1930s. The so-called intellectuals of that time were latching on to every minority group in the hope of gaining power. Many of them flirted with Communism in exactly the same way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "ge of consent to be lowered to 16 years if you please and they want spouses of the same sex to be allowed entry to the United Kingdom as immigrants. They even want to adopt children. Such is the path to be followed by the homosexuals. It is doing homosexuals no favour to flaunt their activities by marches and protests in our cities. A few weeks ago I was debating this subject in the Oxford union —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "as immigrants. They even want to adopt children. Such is the path to be followed by the homosexuals. It is doing homosexuals no favour to flaunt their activities by marches and protests in our cities. A few weeks ago I was debating this subject in the Oxford union — [Interruption.] I have to be fair. I listened to a speech by a student who opened the innings for the other side with a straight bat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "union — [Interruption.] I have to be fair. I listened to a speech by a student who opened the innings for the other side with a straight bat— [Laughter.] That speech was one of the best and most moving that I have ever heard. That student was a self-confessed homosexual and he made a sincere speech. I am sure that those who were on my side of the argument were greatly touched by his contribution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": " listened to a speech by a student who opened the innings for the other side with a straight bat— [Laughter.] That speech was one of the best and most moving that I have ever heard. That student was a self-confessed homosexual and he made a sincere speech. I am sure that those who were on my side of the argument were greatly touched by his contribution — [Interruption.] This is a serious subject.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "t homosexuality to be a subject on the school curriculum. My hon. Friends and I are determined that they will not get it. By the same token, people like me should stand shoulder to shoulder with the homosexual fraternity against the so-called \"queer bashers\". They are only likely to get that support if they stop continuing to flaunt their homosexuality and thrusting it down other people's throats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "and I are determined that they will not get it. By the same token, people like me should stand shoulder to shoulder with the homosexual fraternity against the so-called \"queer bashers\". They are only likely to get that support if they stop continuing to flaunt their homosexuality and thrusting it down other people's throats. [Laughter.] Mr. Speaker: Order. We will all digest that. Mr. Livingstone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": " term \"heterosexism\" are in favour of discriminating against heterosexuals, I am sorry, but they are wrong. I wish to deal with two points that call into question the sincerity of those who will vote for the measure tonight. There is a problem relating to the protection of children in our society. There is widespread and systematic abuse of children—perhaps beyond anything that we fear at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Proof.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "y request. The reason is simple. During the homosexual abuse of the children, MI5 was photographing the perpetrators so that it could blackmail the Loyalist politicians who were committing the acts. If the Government are appalled by the buggery of children, why do they cover it up when it is carried out by one of the state agencies? Why is it that every attempt to raise this issue is stamped upon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.417.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who wrote that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "sexuality\". It says: Medical evidence suggests that a person's sexual orientation is formed before the age of five. It is, therefore, unlikely that an adolescent could be turned into a homosexual by an occasional contact. But such a contact might bring to the fore an orientation which is already there but unrecognised. The realisation could put an end to a young person's confusion and unhappiness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "earch. She said that she was appalled by the silence from Hollywood. She said that homosexuality had become a taboo subject, and yet, as she put it, Hollywood was built by homosexuals. That is not true only of Hollywood; there are homosexuals everywhere. Homosexuality is a part of society. So why do people fear it so much? Is it because, as some Conservative Members said, people fear the abnormal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "—against the Government's intention in the clause. My hon. Friends and I made it clear in Committee that we had seen the clause for the first time only briefly and did not know what the word \"promote\" meant —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.428.4", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I just hope that the hon. Gentleman's party's campaign on the issue of gay rights —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.433.7", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I sincerely apologise to the House for returning to the subject of local government, which is the purpose of the Bill, and delaying the House by seeking to debate, for the first time in the House of Commons, the new powers of the local authority auditors in relation to the new clause and schedule that was slipped into the Bill in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.433.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend makes this momentous decision, I wonder whether he understands the reasons why dog licences were introduced in the first place. They were introduced in the middle of the last century because there was a major criminal trade in stealing and selling dogs in London. As late as 1889, my father came to London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.452.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "aster so savagely that he was off work for several weeks. The police took no action. The police informed me that there is no legislation under which, once the dog is killed, they can take action against an owner. They cannot take him to court to bring a dangerous dog under control because the dog has gone. That omission in legislation should be rectified. The dog that was killed has been replaced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ill, care and devotion and looked after their dogs well. The problem is that not everyone does. When they do not, it is not the fault of the dogs, but the consequences are visited upon perfectly respectable, law-abiding citizens. One such example is a constituent with a six-month-old baby who lives near a house where three Doberman pinschers or rottweilers are allowed to roam loose in the garden —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "erman pinschers would be brought to the attention of the authorities only when an accident occurred. If an adult is bitten, it may be an inconvenience and it may be painful. If a child is bitten, depending on the age, it could be fatal. Then people will say, \"Goodness gracious, we have some dangerous dogs at 24 Acacia avenue.\" Without a dog registration scheme, it would be impossible to know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-09", "file": "debates1988-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e258be82a11e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Generation and Transmission (Inquiries)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Michael Spicer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Michael Spicer)", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Garrett), the Government also welcome this opportunity to debate the new inquiry rules —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-09a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.505.10", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ground", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ground", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the striking increase of more than 50 per cent. shows that substantially more people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.505.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister later today honours British exports and technology, will she take the opportunity to reaffirm her support for the fast breeder reactor programme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.518.8", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There was a particular unit at that hospital, a special unit that was to have worked up to five beds. So far, only three beds are operational. That unit is being closed, and not, of course, the entire hospital. It has been closed to save only some £30,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.518.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.519.8", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will have heard me say many times, the resources available to the Health Service are greatly in excess of any that have ever been available before. The numbers of nurses and doctors, and patients being treated, are also greatly in excess of any in the past. With regard to the Tayside health board —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.519.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Farr", "preceding_text": " of the present regional development grant system. At present, the RDG system is causing gross distortions. There is a company in Logan street in Market Harborough that makes a very sophisticated type of valve. It has been there for 100 years and some of the grandfathers of the workers, who are highly skilled, also worked there. They are anxious to stay in Market Harborough and redevelop the town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "st put on the record the concerns of those whom we represent. We still have high unemployment and shaky investment levels. The Government talk about their policies being embraced by the CBI. I remind them that the CBI in most of its comments has embraced out of sheer relief the decision to scrap regional development grant. The CBI had thought that the whole of industrial policy would be abandoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "ional development grants. Despite what the Minister of State said, there has been a significant cut in the Government's regional industrial assistance, especially for the period after 1991. Parliamentary questions on this matter have been tabled, but the Government are not willing to speculate on the financial assistance that will be provided when RDG disappears off the face of the industrial map.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": " public expenditure statements and another Department of Trade and Industry paper. As was mentioned in Committee, there has been a massive redistribution of regional development aid within the regional industrial strategy. Scotland will lose £100 million-worth of aid from the 1986–87 figures. At the same time, the Government, with their friends in marketing consultancy firms, have decided —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is a conspiracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "tion during the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) I said that the Bill will place a greater onus on civil servants to make judgments. I am not talking about most civil servants, who do a decent job. However, it is a fact that permanent secretaries and deputy secretaries at the Department of Trade and industry move swiftly out of their jobs to boards of companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Grants (Termination) 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": "ockton, South (Mr. Devlin) and for Darlington (Mr. Fallon), to name but three. That is surely an indication that there is a good Conservative representation in the debate from the north-east of England. We heard from the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) who his hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Michael) said in Committee was the man who put \"grim\" into Grimsby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Dock Labour Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "had a slightly better approach, certainly than Conservative Back Benchers today. Lord Aldington was the spokesman for the employers and the Aldington-Jones agreement was an honourable agreement whereby the rundown was enabled to take place in an orderly way with consultations between employers and trade unions throughout. That was a proper form of industrial democracy for dealing with the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Dock Labour Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " and this is the way in which the whole change should be carried through.\" That is the way in which they try to run industrial relations in Britain, but they are gradually discovering that they come up against bigger obstacles. I was glad to see that the Government were taught a lesson in the Ford dispute the other day, and there have been other instances. Other cases may arise in other areas too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Dock Labour Scheme", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Patrick Nicholls)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Patrick Nicholls)", "preceding_text": "d skill of the right hon. Member's delivery and can concentrate on his approach to the history of these matters. I find that he makes the ancient mariner look like the epitome of yuppy modernity. Again, one can never doubt the sincerity with which the right hon. Gentleman speaks, but he sems to be completely unable to realise that times move on, decade succeeds decade and century succeeds century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner Cities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "roblem of the inner city, particularly in London, is often characterised by appallingly high levels of crime, and high levels of alcohol and drug abuse. Any metropolitan, cosmopolitan area is difficult because of the conflict in people's values. It is clear from some estates that some people think that graffiti is an art form. Indeed, the Greater London council spent money on encouraging graffiti—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inner Cities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "about how Government work know that the public expenditure survey round is normally completed by November, prior to the beginning of the Government year, which in this case has not yet started. Extra money has been made available by various Government Departments. In my budget in the Department of the Environment, what is known as the urban block has been increased from about £541 million to £594.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Student Unions (Funding)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " sadly is not with us tonight to share in these important proceedings, had been elected as chairman of the NUS. Of course, he was a more moderate gentleman then, and by comparison with the rest of the Labour party he is almost one of us now. That shows either that wisdom comes with old age, or that the Labour party has moved dramatically to the Left. I suspect that the latter is probably the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unified Training for Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "That sounds plausible enough as far as it goes, but if it is accurate there would have been no need for the hon. Lady, when talking about the training programme, to draw a distinction between her views and those of the Labour party. I suspect that the hon. Lady has had to set herself to squaring a circle. It sounds plausible, but certainly depressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-10", "file": "debates1988-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "641cd87f6247c731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unified Training for Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ity to say, as I say now, that that is the position. The hon. Lady is going too far. She is going further than she would if she were standing on this side of the House in saying that I should give an assurance that the scheme will never be designated. Why is it such a good idea that I, as a Minister, should say that we shall never designate under legislation that was passed by a Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-10a.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-11", "file": "debates1988-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1fdd5fd2ef82506f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.765.4", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "he debate. In conclusion, engineering is crucial for economic and social progress. However, the real nature and importance of engineering is not widely recognised by the British public. Engineering firms design, make and support a diverse range of electronic, electrical, optical and mechanical equipment, systems and services. New and improved engineering products and services are the main source —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.765.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-11", "file": "debates1988-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1fdd5fd2ef82506f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.781.7", "colnum": "781", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "The Housing (Scotland) Bill is both complicated and contentious. The Leader of the House owes Scottish Members rather more of an explanation and an apology for disrupting the business of the House at such short notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.781.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-11", "file": "debates1988-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1fdd5fd2ef82506f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that the proposed business for Monday was first announced on 3 March, not yesterday. The hon. Gentleman should look at the record of his Government, who brought to the House Lords amendments to major Bills on the very day that they were passed in the other place. I do not complain about that, because it is not an unusual procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-11", "file": "debates1988-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1fdd5fd2ef82506f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "Neveretheless, this statement and that interjection in particular illustrate the difficulties created for Scots Members by the further disruption of business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-11", "file": "debates1988-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1fdd5fd2ef82506f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "I am still puzzled, and perhaps the Leader of the House will help me. Is he saying that it is because of the Official Opposition that we have lost the Scottish business on Monday night —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-11a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.853.4", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The \"Spycatcher\" proceedings are civil proceedings instituted by the Government as a result of a collective decision in pursuance of their policy to uphold the duty of confidentiality owed to the Crown by former members of the security services. In those circumstances, it is entirely proper for the Government to communicate on the subject with their parliamentary supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.859.6", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Mr. Charles Powell", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Powell was appointed to my office in June 1984, and will serve until the time comes for him to leave.\"—[ Official Report, 11 March 1988; Vol. 129, c. 840. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.859.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.860.5", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Mr. Charles Powell", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot do anything else about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.860.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.864.20", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " raised points on Friday when the statement was made. In particular, my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Ms. Primarolo) was aware that on Thursday, Mr. Speaker, you said that you would look sympathetically at manuscript amendments. She was in her constituency on Friday and submitted a manuscript amendment today as soon as she possibly could. She has some entitlement to raise this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.864.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "cy, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House was willing to give, so perhaps I may speculate on what I believe my right hon. Friend would have said with integrity and honesty if convention had not prevented him. He would have said that the business of the House was announced by him on Thursday, as usual, having been agreed, as usual, through the usual channels. That matter was not challenged —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rows not to the bucking of the hon. Member for Bolsover about the usual channels but to two Scots, each preening for superior position today. The hon. Member for Livingston imagined that he could keep the House up all night and defeat the Budget, through some spurious tactical activity, similar to today's day of action, which is depriving hundreds and thousands of patients of operations and care —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "It is quite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": "I did not realise that one small meeting of one or two of my Front Bench colleagues, and a few of my Back Bench colleagues, could have so much power and influence that it could make the Government change the business for the day. It is the first time that I have known that. Obviously, we are beginning to make an impact in this House. It is absolutely incredible —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": "n impact in this House. It is absolutely incredible — [Interruption.] Well, Conservative Members say that we are thin on the ground, but we need only two of us to take the lot of them on. That is all we need because the Government do not have a leg to stand on. When the debate started, in points of order, Mr. Speaker actually quoted what the Leader of the House said, which was that it was unusual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": "tating effects of the Bill on many thousands of our people. Those effects will be unbelievable, yet we are not even allowed to debate it for as long as we should. There are 32 Government amendments, but we have a guillotine before we even start. That is the sort of courage that the Government demonstrate today. The Secretary of State is so courageous that he does not think it important to be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he is here. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": "believable, yet we are not even allowed to debate it for as long as we should. There are 32 Government amendments, but we have a guillotine before we even start. That is the sort of courage that the Government demonstrate today. The Secretary of State is so courageous that he does not think it important to be here— [Interruption.] Never mind our Chief Whip. The Secretary of State is not even here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is. The effects of the Bill are, to say the least, wide-ranging. It will have effects on income support, housing benefit, single payments, and night-time attendance allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.879.6", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Secretary of State is to have his own bathroom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "preceding_text": "It has cost £41,800,000, from an estimate of £29 million. It has cost £41 million for a luxury building to house the Secretary of State's staff so that they can bring more and more diabolical legislation to rob the poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "One can hardly say that the system is ungenerous when there has been such a large cash increase. I am aware of the changes in the nature of the benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "he important measures relating to social security than they could have had under the previous arrangements. It was a suspicion that they were not interested in debating those measures and more interested in filibustering and extending business to make the Budget fall that led to this timetable motion. I am sure that the Opposition will now criticise the fact that I am about the leave the Chamber —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "who are already well off an increase in the amount of money that they will receive through tax concessions, when the nation is crying out for more money to be spent on the National Health Service and on social security 30 that people can be given some hope that they have some collective provision. That is the basis of the timetable motion, because to some degree it represents collective provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.891.11", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Hind", "preceding_text": "If we are to have comments made from a sedentary position from Opposition Members such as the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.891.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.892.9", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "he previous Bill. Some of the letters were written to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in response to inquiries made by the county of Avon, where I was a county councillor at the time. Some were sent to the hon. Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Waldegrave), who is a Minister, and some to my predecessor. They outlined the reasons for the review of social security and what the Government were attempting to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.892.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Social Security Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is perfectly straightforward. My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, West (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton) was wholly capable of handling the Bill himself, particularly given the level of argument coming from Opposition Members. It is astonishing that hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies have not made a considerable fuss about the deferral of Scottish business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — After Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "on both sides of the House to mean that the benefit would be index-linked and not frozen. The refusal to uprate is also a direct attack on women, who take the prime responsibility for caring. They lose out in almost every other area. Women's incomes are generally lower than their average male counterparts. Two out of three low-paid workers are women, and more women rely on state benefits than men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — After Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "lies. Low-income families not in receipt of supplementary benefit receive about a fifth of their net disposable income from child benefit. The Government are attacking low-income families. If they do not change their mind about uprating, more children will go without a basic diet and more families will be forced to live in unsuitable housing, with all the health problems that go with those things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — After Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": " and rates. That is not the situation that exists in the real world, nor will it be. The Labour party goes on to state that the assumptions included in my hon. Friend's question reflect the real world. They do not. They are hypothetical questions. The answers were clearly given. Half the families we are talking about would not pay rent in any case. Their situation is not reflected in the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-14", "file": "debates1988-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a74b6e4781c9d74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.962.9", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Sharpeville Six", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "irm that on at least three or four occasions —in my memory of the five years that I have been in the House —you have ruled that when a Minister rises to the Dispatch Box on a point of order and especially on the second occasion, you will thereafter treat it as a statement and allow questions to the Minister? If necessary, I will go to the Library and find those references because if you rule now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-14a.962.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "I have already described the enormous expansion of higher education under the Government. On the point that the hon. Gentleman makes about loans, it is interesting to make international comparisons. They are difficult to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": " but, comparing the United Kingdom with the Federal Republic of Germany, we see that the average value of a loan paid to a student is £2,000 a year, and roughly 15 per cent. of new entrants to universities are from manual working class backgrounds, whereas in Britain, which has no loans and the most generous grant provision in the world, only 6 per cent. come from manual working-class backgrounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "es she also appreciate that Libyans are detained here and that they should be considered for parole? We know that the Prime Minister does not intervene in judicial matters, but, if that is not possible, why should not those individuals at least be given the right to serve out their sentences in their home country? Why should they not be given the right to go back to Libya to serve those sentences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "should be considered for parole? We know that the Prime Minister does not intervene in judicial matters, but, if that is not possible, why should not those individuals at least be given the right to serve out their sentences in their home country? Why should they not be given the right to go back to Libya to serve those sentences? [Interruption.] Even if the Prime Minister will not consider that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "This is an obscenity. The Chancellor cannot do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1012.11", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "What about the National Health Service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1012.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "offer £3·98 per week to somebody on £200 per week, such as a married man with two children, but who give £82·96 per week to someone who earns £1,000 per week. That cannot be right. It cannot be right in terms of incentives, because over the past eight years we have seen additional tax reliefs for the best off, but we have not seen a consequent increase in investment in this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e they realise that the National Health Service is grievously under-funded. They wanted it because they value that service above all other priorities, even above immediate personal gain. They wanted it because they know that tax cuts do not buy treatment, that tax cuts do not pay nurses, that tax cuts do not open hospital wards or operating theatres and that tax cuts do not shorten waiting lists —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n a disaster that is waiting to happen, as it most surely will without adequate funding before the end of this year. To govern is to choose. It is a tragedy that even though the Chancellor has the means, and even though there is the most urgent need, the Chancellor has deliberately chosen not to make today National Health Service day. Then again he has not chosen to make it national anything day —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Budget day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t most surely will without adequate funding before the end of this year. To govern is to choose. It is a tragedy that even though the Chancellor has the means, and even though there is the most urgent need, the Chancellor has deliberately chosen not to make today National Health Service day. Then again he has not chosen to make it national anything day — [Interruption.] Not for 15 million people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Expansion scheme.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t and consumption in such an approach—there just might be—but there is no prospect of dependable, sustainable growth. That is the problem. The Chancellor's priorities never extend to encouraging investment in productive capacity, in research and development, in the training for skills and in the development of those skills. What we have had today is the extension of the business extension scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knox", "preceding_text": "er choice in the current conditions. Having said that, I want to emphasise my support for my right hon. Friend's Budget judgment because of the importance of maintaining a high level of demand. Over the past 18 months the buoyancy of demand has enabled Britain to achieve a high growth rate, and, as a consequence of that, unemployment has fallen from 3·25 million to about 2·5 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend can be said to have risen to the occasion, the Leader of the Opposition and the Labour party certainly have not. I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman was prepared to insist, both today and before the event, that this was meant to be a Budget for the National Health Service. Apart from misreading what the Budget is about, as opposed to the Autumn Statement on public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "mily will look to himself to look after his family and not, as in the years of the welfare state, to the state. Last year, during the cold weather, we heard about old people who were suffering. I should like to know what their families were doing. We hear about crime being committed by young people. What are their families doing? The state is not the answer to everything. It is often very harmful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " London region and not enough in the provinces. I do not want to stray from the narrow remit that you have set for our debate, Madam Deputy Speaker, by talking about the fact that British Rail has failed to invest anything in Market Rasen station in the past 10 years. Therefore, I shall pass on rapidly to deal with the Bill. We have heard about Works Nos. 3A and 3B. I do not claim to be an expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "matter is of some concern to the people of London. Part III of the Bill deals with the purchase of land. Clause 23(1) lays down that the Board may purchase compulsorily and use such of the land delineated on the deposited plans\". Here again, we are giving considerable powers to the board. We are effectively giving it compulsory purchase powers, which must be a matter of some concern to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-15", "file": "debates1988-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "16fe28ccb2251d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "saver ticket and must obtain white saver tickets. There is already tremendous congestion on a Friday — it is worse in the summer — when departing passengers are reminded over the intercom that their blue saver tickets are not valid. There is a mass rush to the ticket area as they seek to upgrade their tickets from blue to white savers. I know that, because I use those tickets on various occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-15a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend think that the imposition of an 18 per cent. rate increase by Lancashire county council was a justifiable use of its present functions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A vested interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " NHS; it was an opinion poll of Conservative Members. Let us examine briefly the evidence of the needs of the National Health Service. Evidence is available from a wide variety of sources, but it all points to the same conclusion about the Health Service. Every piece of evidence that I am about to cite comes from one of two sources — the British Medical Association or the Royal College of Nursing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard all this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced a package that cut six rates of income tax to two; that introduced independent taxation for wives; that reformed the taxation of capital gains; and that introduced a single rate of inheritance tax. It represents the most sweeping reform of personal taxes this century and leaves us with no single rate of personal taxation above 40p in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "r, the right hon. and learned Gentleman did not tell us how that right hon. Member for Leeds, East cut the capital programme by one third in 1976 because the country was almost bankrupt. The Labour party's view of the NHS is simplistic. Labour Members are utterly clear about what needs to be done and they would happily admit it. They say quite simply, \"Give the National Health Service more money.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1132.5", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A brain surgeon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to wait on all those matters, which will be the result of the review. One thing that I might usefully say to the hon. Gentleman, who I understand, is a surgeon —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1132.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1132.7", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman does not add to my point rather than detract from it, as he sought to do. The point about a low tax environment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1132.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1135.4", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "s party lack one. If they have one, will he tell us—he failed to do so—whether the Opposition will reverse the reduction in the basic rate of tax in the Budget? Will they reverse the threshold increases? Do they still hold to moving tax up to 29p in the pound, which was their general election position? I am happy to give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman on that. Answer comes there none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1135.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1149.5", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Unlike some other hon. Members, I set out earlier in my remarks the precise measures that we would have taken had we presented a Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "hem. Yorkshire and Humberside are the worst areas for prosperity—for example, car and house ownership and other facets. South Yorkshire has produced coal and steel for some time. There is only one worse area in terms of prosperity, and that is Northern Ireland. I was shocked to discover what is happening. Why is some of the money not available for my area? Why are we not getting unemployment down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "preceding_text": "liating it must be for a woman whose marriage is less than comfortable—and some people are unlucky in their private lives—to have to discuss her private financial affairs, her small savings—not the grand gains that a few women make on the stock exchange, but small, personal, intimate savings which she has set aside from the housekeeping—with someone whom she does not respect as much as she should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "preceding_text": "Even if that income had been taxed at the rate which obtained a day before the Budget, it would have been higher from sustained economic growth than it has been under the Government. The Chancellor likes to give the signal in the City that he is no longer going for monetary targets. The code words are that he is no longer a monetarist. Certainly he is the only person who is paying attention to M0.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-16", "file": "debates1988-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7a1bd6e76d6ae8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "I see the Economic Secretary shaking his head. Perhaps he wishes to rise and say, \"No, that is not the case.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-16a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1215.5", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that the state has a duty to protect its citizens, that the public demand a country where women are safe to walk without fear of being molested and raped, where the elderly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.6", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know precisely what I said last Tuesday. I said: The only way to deal with that is either to have excessive intervention … or to deal with the matter by interest rates, which would not be in the interests of inflation at the present time.\"—[ Official Report, 8 March 1988; Vol.129, c. 184.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.6", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ve excessive intervention … or to deal with the matter by interest rates, which would not be in the interests of inflation at the present time.\"—[ Official Report, 8 March 1988; Vol.129, c. 184.] [Interruption.] That was precisely what I said, but of course the right hon. Gentleman does not understand. He did not understand the significance of the last Budget, in so far as he was listening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.6", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "terest rates, which would not be in the interests of inflation at the present time.\"—[ Official Report, 8 March 1988; Vol.129, c. 184.] [Interruption.] That was precisely what I said, but of course the right hon. Gentleman does not understand. He did not understand the significance of the last Budget, in so far as he was listening. [Interruption.] He does not understand because he does not listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.9", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1219.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Honduras\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman surprises me if he thinks that the Russian forces in Afghanistan were anything other than an occupying force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1222.4", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, the Budget contains something for everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1229.2", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No — the Act\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House agree that, if the Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 are unlawful, it is not a minor or a technical matter? Does he approve of the Secretary of State sending registration officers out when they are being asked to undertake an illegitimate task? Would it not be much better to withdraw the regulations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House accept that there is no way in which I can follow my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell? However, on the community charge —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Belfast Funeral (Shooting Incident)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "cognise that there is no solution to the problem by the withdrawal of British troops? They have recognised, as does the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Mr. Molyneaux) and his party, that the way forward is not by some arbitrary withdrawal of British troops but by both countries standing together to defeat terrorism and by letting the democratic views of the people of Northern Ireland be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1252.5", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "gain, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor was modest last year in the expectations of what he was then doing. His forcast of 4 per cent. growth in manufacturing industry in this country has been exceeded. The volume of manufacturing output now stands higher than when the Labour party left office, having risen by more than 20 per cent. since the trough of the most severe recession since the 1930s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1252.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "l continue to change the attitudes and actions of those individuals who do most to make the economy dynamic. The community as a whole benefits from the creation of a more prosperous economy. That fundamental truth is sometimes questioned, albeit subconsciously, by some on the Opposition Benches. In my opinion, it is not true that if a person becomes wealthier, he necessarily becomes less generous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "in new industries, preferably publicly owned, the improvement will be an illusion. It will last for a time, but, when the crash comes, it will be even greater than anything we have experienced up to now. That is the reality. This is a kidology Budget; it is a deceiver's Budget. In fact, although it talks in terms of reducing taxation, the amount of taxation will be about the same as it was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "it. One Conservative Member boasted about them having won three general elections. However, they did not win the majority of votes. They are a minority Government. They may have more seats in the House of Commons, but they have never had the majority of votes. Next time people will understand what has happened to the Social Democratic party, the Liberal party and the new party. Their day has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "g us. So there has been a complete change of atmosphere. Confidence has returned, and this Budget will increase that confidence. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has done a magnificent job and I hope that he will give us many more Budgets like this one. When we talk about taxation, we mean everyone's taxation, and the fact that some people, by paying less tax, will be able to employ more staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "preceding_text": "Government Members have suggested that tonight is \"industry night\", and I should like to suggest that the debate tonight should he about investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1313.5", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ly proposes. Or am I mistaken in thinking that, in voting against, as he has suggested he may —and I hope that he will reconsider it— a cut in the basic rate of income tax, he wants to add that money to the public sector borrowing requirement, the repayment of debt? If not, and if it were merely to be spent by the Government, that must be at least as, if not more, inflationary in its consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-17", "file": "debates1988-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "94686993634b8f6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1315.2", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " 1970s, we have come top in the 1980s. Last year, we enjoyed more rapid growth than any other major industrialised country, including Japan. In terms of competitiveness, we are on top of the world league, both in manufacturing industry and growth. As a result, the volume of British manufactured exports is up by over a quarter since 1978. Last year, manufactured exports rose by 8·5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-17a.1315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-18", "file": "debates1988-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4865dec218343ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-18a.1347.9", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ry with us the men who are doing the job in the pit. As one who worked in the pits for many years, I believe that those men do a marvellous job in the interests of our economy, but there is something—I am coming to the unfair part—that those lads back in the pit do not like. My ex-mining colleagues and I will raise at every opportunity the question of unfair competition from America and Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-18a.1347.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-18", "file": "debates1988-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4865dec218343ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-18a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Monopolies!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I pressed for them to be kept in public ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-18a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-18", "file": "debates1988-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4865dec218343ed4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-18a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "n in the north-west. The hon. Member for Cheadle is wrong. The Government's figures, published in the Official Report, show that last year the level of employment in the north-west declined by 3,000. I hope that the hon. Member for Cheadle will accept that that is not a recipe for reducing unemployment. The Government have fiddled the unemployment figures. They have driven people off the register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-18a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.3.7", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am gald to say that, in fact in terms of the rate of reduction on the normal basis that has been used by all Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.3.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Terrorist Murders in Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "preceding_text": "rybody across the board in Northern Ireland the desperate and terrible futility of killing human beings in order to unite a people. What that deep feeling, right across our community, cries out to everybody in this House, and particularly to me and the hon. Gentlemen who sit behind me, is that there is a desperate need for dialogue, not to conquer one another, but to accommodate our differences. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Terrorist Murders in Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "preceding_text": "ther, but to accommodate our differences. — [Interruption.] I also say to those who criticise and say that because of these horrific events the Government should be deflected from the road on which they have chosen to go, together with the Irish Government, that they are saying that both Governments should be blackmailed by the people who committed these horrific crimes, and that is unthinkable. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "im a great deal more than a 0.5 per cent. cut in interest rates and the odd phrase tossed away in a Budget speech. We want an explanation of and real action to deal with interest rates that are twice as high in real terms as those in Germany. Can the Chancellor or anyone else explain that? Can we be given one simple, intelligible reason? Can we have one comprehensible answer? Is there an answer? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It is nothing like as long ago as Mrs. Barbara Castle —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is history.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman remind his hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton) that under the last Labour Government the effective tax rate was 34 per cent.?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ed, we lack skilled labour, and the labour available is not in the right place for employment. Unfortunately, those two problems have characterised this country for many years and we have still not come near to solving them. If there is a responsibility on the Government, it is to take urgent action to train far more people in the skills that are necessary for them to fill the vacancies available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The last thing that I want to see is any form of direction of labour. But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "hich is exactly what the strategy was designed to deliver. I should have thought that Opposition Members would welcome that. If we try to divine what the Opposition want, we can only conclude that, first, they want the rich to pay more tax—although they do not tell us how much; secondly, that they want tax to take a larger proportion of our national income—but again they will not tell us how much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "he from the Chancellor—£20,000—and that he was going to use his lavender-coloured Rolls-Royce as an omnibus to ferry around those starlets, without which I understand that Burton cannot carry out a business deal these days. Then the cameras and the attention homed in on a big man. He was gross and ugly. No, I am not talking about the hon. Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames)—they kept referring to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well our determination to get those jobs for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "This Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "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": "I shall just say this about what the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) has been saying. It is an impertinence for him to say that the Government are doing nothing for the poor, the sick, the disabled and the needy, when public expenditure on social security is already running at far higher levels under this Government than it ever did under that of the Labour party, and the increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "without a shadow of a doubt physical violence inflicted by the Patronage Secretary and the Leader of the House on the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I have not seen such violence in the House since the night on which the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) ran about with the Mace, threatening to batter everyone over the head. Surely you have some obligation to control these Tory hooligans —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Education Reform [Money] (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "id that the assisted places scheme was running wild. One school with 1,200 pupils has 459 with grants of at least £2,000 each. That school is receiving almost: £1 million of public money for private education. With 126 more schools joining the gravy train, the figures involved are enormous. The Government have not fully understood the money that they will have to pay out on that and other schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.163.7", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Education Reform [Money] (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Time will tell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.163.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Acute Beds (Fife)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "e. When he was wearing his education hat this morning, the Minister had the temerity to quote from a teacher who wrote in the Glasgow Herala. I want to quote again from the group practice to which I have already referred and from which the Minister has received a letter. That letter puts the point to the Minister. In fact, if he would pay attention, he may understand. The letter is dated 4 March —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-21", "file": "debates1988-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b5def15869ff2a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Acute Beds (Fife)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "lies penny-pinching by the Treasury and the Government. If the Government wanted to alleviate the suffering for lack of acute beds in Fife that has gone on for a long time, the money could be supplied. Pooh Bah is a wrong description. My knowledge of Gilbert and Sullivan leads me to suggest—I apologise to those who are not so knowledgeable—that the Minister is really King Gama from \"Princess Ida\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-21a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "cessfully lobbied the TUC to support a deal which might yet bring Ford to Dundee. Dundee still has a fighting chance, particularly as Mr. John Emmert, the spokesman for Ford, has said that no decision has yet been taken on the location of the plant. In those circumstances, may I call upon the Prime Minister, and those on the Benches behind her, to stop trying to score petty party political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.194.7", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.194.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "That is still no reply to the question about the Chancellor and Lord Y oung—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Civil Servants (Assistance to Ministers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is significant that the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) has not denied the charge that has been made—namely that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.227.7", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "It is nice to have something to do with these two new clauses and not see the guillotine being misused to get into the newspapers. The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) suggested — I thought unfairly — that the Government were not showing proper concern for those with dyslexia — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.227.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend says, they have been fulsome, and I am delighted, because Professor Black's report recommended that there should be assessment and testing at seven 11, 14, and 16. Many Opposition Members said that it would be impossible to establish a committee in the educational world that would come up with age-related tests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "abour party is now committed to age-related assessment and testing, at seven 11, 14 and 16. I am delighted that they have made that progress. Professor Black also said that there should be pencil and paper testing at seven 11, 14 and 16 and I am delighted that the Labour party is now committed to that. Professor Black went on to say that the results of the assessment and tests should be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "believes that our children are somehow different from young people in Japan, Germany, France, Italy and America, because our young people are clamouring to leave school at 16. When the school leaving age was 14, ordinary working-class children had to go out to work—Conservative Members do not kick out their kids at 16, it is always our children who have to go out to work. The point I wish to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "e to introduce another note of dissent between myself and Her Majesty's Official Opposition, but, although I can subscribe to the sentiments of what they say and agree completely with the arguments which they use to support their case, I must tell them that I shall go very unhappily indeed into the Lobby to vote for what I regard as three clauses as badly and sloppily drafted as one could imagine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "No. It has long been part of Labour party propaganda that the Isle of Wight makes no such provision. That is monstrous. The Isle of Wight helps to assist and fund non-LEA organised bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.281.5", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "pay tribute to the voluntary sector and to the work that takes place, but we must not accept these new clauses. They are an attack on the discretion of local education authorities. The Opposition chose to chide us in Committee on how we were taking powers from local authorities but when we propose to leave local authorities with the discretionary power, the Opposition want to take that power away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "could dispute such a view. The universities of Aberdeen and Dundee are to shed at least 330 academic posts. Dundee is to lose its modern languages department to Exeter and Lancaster, and its geology department is to be lost to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Those two universities, together with Stirling, are fighting for their lives, while the long-term future of the rest of the eight is far from certain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "Having lived for 12 years in Scotland and having spend seven of them teaching at a Scottish university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "Having lived for 12 years in Scotland and having spend seven of them teaching at a Scottish university— [Interruption.] —I may perhaps be allowed to intervene briefly in a debate that seems to be becoming a sad example of Scottish chauvinism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-22", "file": "debates1988-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "299c08a77c455ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Branch?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "Member for Tayside, North asked a relevant question about how effective the territorial committees will be. The answer is quite straightforward. It will depend on them. The Government's intention, along with the Croham committee, is that the funding council will not be a representative body. Therefore, we are not talking about a representative from Scotland or from any other branch of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-22a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "There is no cover-up and the hon. Gentleman, as usual, has his facts wrong. He might be interested to know that the latest figures for operations cancelled because of industrial action, which is what his question relates to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "There is no cover-up and the hon. Gentleman, as usual, has his facts wrong. He might be interested to know that the latest figures for operations cancelled because of industrial action, which is what his question relates to— [Interruption.] No, his question is about the number of operations postponed on 24 February, which was the day of industrial action —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.342.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take time today to congratulate Edinburgh City district council on its excellent work, and especially the former Conservative candidate for the Marchmont ward in my Edinburgh, South constituency, who today has resigned from the Conservative party because he said that £2 billion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I will send the hon. Gentleman a photograph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.345.5", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I will send the hon. Gentleman a copy of a photograph of us together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend received any representations from the Transport and General Workers Union, as it seems to he more concerned with preventing things happening, including jobs in Scotland arid in Dundee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.348.6", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.349.7", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "ast leave a little chink of light open by saying that he might respond to the pleas made to him to intervene in support of the workers and the unemployed in Dundee. Is he aware that yesterday TGWU shop stewards at the Dagenham plant, which is widely regarded as the most militant in the Ford network in Britain, decided not to black any components if, and only if, the plant were located in Dundee? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.349.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "welcomed, and if Mr. Todd can repeat the views that we have been told are the views of the Dagenham members, that, too, would make an important contribution. Naturally, having been in part responsible for the original decision by Ford to come to Dundee, I have at least as much interest as the hon. Gentleman in doing anything within my power to ensure that the project still finds its way to Dundee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "n an obstacle to progress, has still not, so far as we are aware, changed its position in one significant way. If that is going to be altered, we must wait and hear what its view is. It is, indeed, necessary to find out whether Mr. Todd and his colleagues are now prepared to endorse the views of the TUC, the Government and of all who have spoken on this matter. I may say to hon. Gentlemen that if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "the national news today saying that what happened this morning was a major breakthrough and that he was confident that the agreement would hold? Is it not the height of irresponsibility for a Government Minister to give the impression that he does not believe that that is the position? It would be tantamount to encouraging the Ford Motor company to lock and bar the door, which we want to see open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.351.11", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Secretary of State will pay a deserved tribute to the Scottish TUC for the efforts that it has made to bring its brethren south of the border into line on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.351.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "That was by way of parenthesis, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Just as the Secretary of State is prepared., apparently, to do nothing to protect jobs in Dundee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "On the earlier part of the hon. Gentleman's question, I said last week that I would be perfectly prepared to make representations to Ford if and when I believed that such representations would be appropriate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am well aware that the Ford issue is of major importance to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tiny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "stion. On the second part of his question, I must tell the hon. Gentleman that my responsibility is to Scottish industry as a whole and to the jobs that are found in Scottish industry as a whole. Coming from the constituency that he does, the hon. Gentleman should know more clearly than most the implications for the steel industry in Scotland if electricity tariffs are higher than they need to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.352.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What scheme?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the best ways of helping the economic development of the Scottish electricity supply industry after privatisation would have occurred if Ford had been able to construct a plant at Dundee, which would have used far more electricity? What representations have been received from hon. Members on the Opposition Front Bench in support of the scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Smile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am interested to note that the hon. Gentleman has given me the conclusions of a study that was never completed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Proposed Ford Plant (Dundee)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": ". Indeed, last week the Labour party held its Scottish conference in my constituency and the matter was not mentioned, despite the fact that the Leader of the Opposition, who is sponsored by that union was present, with eight Scottish Opposition Members sponsored by that union. The statement that we heard today would inevitably mean that Ford would not come to Dundee. The catastrophe for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Proposed Ford Plant (Dundee)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not care.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "—would be not only that we would lose Ford : we would lose an infinite number of other jobs; we would lose inward investment and we would regain our reputation as a bad place for industrial development. There has been silence from all Opposition Members, including the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.358.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.359.2", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Proposed Ford Plant (Dundee)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "man will agree that it is appropriate for the Chair to do that. I anticipated that the issue of Ford would arise on Question 8. There has certainly been no collusion; I assure the hon. Gentleman of that absolutely. On the matter of not allowing that question to run, we keep careful timing and that question ran for 11 minutes. That is much longer than I would normally allow any individual question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "interventions. The hon. Gentleman always stimulated the Committee. He argued that the simple difference was that the private schools were subject to the ultimate sanction of the market place\". —[ Official Report, Standing Committee J, 10 December 1987; c. 51.] Therefore, all else falls and the market place predominates in our view of the values and priorities of education. Can society accept that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.375.6", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "preceding_text": "I wonder how many letters the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery) and his colleagues have received in favour of nationalisation and 101 other policies which they pretend are the answers to the ills of this nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.375.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.375.8", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. We had the biggest share of the poll that has ever been cast in the Great Yarmouth constituency for a Conservative Government — over 51 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.375.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.375.9", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vested interests.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman been to the Library and read the responses to the consultation documents from teachers, parents and local education authorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.375.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "choolchildren who switch between schools during their school careers, and expectations are lowered. One of the Sunday newspapers contained an update on an inquiry which has been going on for the past seven years into 50 schools within the Inner London education authority, taking into account 2,000 children. I understand that Professor Mortimore, who wrote the update, used to be an adviser in ILEA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "at this is the first time that we have ever put together in a reform Bill a clear set of subjects that we want all children to study. I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that not all children study all subjects that are set down in our Education Reform Bill. There is a raft of evidence to show that large numbers of children leave school without having studied many of the foundation or core subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "word. In the schools in which I taught, teachers of my generation believed that religion should permeate every subject in the syllabus. We thought that it should permeate not only English language, but geography and history. The version of English history taught in a Catholic college is different from the English history taught in a non-Catholic college because we used to concentrate on the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman to interrupt me, even though Blackburn Rovers did not win their match last week. That is worshipping of a different sort. I do not wish to cause any ill-feeling in Blackburn, which is near the place of my birth. The hon. Gentleman and I will stand shoulder to shoulder if Blackburn Rovers go up into the first division. We want to put religious education into the first division —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We remember him well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ween his 10 weeks for consultation and Rab Butler's two years is striking. Like other hon. Members, I have been studying the debates of the 1944 Committee relating to Church schools and religious worship and instruction. It is interesting to note that the issues being raised today are similar to those raised 44 years ago. The aptly named Member for Ayr Burghs, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.416.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Before Neil Kinnock.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we can reminisce about Sir Thomas Moore for a moment. He used to sit where the right hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison) is now sitting, although it must have been before his time. Every day he arrived with a fresh red rose in his buttonhole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was it from Kent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "t therefore have an interest in curtailing debate in this context. The Secretary of State seems to be looking for something—no doubt the latest opinion poll. I will let the House into a secret. When we put the statistics to the Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Dartford, in Committee, he said that he had a new poll which would go against all those carried out by national organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "nt, because we know what it would have said if it had been from Kent. The poll was organised by and through the Liverpool Daily Post. It showed that in Liverpool 20 per cent. of people agreed with grant-maintained schools, while nationally the figure was 17 per cent. That really is a great achievement. Tonight we should have had a debate, if we could have had the time, about balloting procedures —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.434.7", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "e that, on the selection of amendments, that is almost impossible to achieve. We share in interest in a debate and a vote on the balloting procedures. We have a proposal from the Government that a simple majority can change the status of a school. Reduce to its logical, absurd conclusion, that simple majority could be one parent voting to take the school out of local authority maintained control —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": " first time she showed some real enthusiasm for the Bill. It was almost the glazed-eyed ideological commitment of the Prime Minister, but I know the Minister of State too well by now to say that she quite achieved such levels—or should I say such depths. The Minister of State was deeply committed to the notion of an opt-out school. 'We know that the right hon. Gentleman is somewhat less committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "fanciful. The proposal for grant-maintained schools is popular. The hon. Member for Leeds, Central chided me about opinion polls. I have a very good one here. Indeed, I have several. On 25 January The Times reported that 34 per cent. answered yes when asked whether they supported the Government's policy to allow state schools to opt out. There was also a very good poll in the Liverpool Daily Post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ng has been leaked to me—the views of the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw). They came to me in a brown envelope from a well-wisher because that is how he usually gets them. I opened the envelope with great interest, only to find that the hon. Gentleman's views had been leaked to The Guardian. In today's edition there is an article by the hon. Gentleman entitled, Will Labour be able to manage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-23", "file": "debates1988-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc54ae67d5362646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "authorities until January, three months before the implementation date. It is a remarkable piece of effrontery on the part of the Government to take two years in which to decide what the regulations should be and then to give the local authorities five months in which to put them into practice. The Minister referred to the survey carried out by the Government on the state of readiness of the DHSS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-23a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "If and when the Secretary of State meets leading figures of the Irish Government and discusses the recent killings in Northern Ireland, will he discuss with his opposite number the killings in Gibraltar, which sparked off a series of killings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend make it quite clear to the Irish Government that the overwhelming majority of Roman Catholics in this country find it deeply offensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.497.5", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a master of the destructive intervention. He seeks to destroy. I had hoped, building on the contribution that he made to earlier exchanges on Monday, that his thoughts were turning to how we might build a constructive relationship. Of course, he knows the answer to his own questions. He knows that at present we are facing an acute terrorist threat —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The Minister has already given a number of figures and statistics about the quality of health care in the north of Ireland, but what does he think about the statistics produced by the four health and social services boards? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that a meeting is to take place tonight at 10 o'clock our time at Ford's headquarters in the United States with trade union representatives from Britain, will the Prime Minister accept from me, as one who has been in touch with them during the week, that it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.506.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.507.9", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Our record on social security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.507.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The points that were made by the right hon. Gentleman in his reply to the Budget would have completely dried up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.5", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I will ask the Prime Minister to give an answer in terms that even she cannot slide out of. Will she tell these young people how they can live on £26 a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.7", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I point out to the right hon. Gentleman that social security payments have gone up in real terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.11", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady got some good publicity out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.508.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.525.4", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "The reason why an hour and a half is adequate is that the points at issue are minor and technical —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "During the course of Questions to the Prime Minister the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) made an outrageous allegation that was very clearly audible on the Benches on this side and which I ask you to call upon him to withdraw, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.530.6", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "The allegation that the hon. Member for Newham North-West made was that the Prime Minister had only attended the funeral of the two corporals so brutally murdered in Ulster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.530.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "We are timed, and I have a number of points to make to answer the debate. The hon. Members for Denton and Reddish and for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Dr. Thomas) returned to the general theme discussed on Tuesday, that of 16 to 18 provision. It was a pity that the hon. Member for Meironnydd Nant Conwy was not able to be present on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "run by a great quangocracy with each of its members responsible to the Minister of State, or his Secretary of State, whom he is educating very well in Welsh life and culture. The Minister of State is the most intelligent education Minister so far to be seen at the Welsh Office. While that may not be difficult, and while some of my hon. Friends may not like it, it happens to be a fair description —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "r in the United Kingdom. After all, two thirds of its students come from outside Wales, and we are not in the business of directing those Welsh students who elect to go to English or Scottish universities to stay at home. The University of Wales is a very Welsh institution, but it is also a United Kingdom institution, and the amendments would clearly put at risk its standing in the wider context —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": ". 1768.] The experience in universities that are seeking to reorganise is that abolition of tenure is restricting their ability to reorganise. There is a strange paradox. The Secretary of State should make the inquiries that some of us have made into the problems associated with reorganising the earth sciences. There may be a strong case for such a reorganisation. Is the Secretary of State aware —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.595.2", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "or other reasons. No one suggests that gross idleness or gross incompetence should be overlooked by university managers. In America people have managed realistically to bolster tenure by a process of academic assessment of staff which is more systematic than the process in this country. Such an approach must come here. It is one of the measures that need to be considered alongside academic tenure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How would the hon. Gentleman deal with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "n, which finds few defenders in the House—and the idea of tenure simply as security of employment for a person undertaking his basic teaching responsibilities. I again use the example of the teacher at the theological college who ceases to be a committed Christian. Surely he should be judged on his ability to teach religion and to undertake useful research rather than on his beliefs or statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " because this is very complicated. The statutes should, first, enable staff to be dismissed on grounds of redundancy; secondly, to make \"good cause\" dismissals for gross misconduct or incapability; and, thirdly, to establish an appeals procedure. We will ask commissioners to work that out. We are using that almost 19th century way of dealing with those matters at the request of the universities. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.615.5", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ling with a system of protecting academics from other academics. How does the Bill hope to do that? My right hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sir I. Gilmour) said that this was the Government's responsibility. He said that, because we are changing the rules of the game, we are creating a desolate landscape. Some Conservative Members think that we are creating a land of opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-24", "file": "debates1988-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "4e9b5f148ffd2cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.615.5", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " Committee from time to time. A member of a faculty may have lost his faith but may wish to remain a member and preach to the students that he has lost his faith. A person in a biology department may conclude that Darwinism and the evolution of man are not the right explanations and that creationism was right. The question is whether he should be allowed to remain in that department and lecture. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-24a.615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-25", "file": "debates1988-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a5175ad175047e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-25a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 2nd May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "No. If hon. Members check carefully, they will find that 400 jobs are at risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-25a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-25", "file": "debates1988-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a5175ad175047e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-25a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 2nd May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "he first time ever more manufactured goods than we export. Our young people are the worst trained anywhere in the developed world. We are just about used to our young people not getting the sort of training that is available in Germany, France or Holland, but now they are not getting the training that is available to young people in Taiwan and Korea. Yet the Government believe that we can compete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-25a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.713.6", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Welsh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Welsh", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many coal fires are going out because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.713.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Community Charges Regulations (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Opposition on Thursday. We hoped that the Leader of the House would take account of that and alter the timetable, but nothing has been done about it. There are 101 or more anomalies, points of question and worries that can be raised and only an hour and a half in which to do it. I know that, of the 72 hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies, the vast majority want to speak on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "g authority. Many other authorities are concerned that so much money is being spent. In the manifesto that the hon. Gentleman read out we clearly signalled a change of policy. My right hon. Friend Lord Joseph went for a unitary authority, but in our manifesto we signalled the end of that by allowing London boroughs to opt out. We are building upon that. The hon. Gentleman referred to my statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.742.5", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "r Chingford has the support of 22 per cent. of Tory voters. It appears that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has the support of 8 per cent. and the Secretary of State for Energy 6 per cent. I asked myself, where is my hero, the Secretary of State for Education? The Secretary of State for Wales had 3 per cent. support and below him was my hero, the Secretary of State for Education, with 2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.742.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend reinforces my case. I shall go further: for that reason alone, this is an anti-music Bill— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "preceding_text": "ILEA will be remembered for its disgraceful quality of education. Its reputation has gone before it not only in London but throughout England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " March. There they will find the honest, forward-looking vision of the hon. Member for Blackburn. As we have two of the campaign managers for the other side of the Labour party here tonight—the hon. Members for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) and for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) — I wonder whether they will agree with what the hon. Member for Blackburn said in this important article —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": " my right hon. and hon. Friends who have contributed to the debate on the Floor of the House and in Committee. In this debate my right hon. and hon. Friends have spoken with great conviction. Earlier, in introducing this Third Reading the Opposition gave us more of what my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State charmingly called the flimsy persiflage of the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "land) Regulations 1988 (S.I., 1988, No. 157), dated 4th February 1988, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5th February, be revoked. I am sorry that the Secretary of State for Scotland is not with us this evening to take part in this debate, for we have before us an extremely important measure. I fear that we shall be subjected to a rather colourless performance by the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I have never found forms difficult to complete. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "Let me reply directly to the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker). The architect of this piece of legislation is the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth), now the Under-Secretary of State. In 1985 he wrote a pamphlet entitled, \"The Case for a Poll Tax\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "When Conservative Members are given a fig leaf behind which to hide, they gratefully accept it. The hon. Gentleman's remarks were the antithesis of the truth, which comes as no surprise. I know of no Opposition Member who has told anyone not to register for the vote in order to avoid the poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I assure the hon. Gentleman that if I had heard the remark I would have been the first to rise to my feet to insist on a withdrawal. I did not hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman misheard me. I said that there is no need for any appeal mechanism. In many cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.851.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I would certainly be interested to look at that leaflet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-28", "file": "debates1988-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "28f2db71e1857299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I would certainly be interested to look at that leaflet. [Interruption.] The Minister, deliberately or accidentally, has misled the House. The words at the top of that leaflet and, I suspect, the address at the bottom of it have nothing to do with the \"Stop It\" campaign. An important point was lost in his flow of gobbledegook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-28a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.868.7", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is not the optimism of the Secretary of State and his colleagues short-term? Has he had an opportunity to study the report published last week by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, which looks specifically at the longer-term position and warns against the decline in the British economy and other European economies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.868.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The latest EFTA figures show that unemployment has gone up slightly over the past month. I do not want to make too much of that. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman's figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept a word of what the hon. Gentleman has said. Certainly the Government are not complacent. On the common basis of the European Community's statistical office, the figures show clearly that the unemployment rate in this country is below the European Common Market average. There is no question about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.872.7", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "If the Government are so concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.872.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.872.9", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "re they so indifferent to the far greater number of working days lost through industrial injury? Is the Minister not ashamed of the fact that the fatal and serious accident rate has increased since 1979 by 36 per cent. in manufacturing? Are not the Government directly responsible because they have cut the factory inspectorate by 20 per cent. and the annual number of prosecutions by 17 per cent.? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.872.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.878.10", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that that list of more than 2 million casualties, of which Ron Todd has not been responsible for a single one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.878.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.881.9", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.881.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Rover Group (Privatisation)", "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": "up for this purpose. Following agreement on these steps to strengthen the Rover Group balance sheet, we have been able to conclude an agreement to sell the Government shareholding in Rover Group for £150 million. We have also agreed with British Aerospace and Rover Group arrangements whereby £1·1 billion of Rover Group's trading tax losses will effectively be eliminated, leaving only £500 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.897.4", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Rover Group (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I cannot disclose commercially confidential approaches to us. I certainly cannot start disclosing the nature of the representations made to us by different companies or identify the companies involved. As I have said, we had various expressions of interest, but none of those amounted to an offer. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.897.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Urban Policy (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "th the local community and to provide partnership between the public and private sectors, leading to proper provision for the problems. The hon. Gentleman should be aware that that is exactly what the statement does. I would make the following points in answer to the hon. Gentleman's questions. First, the hon. Gentleman was right to say that, for the most part, we are not talking about new money —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Urban Policy (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, representing as he does a Paisley constituency, might have preceded his remarks by welcoming the fact that Ferguslie Park is included. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Urban Policy (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I do not dissent from much of what the hon. Gentleman says. It is sad that neither he nor his hon. Friends have said how they believe these additional resources should be spent. They approach this issue simply by saying, \"Please give us more money.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.911.2", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Urban Policy (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "There is a lot of sad truth in what my hon. Friend says, because there is an assumption that it would not matter what the Government announced because the Opposition, and even their Members in constituencies that are most directly affected, would find every possible reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.911.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Urban Policy (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "As one who is interested in urban renewal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.912.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.912.4", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Urban Policy (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Is he a Member?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "As one who is interested in urban renewal— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.912.6", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Urban Policy (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "—may I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on a very imaginative approach to a very difficult problem?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.912.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "tatutory protection. However, that statutory protection will cause difficulties unless local authorities are given adequate resources to deal more effectively with those on the ordinary waiting list rather than what is sometimes referred to as the homeless persons' list. 8 pm I see a need for new clause 14. Indeed, as I said earlier, the Liberal, Stephen Ross who used to represent the Isle of Man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to respond to the hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) and to tell him that yesterday I was able to make an additional allocation to Falkirk of £2 million under the housing revenue account of which he was perhaps —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "espond to the hon. Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) and to tell him that yesterday I was able to make an additional allocation to Falkirk of £2 million under the housing revenue account of which he was perhaps — [Interruption.] Well, although the hon. Gentleman is questioning it, that is certainly in the documents before me. On the hon. Gentleman's question about below tolerable standards— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Government have increased the incomes of people on supplementary or housing benefit, but everything to do with the fact that the Government have driven millions of people into poverty and made them dependent on housing and social security benefits. The way to address that problem is to provide a climate for getting people back to work, not to throw them on the dole and then penalise them for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.969.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "I understand the point made by the right hon. Gentleman, but I do not accept it for two reasons. First, the House has to decide what is a reasonable working size for a Select Committee.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "ot more backbone than most of the rest of the collection put together. I did describe very accurately the intended members of this Committee as a flaccid bunch. I do not retract either word, except I can think of a worse one than bunch. But we had, when we went through the farce of the vote about this matter, a 6:1 majority on our side of the House—in the PPL — for the introduction of the cameras.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "unch. But we had, when we went through the farce of the vote about this matter, a 6:1 majority on our side of the House—in the PPL — for the introduction of the cameras. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"]I hear one lone voice at this time of night. Excellent. We have this disproportion of votes, six to one, for the introduction because pressures had been brought to bear on the young and inexperienced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Workington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "n my admirable young colleague. But, for the shadow Leader to decide, in a clever trick, that he would lessen the opposition, not by choosing my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), who does know something about the procedures of the House and has some experience, to oppose this, or even my admirable hon. Friend the Member for Worthington, who is a procedural specialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ot only cheated the Committee of a proper membership that could have made effective arguments about safeguards, but he has made life very difficult for a young colleague of ours who should not have been treated with such scant disregard. That young hon. Member will know what I mean in a few months' time when he has had to live through the proceedings of the Committee. Now I shall finish my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1050.10", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The real nonsense of the selective use of the words \"protecting minorities\" comes from the Ulster Unionists, who suddenly appear as one splendid, united force to put forward their nominee. As I understand it, at any other time in the House, they do not even sit all on one side of the House. There are popular Unionists and unpopular Unionists; democratic Unionists and undemocratic Unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1050.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman merely demonstrates the point. If he is speaking only for the Unionists who usually sit on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ", the hon. Lady has had her chance. I am trying to debate. Equally, the unity of Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National party on this issue rings less than true. I am sure that the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) does not need reminding that if she and the hon. Member for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh) had not defied the wishes of Plaid Cymru in 1979, they might be a big party instead of a small party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-29", "file": "debates1988-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "328e8226f90b4327", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1052.4", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are 17.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) says that that issue is involved. But the precise point is that, because 12 hon. Members come from Northern Ireland, the idea that on an issue like this they speak with one voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-29a.1052.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "hat the Home Office, as late as today, has been making estimates about the extent of the crisis and has established that the prison population may well rise to more than 56,000 by next year. In the light of that, does the right hon. Gentleman understand that his response to that crisis is wholly inadequate and that it is based more on his desire to play politics with the problem than to solve it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1092.5", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I believe that I have now called all those who are directly affected by this statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1092.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1098.4", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Hurd", "preceding_text": "On the first point, what I said and what I repeat is that, as regards fines, we are considering ways of helping the courts to assess offenders' means more accurately when they fix a fine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1098.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ou have also been in somewhat of a predicament lately because this Government are treating themselves to a display of arrogance. They are rolling over the Opposition, which is all right; they do it at every opportunity, but we expect that. We know that that is the Government's role. However, the Government are now beginning to treat the Chair with contempt, as has been evident from all the events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1109.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1147.9", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ining and research, and its role in relation to all forms of housing has been clearly established. That was the result of an amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths). The doctrine of tacit relocation, one of the ornaments of Scottish law for which my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross (Mr. Fairbairn) made a passionate appeal, has been accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1147.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1147.9", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ce 1980. I am only sorry that the hon. Member for East Lothian does not acknowledge that and join us in achieving what appear to be our common aims. Instead, there has been a continuing campaign of misinformation bordering on the irresponsible. Despite repeated assertions to the contrary from the Opposition and irresponsible interests outside, the Bill contains not a word of compulsion on tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1147.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "mbers from the real minority — the Conservative party. The Standing Committee, however, consisted of 11 Conservatives, six Labour Members and just one alliance Member. It is interesting to consider how the Tories managed to get 11 Members on the Committee when they have only 10 Scottish Members, two of whom are members of the Cabinet. To get their work through, they had to add two English Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Merchant Shipping Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Crocodile tears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "to take industrial action if it is regarded as secondary action. I recognise that people's minds are concentrated on the fact that there is a dispute at Dover and that their travel plans will be disrupted. Inevitably, given the nature of society, the National Union of Seamen is under severe attack for its part in the dispute. 9.15 pm I regret very much the disruption of the Easter holiday traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-30", "file": "debates1988-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "29f4f9e64b4fbc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Merchant Shipping Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has given in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman nods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-30a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I would understand the hon. Gentleman's concern if what he said had any basis in fact. No Third world country has registered any protest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Lady that the United Kingdom's record in these matters is remarkably good and should be a model—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend expects me to have a crystal ball of a kind that I would not claim to have. We believe that there is a considerable opportunity for farmers to use land in both these ways. We are trying to combine a regime of stricter price control with alternative uses. The advantage of the farm woodland scheme, which has been strongly welcomed by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1268.5", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Random sampling over the past 10 years of almost every hive has found disease in less than 1 per cent. of the flock, so the present level of inspection cannot be justified. Nevertheless, we shall inspect those premises that have foulbrood. The inspections have prevented a further spread of the disease, and we now have a very healthy flock", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1268.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, more is being given to the poor, as the right hon. Gentleman knows—a great deal more. Indeed, expenditure on social security has gone up from £16 billion to £46 billion—an enormous increase. It will go up a further £2 billion next year. That means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1272.2", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman is saying is that we can never have a restructuring of social security if anyone loses. It is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. He totally ignores the enormous increases —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uite different from that which obtains in England. He is aware that there is a Bill before the House which has received a First Reading and will soon receive a Second Reading. It will establish school boards in Scotland. That is the initial step which must be taken. There will be no addition, and nor could there be, under the Long Title, to make opting out a possibility during passage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I am always sorry when the Leader of the Opposition is not here, and that is no criticism of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson), who stands in admirably for him. However, the Leader of the Opposition does seem to have one or two matters on his plate at the moment, and we shall await developments. My task here today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-03-31", "file": "debates1988-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "2a47b98b27e2805e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "The Executive (Powers)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Privy Council Office (Mr. Richard Luce)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Privy Council Office (Mr. Richard Luce)", "preceding_text": "ial development, and exchange controls. We have pursued a sustained policy of deregulation. We have removed unnecessary restrictions on business to the particular benefit of small businesses. We have removed taxes that hamper enterprise, such as the development land tax. During the past few years, all our policies have been geared towards disposal of central Government control over the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-03-31a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.3.11", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "Far from being a disgrace, the facilities of this fund for severely disabled people are a very important step in recognising their particular needs. It will be for the trustees to make the decisions in independent cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.3.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. I remind the House that 800,000 children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. An extraordinary feature of the debate is that it is hard for those outside to realise that during the past eight and a half years expenditure on social security has increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.9.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.10.7", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "Listening to the ministerial recitations of those figures, I am reminded of a well-known book about statistics that was published in 1973—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I saw this morning in the Daily Mirror an account of a particular case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The account that was given was substantially inaccurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.15.8", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What's her name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Prime Minister will now answer the question that I asked her. Will she tell a disabled diabetic, of 73 years of age, with £1,600 in capital and an income of just over £50 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.15.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have done. I have said that for people who are disabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.16.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If people are disabled, there is an extra £60 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.16.7", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "so. An extra £60 million will go to the sick and disabled through the disability premium. There is also a severe disability premium which will channel an extra £8 million to an estimated extra 7,000 of the most severely disabled. It can mean that a person living alone will now get £24 a week in place of £6. In case neither of these apply. we have set up an independent living fund which is already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.16.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The highest ever social security budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.19.6", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 20—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.19.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is common knowledge in the House that the hon. Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Ross) is a close friend of fundamentalist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "fundamentalist Shi'ite groups in the middle east. To that extent, I said that he was a friend of the hijackers, who also fall into that category. If it helps you, Mr. Speaker, I am more than happy to make it clear that I would not imagine for one moment that the hon. Member for Dundee, West would wish to associate with the actions of the terrorists who are at the moment holding a plane at Larnaca—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.21.8", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, Mr. Speaker, to help the House, to help you and to help the hon. Member for Dundee, West, I will make it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.21.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Blacklists (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "l programmes were biased to the Left. We should remember that by law programmes are supposed to be politically balanced. In 1987, the Media Monitoring Unit reported that bias in \"World in Action\" programmes has risen to 68·7 per cent. No doubt the broadcasting by Granada of programmes which are so consistently politically biased will be considered when the ITV contracts come up for renewal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Blacklists (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of giving way. This is a ten-minute Bill. The Economic League monitors all far Left and far Right organisations. It must be a pretty frightful job because these are just some of the Left-wing organisations' newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Blacklists (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "rganisations. It must be a pretty frightful job because these are just some of the Left-wing organisations' newspapers. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Maryhill is worried about the league. Perhaps one reason why some Opposition Members are making such a noise from sedentary positions is that they are worried that the Economic League may have something on them if they are Left-wing extremists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.27.7", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Blacklists (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of casting aspersions; I do not want to do that. If any Opposition Members, or other hon. Members, fear that their names might be on a list held by the Economic League, they simply have to ring the league and ask whether that is the case. That is all they have to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.27.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is indicative not just of the view of the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) but of the basic prejudice of Opposition Members. They believe that if parents choose to send their children to a school that is not the local catchment area school, they can be motivated only by snobbish considerations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " just of the view of the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) but of the basic prejudice of Opposition Members. They believe that if parents choose to send their children to a school that is not the local catchment area school, they can be motivated only by snobbish considerations— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Paisley, South (Mr. Buchan) made that very accusation about Paisley grammar school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "position. I believe that it ought now to be killed stone dead by Ministers and everyone else. I ask the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, when he replies, to address himself specifically to the question whether the decision, which was clearly contained in the Prime Minister's correspondence, has now been rescinded. Is the Scottish Office now saying that there is no decision, and will it hold to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Come on, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ice now saying that there is no decision, and will it hold to that? [Interruption.] I am being encouraged by my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, West (Mr. Douglas), perfectly fairly. to invite the Secretary of State to intervene and say whether the quite clear arrangement contained in the Prime Minister's correspondence has now been abandoned. Perhaps he could say that quite categorically.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " the present school councils have not lived up to expectations or operated in a way that is seen as satisfactory. I endorse some things in the Bill, such as the idea of having a body involving parents that is based upon an individual school, rather than the groupings of the old system. That is a move in the right direction. If the Government withdraw the Bill and bring forward, after consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ertainly be interested in considering that proposition, but that is not the position. I do the right hon. and learned Gentleman the credit of thinking that he is labouring under a genuine misunderstanding. If he thinks that the EIS—I take one organisation with which I have had a great deal of contact over the past week or two—wants the Bill to be given a Second Reading, he is in cloud-cuckoo-land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.52.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "f the Bill proceeds through both Houses, as I am sure that it will. When it becomes law, we shall devolve power to the people who matter—the parents of the children concerned. Often, when we talk about schools, the last people about whom we speak, and often think, are the children. Yet the purpose of the schools is to serve only the children. We would not require schools if there were no children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " level they did not wish to do so. Very often the way to avoid mass disruption is to have more effective communication at local level. There is no doubt that if the school boards are operated effectively they will improve communication between the customers—in this case parents and children—and the teachers. Those people have a common aim and object and if they can be made to work more efficiently", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ns because the school has a good reputation. The Morgan academy also has a splendid reputation, as did the Grove academy. The hon. Member for Dundee, East will be aware that the Grove academy in Broughty Ferry did not have adequate facilities in the way of buildings and so on. Therefore, the changes in population movement meant that the school was not big enough. That was one of the difficulties.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Boards (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "re were problems at the local school in Blairgowrie. The problem was that their father was the local Member of Parliament. All hon. Members may face this difficulty over their children's education. Perth city was not in my constituency any longer, so it was possible for me to send my children to another school where they were not affected by the aggravation they suffered because I am their father.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.71.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ee school councils in the six years that I was on the education committee of Lothian regional council. I suspect that I have more experience of serving on school councils than any Government supporter. They know as little about school councils as they know about the schools that we are discussing tonight, because most of them have chosen to send their children to the schools in the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "man asks me to answer the questions. He spent a great deal of the House's time asking what would be the cost implications of opting out. There are no proposals in the Bill for opting out, so no question arises about the costs of providing for it in either the resolution or the Bill. Indeed, I have just answered that point implicitly by pointing out the two purposes to which the resolution relates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-12", "file": "debates1988-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9cc00632893bcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "oses to which the resolution relates. [Interruption.] I shall come to the points made by hon. Members one by one, in my own time. A curious line of thought seems to run through the questions raised by the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Darling) and some other hon. Members who have contributed to this short debate. They seem to suggest that there is something deficient in Scottish parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-12a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.147.13", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ck to the levels that it reached in the early 1970s. If one wants people to invest in industry, one has to show a return on it. If people can make more money by investing in the building society than in manufacturing industry, they will do that. Profitability is now increasing and has been increasing for some years. However, it still has some way to go before it hits the levels of the early 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.147.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "When the Minister next meets the chairman of Rover plc, will he ask him when he intends to meet the trade unions? Does he agree that there was no consultation with the trade unions prior to the announcement of the bid by BAe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.155.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.157.10", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "ster remember all the public relations effort at the time of our original entry into the Common Market setting out the tremendous advantages to British industry? Will he check the figures and show the continually increasing deficit in manufacturing industry between Britain and other members of the European Community? Why the hell should we believe him this time when we know that the previous time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.157.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Indecent Displays (Newspapers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "bout the exploitation of them, but I wonder whether she had considered how successfully young ladies choose to display for profit whatever assets they possess and benefit and exploit the male population of this country. It may well be that she wishes to protect the wrong people. What distinction is made between the honourable place of the nude in the history of art and sculpture and the portrayal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Indecent Displays (Newspapers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Why is it that the prurient minds of Opposition Members see unclad young ladies as being disgusting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.170.7", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Indecent Displays (Newspapers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I would cite further the works of Titian or Reubens and many other great artists who have portrayed through the centuries ladies in various stages of undress whose pictures have been regarded as art. The Bill is defective in its detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.170.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Moore)", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary that the Opposition should call for an emergency debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "where, since the review process started back in 1983 and 1984. For example, the Opposition will be aware that the Social Security Act 1986, which provided the legislative basis for the changes, was debated for over 234 hours—a similar length of time to that given to the equivalent legislation in the 1940s. In Committee, 162 hours were spent in 42 sessions considering 1,498 amendments. The changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "at related to the inability of the local social services department and my Department to establish whether, on the Independent Living Fund or on additional facilities, the local social services could assist. In the light of the hon. Gentleman's comments it might therefore be useful again to remind the House of the inaccuracies in the report in one of yesterday's newspapers. The mobility allowance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "If we want to be even more accurate, the right hon. Gentleman is right in that particular, but his facts are incomplete. He is right to say that the private domestic help that Mrs. Godden is receiving is currently running at a cost of £125·38 a week. The local social services have visited her since I spoke yesterday and have offered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ess, showed that there had been important changes in the characteristics of those in the lowest income groups over the previous decade or so. In particular, the growing prosperity of pensioners meant that there were far fewer of them in the lowest income group by the early 1980s than there had been 10 years previously. Indeed, on average, pensioners' net incomes rose by 18 per cent. in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.181.5", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "In addition to the complexities within each benefit, there was no real coherence between them, so that supplementary benefit and housing benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.183.5", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "All the studies to which the hon. Member for Livingston referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The cash tables, which we have also published, give a clearer picture of the actual situation which real benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.184.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.185.14", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In the noise that ensued after I had named the hon. Member, I heard no allegation of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.185.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.187.5", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.187.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "May I draw the Secretary of State's attention to a case that was brought to me this morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "There is difficulty in trying to answer any individual case, but the fact is that a person could, in general, take a loan on the capital value whether or not she has income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.190.12", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Secretary of State is deliberately misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.190.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I was giving the right hon. Gentleman more credit than appears to be due to him. Of course, The Independent in its editorial also gave credit to him, and it will no doubt wish to change its view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Social Security System (Changes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "d Yorkshire what they are living on, they say, \"Pan crack, lad.\" The crack has been filled in and overlaid many times as the system has built up. We must deal with the unemployment culture, and one of the ways to do so is by this new system. First, the problem of people who have families with young children was tackled. Where is the incentive for people who are staying at home watching television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "port. In particular, there has not been any consultation about the way in which the clause and the amendments would work with the General Practice Finance Corporation, from which I should have thought that the Government would want to seek advice in respect of such complicated and technical clauses. The annual report of the GPFC has still not been published although it was submitted some time ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "we should go ahead in bringing forward the amendments, which we have done. I am sorry that the hon. Lady has not seen the GPFC annual report. It was published on 29 March 1988, which is now more than a fortnight ago. I shall ensure that a spare copy is at the back of the Chair for her so that she can read it in her own good time. It is really quite interesting. Much of what the hon. Lady has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "ng Star this week. For the past few weeks she has been saying that I am wrong in saying that the system is about to be up and running. When people say that I am wrong there are three possibilities: they are right—occasionally that happens—they are being mischievous or they are dim. The hon. Lady is not right, she does not look like the sort to cause trouble, so I am left with the third conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "at would happen if we allowed airline pilots to do the same. Let us imagine that we turn up for the British Airways shuttle at London Heathrow, only to find that it has been cancelled, just like an operation, because the pilot has decided to fly for British Midland Airways Ltd. that morning. He probably took the British Airways shuttle with him without telling anyone. That is an absolute parallel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.272.3", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "to low morale which leads to low motivation and low standards. If that was better understood by the Government, perhaps we would begin to get somewhere. Notwithstanding the pay award which is pending, and which I hope the Government will fund fully, auxiliaries in the NHS start at £4,565 a year. A fully trained staff nurse gets £65 a week less than a fireman, and £109 a week less than a policeman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.272.3", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ation, there were 739 job losses, the majority of which were 402 domestics at St. George's hospital in Tooting. In Ealing 100 jobs were lost as a result of a catering contract being won by a private contractor. In south London 125 jobs were lost in one case alone, in which a private hospital contractor won a domestic contract for Westminster hospital. The Association of London Authorities advises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "om putting up adverts for undertakers and charging money for them. For that reason, I am sure that the Minister will accept the new clause because it goes along with the philosophy that he put forward in Committee. The other reason for the new clause is to prevent what recently happened in Scotland with health boards. Here I come to the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth). Michael Forsyth Ltd.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "Is it morally right that people working in the most basic conditions should have them made even worse? Is it morally right that Tory Members, who have interests in private contracts, should speak in debates on the Health Service and vote on issues when they stand to gain financially? That happens time and again because the Government Benches are riddled by people who stand to gain from this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Price", "preceding_text": "New clauses 8 and 9 stand on the Notice Paper in my name and the names of a number of hon. Members who, the House will agree, cover a very wide spectrum of opinion in the House. I hope that this will make the new clauses appeal to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-13", "file": "debates1988-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "82bcb5103ef2362c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "thout notice, I am afraid. Should an appropriately armed carrier pigeon arrive from a certain quarter in the next moment or two, I shall see whether I can get the message off its leg. Otherwise, I shall see what information can be provided to the hon. Lady and, indeed, to other hon. Members by some other means. I have to be just a fraction less forthcoming about the concept of nurse practitioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-13a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I do not see anything \"two-nation\" about 70 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The community charge takes into account people's ability to pay.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the great concern felt by industry, commerce, trade unions, academics and other important groups on Tayside about any possible threatened closure of Dundee university dental school? It cannot make economic sense to spend millions of pounds on a new building elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "commerce, trade unions, academics and other important groups on Tayside about any possible threatened closure of Dundee university dental school? It cannot make economic sense to spend millions of pounds on a new building elsewhere— [Interruption.] —and to threaten an existing efficient organisation and, consequently, Dundee dental hospital, as well as to impair the whole future of the university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "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 was kind enough to let me have notice of the question that he intended to ask. Otherwise, I could not have heard what it was. The working party of the University Grants Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "er of the House set aside time for a debate on the workings of the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951, which repealed the Witchcraft Act 1735? It is common knowledge in the House that many people have been charged with and convicted of offences against children involved in witchcraft initiation ceremonies. We need a chance to discuss the working of witchcraft and how it can be controlled in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Scottish Business (Selection)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": " but who, sadly, through circumstances entirely beyond his control, will be unable to take part in the business of the Committee at least for some considerable time. I should make it absolutely clear that I imply no possible fault on the part of the hon. and learned Gentleman. None of us can cater for illness. Indeed, it is appropriate to wish the hon. and learned Gentleman a very speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "0 years ago. Clause 8 will mean that National Health Service dentists will become a shade more expensive than solicitors, who, in general, give their advice free. I appreciate that hon. Members on both sides of the House find the clause offensive. I am modestly encouraged by the press, who have promised me that there will be a revolt of some 20 Conservative Members at the conclusion of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "in the free market. For what it is worth, I believe that if people go to the dentist and the dentist tells them that they require a certain treatment, they should pay for it if they can afford to do so. The same applies with the optometrist and the optician, but let us get people into the dentist's surgery in the first place. We all know how difficult it is to persuade people to go to the dentist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "pay for it if they can afford to do so. The same applies with the optometrist and the optician, but let us get people into the dentist's surgery in the first place. We all know how difficult it is to persuade people to go to the dentist. [Interruption.] I have heard my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State intervening from a sedentary position and will be happy to give way to her if she wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"My hon. Friend is the lucky man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": " optician, but let us get people into the dentist's surgery in the first place. We all know how difficult it is to persuade people to go to the dentist. [Interruption.] I have heard my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State intervening from a sedentary position and will be happy to give way to her if she wishes— [Interruption.] My hon. Friend says that there is nothing that she wants to give me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": " a strong believer in preventive medicine, but I am not sure whose day she has made. I advise my hon. Friends, and especially my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke, that the evidence is overwhelming in relation to what has happened when charges have been imposed. With your leave, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall give the figures. In 1981, a report of the British Dental Association made it quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "tists have the opportunity of screening millions of people who, by and large, are well. Many people visit a doctor only when they feel ill. By that time, it may well be too late. A moment ago, my hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst (Mr. Sims) said that that would cost the Health Service a great deal of money in the long term. I do not want to go into the Opposition Lobby against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ractice to include such a reference. The hon. Member for Linlithgow, whose memories go back to the days of the late Richard Crossman, will no doubt know whether that practice has been followed in every White Paper produced by every Government Department. I have specifically answered the question asked by the hon. Member for Linlithgow. We do not include such information when we write White Papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-14", "file": "debates1988-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ddfde1622cd8b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Amendment No. 13 seeks to remove from the Bill the provisions for charges for the eyesight test. There is a degree of common ground between this debate and the debate that we have just concluded about charges for dental examination. I shall take as read the position on the general principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-14a.398.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": " collection will increase from the £1·3 million that it now costs to collect the rates to about £2·9 million—an increase of £1·6 million. My area is impoverished. That money should be spent not on collecting the poll tax but on trying to raise the community above its present level of poverty. I see nothing in the legislation—I include the uniform business rate—that would help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.605.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ng that what he wanted me to do was to go around the country before the election arguing against the policy that he was proposing? That was not what my right hon. and hon. Friends were urging me to do. I do my best to help the Tory party, but I do not believe that I would have been helping it by following the advice that my hon. and learned Friend is apparently suggesting that I should have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.623.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.639.3", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "o fault of my hon. Friend that his best endeavours have been unsuccessful. He has, in fact, failed in the task that he has set himself, because it is simply impossible to produce a system which seeks to relate payment to ability to pay across the whole range of incomes without introducing a full-blown local income tax. The defects in my hon. Friend's proposals have been referred to more than once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.640.6", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend agrees, up to the point where they reach the step in his scheme, that is correct. However, that does not do away with the trap that is inherent in his scheme. It remains a fact that, as one reaches that trap, for a trifling increase in income, one would become liable to pay up to hundreds of pounds more in community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.640.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt my hon. and learned Friend again, but this is such a fundamental point that we must at least make sure that the whole House understands it. If my scheme is adopted, there is a moment when one stops being entitled to pay only half the community charge and becomes liable to pay most, if not all, of it, but at that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "contituent whose bill had gone up by hundreds of pounds a year because his income had increased by a trifling amount that that was a price that he had to pay in order to get a scheme that was more related across the range, so-called, to ability to pay. I would not expect any sympathy from any constituent of mine in receipt of such advice, and I do not think that I would be alone in that situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I have made it perfectly plain that such people would lose hundreds of pounds for the sake of a trifling increase in income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "sing example from Dorset, which he rightly said could be not be regarded as a high-spending council whose irresponsibility we wish to curb. He is right about Dorset county council, but the community charge figures he gave were wrong. He referred to a house in Wimborne with a rateable value of £100, but he did not say that the rate bill now would be £195 and that the community charge would be £173—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "No, I want to refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "No, I want to refer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] No, I must leave time for my hon. Friend the Member for Hampshire, East and I want to deal with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-18", "file": "debates1988-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "607757de2c54263c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "were cowed and coerced into supporting the Government. It is clear that the flagship is badly holed and sinking fast and that the measure will leave the House for another place without a clear mandate from the House of Commons. The country will know that, the other part of Parliament will know it and the Bill can still be stopped in its tracks. It is only right, given the importance of this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-18a.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "s:— 1. Blame Mrs. Thatcher. 2. Blame the Officers. 3. Blame George Mudie. I am not sure in which order! I would like to suggest a fourth alternative: that the Group and the Party as a whole are collectively responsible for a situation which, even if it cannot be completely cured, could at least be made substantially better than it is at the moment. The councillor goes on to say: I do not believe\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure that they do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I can agree many things, and if I apologise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, that statement is not acceptable. The facts, in all fairness to yourself and to others in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.8", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.9", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has agreed a statement which he wishes to make to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.12", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Since you know the grovelling statement, Mr. Speaker, I am not going to read it out; I am going to accept it. Right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.15", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.16", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can I just say to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.679.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Obviously, if, really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Obviously, if, really— [Interruption.] In view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I grovel, grovel and say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.7", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "May I quote, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.7", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "May I quote, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I wish to make a personal statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.9", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Mace—I do not know who he is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.9", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Mace—I do not know who he is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I apologise to you, Mr. Speaker, and to the House because I accept responsibility for any damage that was sustained by the Mace. I did not write this rubbish but you know it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.17", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Ten-minute Bill. Miss Widdecombe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.680.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Personal Statement (Points of Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "e House of Commons. I always understood, contrary to what some new Members might think, that personal statements were personal statements, not statements agreed with anybody else. If the statement was not acceptable, one had to decide afterwards whether it was acceptable. But it is a personal statement. In the House, are we now reaching the stage where personal statements are no longer acceptable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Personal Statement (Points of Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "ith anybody else. If the statement was not acceptable, one had to decide afterwards whether it was acceptable. But it is a personal statement. In the House, are we now reaching the stage where personal statements are no longer acceptable? [Interruption.] Let me say to hon. Members who have just come in that some of us believe in the House of Commons and its procedures. The reason we do so is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Personal Statement (Points of Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "The reason is that we passionately believe in parliamentary democracy, which has been fought for over the years. I am asking how the interpretation of the paragraph in \"Erskine May\" means that a statement has to be agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.9", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Personal Statement (Points of Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "I ask how a statement has to be agreed with Mr. Speaker before an hon. Member can make it, having accepted that he made a mistake in the House. That is my point. I want an explanation. Perhaps I have been living in a fool's paradise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.684.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Personal Statement (Points of Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "ave accepted his apology. It is clear from what we have heard this afternoon that the hon. Gentleman was not prepared to express his regrets; he spoke in terms of \"Grovel, grovel, grovel.\" That is not acceptable to the House. Some of us view with increasing anxiety the way in which some hon. Members treat the House and its traditions with increasing contempt. The time has come to put a stop to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Committee Hansard , to realise that the system that has been devised with skill and care, as I frankly acknowledge, is exceptionally complicated and very difficult to understand. Even the extra and welcome concession made on Thursday last is so complicated that I was stopped several times at the weekend and asked precisely what it meant. I was not asked that question by people of low intelligence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "No. I cannot —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "lief—he can demand further information. Even a registration officer seeking balanced information can be made subject to the Secretary of State's demand and fiat. For that reason, we ought to build into the legislation adequate safeguards to protect the ordinary citizen from this vicious snooper's charter and the jackboot heel of this wretched Government who want to invade people's civil liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "o myself, \"Here we go again: more exemptions, more requests for rebates.\" The fact is that 9 million people are already receiving some form of relief. Before we know where we are, 20 million people will be receiving help—precisely the number who are not paying rates now or who are getting help to pay them. I make no apologies for saying that I would prefer there to be no exemptions and no rebates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hang the nurses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "against the amendments, as it has voted against all the others so far. I urge the House to go on voting against them time after time when they attempt to make exemptions. I am against all attempts to introduce banded charges, to exempt more people and to improve the rebates. If we do not oppose these amendments, local government will get worse, not better. Local services will suffer, not improve.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not challenge the hon. Gentleman's integrity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ne word—selfishness. I am thinking of his attitude not so much towards the poll tax, but towards his colleagues. What distinguishes the hon. Member for Spelthorne from the hon. Member for Cambridge (Mr. Rhodes James), who showed rather more circumspection, is that the hon. Member for Spelthorne has a majority of 20,050, whereas the hon. Member for Cambridge has a majority of 5,060. That really is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A leadership bid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Certainly. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition was not as good an attender as I was and he did not ask as succinct questions as I did. Nevertheless, he came in and went out again, and did his part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I would not agree. It would be an interesting exercise if, by a magic carpet, the Minister could be transported to this side of the red line to put the awkward QC questions to the Government on the other side. I think that the effect would be dramatic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.774.2", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "e on behalf of both. To take the point made by the hon. Member for Preston (Mrs. Wise), if the husband holds the purse strings, it is probably he who will accept the responsibility for paying both bills, or vice versa. The spouse who does not hold the purse strings will be protected rather than penalised by having joint and several liability. There has been a lot of muddled thinking on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I rise in the remaining minutes of this debate, during which the speeches from our side were excellent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "That shows that Angus district council, in this if not always in other matters, is following a common-sense course. I understand the Labour party's position, as expressed by the hon. Member for Cathcart, to be that if there is to be a community charge it should not be a standard community charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "rk. The registration officer will have no more luck than the environmental health officer, the fire officer or anybody else who has tried to tackle the activities of landlords in these cities. I hope that the Minister will pay attention to what has been said. It is not just hon. Members sitting on these Benches who have said it, but respectable people—even Government supporters in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "cart (Mr. Maxton) that staff in a second home, whether Balmoral or anywhere else, will pay the community charge. Many of those large homes have substantial staffs, all of whom will pay the community charge. Therefore, it is not quite true to say that people living in such homes will not be making their contribution or paying their share because they will be. Those who are living there will pay it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "te policy of disinformation. The more the community charge is investigated, and the more people refer to the fine booklet which has been distributed throughout Scotland, the moire they realise just what the community charge means. That booklet explains fully and clearly what the community charge is and how it affects second homes. At public meetings in my constituency it has been most interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "people in Tayside, North, particularly in Pitlochry, should now accept that the community charge is a much fairer way of paying for local government. They accept that a contribution of 14p in the pound to local government expenditure is not draconian. Indeed, it is not any of the things which it had been called in the disinformation. It is a bargain when we consider the services that are provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-19", "file": "debates1988-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f2564a82ec173479", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Community Charges (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "is likely to be. They give out massive misinformation, and they also fail to indicate that rates will cease to be payable when the community charge comes into force. Opposition Members must have pretty ghastly consciences about what they have been telling the people of Scotland concerning the practical impact of the community charge in due course. It is disgraceful that Labour candidates in Niths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-19a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "To take individual percentage rate increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "To take individual percentage rate increases— [Interruption.] It is much easier for someone who weighs 20 stone to lose 25 per cent. of that weight than for somebody who weighs only 10 stone. The same is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Small Firms (Liberation)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "o five people as self-employed people, rather than having to set up all the paper work that is necessary for a PAYE scheme. It is then up to the Inland Revenue to make its arrangements with the individuals concerned. The second stage at which the business wants help would be when it begins to expand. At that point it needs more capital. I run a small business and I know that a good year's profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Small Firms (Liberation)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "s. I adduce two examples: the Financial Services Act 1986, which is currently causing many problems, and the Data Protection Act 1984, under which, according to The Daily Telegraph, prosecutions against many of the 100,000 small firms that have yet to register are about to be initiated. That would mean a fine of £2,000 for each firm, the slaughter of the innocents, because they failed to register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. No hon. Member is a paid hack. The hon. Gentleman must withdraw that comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.838.5", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Then he must withdraw them. He must withdraw the allegation that I alleged that Tory Members were lining their pockets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.838.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.845.5", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "preceding_text": ". Friend conceive of local authority workers taking a conscious decision that they will not comply with the poll tax? If one is talking about Liverpool and electoral liability, despite the campaign that we waged in Liverpool, the local authority still has mass support. The council and its work force will stand up to defend the rights of ordinary working people, and we will still get their support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.845.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.846.5", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I know that there is national discussion at the moment about brain transplants, but I shall not give way again to stupid interventions such as that. There are no grounds whatsoever for making that assertion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.846.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "The Minister has not answered the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House accept that there have been previous examples of many suspensions being made on the same day, for example, in 1881, a total of 28—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " can recall, for example, the precedent of the right hon. Member For Henley (Mr. Heseltine) on the night when he came down, took up the Mace and started whirling it around. He was forced to put it back by the moderate Jim Prior who presumably did not think that that was the way forward for the Conservative party. The right hon. Gentleman apologised the following day and no more was heard about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "t that was the way forward for the Conservative party. The right hon. Gentleman apologised the following day and no more was heard about it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The right hon. Gentleman was heard in silence. We are considering the difference between the two cases. The apology from my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Brown) was less than fulsome, but it was repeated twice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "s you said, Mr. Speaker, in a judicial capacity. We are the prosecution, the judge and the jury, and the executioner stands in the Serjeant at Arms' Box. This is a House of Commons matter, on which we should all be free to vote. I am deeply uneasy about a sentence negotiated between the two Front Benches, for the simple reason that, on matters of this sort, every hon. Member must reach a judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "him—except financially—but his constituents. I do not think that the House has the right to remove hon. Members. I say that with some feeling, because I was expelled from the House by the House on the most ludicrous ground of peerage. I was an elected Member for 10 years, and the same sort of hon. Member who will troop through the Lobby to get rid of my hon. Friend, denied the electors of Bristol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for supporting what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "said \"Are you challenging my ruling?\" Hale said, \"Yes, I am.\" Sir Charles MacAndrew said, \"I shall ask you to leave.\" Hale said, \"I will not leave.\" Then it all faded away. I said to Leslie Hale afterwards, \"What happened?\" and he said, \"Charlie MacAndrew came up to me and said, 'I have guests in the Gallery tonight Leslie. Will you challenge one of my rulings?'.\" That is an absolutely true story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.950.5", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way to my hon. Friend, but if he gets slung out, I will support him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.950.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "The only reason I intervene is that I am probably the only Conservative Member who knows the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Brown) well. The hon. Gentleman and I have paired for the last nine years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "our party joining in heartily. Indeed, he may have led the singing of \"The Red Flag\". Some of my hon. Friends threw pennies at us. They were the old-style large pennies. Had one of those pennies hit an hon. Member in the eye, it could have knocked it out. That was an act of some violence in the House. Let us get these matters into perspective. I believe that there was a misunderstanding yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "d yourself, Mr. Speaker. If there is to be an agreed statement, surely Mr. Speaker of the day and the Member, whoever he is, should ensure that there is a properly agreed statement, if that is the way in which such statements are to be handled. If we heard what my hon. Friend the Member for Leith said or if we read what he said yesterday, it is clear that he was trying to apologise in his own way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "urely Mr. Speaker of the day and the Member, whoever he is, should ensure that there is a properly agreed statement, if that is the way in which such statements are to be handled. If we heard what my hon. Friend the Member for Leith said or if we read what he said yesterday, it is clear that he was trying to apologise in his own way— [Interruption] I ask all hon. Members not to use a sledgehammer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.960.6", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McAllion", "preceding_text": "I beg to present a petition on behalf of more than 200 midwives and mothers from Dundee who are calling on the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.960.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.960.8", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "Those midwives and mothers are calling on the House to face the facts about the crisis in the country's maternity services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.960.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.960.8", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "Those midwives and mothers are calling on the House to face the facts about the crisis in the country's maternity services— [interruption.] caused by the Government's underfunding of the Health Service in general—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.960.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-20", "file": "debates1988-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "dded5e3eb72f4cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth) has done enough damage today to the reputation of the House without telling me and others how to behave. I distinctly heard the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) who is standing beyond the Bar refer to some of us who abstained, having listened to all the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-20a.961.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's question illustrates the basic weakness in the Labour party's approach to the matter. There is a strong human instinct, which Labour Members had better recognise, that when people have offended by doing harm or damage, or by effecting brutality on other people, they should be \"punished\". That is the word that they use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "It is typical of the Opposition to question the figures. When crime increases, it is said to be all the fault of the Government. When there are signs of a better trend, it is said that they are all to do with demography—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.981.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1012.2", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " time that businesses have been under crippling financial burdens. The level of those burdens will not be altered in any way by the Bill. The Minister for Local Government made it plain that the totality of the tax being collected will remain exactly the same. He is suggesting that the burdens will be shifted about and that the alleged onerous burdens in the north will be transferred to the south—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1012.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1013.4", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "r amendment No. 155 and new clause 6 aim to provide for regulations to allow a discount of up to 100 per cent. to be available to small businesses. I recommend new clause 6 to the House for it enshrines an important new principle. I am persuaded, as is the Labour party, that existing burdens on small businesses can be very damaging, and they will continue to be so under the Government's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1013.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The lower the ceiling that is imposed, the higher the cap that will be imposed on the gainers and the other half of business and industry, as exemplified by my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-West (Dr. Hampson), who is keen to make sure that whatever the transitional arrangements, they are fair as between the losers and the gainers. Secondly, I could make an awful mess of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1033.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1046.5", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "ropean country without a real policy for small and medium firms. France has an SME policy; Germany has its Mittelstandspolitik. Other Governments admit the problems, but ours do not. They have wrongly identified rates as the crucial factor. There is a further problem. Where is the incentive for local authorities to provide better services when the responsibility for the revenue is taken from them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1046.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that it sounds like a good idea. It is designed to make sure that people scream at councils, \"The gearing, watch the gearing.\" It will become a slogan during elections—\"Don't gear us up.\" That will be the phrase that will be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "oll tax accounts—355 per cent. more. The number of payments are likely to increase by nearly 2,000 per cent.—a staggering number. People will have to go on to estates, where they may well be mugged or be in physical difficulty. There are rates arrears of £30 million in Southwark, and I am critical enough of the local council for that. What will be the amount when there is the new system to police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-21", "file": "debates1988-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "db7c44f53638fd47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "nt system. In Committee my hon. and learned Friend said that the present rate support grant system resembled the Schleswig-Holstein question in the last century. It was said that only three people understood it, and that of those one was dead, one had forgotten, and one had gone out of his mind. A former Secretary of State for the Environment admitted that he did not understand the present system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-21a.1083.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-04-22", "file": "debates1988-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "e36402bd192ac0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-22a.1169.4", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "SCOTTISH CONSTITUTION (REFERENDUM) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-22a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "European Fighter Aircraft", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I note what the hon. Gentleman says. I hope that his voice is the real one from the Opposition about welcoming the project. He should have a word with the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer), who appears to he deeply hostile to the project. Perhaps I could leave it to them to sort it out between themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Clause 104", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "t is necessary and, if the clause is ever to be deleted, we should focus attention on the fact that local government must try to put its house in order. If local government goes on making community charge capping necessary, that is real proof that we have weak local government in this country because, by definition, local government which does not co-operate with the Government of the day is weak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Clause 104", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Decapitation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " to the interests of all but their wealthy electors. In such a situation, the public—that is where the debate will go after today—will expect that anyone who can, including Opposition, Government Back-Bench Members and the House of Lords, should take rapid action. We have no doubt that they will. If only we had legislation to cap the Government when they embark upon Irrational, excessive policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Clause 104", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ere. Instead of introducing masses of ever more complex legislation year after year in the search for a system that can be made to work, the Government should perhaps face up to what the Mail on Sunday recommended only yesterday and other papers have recommended before. The way to make councils accountable is to change the electoral system and have proportional representation for local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.63.7", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Clause 127", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "ether, so that we could have talked about all of them. Some of the others are also important, but there will be no time to debate them all. I intend to keep my remarks relatively brief, because I am well aware of the shortness of time, and we want to get through as much as possible. I do not know about the Minister, but I spent considerable time during the past weeks canvassing in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.63.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Clause 127", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ng system and we are determined to bring early relief to domestic ratepayers in Scotland. That is what the change is all about. That is a major shift in Scottish Office thinking. Until now, the Secretary of State has made it abundantly clear that if there are any major changes in the English legislation, inevitably it will mean the holding back or withdrawal and repeal of the Scottish legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Clause 127", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "ng on such grounds. That gentleman objects also on the ground of fairness. As hon. Members will probably realise, that constituent lives on an island. He does not see why he should pay the same as a resident in a town, when I have neither street lighting nor a footpath in front of my house, have no access to recreation and leisure facilities and suffer the obvious penalties of living on an island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.70.4", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Clause 127", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "I have just given the hon. Lady the average figure in Dumfries and Galloway, as quoted by the regional council and the local government information leaflet published last week. That was £210 for Dumfries and Galloway and for the districts therein. That is as accurate as can be ascertained at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.70.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Clause 127", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ind myself agreeing with the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) and, since that is a dangerous position to be in, I shall return to the theme of my speech. Over the weekend I got my poll tax registration form and I have already amassed a whole series of questions to put to the registration officer before I can even contemplate filling it out. Who is the responsible person in my household?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "hes to bring. There is now to be a period of consultation with the local authorities on these proposals, and when that is concluded the Government will bring forward new regulations which will be the opportunity to comment on the final plan. One of the difficulties with this matter has been that, until my statement on 9 March, I did not know what was going on or how much of it was outside the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "As ever, my hon. Friend has made an important point. It is perhaps worth asking the Secretary of State whether his ministerial colleagues are being questioned along with the civil servants. As we know from the recent past that a number of these alleged leaks have not been leaks at all, but deliberate acts authorised by no less a person than the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " of different political parties, I want to list a few examples almost at random. The Association of District Councils has claimed that 150 of its members had schemes affected by the announcement. Nearly 150 local authority projects worth more than £350 million may be abandoned because of the Government's clampdown on leaseback and barter deals. Those are overwhelmingly Tory-controlled authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hannam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hannam", "preceding_text": "eas, the council has proposed three schemes for the provision of new car parks. It has been decided to grant a 125-year lease for office development of council-owned land adjacent to the civic offices on terms requiring the developer to construct a 290-space car park for the council. The important point is that the council will not receive a money consideration. The value of the lease will be set—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again during the remainder of my remarks. After the intervention of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West, I realise that it would be unwise to allow another intervention and thereby prolong the debate. I wish to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "rtant changes to the capital control regime on 9 March without having consultation beforehand. My right hon. Friend was right to take that course because experience shows that local authorities, when we have consulted before making an announcement, have taken advantage of the consultation period to take action to avoid consequences of the controls that we have sought to introduce. In October 1986—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Times on 20 April was highly critical. In a leader on 21 April, The Daily Telegraph called upon the Government, \"to think again.\" In a leading article on 20 April, The Independent stated that the Prime Minister should, pluck up courage and admit that when she and her colleagues committed themselves to the poll tax, they made a mistake. The Guardian described the poll tax as \"a stricken flagship\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": ". The same leader then stated: Today, as the Government stumbles from ridicule to rebellion over the plan, it has achieved none of its primary objectives … The best solution for the Government is to cut its losses and plump, albeit through gritted teeth, for a progressive tax based as much on the ability to pay as on demand for services. The General Synod of the Church of England has also —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Price", "preceding_text": "I know. The hon. Gentleman makes a cogent comment. What happened in Scotland shows exactly what would happen if we had it in England and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.142.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": ". When it is fully implemented, 53 per cent. of households or 9·8 million families in England will gain from the community charge. Critics try to sink the community charge and to dream up as many obstacles as possible. It is a racing certainty that they cannot come up with an alternative that provides fairness and accountability by councillors to those who provide the money that they spend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-25", "file": "debates1988-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "7fefb7d395b518e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "New clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rosie Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rosie Barnes", "preceding_text": "tax is not fair. It is hitting the poorest people in our society the hardest. Only last week I was told by a wealthy single man with two homes that he stood to gain £2,500 as a result of the measure. The people in Greenwich will lose almost universally. A survey of 1,500 people shows that 93 per cent. of the people in Greenwich will lose and 62 per cent. of them will lose by more than £500 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-25a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary for the right hon. Gentleman to say that we should not modernise our existing weapons because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.187.6", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the recent publication \"Over Here\", produced by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, lists 157 such bases, not 66 that the hon. Gentleman mentioned? Will the hon. Gentleman assure us that this army of occupation of 30,000 personnel is not spying on any British citizens or political activities in this country? Will the hon. Gentleman further assure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, dollars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State knows very well that he told the House that, as an integral part of the Boeing deal, more than 4,000 jobs would be created as a result of offset agreements and that contracts worth £1·5 billion would be placed here. He now tells us that the total value of contracts is just over £100 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.190.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.199.5", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "Now that the Local Government Finance Bill—the flagship of our programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ble speech which our right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) made recently, in which he praised the part which the so-called working classes now play in supporting the Government? We all agree with that. However, for the avoidance of doubt, will she confirm that there is still room in the Government and in the Conservative party for the nobility, the gentry and the middle classes?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Central Ordnance Depot, Donnington (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not been implemented.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "eman has made two key points. I rebut his charge that I have not been frank with the House. As I have already said, 12 recommenda-tions were made. I have only just received the report on yesterday's incident. I have said that I will place a copy of it in the Library. When the right hon. Gentleman has a chance to read it, he will see that all the recommendations were accepted because of the nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I have given way sufficiently; the hon. Gentleman must catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In last month's debates on the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East could have spoken in this debate, had he wished to do so. Perhaps he will permit me to finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ". That is the figure published by the Department of Health and Social Security, which gave 16 million as the number of people on low incomes, on the latest figures that were available to it. When that figure is updated as a result of all the changes made because of the social security cuts, we arrive at a figure of 18 million people on low incomes. That includes mothers, children and wage earners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ofessional and managerial employees leaving this country has doubled. Britain contributes more scientists and engineers to what is called the transatlantic brain drain than all other European countries put together. We also know that a former Minister with responsibilities for higher education, when writing in The Times in 1987, said quite specifically about the top rate taxes and everything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ef Secretary identifies is not that we impose top rate tax cuts on those earning more than £50,000 a year. The real answer to that problem is for that money to be used properly to fund science, technology, education and training, our univer-sities and colleges, our Health Service and our medical research. This was not a Budget for meritocracy but a Budget geared more to the aristocracy in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "d when, in one line of one sentence of one clause of this Finance Bill, so few people get so much? In the past, Chancellors have come to the House to say that because revenues are rising, all will benefit and all will share. Other Chancellors have had to come to the House —from both parties—and say that because revenues are falling or because the economy is in difficulty, all must make sacrifices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "educe the gap between the rich and the poor. Cutting tax rates will not necessarily help the poor. It did not help when the Labour party was in power and the so-called rich were paying 98 per cent. tax. Reference has been made to charities. I watched the television programme on Sunday. It is wrong for the Opposition to say that my right hon. Friend said that people should have recourse to charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "e it helps, but the idea is to spread the wealth of the nation. I remind Opposition Members who grin at that remark that in 1979, when we came to power, there were 2·75 million shareholders; I am not talking about rich institutions. Today there are nearly 9·75 million shareholders. That shows the turnround in our economic fortunes. The Labour party does not realise what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A popular appeal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "d in Switzerland. Switzerland! One might expect it there. I believe—and my view is clearly shared, not merely in the parliamentary Labour party but in the country at large —that those who earn substantial sums, and certainly those who have inherited them, have a duty and a responsibility to pay their fair share in taxation. While I cannot deny that reducing the standard rate has a populist appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Watts", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Watts", "preceding_text": "ough have not yet been reached—perhaps refugees from the constituency of the hon. Member for Walsall, North. I had a letter recently from a man who had come from the midlands and had secured a good job in Slough but whose wife and children remained in the midlands. He cannot buy a house in Slough for the amount that his house in the midlands would realise and he has no prospect of council housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that as being statistically accurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of coming on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "The Budget is iniquitous and certainly needs some defending. It has had a conspicuous lack of defence from Conservative Members, and that speaks for itself. The Budget does nothing for the unemployed, the ill or the poor. It does nothing for those on average earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "en they first came to office, double and then treble the number of those out of work? Even now they preside over an unemployment rate that would have been thought beyond belief 10 years ago. How could the Government cut the link between the old-age pension and rises in average earnings, so that a pensioner couple are £14 worse off every week than they would have been under a Labour Administration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "eed incentives to work harder, and that the poor need to be repressed and taxed harder to work harder? What Conservative Member can justify that? The hon. Member for Slough (Mr. Watts) said that the tax cuts meant individuals keeping a little more of what is already owned. I do not think that it was their own in the first place. I think that they hijacked it from the companies for which they work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "rable allowances for earned income. There will he two sets of allowances for capital gains tax exemptions as well. A further tax dodge for the super-rich will be the two zero-rated band for one family. The really wealthy will be able to pass on wealth on the death of the first spouse. It will not pass to the other spouse, but on to the offspring. That is another tax dodge opened up by this Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Finance (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " like us, believe that confiscatory taxes are counter-produc-tive and easily evaded. They, too, believe that lower taxes increase competitiveness, attract managers, encourage entrepreneurs and create new businesses. Opposition Members do not believe that. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East said that there was no study, survey or academic research to show it, but there is. That is not the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Nuclear missiles (Inspections)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "oyment of Soviet SS20 land-based missiles on our continent. In the autumn, flags flew and bands played in Washington, the signatures were appended, and according to the famous words of Mr. Larry Speakes, the world was a little safer as a consequence. Even the Prime Minister, who departed the moment that the Minister came to the Dispatch Box, concluded that that was a historic Arms control measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Nuclear missiles (Inspections)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman was a Minister in the Ministry of Defence his view was that the Russians were ready to come and take us over. That view is not shared by other people; it is not shared by me. Therefore, the argument is clearly that if we had got rid of cruise missiles first, that would not have impeded the Soviet Union in its quest for negotiated agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-26", "file": "debates1988-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "186cea9cf2f4fc70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Nuclear missiles (Inspections)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-26a.315.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "properly the old system paid 100 per cent. of rent. For those not on supplementary benefit but with similar incomes, the calculations were based on 60 per cent. of rent. We were in a position that we all knew was ridiculous—someone was much worse off simply because his income came from work, while his neighbour's came from benefit. Faced with such unfairness or injustice, what can a Government do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "of work, and with the same characteristics or level of income, will receive the same level of help. That must be right, and it is a major achievement. The Opposition funked reform, but my right hon. and hon. Friends, rightly, would have wished me to do what I have been doing in the past few weeks—listening carefully to them. They expect the Government to watch carefully and to monitor the changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "oday, which only affect those above income support level. My right hon. and hon. Friends would expect me to listen carefully, and they have used Parliament and information from their surgeries to draw my attention to problems. They and I would not be surprised if, in the biggest structural change for 40 years, there were not some areas that merited not only concern but action. While they welcomed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.357.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ble groups which have occurred since 1 April. That includes people with capital of less than £8,000 who have been affected by the £6,000 limit which has been in operation since 1 April. In other words, any payments will be backdated to 1 April. This proposal meets the concern which has been emerging at constituency surgeries. These transitional arrangements are announced and the money will be for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.360.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and the Disabled (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and the Disabled (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "preceding_text": "criticisms, or the surprising attack on the Government from the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field), characterising the changes as an attack by the rich on the living standards of the poor, sit with the steady and consistent increase in both the scope and extent of social security under this Government. Today we are spending 40 per cent. more in real terms on benefit than the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and the Disabled (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and the Disabled (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "preceding_text": "ead (Mr. Field), characterising the changes as an attack by the rich on the living standards of the poor, sit with the steady and consistent increase in both the scope and extent of social security under this Government. Today we are spending 40 per cent. more in real terms on benefit than the Labour Government. [Interruption.] We are spending nearly £ 1 billion a week on social security benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "on motion on housing benefit and the Government's amendment to it. I am glad to reply to this debate on the proposals that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State put to the House this afternoon. His response showed clearly the Government's determination to fulfil the pledge that we gave previously, that, as we implement these reforms, we shall listen carefully and be responsive to criticisms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend announced were intended to ease two important situations, where the shoe was pinching as a result of the introduction of the benefits. My hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) starkly contrasted the records of the Conservative and Labour Governments in these matters. Let us look at housing benefit and contrast the Labour record with that of the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) was not a member of that Labour Government, but it is about time that he listened to some of the facts. The total expenditure on housing support, which is rent and allowances, in 1974–75 was £701 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.397.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell the truth.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I know that Opposition Members do not like the facts, but they should try to listen to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "In real terms, the Labour Government's £1·23 billion in 1978–79 represented not an increase, but a reduction of 2 per cent. in expenditure on housing support. The Conservative Government's record shows an increase of 107 per cent. in real terms over the period of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.398.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.398.9", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "The 2 to 3 per cent. increase in real terms during the term of the Labour Government contrasts with the increase of over 50 per cent. in real terms under this Government. The fact is that the Labour party failed when it was in office, and it is failing again. We have provided the resources for housing support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.398.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend considered the possibility of British Rail owning the track and the signalling and other equipment, and private trains running on the line?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.418.6", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that I should put my money where my mouth is. I recollect that Opposition Members used that argument when bus services were deregulated. They said that deregulation would result in no bus services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "were 6·7 million people in inner London, whereas there are now only 3·9 million. They have gone out to the shires. They like it out there. The OPCS spokesman said: The city is becoming more and more of a workplace rather than somewhere to live. One can argue that the same is true of the city of Leicester. Villages in my constituency are becoming more and more interested in computers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.427.7", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "s economic growth in my constituency. New companies are moving into the area and it is a major distribution centre. We need such a link, and we need this kind of support. I draw the House's attention to the fact that these county councils—perhaps unusually because of their different complexions and attitudes—have joined together to control the situation. There was much that I hoped to say tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.427.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) will have a chance to make that point. The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I have not majored on Nottingham tonight, but, if I had, I might have had problems driving through my constituency tomorrow. The first thing is to get the line built to Leicester. That is what we are talking about. One of the arguments that is made about the electrification of the main line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.428.7", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "I was saying, before yet another helpful intervention by my hon. Friend the Member for Hallam, that there is one other argurnent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.428.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.429.5", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "ectrification. Bonavia states: The Midland main line (Bedford to Sheffield) is an electrification scheme that would also be facilitated by the work already done\". This is the work to which I have already referred—the 50 miles of main line which, as he puts it, is now \"under wires\". This would also be a conveniently self-contained project so far as the principal passenger services are concerned\"— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "ne point outstanding with the Bill's promoters, and I hope that it will be cleared up satisfactorily. My hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Patnick) raised a number of points, particularly on the services provided by British Rail for his constituents. He will appreciate that the London-Sheffield timetable and the scheduling of train services are a commercial matter for British Rail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.441.5", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "at it was not the Government's intention to extend licensing hours on Sunday. The reasons that we put forward were never reasons of principle. They were always conceded to be pragmatic reasons. We wanted to make it plain, and we made it plain to the House, that our objective in giving that assurance was to reconcile as many as possible to the passage of the Bill. That was a candidly stated reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.441.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.441.9", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ons, it seems to me to be nonsense to invite the House to disagree with the amendment. It is on that basis that I recommend that we agree with the amendment. The hon. Member for St. Helens, North (Mr. Evans) raised a question about clubs. The amendment does not apply to clubs. I do not recommend that the House should enlarge clubs' opening hours to parallel what has been done to pub opening hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.441.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "It was not an act of deliberate Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "It was not an act of deliberate Government policy— [Interruption.] I heard the sedentary intervention. It was inadvertence. There are two explanations. One is conspiracy, and the other is cock-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "on a Sunday will do harm. They believe that it will add to the enjoyment of living. No doubt this will be so in remote villages and in the genteel suburbs, but the reality for much of the country is different. 10.45 pm I shall limit myself to just one recent report in The Times of 25 April. It is a chilling report, because it shows that what is happening in inner cities is now invading the shires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Walk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "fere with Sundays? Does my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State not feel that granting extra time on Sunday afternoon will add to the problems outlined in the Tamworth speech of the Home Secretary? We are told that extra drinking hours are needed for the convenience of those who want to enjoy a pub lunch on Sunday. It is a delightful idea, but how do they get to and from the pub if not by car?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "opulated by some peculiar families. All the references have been to families who are prosperous, who are childless, and who spend all their Sundays in pubs. There are a good many other things that families can do on Sundays. Families in which there are young children, and where the wife has spent time cooking good food. will be left waiting until the husband arrives home, and they are not asking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.465.8", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Does not all this show just how far Conservative Members are out of touch? Is it not true that the male-dominated household that we are trying to replace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.465.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "they take about five minutes to explain to anybody of average intelligence. The right hon. Gentleman is right. Alcohol ravages our society. Hon. Members know that, because we see it here. We are not supposed to say that any hon. Member gets drunk, but we know that we could stop some of the drunkenness by closing or limiting the opening times of some of the bars in this place. If we shut our eyes—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-27", "file": "debates1988-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e2da330df3055cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "New clause", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that statement. I am anxious to find out why the Government are bending over backwards to protect garages with existing licences. What is the justification?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-27a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-28", "file": "debates1988-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e28b174f8beaf379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " that was the most unfortunate intervention that I have ever heard. He has presumed to stand at the Dispatch Box—speaking, I understand, on behalf of the Opposition—and say that he claims to know all the facts of this matter in advance of the inquest and the evidence. Hon. Members on both sides of the House will have heard the hon. Gentleman say that he knows all the facts. The hon. Gentleman has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-28", "file": "debates1988-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e28b174f8beaf379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "The Minister is aware of the campaign that I have waged for 20 years to end the sectarian divide in education in Northern Ireland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-28", "file": "debates1988-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e28b174f8beaf379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.504.6", "colnum": "504", "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 take up a detailed case with the special unit in the DHSS. It is a highly detailed case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.504.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-28", "file": "debates1988-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e28b174f8beaf379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "nted better standards in the House. The most baseless accusation had been made by the hon. Member for Dover (Mr. Shaw), and surely it is right and proper that he should be forced to apologise. If he is allowed to get away with what he said—which was totally untrue—then surely the wish that you expressed for better standards will go unheeded. The hon. Member for Dover, who does not seem to be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-28", "file": "debates1988-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e28b174f8beaf379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot be held responsible for deciding whether what is said in the Chamber is true or false. I have no knowledge of any resolutions passed today. Every hon. Member must take responsibility for what he says. There are other parliamentary ways for this matter to be dealt with if that is considered necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-28", "file": "debates1988-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e28b174f8beaf379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir. It is in the knowledge of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-28", "file": "debates1988-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "e28b174f8beaf379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "nfusing issues. The issues are critical to much of British industry and the arts, and through them to the nation's creative genius. I understand that the Minister has for some time been trying to break into the area of creative genius in the arts. Because of the unanimity in the House, I wonder whether in his reply he will abandon the political context and sing us his version of \"I Did it My Way\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-28a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-29", "file": "debates1988-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "70e0146a642bdd64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-29a.633.9", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Retail Sales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "It is true that my hon. Friend the Deputy Foreign Secretary could have done just that. Had she done so, it would have been a great advantage because she occupies a much more distinguished place in the Government than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-29a.633.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-29", "file": "debates1988-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "70e0146a642bdd64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-29a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Retail Sales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "What representations did my hon. Friend make to the Chancellor of the Exchequer before his last Budget, proposing that there should be much greater—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-29a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-04-29", "file": "debates1988-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "70e0146a642bdd64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-29a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Retail Sales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " (Access to Information) Bill which he thought was an admirable little measure, and of course I shared that view. But the Prime Minister, towards the fourth year of that Parliament, decided that things were a bit sticky for the Government and that they had better go to the country before they got worse. She went to the country, and, unfortunately for us and the people of Britain, won the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-04-29a.665.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.715.7", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State about the claiming of unemployment benefit by my constituents in Coventry and the west midlands, what about the other side of the coin? How many officers at the jobcentres are employed by his Department to ensure that every unemployed person gets his full entitlement to benefit? What is his Department's advertising budget to ensure a full and fair take-up of employment benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.715.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.715.7", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "employed person gets his full entitlement to benefit? What is his Department's advertising budget to ensure a full and fair take-up of employment benefit? [Interruption.] If allegations are to be made in the Chamber about unemployed workers moonlighting, which activity is not surprising given the poverty level of benefits, I can only says that when every Tory Member of Parliament has only one job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.715.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "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, the actual figures for the poll tax will depend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "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, the actual figures for the poll tax will depend— [Interruption.] for the community charge. I call it the community charge.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.721.7", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find time today to consider further changes in the housing benefit arrangements to take account of the fact that, following the probable sequestration of the assets of the National Union of Seamen, the hon. Members for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.721.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Terrorist Incidents (The Netherlands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend tell those few friends of terrorism on the Opposition Benches—and there are some—that, in this democracy, the vast majority of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Hon. Member for Dover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "If it would help, Mr. Speaker, I should be delighted to clarify certain matters, as you invited me to do last Thursday. It may be that the clarification that I gave last Thursday was not sufficient. It is a matter of slight regret to me that the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) raised the matter today in the way that he did. It seemed to inflame the matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Hon. Member for Dover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "preceding_text": " of intimidation and violence may have occurred, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott), who was in the area all the weekend, has used his best endeavours to defuse the tensions and has completely disassociated himself—and, I understand, the Labour party as a whole—from the acts of violence. If Labour Front Benchers could simply make it clear that they confirm those attitudes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I accept what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says, but my noble Friend has specifically made it clear that his criticism generally in that article was directed at yuppies, not at the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " Own. Nor, I think, has the right hon. and learned Gentleman, unless he is clairvoyant, because it has not yet been published. There is one way in which Opposition Members have been consistent, and I am happy to award them a point for that. Clause 23, which abolishes all higher rates above 40 per cent., has been the subject of repeated and often relatively passionate attacks by Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " they have accused us of creating a more unequal and unfair society. They are wrong. In the 1970s, the price paid for the sort of artificial equality that they sought was high. In their last period in government it meant a fall in living standards for single people at all multiples of average earnings and a virtual standstill in living standards for a married man with children on average earnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.4", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I have been exceedingly generous in giving way so far and I now wish to make progress. That was the price that ordinary working people had to pay under the Labour Government, with their insistence on equality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.6", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "oint and then maximising the political mileage from it. Nobody could exceed my admiration for the hon. Gentleman. He must understand the point, so we are forced to draw the conclusion that he has realised that there is no political mileage for the Labour party in saying anything about the basic rate reduction. Today is the Opposition's final chance to make clear where they stand on the basic rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.6", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "nt to reverse the cut in the basic rate of tax was not the winning slogan that the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook or the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) thought it would be. 5.15 pm The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East is often credited with being cannier than his predecessor. I do not know whether that is correct, but he is certainly quieter. Today is the day of reckoning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.753.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "was academic evidence, the right hon. Gentleman dismissed the views of Professor Brown, a British academic who was good enough to be commissioned by the Treasury to write a report and good enough to be allowed to continue that report even though it was commissioned by a previous Government. The Financial Secretary said, instead, that Professor Lindsey had justified the top rate and other tax cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman may well anticipate a further reduction, and I would not be embarrassed by that. I am a realistic and modest man. I should like to see the figures prove my argument this year, and by the time of next year's Budget we can have another look at the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "hat pervades the Conservative Benches. To hear the hon. Gentleman speak, one would think that a high rate of personal income tax, such as existed under the previous Labour Government and, indeed, under previous Conservative Governments, constituted a positive obligation to act illegally and that people were entitled to avoid the law, to cheat, and to be dishonest because of high rates of taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "r. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "r. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is typical of the Conservative party. Whenever we deal with inheritance taxation the small business man is always in mind. He knows perfectly well that the greatest benefit from inheritance taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.817.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. We now have the poll tax coming at the end of it all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "t need two rates of tax—a so-called basic rate and a higher rate. We want, in common with all other countries that have sense and intelligence regarding taxation, a range of taxation starting lower than the present basic rate and finishing higher than the present higher level. In conclusion, I wish to quote an article from the Financial Times of 19 March 1988. It was written by Mr. Michael Prowse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.818.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "rs, but I shall respond briefly to what the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras has said about it. He is being completely unfair in this matter to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, who has tried very hard to set up the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs. He has been faced with the fact that some hon. Friends, including myself, which I say openly, refuse to serve on the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "without changing Standing Order No. 86. The official Opposition have refused to take such action. That is why my right hon. Friend has had to table the motion. I support the motion, but I believe that my right hon. Friend is wrong not to tackle the problem in a more fundamental way because the Standing Order amendment applies only to the School Boards (Scotland) Bill. But the problem will persist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ninety-one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that there are 182 good reasons why the Secretary of State should be on the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.843.5", "colnum": "843", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": ", and, as I have shown, eminently desirable to get at the truth, but about the Government wanting to reduce the number by one and cutting out a member of the Committee instead of bringing on the available Scottish Member. It is even more strange because I am also serving on a Committee tomorrow, an absolutely Scottish Committee, to consider the Salmon (Weekly Close Time) Scotland Regulations 1988—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.843.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": " five hon. Members to participate in this Standing Committee. Although many Opposition Members have emphasised the role of the Secretary of State for Defence, the right hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger), it is worth noting that the Minister of State, Scottish Office, the hon Member for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (Mr. Lang), has now been released from his responsibilities in Standing Committee D.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-03", "file": "debates1988-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6b98c74f2ba48c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I shall be as helpful and constructive as ever to the Leader of the House. I can offer a way out. The Secretary of State for Defence is far too busy. He has to attend NATO planning groups and he has to go to Brussels and Washington. However, there is one English Member who could contribute a vast amount of knowledge and enlightenment to this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-03a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that we agree with her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not a regular attender at Foreign Affairs Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Legal Aid Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "it is fair that some people's rights should be limited to living on £26·05 a week while the managing director of the Burton group has an unfettered right to live on 60 per cent. of £1·3 million a year is a political question. It has nothing to do with legal theory. It shocks the sense of fairness of any decent person, but it does not infringe the principle of equality before the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": " received no answer. My hon. Friends and I want to hear an answer. Would the Labour party renationalise the Rover Group? The hon. Member for Dagenham asked about Honda. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and my right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State have said on many occasions that Honda welcomed continuity of British—British Aerospace—management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Randall", "preceding_text": "he Minister has not impressed on me the need for the amendments. He has not explained the extent of the problem to which he has referred and which has resulted in the amendments being tabled in another place and accepted by the Government. If there is abuse we would have no truck with it. I notice that the Minister giggles. When we were in Committee the Minister used to become insulting, rude and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You asked for them\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has come up with some statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has come up with some statistics—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You asked for them\".] Hon. Members are baying for an answer and I shall give them an answer, as I always do. The hon. Member has come up with those statistics, and I do not know whether they are just made up. The hon. Member knows much about these matters, because he is a member of the Sub-Committee on Race Relations and Immigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "ston upon Hull, West whether he would support a figure of 600 or whether he would not support a figure of 200. He owes the House an explanation about that. I quoted the figure and evidently the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, West did not listen. What is wrong with the figure? Is it not large enough? Would he like a bigger figure or would he like a smaller one? Will the hon. Gentleman tell us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-04", "file": "debates1988-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "00cc506021700db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "there is no balloting of consumers in trial areas, the trials are compulsory and the powers of right of entry have caused anxiety to many people. I have visited different areas and talked to people about the water privatisation proposals. The one thing that is sticking in their gullets is that power is being given for water authorities to be able to kick somebody's front door down and fix a meter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-04a.987.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1004.6", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "ill the Minister make representations so that the tenants and Scottish and Newcastle will get around the table, and the latter will behave in a decent way towards those tenants? We are also worried about the future of the Daybrook brewery in Nottingham, and the assurances that Scottish and Newcastle has given us may not be worth the paper they are written on. Matthew Brown's brewery in Workington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1004.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1012.9", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must think terrible things of the previous Labour Government, bearing in mind that this Government are spending far more than that Government did on social security and on housing benefit, and that there is a far higher standard of living. What a pity that he did not ask his own Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1012.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In her letter to me this week the Prime Minister said: what matters is the total income of individual people from benefit I agree with that, but how does the right hon. Lady respond to a 76-year-old widow who says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the suggestions by the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) about safety standards are simply untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1022.9", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "pany planning permission that it might not be able to obtain from the relevant planning authorities. The right hon. Gentleman will recall that the last such Bill was the one which gave P and O planning permission for works at Felixstowe dock. On that occasion, Tory Members of Parliament, including the Prime Minister, were whipped to vote for the Bill and the Government sacrificed a day's business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1022.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "—a whole day's business to help the company get its private Bill through. Will the Government take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I am trying to speak, Mr. Speaker. Will the Government take the same attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1023.6", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "It is an—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1023.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1034.7", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. That was a matter of points of order arising out of Question Time. It was completely different from a point of order that calls for immediate attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1034.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1046.3", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "g a decision, is the concern expressed by farmers, particularly in the hills and especially by the sheep industry, about the knock-on effects in lowland areas of the pressure on cereal prices and, hence, the implications for hill areas, which often have no alternative to sheep production, if there were a grazed fallow scheme on arable land which might have the effect of expanding sheep production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": " We are prepared to support British agriculture, and we believe that in the long term our approach is more for the benefit of British agriculture than might appear from the Minister's comments. I deal, first, with the point about the long-term benefits to British agriculture. I emphasise that we are beginning to witness the real costs of the Prime Minister's capitulation at the summit in Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I am happy to assure the hon. Gentleman that I have been present at other agricultural debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1055.6", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "on one small issue. There are sound technical reasons for the abolition of MCAs in the pig sector. In effect, it would mean a green pound devaluation in that sector. I hope that the Minister will press as hard as he can for that. He has our support. For the technical reasons which he explained so well, we believe that the pig regime is different. I should like to conclude on the green pound issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1055.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "I should like to follow the remarks of the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East (Mr. Paice) in two particulars. First, I have abstained from agriculture debates for a few months since the corruption of the Opposition Front Bench gave way to the incorruption of the Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": " UK farming income in 1987 was the second lowest in real terms since the war—over the last five years, the average decline has been 9 per cent. a year. That is not a particularly praiseworthy record. The NFU goes on to say, however, that the package will serve to tighten the screw even further. That is the view of the NFU. The Farmers Union of Wales was even less charitable. On 3 May it responded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-05", "file": "debates1988-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "309084e9ac5cbc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "P and O Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " experience of the ESAs. He was gracious enough to say that experience had shown that his original fear, which was that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was the wrong body to control the ESAs and that it should perhaps be done through a third party such as the Countryside Commission, was groundless. I hope that I can ask him to accept that his fears may be groundless in other areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-05a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "I want to raise a genuine point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1164.6", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "s, he cannot perform that abortion in the hospital or clinic because it is not within the NHS and is not registered to perform abortions. Therefore, the woman will have to be driven in an ambulance some considerable distance to another hospital or clinic where two doctors or gynaecologists will have to certify that it is right that she should have an abortion. Only then will it be performed there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1173.6", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has raised a crucial issue. The Bill came out of Committee largely unchanged. On Second Reading the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) said that it was not his intention to be intransigent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1173.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "legislative roulette in which it is possible that what seems likely to be the general view of the House—that a 24-week period is best—will probably be the last to be voted upon. So, almost by accident, that period may not be reached in spite of its being most probably the general view of the House. I know that a considerable number of hon. Members who are in favour of the Bill have said all along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1186.9", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "In Committee we probed every aspect of the Bill as amended by its sponsors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1186.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Abortion on demand?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "eman makes an interesting point. We feel that there are many other ways of reducing the rate of abortions at a high week level than the way that the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) has chosen. I do not wish to digress, but two of my hon. Friends and I tabled an amendment to introduce self-referral for woman up to the 12th week of pregnancy—that is what happens on the continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I have already indicated that I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "ity\", which is not an objective pointer in terms of the right to life. It is the level at which medical technology can sustain the life of a prematurely born baby rather than the point below which the baby is not a human being with a right to life and above which he or she should be protected by law. I should have liked to say a great deal more, but I am anxious that the Bill should make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "obably a majority in the House for the recommendation of the BMA that the abortion limit should come down to 24 weeks. I would support that, if we could also have exceptions for the hard cases about which we all know—late detection of foetal abnormality or the menopausal woman or young girl who does not know that she is pregnant until very late. What is on offer is enormously different. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1203.7", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If the House does not move to a closure within the next two minutes, it will be denied the opportunity to vote on the amendments. Therefore, I beg to move, That the Question be now put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1203.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wasted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not wish to detain the House. When Mr. Speaker was in the Chair this morning, he said that he would take into account the time that was wasted on petitions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-06", "file": "debates1988-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3959fc70dd59053d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Abortion (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady said earlier that she was in favour of 24 weeks as a reasonable and workable compromise. However, she will have heard the Minister say that 24 weeks in law really means 22 weeks in practice. The figures provided by the professionals show that whereas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-06a.1204.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-10", "file": "debates1988-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d56dcaef29a19aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-10a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Clause 128", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "ning Conservative Governments—because we represent all classes of people. I do not want to be too mischievous, but it is absolutely right for people to create wealth and jobs. It is right that they should be able to leave something to their children without suffering savage taxation. The wealthy will always pay the lion's share, whether it is the community charge, direct taxation or anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-10a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-10", "file": "debates1988-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d56dcaef29a19aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-10a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "preceding_text": "Can we make it clear that Rachman was in the business of evicting tenants, whereas the BES is intended to put tenants into new accommodation? There is no question of \"Rachman-like landlords\". I wish that Opposition Members could get that into their heads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-10a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-10", "file": "debates1988-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d56dcaef29a19aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-10a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Clause 42", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "g tax-relief on home improvements are bound to have a negative effect on the success of these projects by deterring both potential clients from taking up loans and lending institutions from offering them readily. This is a housing association, not a private Rachmanite organisation of any kind. We shall be seeing such organisations, of course, once the business expansion scheme gets off the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-10a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Dock Labour (Amendment and Limitation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Davis (Boothferry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Davis (Boothferry)", "preceding_text": "re are a number of other sad practices that add to the costs of the docks. One of them is known as \"bobbing\" or, in my constituency port of Goole, as \"welting\". It is caused by the labour board instructing the docks as to how many people they can employ to do a certain job. The board always instructs too many so that, for example, a Swedish liner service out of Goole has 27 people allocated to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Dock Labour (Amendment and Limitation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "n the interests of those whom I represent. Today, Mr. Speaker, you unveiled a bust of the late Ernie Bevin, who was once Foreign Secretary. I disagreed with him on a number of things. As the leader of the Transport and General Workers Union and the architect of the national dock labour scheme, however, I know that he is held in the greatest respect in the minds of dockers and working-class people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " emergency, I am informed that on 24 January the P and O vessel the Pride of Dover sailed from Calais to Dover 15 per cent. down on its basic catering staff manning levels despite an almost full capacity passenger load. I am advised also, as one of the many other examples which have reached my office in the past few days, that bosun Frank Franklin signed off sick from the Pride of Free Enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.333.3", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ion both parties are able to protect what they consider to be their fundamental interests. No doubt the NUS and P and O did that throughout the prolonged negotiations leading up to the company's letter to its employees on 14 April. Arbitration takes away that protection and hands over judgment on vital commercial matters to outsiders with no stake whatever in the success or failure of the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I know of the hon. Gentleman's interest in and knowledge of this subject. If people are prepared to go to arbitration at some stage, that is a matter for them; it is a decision for the parties concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "preceding_text": " the union is held. Recently, I was proud to attend the one hundredth anniversary of the NUS in Aberdeen. It was a very moving occasion, when representatives of the city from all walks of life paid tribute to the work of the union. I have no hesitation in saying that the city of Aberdeen supports the dispute. Last week there was a benefit concert. for the NUS which more than 1,300 people attended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "ould be concerned. Is it true, as the Labour party has said in its statements, that men can be required to work for 18 hours non-stop? Of course it is not true. They have 10 hours off and six hours off for sleep are guaranteed, except in emergencies. Out of a 24-hour period, the normal working period would be 14 hours, but that 14-hour period would be broken up by meal breaks and by a sleep break.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.348.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.349.6", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has got to do it. If he wants it, let him have it. He must say now—I shall give way to him if he wishes—that he will go to Sam McCluskie and the Dover port committee and ask for a secret ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.349.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The NUS has made it clear that, when agreement has been reached in negotiations, the matter will be put to the members in a secret ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "e asking why the Labour party called on the labour movement to show solidarity in every possible way. Many of my constituents are wondering what that solidarity meant, particularly as that statement was made following acts of violence and intimidation, which have continued since it was made. Many people are beginning to ask what the Labour party has done in this dispute. Has it helped to solve it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "solidarity in every possible way. Many of my constituents are wondering what that solidarity meant, particularly as that statement was made following acts of violence and intimidation, which have continued since it was made. Many people are beginning to ask what the Labour party has done in this dispute. Has it helped to solve it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it issued statements condemning violence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": " that statement was made following acts of violence and intimidation, which have continued since it was made. Many people are beginning to ask what the Labour party has done in this dispute. Has it helped to solve it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it issued statements condemning violence? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported Sealink employees who have been prevented from working by secondary action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "h have continued since it was made. Many people are beginning to ask what the Labour party has done in this dispute. Has it helped to solve it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it issued statements condemning violence? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported Sealink employees who have been prevented from working by secondary action? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the 1,100 seamen who want to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "as done in this dispute. Has it helped to solve it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it issued statements condemning violence? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported Sealink employees who have been prevented from working by secondary action? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the 1,100 seamen who want to work? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the 700 officers, and their union, who want to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "atements condemning violence? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported Sealink employees who have been prevented from working by secondary action? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the 1,100 seamen who want to work? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the 700 officers, and their union, who want to work? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the many trade unionists who want a secret ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"' No, it has done something. It has used the dispute to fight the leadership election for the Labour party. Eight Labour Members— [Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "s it supported Sealink employees who have been prevented from working by secondary action? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the 1,100 seamen who want to work? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the 700 officers, and their union, who want to work? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Has it supported the many trade unionists who want a secret ballot? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] What has the Labour party done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because I am coming to the end of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a brief statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"An interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a brief statement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] After an intervention earlier today by the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), I asked Mr. Deputy Speaker, on a point of order, whether it was in order for somebody who had not declared a possible interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "aragraph 21, a more fundamental objection to the Bill, which is in line with the objections being made by the other group of petitioners to which I shall now refer. I shall refer to those petitioners, if you will forgive me, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as political petitioners because their petitions are purely political and have nothing to do with the technical aspects of the works that I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.391.5", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "l terminal at Richards Bay in Durban, and on behalf of those hon. Members who may one day see the coal that is produced in the mines in their constituencies being afforded the same sort of exporting coal facility at the port of Immingham. I should dearly like to see a Richards Bay at Immingham, and not one in South Africa. That is why I invite Opposition Members to consider the points that I make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "er political petitioners such as Calor Gas and Conoco Ltd. The hon. Gentleman mentioned his visit to South Africa. He should recall that it is recorded in the Register of Members' Interests that he visited America not too long ago as a guest of Conoco. Twice during his speech the hon. Gentleman said that with regard to his visit to South Africa we should look at the Register of Members' Interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that point, but I gather that I must leave time for the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes, who is sponsoring the Bill, to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-11", "file": "debates1988-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "879a9c6e74d00942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": " discussion among member states. Two levels of VAT in broad bands are proposed to allow member states some latitude. They also acknowledge the possible need for some derogations from the VAT rules, especially in relation to zero rating. Fair enough. But it is incredible that they do not include children's shoes among the lower band or the social goods band. Children's feet have to last a lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-11a.428.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.461.4", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "As the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.497.5", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I give the hon. Gentleman Luxembourg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "City of London (Spitalfields Market) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is for the hon. Gentleman to make his speech. We have been hearing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "City of London (Spitalfields Market) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am happy to say that Spitalfields is a place not only to which I go, but which I go through regularly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "City of London (Spitalfields Market) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "As part of my preparation for the debate, I took it upon myself to contact my hon. Friend and he spent many hours briefing me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "City of London (Spitalfields Market) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "could be enjoyed by the community, the doors are shut. That is not enriching a community; that is giving to the community a perpetual reminder of what it does not have. That is the sad aspect of that development. That constant reminder of a different lifestyle which is not available to the people of Spitalfields makes us angry. The final indignity displayed in Aldgate Barrs is an advertising sign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "City of London (Spitalfields Market) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bowis", "preceding_text": "ge as to tempt market traders from other markets. To some extent, we have achieved that in our discussions and I welcome the assurance given by my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Highgate on the space needed and the pourboire—if that is the right word—to encourage existing traders to go. I hope that he will confirm that that will not be available to traders who trade at markets elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.556.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Torture and Inhuman Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ly endorse. Even in 1988, there have been allegations of torture in four member states of the Council of Europe—here in the United Kingdom, in Spain, in Italy and, above all, there have been numerous allegations of torture taking place in Turkey. It is peculiar, and, strangely enough, disturbing, that Turkey should be the first state to ratify this convention. It does seem paradoxical and strange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.568.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "joyment—by the panoply of anti-trade union legislation that has been enacted by this Administration. The onslaught against shop floor organisation has involved victimisation—for example, of the conveners Derek Robinson at Longbridge, Ian Schofield at Solihull and my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, North-East at Unipart. They were all sacked for carrying out their trade union responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-12", "file": "debates1988-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "325811f728ce7898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "of the Duchy of Lancaster praised Graham Day, the current boss of Rover. Mr. Day was brought in to speed up privatisation; he was brought in as an undertaker disguised as a physiotherapist. While his knighthood might now be just a formality, for my money the man is a butcher. After he had been three years in charge of British Shipbuilders, the work force fell from 65,000 to 10,000. Since May 1986—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-12a.577.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-16", "file": "debates1988-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a997203115638214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-16a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Evidence (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "idence put before it. Those hon. Members who followed the debate on the Bill in the other place will have noticed the references ma de by my noble and learned Friend the Lord Advocate to the position of civil juries in questions of hearsay evidence. The Lord President of the Court of Session said that civil juries in the Court of Session might have some difficulties in evaluating hearsay evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-16a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-16", "file": "debates1988-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a997203115638214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-16a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Evidence (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "tial, never quite understanding what hearsay evidence was. I am only glad to think that no one was successfully convicted as a result of any of my recommendations. The matter was incomprehensible to me then, as it is now. I hope that we shall not make major changes in the rules of hearsay evidence, other than what is proposed in the Bill. I listened carefully to my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-16a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-16", "file": "debates1988-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a997203115638214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-16a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Evidence (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "se it is a summary of evidence likely to be available from a witness. It is different in nature from a statement uttered by a witness. On family relationships and actions and whether evidence is needed from someone other than a party to the marriage, the present system exists to guard against the risk of collusion between the two parties. The evidence can be wholly or partially from a third party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-16a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.792.4", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I could not have put it better myself. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are still waiting to hear from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.792.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.796.7", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that parents expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.796.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.798.11", "colnum": "798", "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 am glad that the right hon. Gentleman welcomes the cut in interest rates. He will note that we have taken interest rates down three times in the last two months. I am sure that he would like a detailed reply. My right hon. Friend and I entirely agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.798.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.798.13", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the Opposition does. The right hon. Gentleman asked about exchange rate policy. It is a part of overall economic policy. As I indicated a moment ago, he will note that we have taken interest rates down three times in the last two months. That was clearly intended to affect the exchange rate. We use the available levers, both interest rates and intervention, as seems right in the circumstances and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.798.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "to hear the Prime Minister draw attention to the three cuts in interest rates in the past two months. Two months ago I asked her whether she would intervene or use interest rates to bring down the pound and she said that intervention \"would lead to inflation\" and interest rate action could not deal with the matter because it would not be in the \"interests of inflation\" to do so. Is she now saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.799.5", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman is entirely the master of his subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.799.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "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": "ritish Steel being privatised as a single entity or remaining in state hands as a single entity. The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) disagrees with me on the main point and would like to see the company remain state owned. Will he say whether the Opposition say that BSC should remain a single entity? Does he support the arguments of his hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell, South (Dr. Bray)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must accept that his right hon. Friends are responsible for the legislation. This is not our Bill. As we have said, if this monopoly is to be maintained, it is clear that, on this and other grounds, the right answer for the British steel industry is for it to remain in public ownership. Let us be clear about that. Any other question is hypothetical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "The market, the research analysts and those who follow steel pricing will be disappointed with that intervention, because they already see the faith of the hon. Member for Motherwell, South slipping a little. In his first speech, he said that Ravenscraig was \"fully competitive\". Now he says that Ravenscraig is viable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Minister for having missed the beginning of his speech. I was in the Lobby reading his Department's press release regarding the new special share and employee share arrangements, as it had just been handed to me by a journalist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I am about to refer to the new clause and, more particularly, to what it is about, which is the future of Ravenscraig. The closure of Ravenscraig is of prime importance to the political future of Scotland. That is what it is all about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.849.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it your wish that the new clause be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "by the Government. I was pleased to hear the Minister announce that there is a possibility that the Government will maintain a shareholding. Clearly we welcome that. We prefer them to maintain as big a shareholding as possible and for as long as possible—certainly until Labour returns to power, when we shall know what action to take with the shareholding. The golden share is a different provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-17", "file": "debates1988-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b031fef7ec1440dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "he inadequacy of his comments. To assume that we were thronging the Library at 3.30 pm to skim through the parliamentary answers is an excuse designed to disguise the total shabbiness of the manoeuvre of leaking information in that way. It is always possible to tell when something nefarious is afoot. It is leaked in a written answer to a stooge question asked by a page boy in this particular case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-17a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.936.4", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "There was never any question of the valuation being carried out in-house. The decision was taken to employ experts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.936.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.936.4", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "There was never any question of the valuation being carried out in-house. The decision was taken to employ experts. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because they are experts in valuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.936.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.936.12", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "When the Minister next meets the chairman of the British Olympic Association, will he impress on him the importance of the British Olympic Association assisting the elimination of the taking of drugs—particularly anabolic steroids—by sportsmen in the United Kingdom? Does the Minister share my worry about the possible effects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.936.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.937.4", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": " consider whether the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 controls are appropriate. The BOA wholly supports the recommendations of the inquiry that I undertook with Sebastian Coe, and the Sports Council has now implemented them. The BOA is committed to testing being undertaken by independent sampling officers, to the random selection of competitors and, most important, to testing outside Olympic competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.937.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.940.3", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The figures for Newham show that at the end of 1987 there were 2,764 void dwellings and 575 households in bed-and-breakfast accommodation. The answer to the problem is perfectly clear—those homeless people could have been housed in the empty properties in Newham.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.940.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I would be happy to give the hon. Lady the global figures, but they mean little unless one directs them to the number of houses to which they are applicable. The total figures for Exchequer contributions to council housing in 1981–2 was £1·3 billion and in 1987–88, £0·8 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.946.5", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "ing to do with hooliganism. It is fair to say that the hooligan element is not a football fan element but a criminal element. Regrettably that criminal element has done enormous damage to our national game and to our reputation, not least at Heysel. I am determined to take every possible measure to ensure that the innocent are protected and that at every opportunity we bring to book the criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.946.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support. There will never be a time when the Government can guarantee the behaviour of fans in Europe. However, I hope that the comprehensive package of measures to deter hooliganism will result in UEFA recognising that there has been a satisfactory improvement in our national game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are not on the football terraces here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.949.9", "colnum": "949", "heading": "\"The House Magazine\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about the portcullis?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not prepared to answer any questions about The House Magazine. It is absolutely nothing to do with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.949.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "\"The House Magazine\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "During questions today, Mr. Speaker, you had occasion to reprimand me. I have no reason to cause you any aggravation and I respect this House very much. You know and I know, because we have had a private conversation on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "\"The House Magazine\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "During questions today, Mr. Speaker, you had occasion to reprimand me. I have no reason to cause you any aggravation and I respect this House very much. You know and I know, because we have had a private conversation on this matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—that I will continue to shout, \"Shut up, Skinner,\" as long as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "\"The House Magazine\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It would be unwise if private conversations were exposed in the Chamber because then they would hardly be private. I must advise the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "\"The House Magazine\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It would be unwise if private conversations were exposed in the Chamber because then they would hardly be private. I must advise the hon. Gentleman— [Interruption.] Order. I say to the House that it is a great disservice while the Chair is seeking to concentrate—a high level of concentration is required at Question Time—if hon. Members continually seek to cause distractions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.950.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "debate is reminiscent of the \"them and us\" mentality that has characterised the Labour party's industrial relations policy for many years. In many respects, it harps back to the days when that sort of tokenism caused some difficulties. Labour Members, particularly as the party is presently constituted, always assume that the Government and the Conservative party are somehow anti-union and opposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "Not necessarily. I do not see how the hon. Gentleman's question conflicts with my last point. I emphasised that we select on merit. I have already said that someone like Jack Eccles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The two amendments together deal with employee share ownership. It is nice to see the Secretary of State for Scotland here for this important debate, although if he is to be present, I hope that he will listen and not talk. He has not shown a great deal of interest in the Scottish steel industry so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ect to an overall limit of 10 per cent. of the shares on offer in the flotation. There are 52,000 employees in British Steel. If one takes the minimum £70 giveaway, its value will total about £3·5 million. If that sum represents 10 per cent. of the shares on offer, the minimum flotation value will be £35 million. I hope that the Chancellor intends that the figure should be higher than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I need to detail exactly who said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": " shares in formerly nationalised companies that have been privatised. That is probably why there are slightly more representatives on the Tory side of the House than there are on the Opposition side. The Opposition cannot have it both ways. They cannot say that there is no demand for share ownership, and then say that, if there is, the employees should have a third of the shares. That is nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was robust tokenism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for South Ribble (Mr. Atkins)—in whose constituency is that famous bus company—attacked the Opposition earlier for tokenism. I have heard of tokenism, but, by God, the Chancellor of the Duchy's speech was the best piece of tokenism that I have heard from any Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1043.7", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Steel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Long speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "hich he is seeking to create for the Labour party. In the context of the debate on the enabling Bill for the British Steel Corporation, he did not tell us exactly what the Labour party will do for the future. We have had to admire him, because he has talked about everything except the issue. We have not heard whether the Labour party will renationalise the BSC, and the House is aware of that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1043.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": ". For instance, Tayside has opted for an NCR system, and I wonder whether it is paying extra for that equipment. I am also worried about the misinformation which is being put out about the community charge, its likely cost and the way it will be administered. During the local government election recently the Scottish National party, true to form, put out its usual bunch of lies in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "ents who are on the threshold of life and who are trying to get an education will be frightened to put their names to anti-poll-tax campaigns because the Government may use the information to compile the register. What else could the Government use the information for? They could use it for many other purposes. The Minister must tell the House and the country how the Government will use petitions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "They have put in some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1056.4", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": ". of the community charge is deeply offensive because since 1981 the real value of student grants has fallen by about 21 per cent, and there is to be no increase in the grants in Scotland in the first year for which the community charge is payable. I know of students at St. Andrew's university who genuinely face hardship as a result of the low level of grants on which they are now forced to exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1059.6", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": ". That is a range of words, but the Minister used the word \"exemptions\" because the students get grants from the Scottish Office. I want an assurance from the Minister, because I predict that there will be enormous difficulties in determining who is a student. I suspect that when the Scottish Office is faced with that problem it will go to its central records of those who apply for student grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1059.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You will be well aware of the fact that Conservative Members who have been present throughout the debate have tried to get involved in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I seek your advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1061.11", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "preceding_text": " rates at the same level as is paid in Humberside. When the poll tax is introduced in Humberside, Northern Ireland ratepayers will pay domestic rates at the same level as the poll tax levied in Humberside. Those parents will then be required to provide additional financial assistance for their sons or daughters attending mainland universities. I understand that that could amount to as much as £70—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1061.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1063.4", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "r Renfrew, West and Inverclyde asked whether that was chickenfeed. I point out that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science has been conducting a survey of student expenditure, which discloses that 60 per cent. of students already pay something towards rates in their rent payment. The average payment is between £70 and £80. I hope that that puts the matter in context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1063.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1063.4", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": " help through the social security system. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central asked about the young person with an income of £29 per week, suggesting that he would have to pay £7 per week community charge. That, as the hon. Gentleman must be aware, is totally misleading and inaccurate, as it takes no account of that person's entitlement to rebate. The rebate details have not yet been published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1063.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-18", "file": "debates1988-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc20822fa0666185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Charge (Students)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "s about the registration process as it affects students. I am informed that the hon. Member for Garscadden held a press conference in Scotland today at which he characterised the registration process as going badly, simply because the Government have not claimed that it is going well. I assure him that we have, and it is. Registration for the community charge is proceeding smoothly and as planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-18a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister satisfied with the effect on the pound/deutschmark rate of the interest rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1098.6", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "When the Leader of the House answered the question about a debate on the defence Estimates, I fear that he misunderstood the point that was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson). There has been a revelation through the media—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1098.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House recall that in the summer recess I wrote to him about what was to happen to the Short money for the Opposition parties? The delay has been exaggerated once again, after all these months, because of the leadership crisis in the SLD. Although we in the Labour party fully understand that we might have to wait for the money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your leadership crisis?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "House recall that in the summer recess I wrote to him about what was to happen to the Short money for the Opposition parties? The delay has been exaggerated once again, after all these months, because of the leadership crisis in the SLD. Although we in the Labour party fully understand that we might have to wait for the money— [Interruption.] —none of it will come to me; it is for the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1129.6", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": "t that was done. Whatever way one looks at it, a substantial tranche of public money has gone to the British shipbuilding industry; that cannot be gainsaid. I shall speak about my own area. My earliest memory of the shipbuilding industry was watching the launch of the Ark Royal in about 1950–51, when Cammell Laird employed about 20,000 people and was the hub of the town in which I was born.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1129.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "European Community (Finance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "is approach we would seek approval for the own resources decision through a Bill while separately presenting a special Estimate and Consolidated Fund Bill to cover our IGA contributions. The procedure for approval of the 1984 IGA would provide a precedent for that. I imagine that most hon. Members would feel, as I do, that the composite Bill approach would be preferable to the decoupled approach.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "European Community (Finance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "As the Paymaster General might say, I am indeed coming to that point. I am sure that the hon. Member for Clwyd, North-West (Sir A. Meyer) would not wish me to break the logic of my exposition. On the social fund, I should like to raise a matter that was brought to the attention of my hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Mr. Richardson), by the Glamorgan women's workshop for high technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "European Community (Finance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Liberal party did not take such a position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-19", "file": "debates1988-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "8048c25c58011f25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "European Community (Finance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Liberal party did not take such a position—[HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I was among those of my hon. Friends who ensured that it never will take such a position. I am happy to confirm that we do not stand by the commitment to which the right hon. Gentleman referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-19a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-20", "file": "debates1988-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8a17c4a2056f9d68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-20a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "orities recognise that a good range of good quality bookshops, record shops and cinemas are as much part of our arts life as public sector provision. Yet the Minister did not mention that. The Government do not have a policy or a vision. I looked through the Minister's speech at the Council of Regional Arts Associations conference in Newcastle last night and it is a deeply ill-judged, unhappy one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-20a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-20", "file": "debates1988-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8a17c4a2056f9d68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-20a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "our arts life as public sector provision. Yet the Minister did not mention that. The Government do not have a policy or a vision. I looked through the Minister's speech at the Council of Regional Arts Associations conference in Newcastle last night and it is a deeply ill-judged, unhappy one. [Laughter.] The arts world has certainly perceived it as such, and many were depressed and disgusted by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-20a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-20", "file": "debates1988-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8a17c4a2056f9d68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-20a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "eport on arts in the inner cities. Mr. Collard produced an excellent report within eight weeks. What happened to the report? Because it paid tribute to local authorities and said that they had a key role to play, the Minister suppressed it—or rather, I think that he caved in to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, who said that it would be published over his dead body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-20a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "May I tell the right hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.15.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "heir staff. The accommodation here is disgraceful. If we were subject to the health and safety regulations, most of the accommodation in the Palace would be shut down. We should also have basic facilities for the large number of staff working in the Palace, for example, a shop, so that hon. Members, instead of limping to the back of a queue late at night to get a bottle of milk and a bit of bread—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.21.12", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Can I ask you to reflect on the ruling that you have just given to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) in light of the fact that I have an agreement with your Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.21.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": " Let the hon. Gentleman work it out. The figure of 20,000 goes into that figure about four times. Let me quote what was said by the hon. Gentleman's right hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine): I am far from persuaded that building more and more houses—that fewer and fewer of our children can afford—actually addresses the problem\". The right hon. Member for Henley knows full well that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "en to an all-time low of about 2·1 per cent. For almost all our competitors, it is over 3 per cent., and in places such as West Germany and many other parts of Europe it is about 6 per cent. We are investing less in housing than almost any comparable country in North America or Europe. The Government say that the answer lies in the Housing Bill, as we see in their rather pathetic amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surprise, surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "ur majority on the East Staffordshire District Council for most if not all of the time. I am pleased to see that in the Burton Mail the Conservative councillor concerned said: I have no wish to be associated with the contents of this letter. Full marks to him. I note that the hon. and learned Member for Burton said in the Burton Mail that this letter was intended only for a Conservative colleague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.36.16", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about repairs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "o the average—if it were no better than the average—the equivalent of another 1,800 properties to let would be produced. I doubt whether the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) will disagree with me about this. That figure just happens to be a little more than Southwark's bed-and-breakfast list. If, therefore, it could manage its property properly, it could solve the problem now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.36.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why give those powers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I could speak at great length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Unless the hon. Lady gives way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.71.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "rtant than criminal matters. Taking away this small portion of work would greatly ease the burden on the Crown court system. The new system would build up its own expertise. 11.15pm At present, the Crown court cannot compel the attendance of witnesses, documents and so on. Anyone who wishes to compel attendance must issue writs through the High Court, which is a time-consuming and costly business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "a tribunal over the Crown court would be the lessening of the enormous cost of dealing with firearms applications. It has been a tactical advantage in some cases to refuse certificates, knowing that the costs would be £2,000 or £3,000. That is unacceptable. An important possibility has been opened up by the new clause. I hope that the Government intend to go down that route, as it is badly needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "at there is a great deal of disquiet among the shooting public and also a great deal of disagreement with the police in Great Britain generally over the use of firearms. Most of those who have high-powered rifles know how dangerous they can be, and they are very careful in their use, but there is always somebody who is not. I have been given a large amount of correspondence on the use of firearms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "careful in their use, but there is always somebody who is not. I have been given a large amount of correspondence on the use of firearms. [Interruption.] I am troubled by the fact that the correspondence shows that few policemen appear to have real knowledge of the behaviour of bullets when they strike and ricochet. I have a report, written by a major who is clearly a man who knows about firearms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-23", "file": "debates1988-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "4d3e5d95366918f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": " the Bill has reached this stage of its life with so many amendments still to be considered. We have been talking for five hours and have reached only the fourth of 36 groups of them. I cannot agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr. McNair-Wilson) that the Government were right to bring in the Bill when they did. It would have been much better if they had delayed bringing it forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-23a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that those who have spent their lives in Devon, unlike my hon. Friend the Member for South Hams (Mr. Steen)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is unqualified support for his policy of modernising the British nuclear deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.191.11", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for his kind words. It was, of course, an expression of personal beliefs and views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.191.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that the right hon. Gentleman debases everything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that speech that we simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others, and that therefore there is a very important place both for help through the state—which we operate—and personal help and personal responsibility. The right hon. Gentleman asked me personally. Perhaps he will kindly look at the amount which I have voluntarily forgone from my salary over the past nine years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.192.8", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "arge Bill for Scotland went through their Lordships' House completely, and was revised in their Lordships' House, before the election. We put in our manifesto plans that went into far greater detail because a similar Bill had already been through their Lordships' House. I believe that there is no such difficulty as the right hon. Gentleman suggests. I believe that yesterday we won on the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.192.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "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 not be surprised to hear that I do not agree with him about the premise which underlines his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Scottish Bus Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "s and the lawyers to decide. I should like an explanation of what the word \"likely\" means. The Government propose to insert that a trade union has, without the support of a ballot, authorised or endorsed any industrial action\". I do not know what that means. There are all kinds of industrial action—for example, action declining to do voluntary overtime, working to rule, working without enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sellafield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "preceding_text": "ged by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 so to do. If they work in dangerous conditions, they are contributing to an accident if one happens. Disputes on the shop floor often lead to discussion, negotiation and an eventual settlement, making for safer working conditions to the advantage of the employer and employee. There are people who will work in any conditions regardless of the risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.237.6", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"The hon. Gentleman supports that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "act that Cabinet Ministers get 20 per cent. or 30 per cent. The Government are concerned about wages having increased by about 8 to 9 per cent. in the last financial year. The Secretary of State was rabbiting on about it the other day, although he has not yet got the guts to say what he wants to say, which is that he wants to introduce a wages policy. Without any question whatever, the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.237.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.237.6", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A wages policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "overnment are concerned about wages having increased by about 8 to 9 per cent. in the last financial year. The Secretary of State was rabbiting on about it the other day, although he has not yet got the guts to say what he wants to say, which is that he wants to introduce a wages policy. Without any question whatever, the Government—[HON. MEMBERS:\"The hon. Gentleman supports that.\"] Supports what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.237.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "preceding_text": "I wish to put right one or two of the Opposition's misconceptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Gentleman to the Second Reading debate, in which I was asked precisely that question. I answered it then, as the hon. Gentleman would discover if he studied Hansard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.239.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.243.7", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "preceding_text": "Well, what he said was irrelevant to the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.243.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.293.6", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"ILEA.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "casion when I oppose the handing out of the money. We are witnessing the same vindictiveness as the Government showed when they decided to get rid of the GLC. They said, \"What's happening over there across the river? They are causing us some trouble. They want to bring down fares for Londoners. We shall put a stop to that by abolishing the council.\" They have introduced the same sort of proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.293.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.293.6", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The BBC.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "re witnessing the same vindictiveness as the Government showed when they decided to get rid of the GLC. They said, \"What's happening over there across the river? They are causing us some trouble. They want to bring down fares for Londoners. We shall put a stop to that by abolishing the council.\" They have introduced the same sort of proposals—[HON. MEMBERS: \"ILEA.\"] Yes, the same was true of ILEA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.293.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-24", "file": "debates1988-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "d07cd9f007764c6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.293.6", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "t of proposals—[HON. MEMBERS: \"ILEA.\"] Yes, the same was true of ILEA. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The BBC.\"] In their dealings with the BBC and all the rest of it the Government have shown arrogance and contempt. There is no end to what they will do to try to stop people—even democratically elected trade union leaders—standing up to them. Conservative Members stand need talking about elections and democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-24a.293.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.310.5", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " he still argued whether it was a priority? Is it not a dangerous exercise in obstinacy to try to go back on that, as he is now apparently doing? Has not the message about the Government's unacceptable social and constitutional policies been proclaimed loud and clear this morning in the unanimous decision of the Church of Scotland not to invite the Prime Minister to the General Assembly next year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.310.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "al answer the Minister referred to published figures. Where are they published, and what are they? As far as I am aware, there has been only some speculation in The Sunday Times, which is virtually a Conservative party house journal. Given the depressing spectacle in another place earlier this week of reactionary hereditary power being marshalled cynically to frustrate the views of public opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.318.6", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has a very good memory. We do not rule out a national house condition survey on principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.318.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "bers on both sides of the House and by local authorities in the north of all political persuasions. People have worked together for the common good, and particularly for Manchester airport. I am saddened by the breakdown of that approach. Manchester airport now has a board of directors which includes 16 Labour councillors, one Conservative councillor and one Social and Liberal Democrat councillor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "ion between the police, the Foreign Office, the embassy and members of the diplomatic corps. It was promised then that every effort would be made to alleviate the problem. Since then nothing has been done to alleviate the problem. Some prosecutions have been brought, but most of them have failed, and virtually no prison sentences or punishments have been given, although there have been one or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "This is not a particularly happy evening for my right hon. Friend the Lord President of the Council, but I want to assure him at the outset that I shall be happy to join him in the Division Lobby to ensure the prosecution of this proposal. I shall do so for a number of reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to delay the House long because I am aware that we want to get to the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": " flexible about SLRs. It has been rightly pointed out many times that, in Committee, my hon. Friend was flexible and understanding on all the important issues in the Bill—or appeared to be—and he made concessions which we all recognise have vastly improved the Bill. In its initial drafting the Bill must rank as one of the worst ever brought before the House. Why is my hon. Friend sticking on SLRs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.406.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.439.5", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "ty and accept this sensible and socially acceptable new clause which would do his reputation—which has been much tarnished during the passage of the Bill—an enormous amount of good and restore his high standing in some respects. If the Government refuse to accept the spirit of the new clause, they will plunge from the heights of morality that the Prime Minister claimed for her party the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.439.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend the Minister tonight. The first, to which my hon. Friend the Minister has refused to respond so far, is about the disabled. Will my hon. Friend explain why the Government support the Sports Council and the Central Council for Physical Recreation and do everything to encourage recreation and sport for the disabled, yet turn their backs on the disabled in the matter of rifle shooting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.458.8", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is wriggling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ifle that falls within the category and would be certified as such by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. The idea that numerous people possess these limited self-loading rifles is an illusion, if only because they do not exist in great numbers. What my hon. Friends want is something different. They want a larger self-loading rifle. My hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries wants the Garand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.458.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for all the remaining Government amendments—there are 47 still on the Order Paper—to be swept through on the nod as if they were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.461.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.461.5", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Every one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I only asked a question. Does any hon. Member wish to divide the House on any Government amendment, and if so, on which ones——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.9", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. 39.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I understand the precedent in this matter, the last occasion on which Standing Order No. 35 was acted upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.9", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I understand the precedent in this matter, the last occasion on which Standing Order No. 35 was acted upon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No. 39.\"]—I accept that correction-was after five Divisions. Tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.9", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I understand the precedent in this matter, the last occasion on which Standing Order No. 35 was acted upon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No. 39.\"]—I accept that correction-was after five Divisions. Tonight— [Interruption.] I do not know what the hilarity on the Conservative Benches is all about, but it shows the arrogance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.11", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put on the hat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I want to draw your attention to the fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.11", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I want to draw your attention to the fact that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Put on the hat.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.465.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not seek to challenge your ruling, but I seek your guidance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not seek to challenge your ruling, but I seek your guidance [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] When they have quietened down, hon. Members may realise that I am seeking to make an important point. As I understand the procedure that will now follow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-25", "file": "debates1988-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f96ee752beb12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "You, Mr. Deputy Speaker, informed the House that \"Erskine May\" contained the necessity of a record to be kept of those who had voted against. We are simply asking that that information be imparted to the House on each occasion. Is there no obligation on the Chair or on the Table—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-25a.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.504.6", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "I have accepted that deprivation and unemployment in Northern Ireland are significantly greater on average than in the rest of the United Kingdom. That does not alter the fact that because we are targeting the benefits more specifically at families in low-paid work and families with children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.504.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The hon Gentleman knows that I have been scrupulous on every occasion when there has been a meeting of the Conference in immediately placing a full report of that in the Library. Moreover, I have extended an invitation to every elected Member in Northern Ireland to meet me before and after the meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will read both the statements of my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will read both the statements of my— [Interruption.] We are dealing with competition against a European background. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman is not prepared to have companies here strong enough to stand up to it. I notice that his home constituency, Islwyn, has an advertisement in the magazine \"Airport\" which reads: If your business is expanding\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.515.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "preceding_text": "I note that the Prime Minister appears to have seen the light and moved to the high moral ground. Is that a temporary aberration while she spends time rewriting the Bible, the Koran and purging the Church freethinkers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.518.6", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was invited, for which I was very grateful, by the Scottish Assembly to give an address. I gave an account of my personal beliefs. The hon. Gentleman may have it if he wishes. The Assembly received it extremely well and I was grateful for that. It issued a statement later saying that the account that appeared in the newspapers yesterday was totally unrepresentative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.518.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "siness is dealt with in the House. I recognise that hon. Members would like much of it dealt with otherwise, but I have no proposals to make in that connection. The lateness of the hour to which the House sat last night was due much more to the antics of certain Left-wing Labour Members of Parliament, who sought to prolong the debate to an unreasonable hour and who must be a greater embarrassment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.522.4", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I agree that it is an important matter and I would welcome the opportunity to have a debate on it, but I cannot promise the hon. Gentleman a debate in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.522.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.526.7", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Will the tight hon. Gentleman make a statement the week after next on the press assertion that the Prime Minister's private secretary is holding out for an embassy in Washington or Paris, has turned down Stockholm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.526.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "m. The only reason why there has been agreement on stabilisers is, again, the determination of the Prime Minister. The only reason why over the next few years there will be a reduction in the percentage of the European budget being spent on the common agricultural policy is the determination of the Prime Minister to secure that reduction. The only reason why The Grocer magazine was able to report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Battle of Bannockburn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "ine along which the United Kingdom is moving. We are trying to reduce substantially the percentage of the European budget going to agriculture. The debates on the European Community in this House are too often characterised by a sense of defeatism. The speeches of my right hon. Friends are cast too often in a groove of gloom and doom. Some hon. Members want to re-fight the battle of Culloden Moor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "tribution to the discussions. I shall not go into details, but if there are any questions, I can certainly answer them. Our policy is entirely consistent with the vision of the European Community put forward by Jacques Delors. The hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry) always makes a good contribution to these debates, and I hope that that praise does him no harm because I mean him no harm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Settle-Carlisle Railway", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I will return to the content of his speech in a moment. I must finish dealing with the comments of my hon. Friend first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-05-26", "file": "debates1988-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "8fe4395f29db8488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Settle-Carlisle Railway", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "private sector operated and preserved lines. I wish to make the point absolutely clear. What British Rail identifies as the future operating costs of the line, if it is radio-signalled or single-tracked, is £2·1 million a year, less whatever contributions come in towards the Ribblehead viaduct. Let us call it £2 million a year. That is the revenue already achieved on the Severn valley line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-26a.619.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-05-27", "file": "debates1988-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "38e8be9b5f26be60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-27a.690.12", "colnum": "690", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mir. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot help the hon. Gentleman. It is not a matter for me. The Question is as on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-05-27a.690.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "We know this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.715.5", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.715.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that Britain's victory in the Falkland Islands represented a tremendous achievement by our armed forces? Will she take the time today to consider why British television companies spend millions of pounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Haverigg Prison, Millom", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " of which I have here, which shows that the average manpower cost per inmate at Haverigg is the lowest for any category C prison in the whole country and the second lowest for any prison in England? Following the massive and extensive damage, including the loss of more than half the total accommodation, can the prison continue to be operated safely or should it not now be closed? Will the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is raising a matter which he knows is not my responsibility. I cannot be held responsible for what Ministers say or what questions are asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.743.12", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "ndeavour to accommodate it. On many occasions since abolition, the House has voted on the restoration of capital punishment. On each and every occasion, the House has consistently rejected restoration. On each occasion, it was absolutely apparent that public opinion was in favour of restoration. Therefore, no hon. Member would fail to concede that the House has flown in the face of public opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.743.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ferent reasons, proved unsatisfactory in the years after the war. If one is looking for a deterrent or at the theory of deterrence—which, for reasons that I have given, I do not accept, although my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, North does—one comes to the conclusion that the point of a deterrent is that it should be reasonably certain and that the potential murderer should be reasonably sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "onfess that I cannot imagine circumstances in which I would vote for the return of hanging or any other form of execution for any offence. A reversion to such a practice would debase and literally demoralise us all, certainly if, as the Home Secretary fears—and I have no doubt that his fears are justified—in this modern era capital punishment were accompanied by all the horrors of media attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "k about the risk, but many people, myself included, would argue that the greatest horror of all is the certainty that if we return to capital punishment an innocent man or woman will sooner or later be hanged. The hon. and learned Member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Miscampbell) sent to virtually every hon. Member the names of 10 men who in our recent history were wrongfully convicted, then pardoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "e the right to be saved from the hangman's noose. They have that right, if they keep their hands out of crime. Every man has a right to keep out of prison if he does not violate the law—I have some practical experience of that. We all have our rights. Let us not be carried away with this wonderful theme of saving men from the hangman's noose. Everyone can be saved if he stays in line with the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "preceding_text": "unique deterrent. That evidence does not exist. In fact, throughout the world, the evidence shows that the death penalty does not reduce the murder rate, but leads simply to a greater coarsening of attitudes to human life. The arguments against capital punishment are well known to the House. So strong are they that they persuaded Parliament in 1965 to abolish the death penalty. So strong are they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "preceding_text": "h penalty. So strong are they— [Interruption.] I thought that I heard somebody whispering or mumbling, but apparently not. So strong are they that they have persuaded Parliament time and time again not to reverse that momentous decision. With the indulgence of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, may I enumerate the compelling reasons why capital punishment was wrong, is wrong, and will ever be wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "preceding_text": "somebody whispering or mumbling, but apparently not. So strong are they that they have persuaded Parliament time and time again not to reverse that momentous decision. With the indulgence of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, may I enumerate the compelling reasons why capital punishment was wrong, is wrong, and will ever be wrong— [Interruption.] It is off again—there is something in the background.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "It is not pressure to consult one's constituents; it is not pressure to consult representatives from every part of one's constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": ". Therefore, the figures are completely distorted. Hon. Members have argued that the death penalty is not a deterrent. If that is so, as my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen (Mrs. Peacock) pointed out, it is strange that people condemned to death always appeal. What frightens me about the present position is that there is a premium on wiping out witnesses. Twenty years ago the noble Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ries are not lawyers. The motive for the new clause is misconceived. It is a return to the 1880s. Suffice it to say that capital punishment would not deter. It certainly would not have prevented the two burglaries that I have had in the past year. One of the young men involved was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and another to one year. They would not have been deterred by capital punishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "if I felt for one moment that the statistics showed that captial punishment deterred, I should have to take note of that—perhaps not as a Back Bencher but certainly as a Home Secretary. I do not believe that that is what the statistics show. They do not show that the number of homicides, however classified, would be reduced. I am conscious of the time and I shall keep to the limits that we agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ve great respect. This is the second time that we have met across the Chamber on this subject. To most hon. Members attending the debate the issue is capital punishment. Three new clauses and an amendment have been selected and we are debating the question whether the House feels that capital punishment should return. If we decide that it should return, we shall consider the whole situation again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "amber on this subject. To most hon. Members attending the debate the issue is capital punishment. Three new clauses and an amendment have been selected and we are debating the question whether the House feels that capital punishment should return. If we decide that it should return, we shall consider the whole situation again—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"] We can change the new clause in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us vote\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "e feels that capital punishment should return. If we decide that it should return, we shall consider the whole situation again—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"] We can change the new clause in another place—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"] Just let us have it and we will show hon. Members; give us the chance and we will deliver. I have not the slightest doubt about that. Let us try it and we will not disappoint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-07", "file": "debates1988-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "872369a320c3b643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "hat will happen to the Channel tunnel then? Political terrorists believe that they will be released, their friends will continue to take hostages and there will be more deaths. Some of my hon. Friends have said that unless capital punishment is restored the police will have to be armed and there will be shooting in the streets. There is already shooting in the streets. I find it very strange that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-07a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.827.6", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "sing by crop-spraying aeroplanes flying over refugee camps. I wonder whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman is aware of the case of an elderly gentleman, Mr. Mohammed Abu Shawish, who is an official of the United Nations and is the refugees services officer in Jabalia camp, and who took the Minister of State around that camp and served as his interpreter? That gentleman's elderly wife of 63—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.827.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "We do not have double standards in that respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I have seldom heard the hon. Gentleman achieve such profound misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker. From time to time you are placed in some difficulty as a result of the Government evading their responsibility and not making statements to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Alcohol (Health Warning)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " year are linked to excessive or inappropriate drinking. I accept that long statistical lists are somewhat tedious, but all the available statistics show the growing seriousness of alcohol abuse in this country. A variety of published studies has shown that alcohol abuse is associated with 52 per cent. of deaths from fires, two thirds of suicides, 62 per cent. of serious head injuries among males—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Alcohol (Health Warning)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "wnings. It is a horrendous list, and if hon. Members would like more statistics they can consult the report prepared by two young constituents of mine in Newham, Moira Bramley and Susan Withers, who I know are taking a close interest in this afternoon's proceedings. A recent study at the university of York by Professor Alan Maynard calculated that at 1985 prices the annual cost to society arising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Alcohol (Health Warning)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "o be more rigorously enforced. Although other age groups can now expect to live longer, there is currently a reduced life expectancy for the 16 to 24 age group due to the rising number of deaths resulting from drink-related accidents. An enormous amount of slick advertising is aimed at encouraging drinking among the young. The industry admits that about £200 million a year is spent on advertising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "o doubt about that. They held a quasi-historic meeting in York on the day of the announcement and, to their very great credit, a number of Conservative Members, including the hon. Member for York (Mr. Gregory), made it clear that they, too, recognised the regional significance of what was happening. The hon. Member for York used the telling phrase \"regional assassination\", which is one we endorse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "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": "trast that steadily emerges between the reputation of the hon. Gentleman outside the House for the views that he holds, and the views that he puts forward in the House on behalf of the Labour party. He is alleged and believed to be one of those in his party who is seeking to edge the Labour movement a little nearer to the days of a free market economy and an enterprise economy. Every time that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "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": "s, and the views that he puts forward in the House on behalf of the Labour party. He is alleged and believed to be one of those in his party who is seeking to edge the Labour movement a little nearer to the days of a free market economy and an enterprise economy. Every time that he— [Interruption.] Well, I am probably doing a great deal of good for the hon. Gentleman's reputation in some quarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend was not having a go at Nestlé. Not only has it been here for over 100 years but it makes good products such as Worcestershire sauce, Ashbourne water and Branston pickle as well as Nescafé.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Provide evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "must be remembered that Switzerland is not part of the EC and does not itself entertain hostile bids from abroad for its companies. It appears that the Government are at odds with Lord Plumb on this issue. The House should dwell on the simple fact that Switzerland is essentially a banking economy. Manufacturing is not its life blood. It invests in overseas companies and uses the banking community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "r of size of market and size of company towards a system that reflects the European practice of cracking down on an abuse of a dominant position rather than simply objecting to that dominant position. The use made of power rather than the nature of the power itself is the essential element on which we should concentrate. Secondly, I believe that the Government in general are incompetent to devise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ion is competition, the next it is reciprocity, then it is a regional consideration. Sometimes the criterion has to do with the person taking over. I object to people like Robert Maxwell, who is not averse to setting up barriers to taking over his company, which is based not even in Switzerland but in Liechtenstein. I do not hear much criticism of that from Labour Members. My third and last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "t, since my right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry announced that he did not intend to refer the Rowntree bid. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, what had been a matter of all-party consensus developed into a major party political argument. This debate is not about Rowntree and its future but gives an opportunity to the Opposition to attack the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Rowntree plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "n. It is not the Labour party that has said this, but the financial press, and it has been confirmed by the article by Sir Hector Laing to which reference has already been made. We already know about Cadbury, but the other companies at risk are United Biscuits, Tate and Lyle, Rank Hovis McDougall, Allied Lyons, Dalgety, Unigate, Northern Foods, Boots, Reckitt and Colman, Fisons, and Beecham Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "profitability. If, for example, EC standards on exhaust emissions are adopted—I recognise that the Government have done all they can to resist them, but I suspect that it is in the nature of things that we shall get them in the end—Rover's profitability will disappear in a puff of exhaust smoke as it will find it expensive and difficult to convert its present model range to meet the new standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " and I had on 12 May. However, in that debate, I quoted Mr. Day as saying: We want to make money. People keep talking of market share, but the objective is to become profitable.\"—[ Official Report, 12 May 1988; Vol. 133. c.578.] As my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) said, it is not about continuing volume car production, which is the only safe guarantee of the jobs of car workers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "of car workers.— [Interruption.] When the right hon. and learned Gentleman gives figures about exports for the British car industry over the past couple of years, he is basing those figures on the artificial boom that we have had in the past couple of years in the British economy and on a specific set of exchange rates between sterling and the dollar. Given that Land Rover, Range Rover and Jaguar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or do not want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "preceding_text": "o longer any respect for the work force or for the trade unions. Yet when the Government find themselves in difficulties, they want trade union organisers to bring sense and stability into industry. There was no consultation about the sale of the Rover Group. The Minister said that the work force wanted it, but how does he know that? How does he know that, to a man, the work force want a takeover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-08", "file": "debates1988-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ef1a7976a6fe7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "se, that was good news from the Rover Group in public ownership. Let it be said that the 1,500 extra jobs at Longbridge are being provided by a publicly owned company. Such good news will not continue in future. The Minister referred also to the success of Jaguar in recent years. That company is successful, again because it was saved by a Labour Government. It, too, would have closed 14 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-08a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ty Action Group figures referred at the latest to 1985; of course ours go beyond that. The Child Poverty Action Group figures are related strictly to the outdated method of supplementary benefit, whereas we are on a wholly new benefit system now. With regard to the new benefits, as the right hon. Gentleman is aware, some 88 per cent. of people are on either the same or an improved rate of benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.983.8", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "That answer may or may not be accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.983.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House acknowledge that in the Scottish Grand Committee this morning we received an extremely unsatisfactory reply from the Minister of State? In particular, he could not assure the Committee that there would be a separate Scottish Bill for the privatisation of electricity. Will the Leader of the House assure the House that there will be a separate Scottish Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1004.4", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Are the points of order concerned with the same matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1004.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not having that. If the hon. Gentleman says that I should not select the amendments there is no opportunity for them to be debated. I am sure that he does not mean that. I have made a very generous selection and the hon. Gentleman has only to look at the selection list to know that that is true. I think that we should get on with these amendments, which have been tabled for some time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have just had a vote on the order of consideration motion, but the Minister cannot answer the first question that he has been asked about the first amendment. It is an absolute shambles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1012.5", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "aced with a situation in which an hon. Member, not of my party, asks a perfectly reasonable question about the number of tenancies affected by the very first amendment but the Minister apparently does not have the faintest idea. That seems to reduce our proceedings to a farce. The object should be to allow hon. Members to find out the background, the justification and how many people are involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1012.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1017.3", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "It means exactly that. That is why I am on my feet asking the Minister to explain it further so that we can decide whether we agree with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I do not want to disappoint the lion. Gentleman but I must point out that my hon. Friend is in Finland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "No doubt if the hon. Member for Makerfield (Mr. McCartney) was a London Member he would be desperate to obtain a place on that management committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-09", "file": "debates1988-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "52e6e18f85fbc16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "nts in such a way, what is the point in giving them the power to do so? One does not give powers to certain institutions and agencies without expecting them to use them at some time in the future. I turn now to the vexed question of holiday lets. I have often thought, Mr. Speaker, about what you could get for a holiday let of your premises when you go away. You are not even listening, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-09a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-10", "file": "debates1988-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ba216012ac4cc40c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-10a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Women's Health", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "e, who are often isolated and unsupported in caring for their loved ones and who had to fight the Government through the European courts for financial recognition. All such people are low paid and below the threshold laid down by the Council of Europe. We have just received an important report from the Policy Studies Institute on doctors and their careers. That report was commissioned by the DHSS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-10a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "bureaucratic institutions to determine price regulations, and we shall try to avoid such bureaucracy. The issue of Dounreay and leukaemia was raised in COMARE's report. It has prompted the Government to ensure that further investigations are carried out urgently. I assure the House that the report comes to no conclusions about the connection between nuclear plant, leukaemia and leukaemia clusters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.12.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Devonport Dockyard (Redundancies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hicks", "preceding_text": "ng it was for everyone in the Plymouth travel-to-work area to receive on Friday the information about the loss of a further 1,900 jobs? While we all recognise that the refits of the modern Royal Navy are less frequent and take less time, does the Minister not agree that that is so, essentially, in peacetime circumstances? The fundamental purpose of the royal dockyards is to service the Royal Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.24.4", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Devonport Dockyard (Redundancies)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend accept that no one can be happy about the extra redundancies? Will he make clear to the House the Government's commitment to Plymouth by stating the amount of capital work that went on last year, has gone on this year and is continuing now in the modernisation of certain quay work further upriver with concreting to enlarge the capacity of the docks to deal with shops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Valleys Initiative (Press Conference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman kindly mentioned this matter to me in advance of his point of order, therefore giving me an opportunity to look into it. I have no authority to postpone press conferences, but I understand that the information to be given in Wales will be released in the Vote Office tomorrow morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Mining Subsidence", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Michael Spicer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Michael Spicer)", "preceding_text": "eddle) and to the hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Haynes). Like the hon. Member for Mansfield, they have spent a tremendous amount of time on this issue. My hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Staffordshire has spent many years on it and he recounted the history of his involvement. I hope that the whole House is aware that there are several hon. Members who have battled with this problem for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 32", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, I am not trying to teach anybody anything. I am trying to make a few observations about these matters, as I am entitled to do, just as the hon. Gentleman is entitled to do. It is perfectly true that, before 1919, one of the large movements in this country was the almshouses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 32", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is now trying to give lessons of one kind or another. I have met representatives of the Leeds housing association movement. I am rather more aware than the hon. Gentleman is of what they said to me at the time. They generally welcome the Government's proposals to enliven—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 32", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ally pushing this slightly thin line a little bit too far. Normally, it would be done in the commencement order of the Bill. We can do that if he wishes and wait until next April. That would be the normal way of doing it. However, we thought that it would be better to put it on the face of the Bill. However, the hon. Member for Hammersmith presses me never to make another concession to him again.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.104.6", "colnum": "104", "heading": "STATUTORY TENANTS: SUCCESSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman is on it and if he is I shall bring my blanket and my flask of warm drink. He has the ability to talk at great length, which is a tremendous attribute. The important and serious point is that every hon. Member who spoke stressed that the role of carers is critical in our society and that the Bill as drafted does not assist them in any way. My hon. Friend the Minister did his best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-13", "file": "debates1988-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "5dcd4bd10ad12b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.108.17", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Clause 38", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "port. In an earlier exchange, the Minister said that section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 covers what we want. I said that I would check, but my advice is that it does not. In her letter to me, the Minister said: This enables an authority to prosecute in any legal proceedings where they consider it expedient for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants in their area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-13a.108.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Waiting lists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "What is the cost to the Northern regional health authority of farming out work to the private sector? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "Any concessional coal would be covered by the transitional protection. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ave not seen the tribunal's written decision, which may not be available for some weeks, but it will be for the chief adjudication officer to decide whether to appeal once the decision is available. It is worth remembering that an appeals tribunal decision is only the first step, and I am advised that, contrary to what the right hon. Gentleman said, it applies only to the individual cases decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It remains as I said earlier. It is the law that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "he Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "he Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat the scenes we have seen on our television screens again are a disgrace to civilised society and made us all feel thoroughly ashamed if any of our people were involved in them. I looked back this morning over the Popplewell report to see whether all the steps which were then recommended had been taken at home and in connection with international competitions, and to see whether we were getting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Valleys Programme", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": " document have been placed in the Library of the House and the Vote Office. I would like to thank the local authorities, the Welsh Development Agency, the Wales Tourist Board, the Training Commission, the public utilities, the health authorities, the CBI, the Welsh TUC, the voluntary organisations and the industrialists and business men who have been consulted to produce a comprehensive programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Valleys Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "new money for this valleys initiative? When I looked at the map and read hurriedly through his statement, I found that the Ogmore constituency, which contains the four valleys of Maesteg, Ogmore, Garw and Gilfach Goch, had been neglected. The only addition shown in the initiative is some funding for the refurbishment of the Blaengarw workman's institute. What will that do to help the 5,000 miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.176.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.178.4", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Valleys Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "Can— [Interruption.] Can my right hon. Friend say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Valleys Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "My wife is half Welsh and her uncle sings in a Welsh choir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.203.5", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Patrick McVeigh", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman sinks reliably to every occasion. I entirely reject what he has said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.208.4", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Patrick McVeigh", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that this has absolutely nothing to do with the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and everything to do with the fact that, despite the good intentions of both Governments—and they are good intentions—we cannot agree to legislate in a way that will cater for bloody-minded, eccentric and perhaps partial judges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Clause 45", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridiculous\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "cue because not only are further cuts planned, but many tenants on housing benefit now have to pay 20 per cent. of their rates and will have to pay 20 per cent. of their poll tax. Perhaps the most interesting example is that given by the Community housing association of NW1, relating to a fair rent set by the rent officer in Camden of £105 per week for a housing association property in Bloomsbury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Clause 45", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "on the Minister's performance in Committee. The Minister was at his most effusive and emollient. He was all too happy to please, and all too willing to lend a sympathetic ear to our legitimate concerns. We were promised that we would be well pleased with the results of his deliberations in the Department of the Environment. However, when we come, at this late stage, to consider the Bill on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes the point well. The Minister for Housing and Planning is reading a book that does not appear to have much to do with this debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.294.6", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " Easington, trying to justify why he is charging the Durham aged mineworkers housing association interest. What a terrible prospect. What a mind-blowing event that would be. With all humility I must state that my hon. Friend the Member for Houghton and Washington has told me that he has never toiled below ground. However, I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Easington has toiled below ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.294.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You have been more than tolerant with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.299.9", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "oney and gets spending power from the Housing Corporation. Out of the rent collected, a given amount of housing association grant is paid back towards the loan for the properties. Therefore, housing association grant is also a loan. The article from which I was quoting deals with interest charges and also with the competitive market for loans. In that context, I think that the article is relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.299.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " place from time to time between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister, in which the whole world shares, may also influence the matter. I hazard a guess that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has some knowledge of the subject. It may be that my hon. Friend, who has a shrewd nose for the difficulties that the Government from time to time experience, has got wind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.304.7", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I give way to the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.304.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.304.7", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hoof?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I give way to the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin)— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman has sat down again. Perhaps he has not quite formed his ideas. Some of my hon. Friends would argue that the Minister should resign. This Bill, for which he has been responsible and which has been virtually rewritten \"on the hoof\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.304.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Clause 47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ly given the Scottish Ministers a nod and a wink to end a benefit to Scotland. My hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North (Mr. Howarth) should get on with the variations in regions other than Scotland and not give the Government any more chances. They will probably seize on this. The Chief Whip has a grin as broad as a Cheshire cat. He is thinking of telling the Secretary of State for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend agree that that was embarrassing and distressing for me as a Member of Parliament? I never thought I would see the day when a person in her 70s would burst into tears in my surgery because of the hardship that she was suffering over rent increases, even though I explained to her that, since she had lost much more than £2·50 per week, there would be at least partial compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": " for doing that. He has reminded me that even in the clause that we are discussing, we are told that the Bill's purpose is to free the housing associations into the market, but in the clause, we read that although they are free in the market, woe betide them if they make a surplus on their rent account because they are not free to use it and it will he clawed back by the Government. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.339.6", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "s. The notion put forward by the Minister that the repayment of GRF surpluses should be accepted by the Government willy-nilly because of a recommendation by the PAC simply does not wash. If he had said that they had considered it a reasonable recommendation and followed it, that would be one argument, but it is not true to say that the Government had to accept it—that it was imposed on the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.339.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.348.4", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ches, for the fact that he sent the PPS away with a flea in his ear to scurry around on behalf of the Minister, sending messages to Conservative Members that they should keep their mouths shut because all of a sudden the Government are concerned. However, there are not many Conservative Members for him to be concerned about. There is one in the far corner who is taking a close interest in the—Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.348.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "sociations and did not go out of his way to praise them. We are dealing with a Secretary of State who is as described by my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer), and we are concerned that he will use his powers irresponsibly. It may be that if the Minister was the Secretary of State, we would feel a little more confident, because there is a distinction to be made between the two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "rket rents that they keep mentioning. Goodness knows what things would be like in housing if they did that. Many Consevative Members feel that that should happen quickly; members of the Government have made statements that are close to it. It would be a charter for Rachmanism, and I would be completely against it. We should at least assure the associations that they will not be used as milch cows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "ings would be like in housing if they did that. Many Consevative Members feel that that should happen quickly; members of the Government have made statements that are close to it. It would be a charter for Rachmanism, and I would be completely against it. We should at least assure the associations that they will not be used as milch cows— [Interruption.] Even if rents were forced up in some areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "preceding_text": "deck access. The Secretary of State should be sufficiently concerned to tackle some of the underlying social problems in the inner cities. The Prime Minister talked about tackling that problem, but where are the resources and commitment in the Bill to begin to approach that problem and the problems of escalating rents and rates? The Government are responsible for inflicting massive rent increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I said that I would not go into detail, but surely, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am allowed to allude to the debate which took place in Committee, if only to give hon. Members at least an inkling of the discussion which I had with the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "rong, even if he has considered this. If he has not considered this point, he should tell us, because this part of the Bill mirrors almost exactly a certain section in the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980. That Act was not produced by the present Secretary of State for the Environment. He was a Minister then either at the Ministry of Transport, in the Treasury or at the Foreign Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": " say that I have gone up a blind alley, but I do not believe that I have. The chances of an affirmative instrument to set up a housing action trust being certified hybrid by the Chairman of Committees in the other place and being subject to what is, in effect, a private Bill procedure, are extremely high—it is a more than distinct possibility. In conclusion—the House will be relieved to hear that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": " with the Secretary of State for the Environment. Is it not the case that we are being invited to validate in law consultation which may be taking place about which we know nothing and which may be partial and incomplete? Is it not a matter of legal irregularity for there to be retrospective legislation of this kind without proper reasons being given? So far we have been given no reasons for this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "pt an answer to that question. I am going to milk this situation for everything I can because this opportunity is most unlikely to come my way again. As I explained, I resigned as Whip, which is catching in the Labour party. However, I found myself back as an agency Whip—a kind of privatised Whip—to carry through the remainder of the Bill. I think that we are doing a fairly good job at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South in a cerebral speech which he sat up half the night writing, states that consultations will take place before the Bill becomes law and will be sufficient to satisfy clause 56(1) and (2). This is retrospective legislation and yet another example of the way the Government, who are so arrogant that they are prepared to dismiss any objections and opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.402.5", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "sed in Hulme was that it might be better to make it a HAT, but no decision has been taken. Until a decision has been taken as between those two options—Which are completely alternate and not complementary—that gives the hon. Gentleman the answer that he wants and shows how mistaken one can be to believe in the conspiracy theory when trying to keep the House amused at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.402.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.402.5", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ementary—that gives the hon. Gentleman the answer that he wants and shows how mistaken one can be to believe in the conspiracy theory when trying to keep the House amused at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning. [Interruption.] When the hon. Gentleman spoke, it was 8 o'clock. 9.15 am The hon. Gentleman also seemed to believe that in some way this was a dreadful imposition upon people to make their areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.402.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": " by him. Secondly, there would be consultation which, according to the example that he gave, would be in the form of a \"Dear Occupier\" letter. The Minister did not tell us whether that letter would have a tear-off slip, or whether the tenants would be asked to respond on what they thought about the housing action trust—just that the tenants would be informed and that there would be a draft letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "ich we shall deal with later, but this is something different. This is a wholesale transfer by statutory instrument. Other people have called it a sale, and the property will be disposed of at about half-price. To children in areas with housing action trusts that will be a confiscation, because they will not have the same access to vacancies as they would have under continuing municipal ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.453.4", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "We must make the right appointments, selecting people who will appreciate the value of our objective, and who will co-operate with the Government. It will be unsatisfactory if people are appointed who are not prepared to do that which the Government wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.453.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "aningful nature of any consultation on which the Secretary of State may embark with each local housing authority whose district is included in the designated area covered by amendment No. 329. I can imagine what sort of consultation will be carried out. Let us suppose that of three housing authorities serving a designated area, two are good Labour authorities and one a poor Conservative authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "I shall not respond at length to the hon. Gentleman except to say that he is already in deep trouble. If we were not short of time I would raise a point of order about the excessive domination of an individual in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "On a different point of order, Mr. Speaker. We are debating the Housing Bill, and the Opposition are doing that at length because of the importance of the subject and not with any wish to talk out any other business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "y for giving way in her catalogue of the Government's generosity to local authorities, but will she bear one thing in mind when she returns to it? Only a few weeks ago in Southampton, the hon. Lady specifically singled out the London borough of Brent for praise for its work for the homeless. In 1986–87—these are the figures in that catalogue—we were given £22 million for housing allocation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend mentioned single young people. In Bristol, of 14,000 people who are able to register on the housing waiting lists, almost two thirds are couples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "eas, especially in the north of England and in parts of industrial Wales, north-east England and London, huge tracts of derelict land are available as a natural resource and massive profits can be made overnight through speculation and transfers of ownership. A major example is the way in which the docklands development has transferred derelict land assets from the community to the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "Again, my hon. Friend makes the position clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Wigan pier?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "es the position clear. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Harrow, West is trying to interrupt from a sedentary position again. He should quit while he is ahead. For three months he was in a privileged position to contribute to the Committee debates on these issues, but he signally failed to do so, although no doubt we shall hear more interruptions from him between now and 2.30 tomorrow afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not regard anything that has been said so far, on either side of the House, as a reflection on the Chair. It is understandable that, after long hours of debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": " not know about the passage of the Bill. As I have said, the Bill emerged from Committee in March. It has been with the Government since then. Few Bills have been waiting so long for consideration on Report. Why? There is something that I want to say about the Minister for Housing and Planning that Conservative Members may wish to hear. The Minister tried hard to improve the Bill. He was prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "I rise to support my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House. I wish to remind the House of the terms of the motion that my right hon. Friend moved. He made it absolutely clear that an undertaking had been given by the Opposition. He went on to emphasise that that undertaking had been reaffirmed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I distinctly heard, as did many hon. Members, the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) accuse my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House of being a liar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I distinctly heard, as did many hon. Members, the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) accuse my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House of being a liar. [Interruption.] Even with the debased standards which are common on the Opposition Front Bench, that remark ought to be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.531.5", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that I made the position clear in dealing with the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.531.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-14", "file": "debates1988-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba9c327cd7c970dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.532.5", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Clause 50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered): On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I apologise for addressing you in this Frankie Vaughan-type garb, especially as I am wearing a white jacket, but you probably know that I was a junior Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-14a.532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.559.3", "colnum": "559", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "preceding_text": "As the north-west of England has shown one of the biggest increases in new jobs and the biggest falls in long-term unemployment, does it not prove that the old north-south divide under Labour is now a north-west success under the Conservatives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.563.11", "colnum": "563", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady spare a little time to hear about Sonia Reading, who is a young heart patient in my constituency.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.563.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.565.2", "colnum": "565", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With all the great issues in the world, the right hon. Gentleman never fails to surprise me with the smallness of some of his questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "for people to join the Army today; they will not call for people to join the UDR today; they will not call for people to join the police today. The Secretary of State must face up to the fact—as must the House, although I know that it is not a popular thing to say on this occasion—that the Anglo-Irish Agreement has not brought peace; it has not brought stability; it has not brought reconciliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "sly misleading account. My position is clear. I stand by the proposals that I set out in a written answer on 24 May. I made no threats with regard to financial aid to Opposition parties. I said that in categorical terms to the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook at the time and I trust that on reflection his recollection of the conversation will bear that out. What I said to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.598.4", "colnum": "598", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " hon. Members have no idea that there are four lighting options? One, a long green lamp, makes the House look like a fish tank. Another option is to close off daylight permanently from the House, so there would be bricked up windows with lights behind them. The third and fourth options are lights so intense that many of us who looked across the chamber from the Back Bench saw only an orange blur —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.598.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "us consider what the Home Secretary can do. One case that has worried me, because it was obviously very wrong, is the case of Cooper and MacMahon. In June 1980 I wrote to the then Home Secretary, now Lord Whitelaw, asking him to help me by reminding me what courses of action were open to the Home Secretary. I also reminded him of what happened when I was Home Secretary, but that is another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": " the archives of the west midlands police headquarters at Lloyd house. There are police officers who know what happened in this case. Things are starting to turn up in plain brown envelopes. Sooner or later they may become embarrassing, because documents from the headquarters of the west midlands police have already turned up. I promise that when the time comes that will prove a mite embarrassing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.688.5", "colnum": "688", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "ing the heavens in their place. Lay off, Chris. You have had a good run.\" Other Conservative Members have said, \"Look, Chris, you do not wish to be known as the MP for the Birmingham bombers.\" I want to be known as someone who cares about justice and allows that care about justice to override practical considerations. I know that that view is shared by many hon. Members on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.688.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.692.6", "colnum": "692", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell us who they are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "t remark disappoints me, coming as it does from the Minister, who is one of the people who will have to deal with the case. Hon. Members should look at the Minister's demeanour and ask themselves whether he is an appropriate person to deal with the matter with the impartiality that his office requires. One expects such abuse from wild men from the backwoods; one does not expect it from a Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "great tragedy affects not merely the six men and their families, and the 11 innocent people and their families; it casts a shadow over the entire judicial system. One of the great strengths of the new clause is that it creates a forum for dealing with inadmissible evidence. If the Minister concludes that the new clause is not the appropriate way to do that, I hope that some other way can be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Members, but new clauses and amendments tabled by Conservative Members. They include, for example, the question of children giving evidence through video recordings, a subject that I should have thought would be of concern to hon. Members on both sides of the House. That is covered by the new clause tabled by the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths) as well as by Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "s of the Tory party. At least, they said so several years ago. I am not sure, after tonight's performance, that The Daily Telegraph and the other so-called quality press will be saying that. I have listened to this legal filibuster tonight. At least I thought it was going to be a legal filibuster before you took over the Chair, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because I have been around this place for a while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " tried to organise three more. I thought we would have another one tonight, but the Government have thrown in the towel. The Labour Front Bench was threatened by the Chief Whip and the Leader of the House yesterday with having the Short money taken away for allegedly losing control. Now that the Government have lost control of their business, I believe that all their Whips should lose their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "y feel about the reluctant juror. At the beginning of the century, anyone who was reluctant to fight in the armed services was castigated and attacked. Time has taught us that some of the bravest men in the world were those who conscientiously objected to fighting, but were prepared to give their lives willingly on the battlefield as stretcher bearers. That sort of attitude and change of attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have lost a bit of steam now. I wanted to raise a fair point of order. Before he leaves the Chamber, that thing there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I do. I wanted the opportunity to make a few remarks about what Conservative Members had said, but that thing there came up to you and suggested a closure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "It was to be open-ended. I am not sure whether my right hon. Friend said \"indefinite\" or \"open-ended\", but we can take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-16", "file": "debates1988-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32041c90dc43df27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "That fits in with the motion that we are discussing. We are talking about taking heavy loads off the roads and putting them on the railways, where they should be. I hope the Minister is taking note of my remarks and is not sitting on the Government Front Bench taking no notice and looking gormless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-16a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-17", "file": "debates1988-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6b62d72b66209d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we do not have so many consultants on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-17", "file": "debates1988-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6b62d72b66209d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we do not have so many consultants on this side of the House—[Hon. Members: \"That is cheap.\"] Perhaps it is cheap, but it is a fact. To get on with my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-17", "file": "debates1988-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6b62d72b66209d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": " is basically a piece of public relations on behalf of the Conservative party. I do not know how any Government can publish promotional literature of this sort at the expense of the taxpayer. It is an absolute disgrace. It is full of pictures and quotations from Ministers, but I shall desist from reading to the House any of the quotations. This Government publication is a piece of Tory propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-17", "file": "debates1988-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6b62d72b66209d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.762.6", "colnum": "762", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "That is an attractive proposition, but it is not Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.762.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-17", "file": "debates1988-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6b62d72b66209d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.762.6", "colnum": "762", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "That is an attractive proposition, but it is not Labour party— [Interruption.] Conservative Members do not like this, but the fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.762.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-17", "file": "debates1988-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6b62d72b66209d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " many things that must be said. A vast increase in employment has been achieved by this Government. That has occurred not only in the tourism industry, but in the self-employed sector and has been of great benefit to millions of people. We are celebrating the 22nd month of reductions in the unemployment figures, and we are celebrating the exciting and continuing development of our economic story.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-17a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-20", "file": "debates1988-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "baeb4e4a1731787b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.830.5", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "We recognise that the hon. Gentleman would have liked to get in on the previous question. In answer to this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-20", "file": "debates1988-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "baeb4e4a1731787b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.831.11", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recollect that way back in 1830—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.831.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-20", "file": "debates1988-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "baeb4e4a1731787b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "New clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "That is not the case in the English system. A written statement is the means by which a person sets out his or her allegations. It is not edited. If it were found to be so, the unedited, unexpurgated version would be produced for the defence as a matter of law under the Attorney-General's guidelines relating to unused material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-20", "file": "debates1988-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "baeb4e4a1731787b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "New Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": ". A provision later in the Bill removes the right of peremptory challenge; it is a provision with which I violently disagree. We shall leave the right to challenge for cause. As a practising lawyer, I know what I shall do. Every time someone says, \"I'm from the Exclusive Brethren\" I shall challenge for cause for all the reasons given by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley, West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-20", "file": "debates1988-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "baeb4e4a1731787b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "New Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": " their own economic advantage to avoid jury service? That is a real problem, and I doubt not that it is one that taxes the Government, and reasonably so. Reference has been made by the hon. Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham) to the fact that it is usual in wartime for those who successfully plead conscientious objection nevertheless to serve the community, often in peril of their lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-20", "file": "debates1988-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "baeb4e4a1731787b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "New Clause 60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "if not with my hon. Friend, is the little matter of sexual equality. If we lock up a number of female prostitutes, what will we do about the rent boys? Surely they will also have to be locked up. The mind boggles at the prospect of Brixton and Pentonville full of rent boys. That would do nothing for good order and discipline. It would also have a serious effect on the incidence of AIDS in prisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-20", "file": "debates1988-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "baeb4e4a1731787b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "New Clause 63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "o fill prisons with people who are not suited to be there. Too many people are being given the wrong punishment. I have much respect and time for my hon. Friend the Minister, who performs a distinguished service to the country. We have not yet had an opportunity to read his new proposals, but no doubt we shall in time. Then we may be able to congratulate him on his proposals for hard labour�ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-20a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith)?\"—The House may be assured that I would rather have a leadership election in my party than no leader at all, as in the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": " school governors one has to find them, that one of the most effective ways of finding them is by increasing the use of volunteers at all levels within the schools, and that people can graduate from being volunteers helping the school to being school governors? Will he undertake to look very seriously at the possibility of expanding the use of volunteers to assist in the education of our children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ards that the Minister proposes. I conclude, therefore, that it is unreasonable expenditure which we should not be making. I would not choose to spend £17·2 million in that way, but would direct my attention to other education priorities. I realise that the Minister does not accept my figure of £17·2 million and is instead persuaded that the school boards will cost considerably less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "That is an extraordinary intervention. The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that I would be in favour of school boards if they were a partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Members for Glasgow, Maryhill (Mrs. Fyfe) and for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) started from the wrong premise, that there have been swingeing cuts in local government expenditure. That, as we all know, is wholly untrue. Everyone knows that there is far more local government expenditure now than ever before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " his honesty. I advise the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) that I have never listened to such humbug in my life. It was a repetition of some of the humbug that we have heard from him previously. He was speaking against the principle of setting up the boards. However, he knows that the people in his constituency, and certainly, as far as I can ascertain, the people in the areas north of the Tay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "orth of the Tay— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Gordon was only too happy to talk about the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Member for Kincardine and Deeside (Mr. Buchanan-Smith). Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will recognise that it is a fact that north of the Tay, and certainly in Tayside, North—I trust that the hon. Gentleman will not try to tell me what is going on in Tayside, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that when he knows me better he will know that I fight on grounds of my choosing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "rs to people in so many of the Acts that have been passed. The school boards will devolve power to the parents and that will help the running of our schools. Parents have a direct interest in what happens in schools. In the country areas people are certainly very interested and concerned to be much more directly involved in what is happening. That is part of the community spirit in country areas.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ore interested in community activities and will welcome the opportunity to be part of the operation of the school boards when they are introduced. I have read new clause 1 very carefully and I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will reject it. Of all the bodies with which one would want to have ongoing consultations, COSLA would be the last. Having read some of the material from COSLA recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "school boards will be the subject of separate and ongoing consultation with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. The new clause does not specify who the Opposition wish to consult with COSLA. I find it hard to believe that they meant the Government, because, clearly, there are already consultations between the Government and COSLA about local authority spending and the rate support grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "r omission from the Bill. Powers can be delegated to school boards without the parents ever being consulted. Those are the issues with which this group of amendments attempts to deal. The teachers' representatives made it clear that they want to see an increased representation for their people on the school boards. Recently I went to see my son playing for the school team in a cup final in Dundee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "m whereby a small number are elected. My main point is to contradict the impression which the hon. Member for Dundee, East may have given to the House that parents are against a parental majority. I do not doubt for a moment that he accurately reflected the view of those to whom he referred, but it is clearly not the view of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, which is a very representative body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "er's views have not been modified one iota. To the extent that he can extend the powers within the Bill, he will; to the extent that he cannot, he intends to bring forward new legislation in the next Session of Parliament to enable him to do so. At the end of the day the crunch is not whether people trust the Bill but that they do not trust the Minister because he is not trustworthy on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Please be sensible, Maria.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "In the hope and belief that even this Minister can sometimes listen to reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1035.7", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I am answering the point raised by the hon. Member for Gordon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1035.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ry of State is to start interfering, if parliamentary orders are to be conjured up on the basis of expediency, it is better to abdicate and leave it all to the Secretary of State. It is tempting, but I believe that it would be wrong and that that temptation should be resisted. There has been a dash of populism, a little touch of opportunism, about the actions of the Scottish Office in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I want to call the House's attention to a letter that some of my hon. Friends who represent constituencies in Glasgow and I have received from the Girl Guides Association. I speak as the only member of my group who was eligible to have been a Girl Guide, but I confess that the Brownies expelled me—Brown Owl said that I would come to a bad end, and how right she was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "the House, which I know that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues oppose, a number of the hon. Gentleman's colleagues are now making representations to the Government to use those regulations in connection with some schools. The hon. Gentleman should recognise that. I listened to the hon. Member for Paisley, South (Mr. Buchan). If he looks at the Paisley Daily Express of Thursday 3 December 1987—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1060.6", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "dequately for meetings. Those members of staff will be in the minority and it is vital that they have the time and opportunity to prepare for the meetings. We assume that agendas will be circulated in advance. If the head teacher and staff members are to make an impact on the board's discussions, it is right that they have time to prepare and consider the implications of suggestions on the agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1060.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": " In the past, hon. Members' changes of party affiliations have not affected the amounts of Short money available to each Opposition party to claim, and the motion would provide for this to be so in the future, which is the answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Barnes. However, I believe that it would be inequitable not to make an exception in this case and for this Parliament only —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "Yes. I came prepared for that question. Under the existing arrangements the Labour party is entitled to £493,900 and under the proposals in the motion it is entitled to £839,700. As I have stated, the basis is not strictly comparable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I am not sure, Mr. Speaker, whether my hon. Friends think that I have given the Labour party too much or too little My hon. Friend the Member for Northfield would subject the arrangements for financial assistance to annual renewal. I think, however, that it is only reasonable that Opposition parties should be able to plan on the basis of more than one year ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "made to the work of the House is disproportionately in favour of the Conservative Members, and it is quite obvious that the Opposition contribute little. What is interesting—and I am sure that my hon. Friends have noticed this already—is that I have not yet mentioned any of the minority parties. It will not surprise anyone that the first Liberal to appear on the list of honour comes in at No. 280—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will be honoured —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "All that I can say is that that was a genuinely Irish point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "All that I can say is that that was a genuinely Irish point of order—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] In case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "All that I can say is that that was a genuinely Irish point of order—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] In case—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] In case hon. Members may think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": ". Not only was that a frivolous waste of taxpayers' money, but even worse, when it came to the vote at 2 o'clock on Friday morning, 114 Conservative Members did their duty, but fewer than 20 Labour Members did theirs If my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House thinks that that is a reasonable basis on which to shower money upon the Opposition parties, I regret that he will not have my support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1083.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth) has more than a little cheek.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth) has more than a little cheek. [Interruption.] I am told that he used to be in the Common Market where there were barrowloads of money and he used to be the barrow boy who was wheeling it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "r the NHS and there would not be a waiting list. That is what the Government do with taxpayers' money. The Government have chauffeur-driven cars. All Governments have chauffeur-driven cars; I am not making a party political point. That is part of the Government's way of doing things, but it does not apply to most Opposition Members By and large, bearing in mind the benefits that Tory Members gain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1084.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-21", "file": "debates1988-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "9891ad903dee00fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "the loot should be split between the Social and Liberal Democrats and the SDP split down the middle; the judgment of Solomon After all, this time last year the SDP was in existence; it had a constitution, a leader and aims and principles. One year later that party is still in existence. It has the same constitution, the majority of its Members of Parliament are the same and its leader is the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-21a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-22", "file": "debates1988-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "2c2c86c30ebd38ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "peratives. I hope that that will not happen and that steps will be taken in the Department of the Environment's current review to ensure that it will not. Finally, I mention some of my worries about local authority housing. I, like my hon. Friends—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"]. Conservative Members are making great play of where my hon. Friends are, but perhaps we should stick to the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-22", "file": "debates1988-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "2c2c86c30ebd38ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "k in a decent state of repair. Therefore, there will be a continuing problem of disrepair because there is not enough money in the system to deal with it. Whatever Conservative Members may believe ideologically about council housing, it is becoming worse and more starved of resources. In support of my point, I wish to quote from an article by an objective commentator in last week's New Statesman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-22", "file": "debates1988-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "2c2c86c30ebd38ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1194.5", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "The jetty is already capable of handling vessels up to 30,000 tonnes deadweight and the jetty is now in need of strengthening and organisation. I can assure the House that the Bill is absolutely necessary because of the reconstruction of the jetty, which will interfere with the public rights of navigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-22", "file": "debates1988-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "2c2c86c30ebd38ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1194.5", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "able of handling vessels up to 30,000 tonnes deadweight and the jetty is now in need of strengthening and organisation. I can assure the House that the Bill is absolutely necessary because of the reconstruction of the jetty, which will interfere with the public rights of navigation. [Interruption.] Planning consent could not override those rights and would not enable the jetty to be reconstructed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-22", "file": "debates1988-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "2c2c86c30ebd38ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1194.5", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "erfere with the public rights of navigation. [Interruption.] Planning consent could not override those rights and would not enable the jetty to be reconstructed. [Interruption.] Associated with the jetty will be a cargo terminal, which will be located within an adjacent area already designated for industrial use and set aside for activities requiring access to the deep water channel in the Humber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-22", "file": "debates1988-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "2c2c86c30ebd38ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"HOW many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Well, possibly not to all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-22", "file": "debates1988-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "2c2c86c30ebd38ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1216.2", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "told the business leaders that the best way to go about getting the ban on coal lifted was to take out a stake in the planned privatised set-up. The hon. Gentleman may wish to deny or confirm that report, but it seems that those hon. Gentlemen were inviting the South African mining industry to take a stake in the CEGB, knowing that they would support the Government's privatisation of it next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-22a.1216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1255.4", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "How is it that the Home Secretary chooses to make controversial speeches on this subject outside this House, but chooses not to answer questions on it this afternoon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1255.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the Prime Minister thinks that Mr. Banham and all who agree with him are wrong. Is it not obvious that the further increase in interest rates came because the Government have completely lost control of credit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1268.7", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Yesterday in Moscow I was asked to thank the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1268.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1268.9", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I was asked to thank the Prime Minister for the support that she has given the refusenik community. In doing so, may I ask her, in the course of her busy day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1268.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that we had arranged that it was a majority of those voting—either for tenants\" co-operatives or for a possible transfer to housing associations. The hon. Gentleman will be referring to housing action trusts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Economic Summit (Toronto)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat not good? Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will tell us how he intends to reduce it, or will all the reductions be on defence? As for a high grant element in aid to the poorest countries, that is absolutely right. The number of loans that have been given could not possibly have been repaid, so it is better to be quite bold and give them that help in the form of grants. What was the last thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Economic Summit (Toronto)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that people in this country from all backgrounds and supporting all political parties view with great distress her statement on Third-world aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Economic Summit (Toronto)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that people in this country from all backgrounds and supporting all political parties view with great distress her statement on Third-world aid—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] But facts are chiels which winna ding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Wales (Deprivation and Disadvantage)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "tity of housing, as virtually no new houses are being built, the high income reflects itself in high mortgage capacity, which reflects itself in higher prices. So there is a spiral. Indeed, in addition to the income gap between Wales and the south-east, there is an enormous capital gap so that people can hardly contemplate moving from Wales to England because of the differential in housing prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Wales (Deprivation and Disadvantage)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about 1979?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": " million of inward investment came into Wales. Obviously the investors had not read his speeches; they would not have ventured into the type of country he described. The right hon. Gentleman talks about unemployment. I hope that he realises that Wales alone of the regions has had reductions in unemployment for every one of the past 24 months. Unemployment is 43,000 lower than it was two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Wales (Deprivation and Disadvantage)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I could mention a whole range. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that it is only one, I suppose that he will oppose the 4·5 million sq ft of office space that is to go up in Cardiff. There is the Chemical bank, the Trustee Savings bank and a whole range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1316.5", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Wales (Deprivation and Disadvantage)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "People on low incomes do not have the money to improve their houses. The Secretary of State seems not to be able to understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-23", "file": "debates1988-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "343cb14a0f4927c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1336.6", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "I shall press on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-23a.1336.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-24", "file": "debates1988-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "7af2d15b93e8ff2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "to describe it is wrong, we have had a bad first quarter, and in some areas there have been substantial increases year on year. Robbery, racial attacks and offences against the person, including assaults and woundings, have increased. Those problems are matters for great concern, not complacency. The clear-up rate has not improved at all; it is exactly the same this year as it was the year before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-24", "file": "debates1988-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "7af2d15b93e8ff2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is accountable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "n elected police authority. If it is good enough to have police authorities in other parts of the country—albeit with the limitations that many have—what is it about London that requires it to have a police authority who represents Mid-Oxfordshire and not even a London constituency? The money spent by the Metropolitan police is not accountable in any way to Parliament, and that is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-24", "file": "debates1988-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "7af2d15b93e8ff2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for reminding me of the Amnesty International report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-24", "file": "debates1988-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "7af2d15b93e8ff2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dicks", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman has just come into the Chamber, but some hon. Members have been sitting here since 9.30 am. I could go on and on about no-go areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-24a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "property, and we have spent several hundred thousand or even several million pounds over the past five years. What sort of compensation will we get?\" It is important that the House should debate those issues rather than let them go by in some mechanistic way, whereby everything is pushed to one side because of timetabling needs. If the House does not debate those issues, where can they be debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "unt, and we are looking at the subsidy system to ensure that it can. Therefore, the argument is not about confiscation or trying to do down the local authorities. It is about trying to value property rationally and sensibly. The hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) commented on flexibility and the winding up of the housing action trusts. I think that I can genuinely help him on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "rected during the 1960s system building boom and now suffering maintenance problems—and the size of the arrears makes the borough a favourite candidate to host one of the Government's Housing Action Trusts to be announced later this year. As I have told the Secretary of State and the Minister before, I am not one of those who have encouraged the Minister to announce where the HATs will go earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.50.9", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "lt of amendments in Committee, the other category who cannot exercise the right to buy an estate under this part of the Bill is anyone who appears to be under the control of the council. In other words, this is not a tenants' choice. It is a manifestation of the Government's vindictive hostility towards local authorities and their determination to destroy them no matter whether the tenants suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.50.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.75.6", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " attacked not just me, but the Institute of Housing, some of those in housing associations and—this is the difference between us—those who are attempting to bring more pluralism into the social rented sector, which my right hon. Friend defined in his recent speech in Harrogate. Quite justifiably, in terms of his kind of Socialism, the hon. Member for Brightside says that it should be all municipal", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.75.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.91.8", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rges should be covered by subsidy arrangements. The press briefing which the Minister gave last week and which was widely reported in the specialist press referred to that problem, and included this quotation from the Minister: The Government won't write off debt, but it will take account of its effects. The subsidy system will have to direct resources to those who have a new burden. In Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.91.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "overed by subsidy arrangements. The press briefing which the Minister gave last week and which was widely reported in the specialist press referred to that problem, and included this quotation from the Minister: The Government won't write off debt, but it will take account of its effects. The subsidy system will have to direct resources to those who have a new burden. In Committee— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.91.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "l pay to subsidise the landlords who buy under this so-called tenants' choice. The Government have stated that the principal subsidy for new landlords lies in the purchase price. They must make sure that it is a subsidy, but one from Government and not one that must be paid by tenants who remain with the council. A similar amendment was tabled by the hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mr. Heddle)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.93.2", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I despair of my powers of persuasion. I have tried to persuade the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) so many times out of his views, but I have not succeeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.93.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The question is, That the amendment be made. As many as are of that opinion say, Aye. To the contrary, No. I think the Ayes have it. The Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.105.8", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "exactly the direction he wants. In Scotland it is not necessary to have an underlying landlord who owns the property. I find myself making no apology to the hon. Gentleman. I recognise that these matters have been debated at public meetings which have been attended by many tenants. Some of these meetings have been addressed not altogether truthfully by some who have represented Opposition parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.105.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.115.8", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "ecretary of State to set a rent stop to the new market rents that will be charged. Throughout the discussions on the Housing Bill, we have argued, whether through social security or by the provisions of the Housing Bill, that the only way in which low-income families will be able to afford the new rent regime that will be set up by the Housing Bill is if housing benefit fully covers the new rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.115.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.115.8", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": " regime that will be set up by the Housing Bill is if housing benefit fully covers the new rents. [Interruption.] I know that many Conservative Members are not interested in listening to the debate, as other discussions are taking place around the Chamber. They are not interested in the issues that we are debating and I am sure that you, Mr. Speaker, would prefer them to participate in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.115.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Secretary of State for not being present at the beginning of his speech. It was the first time that I had left the Chamber since 3.30 pm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good idea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "t the Minister will direct local authorities to use the money outside housing. He will direct them to use it to improve existing housing stock to make it ready for sale to private companies. Rather than using the money to build sheltered housing, special amenity housing and shelter for those who really need council houses, it will be spent to improve council housing for sale to the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend, but does he not acknowledge that the problem is compounded and accentuated by the number of people who, through the care in the community programme, have been dumped in places where vulnerable people already are living?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Some hon. Members should have listened more attentively to my hon. Friend's intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.161.14", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. This is one of the most important of the Government's Bills and one with which I am exceedingly proud to be associated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.161.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.161.14", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " be so full of care. It will help the young and all those who are excluded by the present failure of the housing market. We are bringing the housing association movement into a new system whereby it will be able to borrow on the markets the money that is available to provide more social housing. That is absolutely right and is supported by all those who have thought about the matter for a moment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.161.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-27", "file": "debates1988-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "c847f7858d959ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Lawson?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": " strong feelings felt by Leicestershire Members of Parliament on this issue. That concern is manifested by the fact that all eight Members from the county are in the Chamber tonight and seven have spoken. The eighth, my hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough (Mr. Dorrell) is precluded from speaking by convention. However, he has made his views on the subject crystal clear by his presence tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-27a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.177.11", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tongue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Are not the Government speaking—as the Indians in the old Westerns used to say—with forked voice?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.177.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.186.7", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is going miles wide of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Would it not be better if the Minister encouraged our young people to join the woodcraft folk", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I have some sympathy with the hon. Gentleman. I can think of better things to do with 15 minutes of my time every now and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Council Estates (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "ic and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the Government's plan for the sale of council estates in Wales. This is a specific matter for debate because separate guidelines have been produced for Wales and these have not been given the parliamentary scrutiny which, belatedly, was possible for the equivalent proposals for England. For thousands of people throughout Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Question Time (Points of Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I accept that I may be naive, thick and all the other things that you have suggested, but you must have immense foresight if you are able to rule that a point of order is in order before you have heard it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Question Time (Points of Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is right. Until a point of order is raised, it is impossible for the Chair to know whether it is in order. If today's point of order had not been one needing my immediate attention, I would have deferred it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.197.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.201.7", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Police Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall put the Question again. Hon. Members must follow their voices. The Question is, That the hon. Member have leave to bring in his Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.201.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "New Clause 83", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": " interviews with extremely small samples of the population, and is not, therefore, a measure of the real frequency of drinking and driving. These days one cannot open up a newspaper after the weekend without seeing what is happening in the towns and villages of our peaceful countryside. Mobs of drunken youths, many of them arriving and leaving in their cars, are causing unprecedented disturbances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "New Clause 83", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give me a second or two? He had a long crack at his speech. The Whip is looking at me and we all know that that means that I must end my speech. I have never lived in a city, but when the canny and sensible folk in the north-east go out in fours, three of them will drink and one will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "New Clause 83", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "ming from my hon. Friends. I wish that the Government would do more to promote non-alcoholic drinks, because that would solve part of the problem. People could spend an evening in a pub, club, hotel or wherever and drink as many non-alcoholic beers as they wished. I am not an expert on these matters, but my friends who drink non-alcoholic beers tell me that they are as enjoyable as alcoholic ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "New Clause 84", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "ike, but if they are in the stocks every Saturday afternoon there is no way they can go to a football match. I do not want my remarks to be taken out of context. This is not a barbaric suggestion. We live in a modern and enlightened society and there are ways of devising a form of stocks. At the same time, we can prevent those so sentenced from being subjected to having wet objects hurled at them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.262.14", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "Committee we have had a further debate on capital punishment in the House. The views of the House on capital punishment have become even firmer and go further along the line of saying that there will not be capital punishment in Britain again. That is a statement of morality, and it seems that that theme has evoked a Pavlovian response from Conservative Members, with which we have become familiar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.262.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "ing to do with the federal nature of the United States constitution. As the Minister properly said, the federal Government can give any undertaking that lies within the power of a state Government, if that state Government authorises them to give that undertaking. If the state Government do not wish to authorise it, that is a different matter. That is precisely the same as if we were dealing with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.304.11", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "Clause 152 refers to indecency. If those who possess indecent photographs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.304.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.304.13", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "f caper had to stop. We are afraid that, because of the way in which clause 152 is drafted, that circus will develop again. The word \"indecency\" is loose. The amendments merely insert the word \"grossly\". We must remember that for a photograph to be taken of a child in indecent positions—these are indelicate matters about which to talk —there must be a victim. These photographs are not constructed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.304.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " because it was expedient to do so. The hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Jessel) thought jury challenges were bad. Those hon. Members who were not in the previous Parliament will not appreciate the way in which such arguments prompted the Government to remove the peremptory challenge, a step that we shall learn to regret. I fear that many Conservative Members do not understand many of these issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " House. I also pay credit to the Minister of State who, although not a lawyer, mastered the technicalities. He has often disgreed with me on some issues covered by the Bill. That matters not, for education is a wonderful thing and it comes with time. When we reach the third Criminal Justice Bill in the lifetime of two Parliaments, perhaps we shall be able to convert him, too. It sometimes happens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-28", "file": "debates1988-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4773a7bfc4fcca1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "istened to in a proper way like an adult and be entitled to be believed as an adult. Then there is the video link which enables a child to give evidence in a comfortable room away from the court, where the child does not have to face the abuser or the accused across the court room, look at the judge and barristers in their wigs, or suffer the drama of the court that makes many of us turn to jelly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-28a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the previous answer is wholly unacceptable, in that since 1986 the Government have cut grants to the eight Scottish universities by more than £12 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.357.7", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "That is the unsophisticated version of the argument that the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel) was making. Student nurses and every other group in Scotland will pay the poll tax before those in England", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.357.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.357.7", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": " for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel) was making. Student nurses and every other group in Scotland will pay the poll tax before those in England [Interruption.] —the community charge—because we are introducing the community charge a year earlier. Why does the hon. Gentleman not ask me about the fact that student nurses will stop paying rates in Scotland a year earlier than in England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.357.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.359.8", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": ". The national lottery in connection with the collection of the community charge is what I suppose her question relates to. These provisions were introduced in the Local Government Finance Bill at the request of local authorities so that they might have the opportunity to offer incentives to people who agree to pay their community charge in a way that minimises local authorities' collection costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.359.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Official Secrets Act 1911", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " with an exact precision, it will allow Ministers to include within that automatic category for criminal prosecution anything that they wish to include. There is no doubt that while the Home Secretary represents this as a libertarian move, Mr. Clive Ponting, who was found not guilty under the existing Act, would certainly be convicted under the provisions that the Home Secretary has set out today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Official Secrets Act 1911", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman, by implication, acknowledges the strength of the normal protection which does not exist yet. In designating, the Minister will be bound by the purpose of designation which is set out in paragraph 7—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Furniture (Fire Resistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "me the Government's decisions on the implementation date and on second-hand furniture, about which I introduced a ten-minute Bill. However, I am worried about the concessions being given to a small number of fabric manufacturers who have been given the potential to drive a coach and horses through the regulations, and it is important that the Minister should answer a number of technical questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.389.7", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Furniture (Fire Resistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "I see no reason why Northern Ireland should be exempt. Benign measures such as this are often to be welcomed in Northern lreland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.389.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.418.7", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.418.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.418.9", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": ". If that aim is achieved, all hon. Members should applaud and welcome it, because it gets rid of one of the major difficulties to progress in Northern Ireland for the good of the people of Northern Ireland and, especially, for the Nationalists. The Opposition hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Foyle will be successful in his discussions with the Provisional Sinn Fein because we believe that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.418.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "d I have made the point that the hon. Gentleman raises absolutely and abundantly clear. Does the hon. Gentleman actually want to go somewhere else? A sort of fear seems to pervade these interventions. Actually the Anglo-Irish Agreement says—it is an act of generosity and clear commitment by the Nationalists as well—that Northern Ireland, we accept, is part of the United Kingdom and will remain so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. It is very kind of Her Majesty's Opposition to be willing not to kick us out and to let us stay for a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "hern Ireland, I have made it clear that I would talk to anyone if it would contribute to peace and stability. I have talked to everyone—Loyalists and paramilitary members—at their request and there has not been a whimper of complaint from those sources. The SDLP and the Alliance party alone have remained wholly committed to the democratic process and have never had any alliance of any description—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "tted to the democratic process and have never had any alliance of any description— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Mid-Ulster spoke for exactly one hour. He bored me stiff for most of that period and disgusted me for the rest of it. I have no intention of letting him interrupt my brief speech. We have never had any alliance with any paramilitary organisation. We are wholly opposed to violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "ription— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Mid-Ulster spoke for exactly one hour. He bored me stiff for most of that period and disgusted me for the rest of it. I have no intention of letting him interrupt my brief speech. We have never had any alliance with any paramilitary organisation. We are wholly opposed to violence. [Interruption.] I shall not take lessons from the hon. Gentleman's party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "When I listened to the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea) engaging in his hour-long tirade, I wished that the British people could have heard him. If ever a person did a great disservice—even to his own cause—it was the hon. Gentleman by his tirade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "When I listened to the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea) engaging in his hour-long tirade, I wished that the British people could have heard him. If ever a person did a great disservice—even to his own cause—it was the hon. Gentleman by his tirade. [Interruption.] He makes everybody in the Chamber feel moderate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ate a solution that will bring even more bloodshed, terror and death to their part of the world? It is deeply irresponsible and they should be ashamed of putting it forward. It is interesting that in Ireland in the post Anglo-Irish Agreement context there are all sorts of strands that could point the way towards a new settlement. The talks between the SDLP and Sinn Fein are of enormous importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I am telling the hon. Gentleman what the poll said; perhaps he could listen for a moment. Those are the facts. That is how things are perceived in this country. The leader of the hon. Gentleman's own party is considered to be more evil and dangerous than the leader of Sinn Fein. I am not saying that that is true. I am merely saying that it is the perception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "Those of us who have sat through the whole debate will agree that it has been a wide-ranging debate. It has had its highs and its lows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "I was at pains to make it clear that, although the Secretary of State and therefore the Minister were bound by the agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-29", "file": "debates1988-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e62790c89c42e333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "ect that elected representatives should reflect the views of those who elect them. That is legitimate. However, it is not legitimate for that to spill over into a form of sectarianism or perceived sectarianism. I am encouraged by the increasing evidence in the community of Northern Ireland that there is a greater determination of people who wish to live together. I must draw my remarks to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-29a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I gladly confirm that. Employment prospects are good. Growth has been good for over six years now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "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, there are inquiries and studies into dumping nuclear waste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman is aware, there are inquiries and studies into dumping nuclear waste. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman is referring to imports of waste from other countries, obviously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "European Council (Hanover)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Clemency for the Sharpeville Six was in the Toronto communiqué, it is in the communiqué from Hanover and it was agreed by all member states. We pointed out that in South Africa all the legal steps have not yet been exhausted. Nevertheless, whatever the result, we asked for clemency. As the hon. Gentleman is aware, I asked President Botha for clemency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I would like to know when the Foreign Secretary is going to talk about foreign affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ak of Egypt, Mr. Chedli Klibi, the secretary-general of the Arab League, and Mr. Farouk Khadonmi, the foreign affairs spokesman of the PLO, as well as talks with Arab leaders in Baghdad, Tunis and elsewhere. In quest of further information I shall shortly be visiting another indispensable participant in any settlement when I go for talks in Damascus that I have arranged with the Syrian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I distinctly heard the word \"traitor\" used by the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) about my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.8", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And \"Quisling\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "In deference to you, Sir, and the House I withdraw the word \"traitor\" in that context", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.11", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ter Mr. Ingham told journalists that the inquest would be postponed, Mr. Pizzarello denied that he had postponed it. Two hours later, he postponed it. It has still not been explained why Mr. Ingham knew for a fact what was denied three hours later, which was then confirmed two hours after that on the grounds of the need not to distract police attention from a music and dance festival in Gibraltar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.11", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Trivial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "al due to which the inquest was postponed took place this week. We now know what kind of festival it was which placed such demands on the police that it made it impossible for the inquest to be held. The festival events that were thought to need a massive police presence, included a painting exhibition, a rowing race, flower arranging and a performance by a group of artists known as the Dollydots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-06-30", "file": "debates1988-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "95782bf1c5c48e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.11", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "agan made it clear that he wants the world's nuclear arsenals to be fully eliminated during the next 12 years. Even the Foreign Secretary has pointed out today that strategic arms negotiations are under way, which is against the wishes of the Prime Minister who did not want strategic arms reductions to take place until after there had been progress in conventional disarmament and chemical warfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-06-30a.564.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-01", "file": "debates1988-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "bcb809b2fea2faef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-01a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Sports and Leisure Facilities (Competition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "The right hon.Gentleman's arithmetic and speed reading are at fault. Many of the responses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-01a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-01", "file": "debates1988-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "bcb809b2fea2faef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-01a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Sports and Leisure Facilities (Competition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "The right hon.Gentleman's arithmetic and speed reading are at fault. Many of the responses—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"] We can go through them all if hon. Members wish, but I can say that 93 local authorities expressed doubt. They did not come out against the proposals, but mentioned issues that have now been satisfied in my statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-01a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-01", "file": "debates1988-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "bcb809b2fea2faef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-01a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Sports and Leisure Facilities (Competition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman mentioned came out in favour and, completely contrary to what was said earlier, the Sports Council is in favour of any proposal that leads to more effective management and value for money. Private sector companies were in favour, as were professional bodies and trade unions. Other organisations that responded were also in favour. The Opposition have not read the responses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-01a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "That is just one of the technologies which produce less damaging emissions. The CEGB has decided that it is not prepared, for its purposes, to fund that technology any further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "That has nothing to do with the original question. If the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Eadie) wants an answer, let me point out that the National Consumer Council's principal criticism of our proposals was that we did not break up the generating industry sufficiently and we did not therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.725.9", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does get rather excited from time to time, but he may like to know that the representations from a large range of local authorities have been extremely constructive and have shown a complete understanding of what the Green Paper is all about. The hon. Gentleman does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.725.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "had been based on the assumption that the Government would propose the creation of five vertically integrated power boards. They had not. It was now agreed between the CEGB and his department's technical experts that, though there might be a cost from the proposals, that cost could be substantially more than matched by the savings which would result. Dr. Reid's information was grossly out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I am not. Most Opposition Members and the people of Scotland believe that foreign control would include England as well as Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.776.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — North Killingholme Cargo Terminal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The payroll vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": " pleased that the hon. Gentleman has said that. It is true that the other associated Bill to this was given a Second Reading last week and that in Nottinghamshire a lot of publicity followed that decision. The reason why the Bill was given a Second Reading last week was not the failure of any one Labour Member, but the number of Government supporters who marched through the Lobby in support of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — North Killingholme Cargo Terminal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "ast week, at 7 o'clock, there were more than 100 Labour Members present. By half past eight, when the vote on the Bill was taken, it suited Labour Members, having made all the noise and the shouting about South Africa and the miners, to go home. All that was necessary was for 100 Labour Members to remain at half past eight and, together with Conservative Members, the Bill would have been defeated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — North Killingholme Cargo Terminal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "Some Conservative Members feel that they have a debt of honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — North Killingholme Cargo Terminal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "rence. He said: National productivity records have been broken four times in the opening seven weeks of 1988–9. He also spoke of the records that were established by the Nottinghamshire coalfield in the early part of this year. Then it was announced—I think on the day of our debate last week—that the Nottinghamshire pits had, for the first time, passed the five tonnes per man-shift barrier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — North Killingholme Cargo Terminal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George J. Buckley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George J. Buckley", "preceding_text": "ies for 100,000 tonne vessels. Imported coal is already coming in from Rotterdam and other continental ports, but how much more profitable it will be if it arrives in vessels of larger tonnage. It is obvious that the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes is not concerned with the economic argument. He is happy to accept the promoters' praise, if not financial appreciation, for promoting the Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend has asked the chairman of British Coal to meet him. I was about to come to that point. What they intend to talk about is not the negotiations between British Coal and the SSEB but the long-term future of the coal industry in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-04", "file": "debates1988-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8224f6d3209f6666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.841.8", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Aid Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "hould personally have to bear the brunt of public expenditure restraints. Hitherto, we have said that a certain amount of money is available for a service, but as far as possible we have accepted the principle of paying the rate for the job. Here, for the first time, the legal aid practitioner is expected to bear and accept a factor in his or her pay which relates to public expenditure restraints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-04a.841.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.896.4", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that M r. Nigel Harris, the distinguished surgeon who shared a general election press conference with her last year, asked me this morning to give her a direct personal message? M r. Harris asked me to tell the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.896.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.896.6", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Mr. Harris asked me to tell her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.896.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.897.5", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.897.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.897.7", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may change the subject, Mr. Speaker. Is it not time that we tried a more imaginative and radical approach to the problems of yobbish hooliganism and drunken violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.897.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Belfast City Council (Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "A Sinn Fein councillors yet again showed their true colours when they loosed their thuggery on Loyalist members. One woman councillor was thrown to the ground; an attempt was made to beat her head in with a chair. Another alderman, who had previously been shot and seriously wounded by the IRA, was viciously punched. Altogether, according to police reports, five members had to be taken to hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.912.8", "colnum": "912", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, I regard that as being a most insulting remark to the discharged patients of hospitals for the mentally handicapped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.912.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "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": "having a hip joint operation today, there are now 14,000 extra such operations per year—40 per day—compared with when Labour left office, care of the NHS. If Opposition Members are so purblind about their interest in patients that they decide not to welcome additional funds for an additional operation, they are interested only in politics, not patients. Let me start by saying that the anniversary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "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": "rs. They have enormous achievements to their credit: achievements that merit congratulation from all of us. Not only have enormous achievements been made, but throughout the joint stewardship of both major parties represented in the House—a stewardship that means that for 26 out of the 40 years a Conservative Government have sought, as the majority partner in that stewardship, to sustain the NHS.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "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": "the hon. Member for Livingston, have the temerity constantly to attempt to rewrite history. Therefore, I thought that it might be helpful if I brought before the House again the White Paper presented to the House in February 1944. That was a White Paper of a coalition, not a Conservative, Government. It started with a basic endorsement that has been unchallenged by both major parties in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "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": " The Government have announced that they intend to establish a comprehensive health service for everybody in this country. They want to ensure that in future every man and woman and child can rely on getting all the advice and treatment and care which they may need in matters of personal health; that what they get shall be the best medical and other facilities available; that their getting these\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "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": "ruption.] It is interesting to note at what point in a serious debate the sans-culottes on the Opposition Benches decide to intervene. I shall try to continue— shall not depend on whether they can pay for them\". I shall continue by reminding people of the amendment to the motion debated in the House on 30 April 1946 in the name of Mr. Churchill and certain other hon. Members. It started by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "party started the critical move away from long-stay institutions to community care? Again, it was not the Labour party; it was the Conservative party in 1961 under the then Minister of Health Mr. Enoch Powell. Which party gave the biggest-ever boost to private hospitals in this country? It was not the Conservative party; it was the Labour party, with its vendetta against NHS pay beds in the 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.920.5", "colnum": "920", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The outlines of the major areas of public interest are becoming clear. The first area, on which I would expect there to be common ground across the Floor of the House, is that we all recognise that we must strengthen consumer power and choice. That will require much more information about the services and offers and, for example, about the choice of doctors.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.920.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.920.5", "colnum": "920", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ar lines. We both want to see much greater emphasis on the quality of care in both the personal and medical sense. We have to pursue the growth of peer review and clinical audit. We have to look at ways in which we can involve the doctors much more fully in the management process. Alongside their clinical freedom, they must be able to participate in the overall decisions about priority resources.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.920.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ran described how that happened. The Secretary of State does not seem to know anything about that aspect of the National Health Service, which is one of its most important aspects. It is partly because he knows so little about it that he was apparently prepared to offend and insult the presidents of the royal colleges a few months ago. The presidents of the royal colleges wanted to put their case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "I agree with that. I have not ruined my hon. Friend's career. His independence of mind and ability have finished his promotion chances. There is little I can do to match that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "t personal cause to be grateful to the Health Servious because in my early teens I contracted tuberculosis—a disease that would probably have killed me 20 years earlier. I was in hospital for 13 months and I was given expert treatment. As I lay in plaster from my neck to my toes, I had a whole series of very effective modern drugs administered, and here I am now—a fairly healthy specimen, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "tute went on to say: However, the temptation to exempt too many groups will defeat the whole object of the exercise—for example, some 31 million people are entitled to free prescriptions … Food and other items would have to be found by the patient whether in hospital or not, and it seems reasonable that the service should not cover completely free non-medical services and comfort trimmings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "t about £3 a patient a day … Quite a lot of people feel that it is not unreasonable to at least contemplate whether expenditure on food for people who are in hospital and not at home should be taken into account\". Interestingly, Dr. Maureen Dixon, director of the Institute of Health Service Management, said that that was facile, and the British Medical Association also pooh-poohed the idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.964.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "That is a catalogue of shibboleths of the kind that we have come to expect from the Opposition, but we have had absolutely nothing in the way of constructive suggestions. What we have heard outlined today are some key ingredients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour Chancellors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman's report to the House is a little incorrect, but he was not there to hear what happened. Aneurin Bevan was saying that that amount of money had been stolen, and he was reproving Chancellors of the Exchequer who came along and were not sufficiently generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman know that in Sutton Coldfield, the constituency of the former Secretary of State for Social Services, there are 112 beds for which the regional health authority cannot find funding, and that the opening of a £2 million treatment centre, including a hydrotherapy treatment pool, cannot be opened because the regional health authority says that there is not the money to put the staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Bob Dunn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Bob Dunn)", "preceding_text": "ety. That is exactly so. Before I begin the main text of my speech, I should be interested to know whether the Opposition will reveal that the think tank set up and run by Lady Antonia Fraser will be important and instrumental in the decision making leading to educational philosophy in the Labour party for the years ahead. We need to know whether the new think tank will be advising the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "f the hon. Lady are always very welcome and I will certainly concentrate on the regulations. I listen always to the hon. Lady's comments because I am sure that they should be heeded. The other element of disappointment, if I can just comment on this, Mr. Deputy Speaker, without being chastised by you or others, is that we are not blessed with the presence of the spokesperson of the alliance party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Excellent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "ted places scheme tell us that the private schools are in no sense independent. In many cases, they rely on the state for money. Let us consider just a few of the schools that are part of the assisted places scheme and rely heavily on that scheme for their students. At Batley grammar school, 37 per cent. of the pupils come through the assisted places scheme. At Belvedere school, it is 27 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Better still.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "ces scheme and rely heavily on that scheme for their students. At Batley grammar school, 37 per cent. of the pupils come through the assisted places scheme. At Belvedere school, it is 27 per cent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Excellent.\"] At both Birkenhead high school and Birkenhead school the figure is 24 per cent. At Bristol Cathedral school it is 28 per cent.; at Dame Allan's boys school it is 30 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1000.6", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly not be tempted any further into debates about the independent schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1000.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1008.5", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is so lyrical that we could almost set his comments to music. The harsh reality is that our money is being taken away from us to shore up an already flourishing private sector. We shall get rid of it as soon as we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1008.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I argued about it at the time, from 11 onwards, when I got to grammar school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-05", "file": "debates1988-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "faed845658c7e87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-05a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "iolence than the reverse. For that reason, we continue to drive home the case to the ANC and the South African Government that acts of violence set back the process of reform. That said, and although it is not our normal practice in any automatic way to intervene when sentences of death are imposed—we do so only once the legal process has been concluded, and then only in exceptional circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that, despite differences of opinion between the two countries, relations between Britain and Israel remain good? Further, does he agree that that is right, bearing in mind that those countries in the middle east supported by some hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "e law in the SNP's manifesto, but there is a most interesting proposal in the section on law enforcement and reform. The House will enjoy hearing what the policy of the Scottish National party was when it was put to the electorate. In its section on law enforcement and reform, the SNP stated: The population\"— presumably the Scottish population— will be encouraged to cooperate in upholding the Law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "It was an emergency meeting, and I should like to make it quite clear that a gun was held to the head of Angus district council by Tayside regional council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "s in Scotland and the Scottish economy and then to indulge in cheap attacks—some of them personal—on the SNP. Apart from a brief reference at the beginning of his speech, he failed to mention anything that the Government have done in Scotland, or rather have not done. When the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands (Mr. Rifkind) supported devolution I had a certain respect for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1095.3", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " provision of those services to private companies, which are interested only in maximising their profits. We understand and agree with the Scottish people when they reject Tory greed and self interest, but we know that the only way to get rid of this despicable Government is to defeat them at a general election within the United Kingdom. The Labour party will do that at the next general election.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "been listening, or he has not understood a word of what I am saying. I do not denigrate the idea of people providing for their old age. I hope that many people will be able to earn enough, despite the Government's encouragement of a low-wage economy, to do precisely that. The last Labour Government did far more than this Government have done to encourage the growth of occupational pension schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I imagine that one does enjoy a second income. Even when we say that, we have to distinguish between the nature and extent of the second income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1146.4", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "preceding_text": ".The hon. Member for Maidstone (Miss Widdecombe) amazed one or two of us in many ways, particularly when she said that she had something in common with my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). The mind boggles at that and my hon. Friend has a lot of explaining to do when the debate is over. It is a pity that the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Nelson) is leaving the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1146.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-06", "file": "debates1988-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "c66bdc8dfe927520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1148.4", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "rcle and tire Government should address themselves to the problem. The cases that my pensioner constituents have been bringing to me since the benefit changes are heartbreaking. There is a single woman of 69 who has been retired for 12 years because of polio arthritis. She lives on her own in a one-bedroom flat. In 1987 she received £57·96 a week and had to pay £12·95 a week in rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-06a.1148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-07", "file": "debates1988-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe2c517fd5a92e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1189.7", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This point came up a few weeks ago and the same allegations were made. Inquiries were carried out. According to the figures, and as far as we are aware, there has been no increase in the number of people in difficulty in the capital and some places are available in hostels which are not taken up every night. Young people can benefit from a number of our measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1189.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-07", "file": "debates1988-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe2c517fd5a92e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1200.2", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Piper Alpha Platform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should remember that that was a minority view, as he hinted, and that the majority of the Committee set up by his right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) disagreed with that point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-07", "file": "debates1988-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe2c517fd5a92e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "o the Secretary of State's private office for that calculation, which was carried out during the statement. Twice in his statement the Secretary of State referred to the discipline of the poll tax. What does the discipline of the poll tax mean? Surely the implied discipline of the poll tax is that a local authority will not wish to put up the poll tax because of the fear of electoral consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-07", "file": "debates1988-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe2c517fd5a92e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Revolutions of 1688–89 (Tercentenary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to announce to the House that I have not selected any of the amendments on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-07", "file": "debates1988-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe2c517fd5a92e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Revolutions of 1688–89 (Tercentenary)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": " the colonial assemblies or representation here. When that happened there were some Members of this House who took the view that the Government of the day were in breach of what had been settled in 1689. The great Edmund Burke, writing to his constituents in Bristol in 1777, rejected the charge that those who, like him, opposed the Government's American policy were guilty of encouraging rebellion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-07", "file": "debates1988-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "fe2c517fd5a92e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Revolutions of 1688–89 (Tercentenary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Charles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "hope that the House will take note of that for which our forefathers fought. I return to the \"glorious revolution\". It was neither glorious nor a revolution. It was not a revolution because the real revolution had already taken place when, the day after the king's head was cut off in 1649, the House of Lords was abolished. It was restored, incidentally, in 1660, when James came back to the throne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-07a.1245.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "n the light of new information, according to a headline in The Evening Standard, I wonder whether there is any possibility of your reconsidering your decision, taken at 11.30 am, when the information was not available regarding my wish to make an application under Standing Order No. 20. The headline in The Evening Standard states: I reported Piper gas leak\". The article contained other assertions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ture under the agricultural guideline. They also provide for legally binding limits year on year on the aggregate Community budget. The combination of those two effects provides a legally binding control on the non-obligatory expenditure. In addition, the matter is fortified by the inter-institutional agreement that was also arrived at as part of the arrangements. The point made by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "at do not depend upon the artificially protected production of food surpluses. That need was recognised at the Toronto economic summit. The message that the Toronto summit gave the GATT negotiators in Geneva was clear and can be put simply and graphically: that, if the countryside is to find a different way of maintaining its economic health, we should \"start beating ploughshares into golf clubs\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alacrity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "e that when he winds up the debate the right hon. Gentleman will be pleased to give careful attention to the material that is coming from his own researchers, buried deep in the bowels of Conservative Central Office. I am giving equivalents of the large sums because such large amounts are almost meaningless. They seem meaningless to the Prime Minister because she agrees to them with such aclarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Mr. Peter Brooke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Mr. Peter Brooke)", "preceding_text": "elors. My hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow), who also apologised for having to leave early, the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney and my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, South also referred to Mr. Delors. I am aware of the statement by the President of the Commission to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 6 July. It reflected Mr. Delors' personal view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, as usual, is badly misinformed. The vast majority of the Socialist group in the Common Market happen to be pro-Market fanatics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Can you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "That is the level of the intellectual attack on the order. That is all that Opposition Members can say. Mr. Alex Pagett can answer for himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": "that Glasgow district council held its rate steady for several years and that this year there was a slight decrease. It is not about vastly increased rates or about holding a surplus; it is supposed to be about excessive and unreasonable expenditure. As the average increase was only 3 per cent., do the Minister and the hon. Member for Eastwood think that 3 per cent. was excessive and unreasonable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": "plus; it is supposed to be about excessive and unreasonable expenditure. As the average increase was only 3 per cent., do the Minister and the hon. Member for Eastwood think that 3 per cent. was excessive and unreasonable? [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Eastwood wants to intervene, I might allow him to do so, but I do not intend to respond to stupid interruptions from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-11", "file": "debates1988-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "596624857493d29e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.161.10", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Court of Session Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " no doubt about the extent of the court's powers. In order to achieve parity of treatment in the Bill of section 89 and section 91 of the 1868 Act, new clause 1 re-enacts also those provisions in section 91 which are not obsolete. Section 91 is similar in nature to section 89 of the 1868 Act and it should be helpful to practitioners if both provisions are dealt with in the Bill in the same manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-11a.161.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " problems of deprivation and discrimination that exist not only in Notting Hill but throughout our country? Will she do something about a situation in which apartments are for sale on our river at a cost of £370,000, with a Porsche thrown in, while in my local social security office in Harlesden, as a result of DHSS guidelines, the officers are paying out less than 2 per cent. of the total budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.186.7", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I am not in need of rest and relaxation. The moment that the House rises I shall be going to Australia for the bicentennial celebrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.187.5", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the candidate in Kensington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.187.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.187.8", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Prime Minister is wholly in command of her subject", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.187.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.188.10", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With all due respect to what the hon. Gentleman has said, I should have thought that that came very high on the list of priorities of any social worker and that any children who were vulnerable would be one of the first duties of the social workers who are there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.188.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.193.6", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Ravenscraig Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will hear the hon. Members as long as they realise that they are putting in jeopardy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.205.2", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I contrast that with our recent victories in two by-elections in Hackney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.206.8", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "Evidence of the problem is not apparent to DHSS offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.206.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "ving standards of the poorest and the richest. It is right that we should have a clear idea of the authoritative statistics. The first and most authoritative statistics we have derive from the family expenditure survey, which describes the position of all those living in households in the lower half of the income distribution. Those statistics offer a wealth of information and repay careful study—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "d empty properties, £60 million, 16,000 people—even the Labour party, in spite of the poor education record of ILEA, can do that bit of arithmetic. On health, all the statistics show that there have been massive improvements. In 1986, the four Thames regions treated 1,792,000 in-patients, compared with 1,610,000 in 1979. They also treated 266,000 day-patients in 1986, compared with 144,000 in 1979", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Minister on his excellent speech, which was not only thought-provoking and interesting, but put the case fairly and squarely for London as it is today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "preceding_text": "The Opposition do not like it. There are more ordinary Londoners on these Benches than on the Opposition side. I was involved in Hackney in the 1970s. I was a parliamentary candidate in 1979, and I was a school manager and governor in the borough of Hackney from 1976 to 1980. I was distressed by the standard of education that was provided in Hackney at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Lady. Let her go back to Cambridge. She did not give way to anybody. That is one of the ways in which homelessness and the demand for housing has increased. The Labour party needs to think about what it has done to the people. Homeless people come to see me in my surgery.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "l not, because I suspect that he has had the same experience—to hear that when I meet Labour authorities in the midlands and the north of England, which I do regularly, their opening words are, \"For goodness' sake, we are not like those Labour authorities in London. We understand your problems with them. We are different. We are good Labour authorities.\" They are anxious to put a gap between them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He thinks this is funny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "f pursuing that strategy unless we allow local authorities to provide facilities for all their citizens. In my own city of Birmingham, there were 620,000 users of indoor leisure facilities last year and there were 3 million sessions of swimming. All that is now threatened by the proposed privatisation of management. It is the city council that has built the facilities and attracted people to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "My solution is to deal with the problem of hooligans where it exists, not to create it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " football match unless he is registered well ahead of time and has a membership card. I wonder whether the House realises that the only other instance in which it is forbidden to visit a recreational club without a membership card is attendance at a pornographic film. Lawful football supporters are being linked with viewers of pornographic films, and I fundamentally object to that on their behalf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "ugh other budgets, including those of the urban programme and the Manpower Services Commission, runs into millions of pounds a year. Moreover—this is a key point—there has been a continuing and growing increase in sponsorship, not just at the top level, but sensibly packaged to assist the development of sports at grass roots, as well as recognising the importance to the marketing mix of companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "a key point—there has been a continuing and growing increase in sponsorship, not just at the top level, but sensibly packaged to assist the development of sports at grass roots, as well as recognising the importance to the marketing mix of companies— [Interruption] I can give dozens of examples. Let me start with the Trustcard initiative in the world of rowing. It is not just at the top of rowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "The bowling green would continue to be managed by the bowling club. Any council facilities, such as mowing, would go out to competitive tendering under the order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "o families at the turnstile, who will come only to home games and will not travel away. That is not surprising. There are no incidents in Luton. It is not a matter of \"Fortress Luton\", as it was before the full membership scheme banning away supporters was introduced. The clubs should finance the scheme. I seriously believe that there are terrific commercial opportunities for the membership cards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.283.5", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "The chairman is the author of the scheme, so of course he defends it. If the Minister keeps interrupting he will not have much time in which to wind up the debate, so he had better shut up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "er than examine the facts and what has happened in the past 10 years. There has been an increase of 6 million, from 17 million to 23 million, in the number of people who participate in sport. The average frequency of participation in sport in 1977 was once every three weeks. The hon. Gentleman should praise the fact that it is now once a fortnight and that more people from all groups are involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.284.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "r circumstances, and regardless of the cost. We have heard about that. That is the least that we can do for our elderly citizens who have served this country through two world wars and been prepared to give their lives for it. I am certain that the next Labour Government will be committed to doing that. I shall fully support them, as my comrades will. To cut the number who will get the concession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "ves for it. I am certain that the next Labour Government will be committed to doing that. I shall fully support them, as my comrades will. To cut the number who will get the concession— [Interruption.] I have sat in the Chamber for about five hours today, and I intend to have my say regardless of the interruptions from the hon. Member for Rochdale (Sir C. Smith) whom I hardly ever see in the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Tim Renton)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"A week?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Tim Renton)", "preceding_text": "rbett) and for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick), to mention but two Opposition Members, extraordinary. What are we doing tonight? We are extending the concession for all those who have had it before. We are extending it for the first time to those in residential nursing homes, and we are bringing in restrictions on further extensions. All that is at the cost of increasing the fee from 5p to £5 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "The Government have considered the Select Committee's recommendations seriously and will take on board the importance that the hon. Gentleman has attached to them. We are taking a tough line on production, as we did with the Americans during the negotiations. We have been —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-12", "file": "debates1988-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a2651f719500ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have the opportunity to fire the first public salvo at national Government level at the proposals now with the Secretary of State for Education and Science to reorganise education in Rochdale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-12a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.347.10", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.347.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "New clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has misunderstood me. I am talking about the take from capital gains tax as a result of the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.393.3", "colnum": "393", "heading": "New clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I shall make that clear later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "New clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I will. I am being objective. When an error was discovered in the figures for pension payments, an error that resulted in pensioners not receiving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "advocated by the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury. The right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne approved the Chancellor of the Exchequer's draft commitment to reduce public borrowing and the share of public expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product. On that famous day, just before Christmas 1976, there was the beginning of an understanding of the need to restrain borrowing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "I have never believed that high wages cause inflation, but I have believed that high wages cause unemployment. Only Governments can cause inflation, and only Governments can cure it. By another of those strange accidents of events, I have in my hand a copy of a speech made by the noble Lord, Lord Callaghan when he was Prime Minister. The post that he held was First Lord of the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is the statement true?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " It is a pressure group, and one main function of pressure groups is to whinge and whine. Throughout this Government's period in office, the CBI has issued statements weekly and monthly which have often opposed the Government's economic policy. Indeed, in inverse proportion to the number of statements that it has issued attacking Government policy, the economy has grown more and more successfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I should like to continue because I am coming to the end of my brief speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "hey are paying. The super-rich who consult finance houses or credit brokers know exactly what they are doing. They know the difference between a bank overdraft and a bank loan or any other source of finance. They know the rate of interest and the cost, just as Antonio in \"The Merchant of Venice\" knew the real cost when he had to borrow from Shylock to help his pal Bassanio with funds for a wedding", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": " chap with whom he played golf the previous Saturday, who gave him advice on how to invest his Giro. When he goes to the local shop, the person who serves him is not someone with whom he has had a Pimms in the club, who has told him of the latest bet in the City on which he should borrow money. When he goes to the Newburn Memorial club on a Friday night for a game of snooker and a pint of scotch —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "on mortgages. The hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury and other hon. Members concentrated on credit card borrowing, as if that were a major aspect of the amount of credit in the economy. But less than 5 per cent. of personal borrowing is accounted for by credit cards, and of that nearly half is credit that does not bear interest because it is repaid within the time specified on the card—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "New clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "026;recreational activity\". Lest my hon. Friend imagines that in any way I am seeking to help those who regard virtually any form of indoor amusement as something to be tax-relieved, I emphasise that the definition of recreational activity in my new clause means that it must be physical and conducive to the health and welfare of those who take part in it. The second test that would have to be met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "New clause 31", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A skinful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "Along with my hon. Friends who served with me on the Committee, I am utterly sick of amendments and new clauses of this kind. We had a bellyful in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": " time, for several reasons, some relating to constituency pressures and some to parliamentary pressures, hon. Members are having to spend more and more time in the Palace, which means inevitably that they are that much more anxious to speak in debates. Therefore, there is less time available, with more hon. Members trying to speak. I have been fortunate, Mr. Speaker, in catching your eye 15 times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-13", "file": "debates1988-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89a13f6abd099b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.524.2", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "anner headline is: Brittan back in favour—Exclusive—Maggie offers top job\". That raises all sorts of questions about the right hon. and learned Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Brittan) becoming a European Commissioner. People such as me might want to make a speech on this. We might want to ask how it is that the great job of European Commissioner should go to a man who in January 1986 for 14 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-13a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.545.4", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I did not know that there had been any discussion today about inflation in house prices. House price inflation is a different matter from general price inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.545.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The amount that has been made available was the amount that was estimated by the Nurses' Pay Review Body. That full amount has been put forward", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, £803 million was the figure estimated not by the Government but by the Nurses' Pay Review Body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, £803 million was the figure estimated not by the Government but by the Nurses' Pay Review Body. [Interruption.] Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman, instead of trying to make trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would first read the letter of 13 July 1988 from Mr. Trevor Clay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.551.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.554.12", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The amount necessary to fund that award in full is £803 million. That was not calculated by the Government, it was calculated by the Nurses' Pay Review Body. It is intended to fund it in full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.554.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.557.3", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Cervical Cancer Screening (Christie Hospital)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "ll and recall of women. It is absolutely essential that resources are made available to ensure that there is reliability and a high standard of staff within the laboratories such as the Christie laboratories. Such reliability should continue, not only in public laboratories such as Christie's, but in the private laboratories to ensure that proper procedures and reliability are maintained. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Cervical Cancer Screening (Christie Hospital)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "eir quality? Will she use national television advertising to give women the confidence to go for a smear test, and will she set up quality control to justify that confidence? Does she accept that there are more likely to be further doubts about the quality of the screening programme in view of the cuts and closures of family planning clinics and the collapsing morale of underpaid laboratory staff?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.560.4", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Cervical Cancer Screening (Christie Hospital)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "In answer to the hon. Lady's first question —and I am sure that she would like to hear the answer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.560.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.560.6", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Cervical Cancer Screening (Christie Hospital)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "ed in annual checks on staff proficiency, and we are working together with the profession to see whether it can be introduced. In answer to the third point, that there are no national procedures, let me gently recommend the hon. Lady to go to the Library and read the circular that I issued in January this year. The reference number is HC(88)1. She will find that the procedures are contained in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.560.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.565.2", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "aws have not been discussed? I cannot say to my constituents, \"You must obey this law because it was debated. We lost the vote but it was debated.\" It is unacceptable that we should be asked to deal with 500 amendments in one day on the poll tax Bill. It does not matter that all bar two of the amendments were tabled by the Government. We are entitled to discuss Government amendments. We know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House arrange for a statement to be made to the House on the current situation in Nicaragua—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ng to the mind of anyone who remembers the Labour party in government—and they tell us that the Budget is irresponsible. It is hard to take lectures on fiscal rectitude from a party which. 13 months ago, fought an election with plans to spend an extra £35 billion in its back pocket—a party that planned not a public sector debt repayment of £3 billion but a massively inflated borrowing requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.584.3", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never sleeps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "other advantage in cutting taxes is that it also reduces substantially the value of tax breaks and perks and removes the need to waste time and effort in tax planning. Opposition Members have described the Budget as one for the super-rich. No doubt they believe that, given that they have said it repeatedly. No doubt the hon. Member for Wrexham goes to sleep at night muttering that particular fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.584.3", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the CBI?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "he economy. The Chancellor made that absolutely clear in the Budget debate when he said that the changes are not a reward, but a challenge to British business. That is his fundamental argument, with which I entirely agree. I believe that business also agrees with it. The Association of British Chambers of Commerce said: We wanted incentives. We have got them. The message is also understood abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "or the Financial Secretary—hard though he tries—can point to prove that tax cuts are necessary for incentives. The need for incentives to make people work harder does not explain why the Government have given £200 million in tax relief to those whose pre-1982 capital gains tax liability has been wiped out. The need to work harder cannot justify the £235 million in tax relief for those who inherit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "As it happens, my hon. Friends were lost in wonder, but it is a matter of fact that the hon. Members for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) and for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) were both enjoying a gentle doze while the hon. Gentleman was speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "That is a surprise that I shall spin out for a moment. I want to whet Opposition Members' appetites. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": " get in touch with him to agree or disagree with him. When I see him here, it is usually in the opposite Lobby. Having quoted John Wesley at length, with many interruptions, I conclude by saying that I think he would have approved of the Budget and would have been voting in the Aye Lobby tonight. Therefore, I urge all hon. Members to back the Bill because it will help all of us to make more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with that; I shall come to that later. Large parts of the industrial north and Scotland are projected by the Cambridge Econometrics people to lose 85,000 more jobs by the year 2000. The Budget changes do not help. Poor people have lost money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "There is a certain amount of semantics involved in this, but Mr. Graham Day has said publicly on a number of occasions that Rover Group is not a volume car producer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rover Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ore trading losses on its books now, and they will be available for use against future Rover Group profits. In the March agreement, the capital losses and unclaimed capital allowances were ring-fenced and could be used only against capital gains in the Rover business. We have removed that ring fence so that they can now be used in British Aerospace as a whole, as lawfully as for any other company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Earns?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "s until they squeak, but there is a considerable amount to be lost if we discourage those people, if we drive them abroad, or if we stop them creating new businesses. We must be clear about the higher rate taxpayers. Two thirds of those on higher rates earn less than £40,000 a year. Of course, £40,000 a year is a good salary. It is what the Leader of the Opposition earns, or perhaps a little more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " competitive; their attitude remains, \"No tax cuts please, we're British.\" Quite a few years ago, Lord Jay, before he was ennobled, remarked that as long as there is an England, there will always be progressive taxation. Even that has begun to be questioned, and some City analysts have been talking about repaying the national debt and abolishing income tax. That may be going just a little too far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-14", "file": "debates1988-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "acf3c2593b90842e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "preceding_text": " to be deemed to be unemployed. Will that act as a deterrent to retraining? Will the Minister lean on such people? The Minister spoke about being deemed to be unemployed and the UBE after a year's unemployment It would be of interest to miners if he could clarify what will happen at the end of September or October to miners who opt for retraining. Will they be punished or leant on by the Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-14a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-15", "file": "debates1988-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "577991eeda8a2a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-15a.714.7", "colnum": "714", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "and it is agreed that one will do it, the more quickly it is done the better, because it means that there is a longer time to bed down and for the people of Hong Kong to become used to a system that they are not accustomed to, as has been rightly said. They have been used to freedom and to saying what they like, but they have not been used to electing members on their behalf. My view as a Liberal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-15a.714.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "he House of Commons or to Members of the other place? Should there not be medical staff, and should we not make provision for them to consider the health hazards and problems of Members and staff who work in this place? Heaven knows, with this Government introducing so much legislation, it is a wonder that there are still so many well people in this place. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. One of the speakers at yesterday's great demonstration in Hyde park was the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. On behalf of the Commonwealth, he made a very clear statement that the Commonwealth and all its members were in favour of the release of Nelson Mandela. On that basis, why cannot we have a debate on the subject in the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "e that the yobbos on the Conservative Benches were kept in order? In view of the statements made by Archbishop Tutu, Bishop Huddlestone—who has done more than anyone for peace, friendship and reconciliation—and the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, is it not possible to have a debate today? This is a very important day. Nelson Mandela is 70 years of age today and has spent 25 years in prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that the whole House treats this matter with great concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "nd voted upon by their Lordships. The first debate after this guillotine motion is agreed will be on those measures and the House will have an opportunity to express its views both corporately and individually, as I recognise that on these matters hon. Members have very strong and possibly different views. Nearly 500 of the 569 amendments approved by the other place are technical or consequential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": " in addition, the benefit of another 32 hours on the Floor of the House. This Bill has received more active consideration than any other Bill on any subject since the war. That demonstrates the importance that the Government attach to the education of children in the state sector. Their Lordships made a substantial number of amendments, but the majority of them are technical and they are designed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "receive an appropriate amount of discussion. If Opposition Members are genuinely concerned about the amount of time available for the consideration of the amendments—then I hope that we do not get the usual string of bogus points of order which always seem to arise following Prime Minister's questions—perhaps they will exercise a degree of control tomorrow. Opposition Members are the time wasters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.816.11", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e arrival of Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities in this country. Although the debate about the inclusion of the word \"Christian\" within a legal framework for religious education in a country with a Christian tradition may seem casuistical, the decision whether to incude those words raises profound issues of tolerance and questions about how we treat people who have different faiths from our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.816.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "In the beginning, before God created heaven and earth, there was chaos and confusion. This Bill will have the same effect because it has not had the careful consideration that it requires to deal with religious education, which is one of the most sensitive issues. I am grateful for the opportunity to address the House because I believe that I am the only person here from a minority religion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.831.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman realise how synthetic his indignation sounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Yes. There is a registered parent. It is within my knowledge, however, that there are children who have two sets of parents. All of them will be registered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "We have been opposed to schools opting out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the fact that the Minister was allowed to refer to Lords amendment No. 292 and amendment (c) thereto. We are glad that the Government have bowed to all the pressures to establish in statute a Welsh and a Scottish sub-committee. That is an important concession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-18", "file": "debates1988-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b74b4a0e7160a9de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.920.5", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "I have no time to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-18a.920.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Many people are somewhat concerned at the Minister's logic when he says that the reason why not enough women and people from lower social classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.932.6", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "—are getting into higher education is that we are paying them too much. Will he ensure in any review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.933.6", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "If I were a Minister I would wait until I had the money in my hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.933.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. There will be a network of at least 20 CTCs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.937.9", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "ir response to the ABRC document, which addresses a large, complex and important subject. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the Government are actively reviewing near market research by Government Departments, and he is also right to think that the Government are anxious that the considerations of exploitability and economic return on basic and strategic science should be taken into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.937.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The aid given is welcomed, even though over six years it was cut by the Government by 40 per cent. Is the Prime Minister aware that every community, church, trade union, and township organisation in South Africa that is representative of the majority of people continually ask for sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "Further to my right hon. Friend's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Marland), will she consider again the possibility of night movements of aircraft from airports in the south-east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "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, there is a great difference between what the black South African states say and what they do. They urge comprehensive sanctions, but they do not themselves impose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.944.9", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take time out of her busy day to confirm that her consular services are properly staffed, particularly in the southern Africa area, in view of the increase in the number of distressed subjects in that part of the world? Will she also take time to ask the Zimbabwe Government whether they would commend the lance-corporal who refused to be bullied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.944.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.945.6", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that any increase in night flights at Heathrow would be most deeply resented by hundreds of thousands of local residents, who do not see why they should lose one minute of their beauty sleep to enable other people to obtain marginally cheaper holidays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.945.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.946.5", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the level of borrowing in this country at present is reaching frightening proportions, even worse than the Barber boom? Does she understand, that the proportion of family debt has increased since 1979 from 45 per cent. to more than 80 per cent. in 1988—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.946.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "During the exchange between the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) and my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, from a sedentary position, heard by us all, the hon. Gentleman described the Prime Minister as a hypocrite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.952.6", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "—one of the great companies in that city—is a substantial supporter of the Nottingham CTC. How about these for unknown companies: Boots, W. H. Smith, British Coal. In a radio debate, the hon. Member for Blackburn told me that Marks and Spencer had not supported the scheme. Well, I can tell the House that Marks and Spencer has supported the Nottingham CTC. The hon. Gentleman did not even know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.952.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "sors to decide how much they wish to give. Let us look at the other supporters throughout the country. We were told that we did not have any national names. However, Dixons, which is a household name throughout the country, has announced its support. I shall mention the figure because Dixons has announced it—£1 million. In Middlesbrough, we have £1 million from British American Tobacco, supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.965.5", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "t £2·46 million. On the one hand, the Secretary of State follows a policy in which the education of the majority of children is supposed to be carried out on the cheap. ILEA is rate-capped and abolished for spending over £2,200 on the education of each secondary pupil. On the other hand, in the assisted places scheme, we find that Government funds can pay up to £5,600 and then that in CTCs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.965.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.965.5", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "and abolished for spending over £2,200 on the education of each secondary pupil. On the other hand, in the assisted places scheme, we find that Government funds can pay up to £5,600 and then that in CTCs— [Interruption.] If the Secretary of State wishes to intervene and to explain the double standards for how one school can get £9 million and 500 get £2·46 million, I shall happily give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.965.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "other schools. There is no fixed quantum of knowledge—education is a dynamic. But there is a fixed quantum of science teachers and of pupils. The policy of paying some teachers in a few CTCs will undermine teaching in other schools. It is a further sign of the Secretary of State's desperation that the policy has been wholly altered from creating new schools to taking over existing, living schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e now ask the Secretary of State about the result of the parents' ballot at Riverside school. It is he who has spoken about the need for parents' views to be taken into account. I gave him notice that parents have voted by 89 per cent. to 11 per cent. against turning Riverside school in Bexley into a CTC. Will the Secretary of State respect the parents' wishes? I offer him the chance to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked me a direct question. I have been a member of a local education authority—as he will discover if he cares to look up my biography—for longer than the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I am sure, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you would call me to order if I sought to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ools at an exorbitant cost. The school that is to be created on Teesside will receive £1·5 million from British American Tobacco and £4·5 million of Government money. However, the Cleveland local authority has a capital allocation of £3·6 million. Therefore, more money is being poured into one school than is given to the local authority for the whole of its capital allocation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "EA. We value its work and we want to see that work and the opportunities that it provides continue for the children who are benefiting from ILEA's education policy. London Labour boroughs are now co-operating with ILEA's abolition because, unlike the Government, they do not want to play politics with children's education. They want to ensure that there are real opportunities for London's children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "r evidence of that, he need look no further than these amendments. The Under-Secretary of State said that the amendments were basically technical, but one set allows the Secretary of State to appoint senior managerial officers in the education authorities in the boroughs. We know from the Government's record that they are not at all ashamed of making and vetoing appointments on political criteria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": " John Harvey—Jones and Peter Mortimer. How can we trust the Government, the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister not to make those appointments on political grounds? They will clearly do that. When the Government fail at the ballot box, as they have done in inner London on education matters, and as they will do in the inner London boroughs, they rely upon bureaucratic and political arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "penditure. My borough of Lambeth is already an impoverished borough. The only borough that is poorer than Lambeth is Hackney. However, with our straitened resources we try to do something to supplement what is provided in formal education. We try to provide and fund playgroups, voluntary nursery groups and daycare facilities in the community. We try to provide some supplementary sports facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-19", "file": "debates1988-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be41ede308b83c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The Engineering Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-19a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1081.11", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "For the first time in 23 years and four months I have question No. 1 on the Order Paper. I am delighted to ask the Minister whether he accepts that it is time that the Government realised that, despite their usual reluctance to take appropriate analysis and the necessary action, in the coming years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1081.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1082.7", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that we have only one ozone layer and that, if it goes, as the policy makers and scientists at the Toronto conference in June said, we could have been gambling with an unintended globally pervasive experiment, the ultimate consequences of which could be second only to a global nuclear war? We are talking about saving mankind from the destruction of the ozone layer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1082.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "adult would be paying £267; that 70 per cent. of all adults would be paying more; that of the 18 electoral wards in Coventry, residents would be paying more in 14 of them; and that those wards that will be hit the worst, such as St. Michael's, and Foleshill, are also those that have the highest unemployment, the worst housing, and the most overcrowding? Finally, may I give the Minister due notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "of the 18 electoral wards in Coventry, residents would be paying more in 14 of them; and that those wards that will be hit the worst, such as St. Michael's, and Foleshill, are also those that have the highest unemployment, the worst housing, and the most overcrowding? Finally, may I give the Minister due notice—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] Could I give the Minister due notice that it is solidarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Holt)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.11", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not persist in challenging my ruling or I shall have no alternative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1092.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " events by cigarette companies is no substitute for investment by the public sector? Does he accept that his figures show that the public sector, local authorities and the Sports Council have invested heavily in sports facilities that are open to all and that, through privatisation, he is handing over the rich pickings to the private sector so that it can come along and make a profit out of sport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Conventions of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "Member dealing with another hon. Member's constituency should give the hon. Member due notice that he will mention it? In this case, is it not all the more reprehensible, considering that the offices of the Horsham Conservative Association are to be knocked down to make way for a road? It is not altogether surprising that the council is offering the Horsham Conservative Association other premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Housing Action Trusts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Warley, East (Mr. Faulds), Mr. Deputy Speaker. Would it have been in order for me to table a question in relation to the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1111.5", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "I advise my hon. and learned Friend the Minister that Mr. Speaker recently ruled that if hon. Members were not present during the presentation of a Minister's speech they would not be called or seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "the children begin to think that something wrong is happening in the House of Commons. Believe it or not, some of our comics have referred to the poll tax. I freely admit that I am not a parent and am not as up-to-date on comics as I was. I discussed the matter the other day with my young friend William Pickering, aged 12¼, because of what he had read in his comic \"Oink\" about the poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "s on Staffordshire council. In 1981, both Staffordshire and Derbyshire county councils were Conservative-controlled. The rate in Staffordshire was 112p and in Derbyshire it was 111·5p. They are counties of similar size and with similar problems. Both authorities became Labour-controlled in 1981, with fairly sound majorities. In Staffordshire the rate for 1988–89 is 215p in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "ot be a moment to discuss the implications of the uniform business rate upon Scotland. There will not be a moment to reconsider the 100 clauses in the English legislation that apply to Scotland. What is being pushed through, on the back of English and Welsh legislation and without the presence of a Minister from the Scottish Office on the Treasury Bench, is a subsidiary poll tax Bill for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ecognised that that is a sensible way to deal with the matter so that when all the details of Project 2000 have been settled an order can be made in the light of the decisions. The hon. Member for Normanton (Mr. O'Brien) asked me to deal with the situation that would arise in Scotland. We welcome to our deliberations after his long perambulation the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Mr. Douglas).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Clause 116", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "re is a suggestion that they are not fit to participate in the affairs of the community. What does the Secretary of State have to say about the severely mentally handicapped who are exempt under the Bill? Does that mean that someone who is exempt under this obnoxious Bill should be removed from the electoral roll? Is that a quid pro quo? Earlier, the Minister of State alluded to my perambulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1161.15", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Clause 116", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "That is the right way to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1161.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "SCHEDULE 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "ir community charge may have sums deducted direct from their income support and paid to the local authority. That again is a sensible measure, which parallels the provision for the attachment of earnings of people who are in work. Without that provision there would be no alternative to distress or imprisonment, which would put people on income support at a disadvantage compared with those in work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "SCHEDULE 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that unlike many of her colleagues the hon. Lady is a full-time Member of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Clause 49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "o buttress the losses for those who are to lose. Business men in the north of the country were told, \"There is a stack of money coming off the rates. People down south are going to pay a lot more\". That is not true. The business men in the midlands and the north will pay such a surcharge so that, for example, people in that nursery in Canterbury do not have to pay that 722 per cent. all in one go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Clause 49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "plained to business men in the midlands and the north. I do not say this as a criticism; I must take this brief opportunity, which is all I am permitted, so that in 1989 and 1990, when the scheme is introduced, no Conservative Member will be able to say that the Opposition did not warn them. When the howls of protest come from small and large businesses all over Britain, it will be the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Clause 49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " as long as Conservative Members can say to their constituents in due course that the personal poll tax went through the roof exponentially in two or three years, even under Tory authorities, because the business rate was capped artificially in line with inflation. We all know that by no stretch of imagination can local authority expenditure normally be compartmentalised in the retail price index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1216.7", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "al with provisions for de-rating. Amendment No. 342 deals with the exemption from rating of certain church buildings. The broad intention underlying the amendment is to provide de-rating on certain buildings used for church administration, and there will be consultation before the relevant order-making powers are used. Amendment No. 343 deals with exemption of certain salmon fishings from ratings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1216.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the past 20 minutes have added to the debate. They seemed to consist of a tirade. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) talked about bully-boy tactics. If he had not used such tactics last November, we might well have a Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "ting relative to district boards and local authorities. His remarks were totally out of context and were made from great ignorance. It is important to get to the heart of harmonisation of sporting rates throughout the United Kingdom. I hope that, in the not-too-distant future, all sporting rates will be harmonised, including those for shooting, which are more expensive in Scotland than in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Allan Stewart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "elating to salmon fishings, which perhaps is the most important in this group. I wish to ask the Minister one or two questions concerning other amendments in the same group. 11.30 pm First, will my hon. Friend say a few words about amendment No. 351, which deals with the change in the method of calculating the base month for the retail price index formula? I am not sure that I quite understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1223.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1225.2", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Dumfries that every word that I said in the Scottish Grand Committee has been proven true—in the great swathe of the highlands and islands, the Tories have been eradicated along with wolves and TB. Part of the reason is this kind of special pleading and offerings to the landowners of Scotland. That is part of the reason why there is no way back for them. I finish on this note. When it suits them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1239.4", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "The code will not stop all council newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "There are those who think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "There are those who think—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way]—that that has strayed well beyond the guidelines of the Cabinet Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to hear what is being said. There is too much noise from both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-20", "file": "debates1988-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c28517f1fe03806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1254.3", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Schedule 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "hy was the letter delivered to me through my seven year old daughter being given the letter and pamphlet at school without the same even being put in an envelope? Was it intended that the letter and pamphlet should be read by my daughter? Another parent wrote: Frankly, I was disgusted that my son, aged 5, was used to further the socialist ends of the County Council in bringing home this letter\"— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-20a.1254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1271.5", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "When the Home Secretary is examining this material will be give an undertaking to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1271.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1274.6", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "If it was not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1274.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1274.8", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "If it was not met in full for Sussex, why was it also not met in full for Cumbria?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1274.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1279.5", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with what my hon. Friend has said. I must declare an interest: I was once a member of the special constabulary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1282.6", "colnum": "1282", "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 take lectures on inflation from the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1282.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1283.11", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the practice whereby an elected councillor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1283.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1284.10", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not going to comment on things that the hon. Gentleman suddenly puts to me. He is aware that the amount that has been allocated to the social fund is very similar to that which has been spent in past years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1284.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1285.4", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "hat the Royal College of Nursing has set a very good example to the rest of the trade union movement in its attitude to industrial relations, especially in its refusal to go on strike? Does she consider that its attitude may have something to do with the fact that, according to today, The Guardian, it has been refused a place to set up its stall at this year's Labour party conference in Blackpool?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1285.6", "colnum": "1285", "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/1988-07-21a.1285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1287.11", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "o arrange for the Member concerned to come to the House to face the music because the letter contains contradictory claims about what happened which would not come well from a petty criminal in a magistrates' court? Surely the Leader of the House cannot expect my hon. Friend to accept the explanation that the Minister did not understand that for the police to force a woman to take off her clothes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1287.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. I shall try to to call all those Members who are now on their feet, but it would be helpful to have short speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1295.4", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Privatise it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "rk needs to be done during the summer recess it can be carried out, particularly in view of the lavish amounts of money that were spent yesterday on the junket in Westminster Hall? Bearing in mind that the thousands of people who come here every year are provided with paltry facilities, does the Leader of the House not think that we ought to improve our catering for the general mass of the public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1295.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Fast Reactor Programme", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": " efforts during the nine years that this programme offers to find work to replace that at Dounreay. I told the House that £105 million was being spent on the programme; that £50 million was being spent at Dounreay; and that the other £55 million represents the cost of the rest of the programme. I said that that would be scaled down over the next 18 months to a core programme of £10 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Fast Reactor Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "preceding_text": "The answer that the right hon. Gentleman has just given is the first clear statement of what is going to happen after 1993. We welcome the fact that there are to be no immediate redundancies at Dounreay, but the Secretary of State has now said, has he not, that in 1993–94 Dounreay will close down; is that the reality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Short Brothers plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "at there are almost 100 jobs at Shorts in west Belfast. It is not for Government, if the company is in the public sector—certainly not if it is in the private sector—to be dirigiste about where the operation should be. I do not think that it would be appropriate for the Government to make conditions about the transfer to the private sector. To that extent, I completely contradict the—Government's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1322.9", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": " the debate began. From that point, certain doubts have been raised about what is meant by \"fully funded\". Once again, as recently as 14 July, the Prime Minister introduced some doubt when she addressed the House. In response to an oral question she said: The amount that has been made available was the amount that was estimated by the nurses' pay review body. That full amount has been put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1322.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely beside the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely beside the point. [Interruption.] Yes, it is beside the point. I am trying to explain to the House, but the Minister fails to understand, that there is great uncertainty and fear at local level. People believe that there is to be a trade-off between the pay awards and nurses. It is about time that the Minister understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ely political issue of the nurses' pay review body, its recommendation and the full resourcing of the award, we might be able to find the common ground which would enable the House to produce policies and proposals, perhaps as we did when the Health Service was founded 40 years ago, without any bickering. So often the nurses are used as a political weapon by one party with which to beat the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ere were such shortages across the whole nation. The tragedy of all this is that the Conservatives have been in office for 10 years now and have not done a great deal about the problem. We are still struggling to provide skilled workers. If the Government went about it in the right way we might get somewhere. They should listen to some of the things being said by Opposition Members such as myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1379.0", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we are all grateful to the Select Committee on Employment for giving us an opportunity to debate this important subject. My hon. Friends regret that the debate has been on a Thursday evening as many of them have had to return to their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "t training, which builds on the failed job training scheme, rather than the best of the community programme. We continue to be told that it is a £1·5 billion programme. Of course, that is not true. There was some training in the community programme. Many schemes funded and organised training for themselves. After a great deal of pressure on the Government, funding was provided for training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "opposing employment training, but threatening action against anyone who seeks to work with it. Liverpool city council, which is, of course under the control of the hard Left, voted on 29 June to boycott employment training. Not content with that, it also voted to take a whole series of steps designed to bully voluntary organisations and private companies in Liverpool into boycotting the programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " again not uncritical supporters of the Government, has given its conditional support to the programme. It is absolutely inconceivable that the TUC would have done that if it thought that the Government intended to make the programme compulsory. Accepting for the moment that there are some grounds for the fears of the hon. Member for Ladywood, surely she realises that the moment that we attempted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-21", "file": "debates1988-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0fc5dc6baa59edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Estimates Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "e attention of such communities had been turned to other products, fresh markets, new enterprise and a renewed sense of determination. No amount of taxpayers' money, grants or subsidies will turn the industrial clock back. It is sad that Opposition Members cannot accept that and cannot accept its significance for Britain's industry. No amount of subsidy will halt the inevitable progress of change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-21a.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-22", "file": "debates1988-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "110d626b4a512753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-22a.1492.8", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "rent cases to which he referred. I cannot give a clear answer to that because I cannot speculate on exactly what legislation the White Paper will lead to because the Bill is not drafted. Therefore, I cannot speculate on the decisions that will be taken by the responsible Ministers. However, I can speculate to the extent that I suspect that bits would have been authorised, but other bits would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-22a.1492.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" The Guardian -reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend tell the sandal-wearing, nut cutlet-eating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On the point of order, Mr. Speaker", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "European Commission (Appointments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "t the rather remarkable circumstances in which a right hon. and learned Member of the House, who resigned in disgrace from the Cabinet, is now being put forward as one of this country's nominees to serve on the European Commission? As you know from events earlier today, Mr. Speaker, there are deep and bitter feelings about the whole question of the Westland scandal and the role of Ministers in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "European Commission (Appointments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If hon. Members look at the Order Paper, they will see that we have a very heavy day and perhaps even a heavy night ahead of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "European Commission (Appointments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If hon. Members look at the Order Paper, they will see that we have a very heavy day and perhaps even a heavy night ahead of us— [Interruption.] Allow me to answer this question. I can deal only with matters which are my responsibility. I have not received any notification from the Prime Minister that she wishes to make any statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "European Commission (Appointments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that the whole House will always support the Chair in these difficult matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "European Commission (Appointments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Obviously the hon. Gentleman was not here last Thursday when the Leader of the House announced the business for this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.130.9", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "the photocopy will be to several hundreds if not several thousands of people. Throughout the passage of the Bill, industry has been saying that, in order to have a proper incentive to invest and to protect its legitimate rights, there must be copyright protection against infringing copying. The problem faced by the publishing industry in relation to photocopying is that where photocopying is done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.130.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "ntations to the Government and are twisting the Government's arm to change the legislation. That was reported in the Official Report of the Committee proceedings. I also understand that the CBI has made representations. It is a pity that the hon. Member for Beverley (Mr. Cran) is not in the Chamber. He used to be the northern director of the CBI and I used to be a regular attender at his meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "n one or two meetings where I have heard the vigorous and enthusiastic support of Conservative Members of Parliament for the principle of the levy, and I have seen their satisfaction when they have presented that as the Government's official policy. It is somewhat embarrassing from their point of view that they should be left to defend a volte-face for which they have had no adequate explanation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-25", "file": "debates1988-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "53b3d262eb033e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.200.12", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "I was pleased to hear the Minister use the words \"dependent territories,\" as I tried to move an amendment to the effect that that was the appropriate term. The Minister told me that it would require such immense legislative changes that he could not accept the amendment. Secondly, I ask the Minister the time scale in which he will implement this legislation. The Lego case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-25a.200.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.252.8", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Scottish Office works extremely well under one of the best Scottish Secretaries of State that it has ever had. It has an excellent team—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.252.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The nomination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Select Committee Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "us breach of the procedures of the House. I am talking about the pressure that has been put on the Chairman of a Select Committee by the Government to change a report arbitrarily without taking it to the Committee. Today there was a press conference on the Chernobyl report, which had been agreed by both sides of the Committee. The Chairman instructed the Clerk of the Committee to alter the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.255.6", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Select Committee Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is not a matter for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.255.11", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Select Committee Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker, of which I was given no warning by a member of my Committee. I was informed by the Clerk of the Committee that there had been a misprint in the summary of recommendations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.255.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many have gone out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "dget. My right hon. Friend then announced, less than 12 weeks ago, transitional payments to help up to 350,000 people. The first payment was sent out on 14 July and the unit set up to deal with applications on a national basis is now fully operational. It will quickly build up to optimum efficiency and output. Any Opposition Member who has seen the application form for payments could not possibly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": " staff now in post there. They have been recruited and trained in record time to do that job and I was impressed by their commitment, their interest and the enthusiasm with which they are tackling the job. There was a feeling of drive, efficiency and commitment in the office. As a result of the applications that have come in, the staff have already issued 50,000 inquiry forms to local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.273.7", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "ister made great play of the fact that the Government are spending more money now on social security than ever before. Of course they are, given the number of unemployed people in my constituency and throughout the country. That is not something to be proud of. Incidentally, they would not have had that money to spend without the revenues from oil and from selling off many of the country's assets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.273.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Part of the Government's policy has been to reduce the standard rate of income tax, and the value of mortgage relief has been falling over a period. Let us put mortgage relief to one side. It may be a way out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I hear clearly what my hon. Friend says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.317.4", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with roads in a moment. Before I finish, I want to deal also with rail investment and with investment in the Underground which, when the hon. Gentleman was one of the leaders of the Greater London council, he was so scandalously incapable of providing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.318.5", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Yes, as regulations. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman wants to support us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman always says that. I shall ask him who the treasurer of the Labour party is. I suppose that the hon. Gentleman is in the pocket of the treasurer of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.5", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ing in the case of the Horsa. I am not prepared to join the Opposition in a mud-slinging session in furtherance of an industrial dispute with people who pretend to be impartial, but are fresh from their triumphs, campaigning on the picket lines as the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) was this morning. If offences are committed, we shall certainly prosecute. If there are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.9", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can go on saying, \"Ah\", until he is blue—or should I say red?—in the face. I repeat what I have told the House on many occasions. We shall not hesitate to tackle any offences that are brought to our attention, and reasonable Opposition Members know that to be the case. I turn now to air safety, which is a major issue, which I want to put in its proper perspective", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.9", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "?—in the face. I repeat what I have told the House on many occasions. We shall not hesitate to tackle any offences that are brought to our attention, and reasonable Opposition Members know that to be the case. I turn now to air safety, which is a major issue, which I want to put in its proper perspective [Interruption.] Surely the House is interested in air safety. I want to quote some statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.319.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " the whole range of improvement, from short stretches of bypass to the construction of motorways. We have increased expenditure on road building by 30 per cent. in real terms and expenditure on road maintenance has doubled. The hon. Member for Aberdeen, North, in an extravagant turn of phrase, said that British Rail morale was low, but British Rail has never done better than under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fry", "preceding_text": "esponse from the CAA on its suggestions about how the present situation may be eased. He had to ask for that response, and that is significant. Clearly, before the crisis that built up this summer, he did not have the advice that he needs, and that is why he had to ask for it. Secondly, and perhaps surprisingly to some people, the problems are not the sole fault of the present chairman of the CAA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "ed, such as the sight of holidaymakers stuck for hours at airports or on a motorway for two hours negotiating a three-mile contraflow. Traffic is increasing by 13 per cent. every year and the roads and motorways can no longer cope. It is a costly and dangerous situation. We have suffered from a lack of planning, vision, foresight and political will, and successive Governments must share the blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "or two hours negotiating a three-mile contraflow. Traffic is increasing by 13 per cent. every year and the roads and motorways can no longer cope. It is a costly and dangerous situation. We have suffered from a lack of planning, vision, foresight and political will, and successive Governments must share the blame. [Interruption.] Fundamental errors were made by cutting road maintenance programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Peter Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Peter Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "t criticising the press; and I shall later deal with what it has achieved. While not in any way obscuring some of the terrible tragedies that have occurred, I can tell the House that in every category of transport the accident rate for the last available year is lower than it was in 1979. Of course, it should be. We should be able to get rid of avoidable crashes and to reduce the risk of disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Yes. The hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Leadbitter) made a discursive speech. He talked about travel within the law. It is important to realise how schizophrenic we are about road casualties. On Friday I was looking at red-light jumping with a television crew. That is one of the habits that is getting worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Yes. The hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Leadbitter) made a discursive speech. He talked about travel within the law. It is important to realise how schizophrenic we are about road casualties. On Friday I was looking at red-light jumping with a television crew. That is one of the habits that is getting worse— [Interruption.] Forty per cent. of the traffic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t to realise how schizophrenic we are about road casualties. On Friday I was looking at red-light jumping with a television crew. That is one of the habits that is getting worse— [Interruption.] Forty per cent. of the traffic— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Glasgow, Shettleston (Mr. Marshall) referred to being a Member sponsored by the TGWU; I stand here as a Member not sponsored by the TGWU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is now denying it, but it is true. If he cannot be consistent from one year to the next, I would not vote for him as Deputy Leader. Going across traffic lights which the car should not do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-26", "file": "debates1988-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "4560f767349ed561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Clause 117", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "was tabled yesterday morning in the House of Lords, and if Lord Peston had wanted to put down the amendment he had plenty of time to do so. Plainly, he had not thought of it. I shall now answer the hon. Gentleman's substantive point about consultation with trade unions. At present the UGC does not consult the different unions where it is determining the grants given to universities. That is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-26a.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend confirm that the total number of houses in Scotland below the tolerable standard has fallen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " inputs is largely unknown and the value of outputs is largely unassessed. We need to go rather further than we have. Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of a pamphlet that has been published today entitled \"The NHS—a suitable case for treatment\", which was written by the No Turning Back Group of Conservative Members and edited by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Anns na dha no tri bhliadhnaichean a chaidh seachad tha sinn air tagraidhean fhaighinn o bhuill uasal,comhairlean ionadail agus buidhnean Gaidhlig.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks the Government to make estimates based on people allegedly not paying the community charge or having a lack of enthusiasm for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I am willing to give way to the hon. Gentleman who represents all of the opinion that I most detest on this subject. The hon. Gentleman prefers to mumble his opinions rather than to speak in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Sir Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "other part of the country and totally abused the rules and regulations. I have had dozens of such cases, as I am sure have other hon. Members. That does no favour to the genuine cases, those people who want and are entitled to come here and wish to make a success of it. That needs to be understood by the House. Secondly, those who overstay in future will not be able to plead compassionate reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pat Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Born here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pat Wall", "preceding_text": "milies involved and witness their worry and heartbreak we realise what such delays mean in human terms. I wanted to ignore some of the bigots on the Conservative Benches, but I must take up one remark. It was asked, \"Why do they not go back if we will not let their husbands in?\". What would that hon. Member think if he were a Bradford girl of 20 or 22 who had lived here since she was two or three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "er last night he returned to accusations of racism. Is it because he feels that it is necessary to prove his credentials in the election campaign that is taking place inside the Labour party? Does he wish to prove his credentials as someone who is willing to shout \"Racist\" from the rooftops against every attempt by this Government to improve the fair but firm operation of the immigration controls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "u will allow me to refer to it. The black section accuses the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook in particular of being its worst enemy and the beneficiary of godfather politics. Is it for that reason that we have seen this sudden increase in the extreme remarks of the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook? Our motives in introducing the legislative changes of recent months have been entirely honourable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.439.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-07-27", "file": "debates1988-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c32ff02eb5665169", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "n place by 1990 to deal with 1991 pay? The Minister was not clear on that. It would benefit the House if she could tell us which of two options is right. The Minister is spending a lot of time thinking about the matter—enough time for her to send a Parliamentary Private Secretary to ask an adviser. Is the target 1989 for 1990 or in place for 1990 to negotiate pay for 1991? We have a right to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-27a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall just four months ago telling me that the balance of payments deficit of more than £1 billion for February was a freak? There have now been four such deficits in six months. Were they all freaks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.540.7", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There was a change in the Common Market in the way in which imports and exports are accounted for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.540.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Second Severn Crossing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not agree with the hon. Gentleman's point about the European Investment Bank, which I am hoping to meet. I shall certainly examine the point in conjunction with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. We must see what level of tolls is proposed, whether it is acceptable and whether a solution involving that comes from the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "No. I shall progress, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "No. I shall progress, if I may. [Hon. Members: \"Give way\".] Unfortunately, my hon. Friends who were so kind as to say that they would listen intently because of my depth of knowledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I exclude the hon. Member for Lewes (Mr. Rathbone) from any lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "At least on this issue the perception of Opposition Front Bench Members does not differ markedly from that of the Government. We see the origin of Bophuthatswana as part of the Verwoerd strategy to create Bantustans. That is shown graphically on page 23 of the report by the Eminent Persons Group. I recommend that Conservative Members read that report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.644.6", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bophuthatswana", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friends referred to the speech given by my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary to the Royal Commonwealth Society. It detailed fully our overall policy towards South Africa. We want to see apartheid ended. We want to see it not merely reformed but abolished altogether, and soon. Our policy on Bophuthatswana cannot be isolated from our policy towards South Africa as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.644.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yorkshire and Humberside (Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Barnes) managed to bring north-east Derbyshire into the debate on Northern Ireland, I suppose he can now move the east midlands a little further down the road into north Yorkshire and Humberside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yorkshire and Humberside (Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "work. That work disappeared when the works closed down. Sheffield had its problems, and many people were unemployed. Small firms in Sheffield are now springing up, and a survey by the council—it is not of my political thinking—revealed that in the east end of Sheffield new firms were taking on employees, and council statistics show that unemployment in the Sheffield travel-to-work area is falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yorkshire and Humberside (Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "r trying to participate in a debate when the hon. Member for Normanton (Mr. O'Brien) was speaking. One would have thought that he had suddenly become deaf to those of us facing him, but that he had an ear in the back of his head and was able to hear his colleagues. At least I have given hon. Members a chance to intervene, even the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman. I have been more than generous. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yorkshire and Humberside (Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "of his head and was able to hear his colleagues. At least I have given hon. Members a chance to intervene, even the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman. I have been more than generous. — [Interruption.] It is always good to hear the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, whether he is sitting, standing or keeping quiet. On behalf of Yorkshire and Humberside I should like to argue for the Channel tunnel link—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Yorkshire and Humberside (Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "I can add to that, because the area that I am talking about is not the third lowest; it is the second. I am referring to the area in which I live and for which I am developing my argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rail privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "ey should so is make it available to British Rail. That is dogma gone mad. The sooner that the Secretary of State and the Minister of State realise that, the better. I hope that they will fight for British Rail and for the passenger. The deregulation of bus services and the privatization of the National Bus Company, for example, brought a poorer service for those who are on the periphery. We know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-28", "file": "debates1988-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0435d33dc833c08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Latin America", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that even now the hon. Gentleman cannot bring himself to condemn the fact that a military coup took place in 1973 and an elected president was murdered. I find it surpirising that the hon. Gentleman is still not prepared to do that. If the hon. Gentleman wants to do that now, I shall happily give way to him. He does not want to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-28a.716.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-07-29", "file": "debates1988-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f43aae6915bb8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-29a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "point. On balance, the three metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham are receiving about £6 a head in the current year under the urban programme, whereas other areas with less than half our unemployment are receiving urban programme funding twice or three times as much. If that is special priority, I would rather not have it. I do not mean that I would rather not have the fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-29a.790.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-07-29", "file": "debates1988-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1f43aae6915bb8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-29a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. Does the hon. Gentleman have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-07-29a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "Whatever feelings the Minister may have on behalf of Romanians of Hungarian origin, if he pays regard to the reports that he receives from the embassy in Bucharest he must know that the systemisation of villages is not an act of discrimination against Hungarians. I see the Minister nodding. He may dislike the act of the Romanians in modernising their villages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "Those individuals chose to go to that football match and became involved, or did not become involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "May I correct an earlier reply by my right hon. Friend to my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis) about the South African rugby board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "It is leading to a question, Mr. Speaker. May I remind my right hon. Friend that the South African rugby board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is it not ironic that the Foreign Secretary is not here to answer this question today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.891.8", "colnum": "891", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "There is no connection between membership of a trade union and people's loyalty to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.891.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.892.4", "colnum": "892", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "Despite the wringing of hands by Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.892.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.898.6", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Broadcasting and Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "osition case. We are not in the ordinary business of the tossing to and fro of arguments and controversy. We are dealing with two things that are different from the traditional arguments. They are the direct impact of access to the media, and the people who use that access, not to out-argue me or the right hon. and learned Gentleman, but to spread the aura of fear that surrounds their acitivities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Defence is a joke today. He realises—and I realise— what my party's policy is on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.912.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": " which my hon. Friend has dealt at length? The Secretary of State for Defence is smiling, but I wonder whether he is aware that the Labour Government removed the pay claim from the defence budget. They entered into a commitment to increase defence spending by 2 per cent. I know that that was a NATO sanction, but the understanding was that it would be for conventional equipment. That is the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Could do better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "ks have been taking place in seaside towns—perhaps even in London—in the past week or so. I do not believe everything that I read in the press, but I am sure that my right hon. Friend has had to fight robustly for the funds that he thinks he needs to carry out the job that the Government have given him. If my spies are correct, I think that he is not doing too bad a job fighting defence's corner.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "party conference had a serious debate on nuclear weapons, and not for the first time. Ever since the first party conference I attended, 30-odd years ago, we have been having that debate. I remember us debating it, and the rank and file—I suppose I will have to put it in those terms—won the debate on one occasion, when Mr. Gaitskell was there. He got that decision knocked over in the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "lue for money in his Department. But, as my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford made clear, we still need to make better use of Ministry of Defence assets, many of which are unused or under-used, and more attention needs to be paid to cost overruns and to the constant specification changes which have bedevilled many of the major projects that the Ministry has tried to initiate over the past decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "ns in defence spending from 1986–87 to 1990–91 will total £3·2 billion. Historically, the effect of reductions in defence expenditure has borne most heavily on the equipment programme; the equipment share of the budget has fallen from 46·3 per cent. in 1985–86 to 43 per cent. in 1988–89, and is now at its lowest in proportionate terms since 1979–80.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "The Labour party knocks itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I hope to join the hon. Member for Wealden on some of those reviews. I am pleased that I shall be joining such a review next week when I attend a three-day seminar at the NATO defence college in Rome. It is just as important that the Labour party should be able to explain to its political opponents, as well as to its political supporters, some of the subtleties of its quest for nucleardisarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State lbr Defence Procurement (Mr. Tim Sainsbury)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State lbr Defence Procurement (Mr. Tim Sainsbury)", "preceding_text": "eputed to have used the same phrase in every one of his speeches, \"Delenda est Carthago\"—Carthage must be destroyed. In one sense at least, I should seek to emulate him by saying in every speech that I make from the Dispatch Box that value for money must be obtained. I think that \"Utilifas ex vectigali publico maxime est capienda\" would more or less cover the point. If I may return the vernacular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-19", "file": "debates1988-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "1e8b2654e8cf4338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is displaying the difficulty of those who are not familiar with the process of understanding the costs. Obviously, nobody would set about quantifying those costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-19a.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1003.7", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. Many hon. Members can probably remember the days of food rationing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1003.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But that happened anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": " three courses open to it. It could refuse the licence. This would have stopped the company from lawfully taking on new business. But because the Department could not apply for a winding-up, there would have been no way of securing existing investors' assets. This action could therefore have precipitated a disorderly collapse of the business, which would have damaged existing investors' interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "rvices Act 1986, whose main provisions came into effect in April this year. These improvements do not mean that the present system of investor protection is completely risk-free. No regulatory system can eliminate fraud or guarantee investors against loss. But the legislative framework has been radically revised and strengthened since the chain of events covered by Sir Godfray's report took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "not the report that we were promised. Will the right hon. Gentleman comment specifically on the following words of the Secretary of State: This is an inquiry to determine the facts of what actually happened within the department and to determine whether or not the department is to blame in any way\"— [Official Report, House of Lords, 13 June 1988; Vol. 498, c. 11.] Why do we not have such a report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "lar comments at particular times, which are set out clearly in the report. Let me make two observations that I do not consider were properly reflected in his remarks. First, as is very clear from the report, the majority of those comments did not come in the form of anything that could be construed as evidence in the context of the action that the hon. Gentleman suggests that we should have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "tion below the Gangway, that what happened was a disorderly collapse. Let me make the difference clear. What happened was a collapse in which a proper winding-up order was made in circumstances in which equitable dealing between all the investors in the companies could be secured. A disorderly collapse would have occurred if the Department had taken action that would have precipitated a position —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "pse. Let me make the difference clear. What happened was a collapse in which a proper winding-up order was made in circumstances in which equitable dealing between all the investors in the companies could be secured. A disorderly collapse would have occurred if the Department had taken action that would have precipitated a position — [Interruption.] I hope that the House will listen to this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is it in your book?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ot at the Department at the time that the licence was granted and that although it was reported in the press —and no doubt it will be dealt with in the report of the inquiry—a document during my time at the Department said that I was minded not to grant a licence. As anybody who has been in Government will know—I realise that few of those who sit on the Opposition Benches have been in Government——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Wriggling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "As anybody who has been in Government will know, such an expression is a commonplace expression in correspondence, whether a Secretary of State has or has not minded himself to grant a licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "uthority employees should be politically impartial and that Derbyshire County Council is making appointments on the basis of whether or not candidates are acceptable to the ruling group 's left-wing views and not on the basis of merit and experience.] Would it be possible to have a debate on the conduct of local government, bearing in mind that unsatisfactory appointment? The man has now resigned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Yes, but in real terms the figure has fallen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ty that we now enjoy was won in part by Russian blood in defence of their own territory in 1941. The purpose of the bombing of Hiroshima was not to bring the Japanese to their knees. I learnt when I was in Japan that the Japanese had offered to surrender weeks, if not months, before the bomb was dropped. It was dropped to warn the Russians. The reason that Mr. Gorbachev is credible now is because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ng its world interests. I was born in 1925, when about 20 per cent. of the world's population was governed through this Chamber. This place was the heart of the British empire, but we now live in a far-flung colony of the American empire. Those outside the House know this. The fact that we have no vote in the American presidential elections is a reminder of our colonial status. The third argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "es back and says, \"Yes, rabbi, things are perfect. I can live in peace and dignity.\" Why is that relevant? It is simply because, like the poor man in that parable, the Labour party in the shape of Ernie Bevin in 1948 said that such had been the violations of Yalta by the Soviet Union that we had to form NATO. For 40 years violation after violation is heaped upon Europe. The Prague spring, Hungary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1099.2", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sean Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sean Hughes", "preceding_text": "st 52 significant wars. In all our 52 wars of self defence, we have had two opium wars, two Sikh wars, two Maori wars, three Burmese wars and four Ashanti wars. We completed a third Maratha war and the eighth and ninth Kaffir wars. We even managed an invasion of Afghanistan. Indeed, to prove to the Russians that anything they might do we could do better, we invaded and occupied that country twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1099.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "nd also asked about the AWACS offset deal. Boeing's first report listed contracts totalling $141 million, and, following our evaluation, we have allowed a total offset credit of $96·5 million. The second report listed contracts totalling about $192 million, bringing the cumulative total of contracts placed to $333 million. We are now evaluating the second report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-20", "file": "debates1988-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c712833bbe256a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " about over-commitment of the Territorial Army. We shall ensure that all TA units are made well aware that the minimum requirement is clearly explained. It is wrong that TA soldiers who are giving their own time should become over-committed and be expected to do too much. That way lies bad recruitment. This has been a one-sided debate, because most of the debate has been on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-20a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-21", "file": "debates1988-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "663df589d561a17a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-21a.1127.6", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. John Butcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. John Butcher)", "preceding_text": "ose who study the humanities and the arts. A very old joke is touted around, which I am delighted to say is now out of date. It concerns an engineer who, having been subjected to that well-balanced and rounded education, observed, \"I wanted to be a well-rounded engineer, and now I are one.\" That engineer is a human of the past. Our engineers are becoming more articulate and more multidisciplinary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-21a.1127.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-21", "file": "debates1988-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "663df589d561a17a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-21a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": " North (Mr. Greenway) and I have tried to help those people by setting up an all-party group for adult education. We believe that we achieved a fair amount of success. We visited different places to see how the system worked and how we in the House could help. I am grateful for the guidance that I received from the hon. Member for Ealing, North, and I acknowledge his great experience in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-21a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-21", "file": "debates1988-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "663df589d561a17a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-21a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Good answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "TVEI complements a number of parts of the curriculum, particularly CDT. I do not propose this afternoon to say how I would seek to manage the consolidation of disciplines, but I expect that much of my time, particularly over the next six months, will be devoted to that managerial question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-21a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Nicaragua (Hurricane)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Patten", "preceding_text": " Costa Rica and conceivably elsewhere. Secondly, the precise scale of the devastation in Nicaragua is not yet clear. It looks as though the hurricane hit the Atlantic coast with particular force and did the greatest damage there: it seems that it did not do as much damage as it moved across the country to the Pacific coast. It has, however, taken off again off the Pacific coast under another name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.26.5", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Nicaragua (Hurricane)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": " this hurricane. Seventy-five per cent. of Bluefields and 95 per cent. of Corn Island have been completely destroyed. Bluefields, which is a substantial city on the Atlantic coast, and has existed since 1620—its connections with Britain have been stated previously—has been destroyed to the extent that it may have to be abandoned as a community. We appreciate that the Government have made an issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.26.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "SCHEDULE 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I want to make a little progress and then I will be content to give way. I hope that I can tell my confrère, the chairman of the Labour party, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "SCHEDULE 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": ", to maintain the reputation of the House as a source of legislation, we should always have in mind the ordinary citizen and, if something is easier and clearer for him and saves him some money in obtaining that information, we should be prepared to legislate for it. It may be that the Euro-fanatics are apprehensive because the Common Market is in such a mess, the agricultural policy is in a mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "SCHEDULE 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Certainly, Stanley Clinton Davis developed considerably towards the latter end of his period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "SCHEDULE 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the subject of this clause, Miss Boothby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "er General said that all these things are available in different Government publications. I am not sure whether that is correct. We have now moved from new clause 3 to new clause 4, in my name, which would require the Government to bring before the House any directive or regulation from Brussels in pursuance of the document that we are discussing, the decision for future taxation of the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.126.7", "colnum": "126", "heading": "New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "ons.'. We are always told that the power of the House lies in its power to approve money and expenditure. That is an underlying constitutional matter that has been assumed not only in the House, but in the country since 1688. Those of us who attended the great ceremony in Westminster Hall not long ago will not be unaware of that fact. At this time the importance of that cannot be over-emphasised.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.126.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-24", "file": "debates1988-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b6e5e353b2b885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should allow me to elaborate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-24a.138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.157.8", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "That was clearly the subject of a statement by my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, who has responsibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.157.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.161.7", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "preceding_text": "Yes, we are doing all that. We are currently implementing a new programme called SUPERVACS, which is a computer-based vacancy system which is now fully operational in the north-west and is being extended elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.161.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.163.5", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "preceding_text": " get away with the complacency shown at the Dispatch Box today. Young people want full-time jobs. Young people want jobs with training. If those disgraceful figures that he has given to the House are combined with the fact that there are more than 100,000 young people at 16 in jobs with no training at all, that is a national disgrace. As the demographic downturn takes place during the next months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is dodging again. On this occasion I think that we can safely regard her silence as an admission of guilt. The Prime Minister is a cheat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.8", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I did not hear the last word, but I hope that it was not unparliamentary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.9", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellet-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellet-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.12", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "If you did not hear it, Mr. Speaker, the last phrase that I used was, \"The Prime Minister is a cheat.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.166.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must advise the right hon. Gentleman that I do not think that that is a parliamentary expression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I respect your judgment greatly, Mr. Speaker, and on that basis I withdraw the word \"cheat\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "be welcome. There is, perhaps, some confusion when these matters are called lifeboats and are compared with what happened in the mid-1970s. At that time no taxpayers' money was ever involved. The Bank of England took action to put secondary banks into liquidity and the money was repaid. Alternatively, they were put into liquidation. That has absolutely nothing to do with the present circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "State of the Economy", "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": "s which have enabled British industry to be more profitable than at any time for nearly 20 years and have led to manufacturing productivity growing faster than in any other major country during the 1980s. I am sure that the whole House will join me in regretting the temporary absence of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) and in wishing him a full and speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.184.3", "colnum": "184", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Especially after elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "y will have to remain as high as it takes for as long as it takes to get on top of inflation. That, in turn, will require MO to be heading firmly back towards the target range that I set at the time of the Budget. I realise that higher interest rates are not popular with home owners or small businesses, but this Government have never shirked taking unpopular measures when it is necessary to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "all-time high and is roaring ahead. Great tracts of our country are being rejuvenated as old buildings come down and new ones go up. We have only to go five miles along the river to docklands to see that in action; or to the north-west at Salford Quays, where new life has been given to a once-depressed inner-city area; or to Glasgow where prospects are better now than for a very long time indeed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "of our country are being rejuvenated as old buildings come down and new ones go up. We have only to go five miles along the river to docklands to see that in action; or to the north-west at Salford Quays, where new life has been given to a once-depressed inner-city area; or to Glasgow where prospects are better now than for a very long time indeed — [Interruption.] There are many other areas, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " improved beyond recognition. As a result, throughout the country new firms are setting up, and established firms are increasing their investment. Overseas firms, too, see Britain as an increasingly attractive place in which to invest. Most recently, there has been the very welcome news that Ford is expanding its operations in Bridgend. That decision is a firm vote of confidence in the management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members come to the House to listen to speeches, not to read them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "which cost Scotland so many jobs in Dundee. Indeed, Dundee is a sad illustration of the conclusion reached by Professor Metcalf of the London School of Economics, who wrote in the New Statesman —not a journal noted for its uncritical support of the Government: The plain fact is that in the 1980s, non-union companies have a better record on maintaining and creating jobs than do unionised companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.188.2", "colnum": "188", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "We have more jobs today because we have profitable businesses and a thriving economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "That pledge meant what it said. From what I hear, no decisions have been made about child benefit and the Opposition are indulging in unconstructive and damaging speculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only six?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) gave the only semi-coherent account of the Opposition stance on the economy, but he found it extremely difficult to get anywhere even by way of landing any punches in his attack, let alone in setting out any alternative which might be better than that currently being pursued. I counted some six howlers in his schoolboy exegesis of the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "preceding_text": "I am happy to support the Government amendment because, without question, during my adult life this is the best Government that this country has had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "preceding_text": "eople. Such problems as we have are more those of success than of failure. If it is perceived that there is an excess of private spending, it is because of the new-found confidence of our society. I must tell my right hon. Friend the Minister that I regard it as one of our priority tasks that he and I, as individuals, persuade the population to follow the Government's example in exercising thrift—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Darling) referred. If one had to find one reason why the Tories are doing so badly in Scotland, one need only point to the behaviour of two previous Conservative Members of Parliament, Sir Alex Fletcher, acting directly for Elders IXL, and Mrs. Anna McCurley, acting for John Courage Ltd. What one hears is the disgusting clink of 30 pieces of silver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Newton)", "preceding_text": " speeches, not all of which have conformed with what used to be taken to be the conventions of maiden speeches, and this was a maiden speech of high quality and in the best traditions of the House, both in the way that he phrased his points and in his tributes to his predecessor. I join those who congratulated him on it and said how warmly they look forward to hearing him take part in our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "We have not only kept up with what others have achieved; we have grown faster than all other major European Community countries since 1980. The hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) intervened from a sedentary position a moment ago, asking about unemployment. I shall tell him about unemployment. Adult unemployment has fallen for 26 months in succession, by almost 1 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The real comparison to draw between 1979 and now is the fact that unemployment was rising then and is falling now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.258.9", "colnum": "258", "heading": "State of the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "unemployment and employment, the comparisons with our neighbours and competitors and, indeed, our friends in Europe, stand up to comparisons of any type. If one looks at unemployment changes in the latest month for which the figures are available compared with a year earlier, one finds that the position in the United Kingdom is markedly better than in any other of the main OECD competitor nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.258.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-25", "file": "debates1988-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "30720e0e3056ba75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wakefield Health Authority", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Edwina Currie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Edwina Currie)", "preceding_text": " produced a revised policy which satisfied the expert group. This includes the regeneration of food at ward level. Its implementation was agreed on 29 July when additional capital funds of £350,000 were provided by the regional health authority. Our view has always been that issues to do with cook-chill are essentially local ones for local managers to sort out and we expect them to get on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-25a.272.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have had notification that Question No. 13 is not to be asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "There has been a very encouraging response —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.7", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "There has been a very encouraging response to the research and technology initiative since its launch on 12 January. I have arranged for a short note to be published in the Official Report today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.9", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. A point of order does not arise on this.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.10", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "There has been a very encouraging response to the research and technology initiative since its launch on 12 January. I have arranged for a short note to be published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.289.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "As part of the research and technology initiative, will my hon. Friend consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "As part of the research and technology initiative, will my hon. Friend consider— [Interruption.] As part of the research and development initiative will my hon. Friend consider the technology enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. It is a welcome change to hear from the Conservative Benches—something that is positive and encouraging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.293.7", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were absent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "As you pointed out, Mr. Speaker, it is always entirely up to hon. Members whether to put their questions. If the hon. Gentleman were to examine today's Order Paper in more calm than excitement, he would see that for varying reasons many hon. Members have not been in a position to put their questions. Therefore, to single out any one from the Order Paper is invidious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Hazardous Substances (Illegal Dumping)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "avely ill in the burns unit of Booth Hall hospital near Manchester with up to 80 per cent. burns to their bodies. Andrew and Simon received burns to their hands and arms and, thankfully, they are comfortable. I am sure that the whole House will join with me in sending a message to those children and their parents, with its best wishes for the fullest possible recovery from their horrific injuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.304.7", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I may say to the hon. Gentleman that the board of Scottish Homes represents a fair cross-section of housing interests in Scotland. Both the chief executive and the chairman were born in Glasgow council houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.304.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.388.8", "colnum": "388", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "Amendment (a) would provide for schemes for payment to local authority tenants to help them to obtain alternative accommodation. I stress that we in the Opposition have always supported the principle of help for first-time home buyers. Our record on that is in stark contrast to that of the Conservative party, which is shoving up mortgage rates for all that it is worth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.388.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is difficult for hon. Members who are in the Chamber to hear what is being said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend confirm that in Scotland, as well as in England, the Labour party proposals would replace one unfair taxation with two—a capital valuation as well as a valuation based on local income tax? Surely that would hit the pensioners, those who can least afford to pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "understand more than they do in here. I would like to retort to that remark, but I would only embarrass the hon. Gentleman. This week Opposition Members have been visiting Govan and we are entitled to know what the Labour party candidate had to say about paying the community charge, the candidate said: The policy allows individuals like myself to refuse to pay as a personal gesture of solidarity\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.410.4", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "n is getting income support. It may be that you do not know they are living at the address given below. You may wish to register them for the community charge.\" Already, information about where a person is staying is to be passed on from one to the other. You asked us to be brief, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I hope that I shall be. I hope to goodness that this is the final word on this awful poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "eas the community charge falls into a different category. I have been interested in some of the Opposition's comments on the rebate scheme. There is no question but that this has been welcome. It may interest the House to know that during the recess, in common with many other Scottish Members, I went round my constituency knocking on doors asking my constituents for their views on current affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "of a number of benefit/pension conditions—see Annex A.\" I will not go through that. The procedure when a poll tax registration officer has been notified of a possible claim on behalf of a person with severe mental impairment is that he will use the form annex B to request: (a) evidence of the applicant's entitlement to one of the relevant social security benefits\"— which is an invasion of privacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-26", "file": "debates1988-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e52e8f26d280c52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Through taxes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "le, and the House should honour it. The Opposition have overlooked one matter of importance. Their criticism of the community charge is that it is a standard charge that is imposed regardless of ability to pay. An income of £60 a week has been mentioned. But Opposition Members never stop talking about the National Health Service, which is central to Socialist philosophy. How do we pay for the NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-26a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "ervention of funding for the developing countries on the lines of the Baker plan, but on a much larger scale? Secondly, does he admit that one of the key issues before the recent Bank-Fund meeting in Berlin was that of cross-conditionality, whereby the independent roles of the Bank and the Fund have been merged so that countries have to apply to both rather than to one for funding? What did he do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman refers to a leaked document. I remember when a Labour Prime Minister was faced with the publication of a leaked document preceding the statement made by the Secretary of State for Social Services about child benefit. I remember full well what the Labour Prime Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What is the right hon. Lady's answer?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "out child benefit. I remember full well what the Labour Prime Minister said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] In June 1976 he said: This is a very grave matter. For, on the face of it, it could only have been brought about by theft, or by a betrayal of trust involving a breach of an undertaking voluntarily entered into, by someone with access to the documents. May I remind the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.450.10", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The reply was: Is the Prime Minister aware that we fully share his view about the gravity of this matter? It is essential that confidentiality of discussions and documents should be assured.\"—[ Official Report, 17 June 1976; Vol. 913, c. 738.] In those days there were certain standards of conduct and integrity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.450.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, but let me pay tribute to the loyalty and integrity of the vast majority in the Civil Service. Indeed, I was dismayed to find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.8", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked about child benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.8", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked about child benefit— [Interruption.] —for almost all the time and then went on to ask a second question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.10", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eneral election they put up child benefit. With regard to Royal Ordnance, the Government will be responding to the Public Accounts Committee by means of a Treasury minute in the normal way in due course. The National Audit Office has already investigated the sale. The report by the Comptroller and Auditor General acknowledged that. It said: the sale to BAe was achieved in a competitive situation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.10", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Treasury minute in the normal way in due course. The National Audit Office has already investigated the sale. The report by the Comptroller and Auditor General acknowledged that. It said: the sale to BAe was achieved in a competitive situation\"— [Interruption.] I am quoting from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report: The sale to BAe was achieved in a competitive situation and the evidence\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.451.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.452.6", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.453.6", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "es the Prime Minister realise, on a happy note, that her statement that she is prepared to lead the Conservative party at the next general election and beyond has introduced stability to the economy, and that inward investment will grow even more? Will she be sure not to be put off by the carping of one or two of yesterday's men, but to rely on all of us around her who are behind her 100 per cent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If something is illegal, one cannot possibly endorse it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.454.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ceive an increase and only 13 per cent. of pensioners still receiving income support will not. The vast majority will be out of transitional protection by the time we reach the second part of this year. As to the community charge—I say this with great care to an hon. Member whom I have known for a considerable time—I have the greatest contempt for those who steal and leak documents, and for those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "r cent. of pensioners still receiving income support will not. The vast majority will be out of transitional protection by the time we reach the second part of this year. As to the community charge—I say this with great care to an hon. Member whom I have known for a considerable time—I have the greatest contempt for those who steal and leak documents, and for those— [Interruption.] —and for those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "—and for those who traffic in them. I am surprised and dismayed at the actions of the hon. Gentleman, for whom I have some regard, and at the way in which he has damaged his standing and reputation by being a party to receiving, destroying and publishing highly classified documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "He has been misled and has misled others by extracts from a confidential document taken out of context. I trust that the hon. Gentleman is listening very carefully. I hope that he will help to identify the person who gave him that letter; or does he wish us all to assume that he gives his protection to people who handle stolen documents?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": " in 1988 the Opposition cannot recognise the massive increased resources that have gone to the poorer families because of this statement. To argue the matter, as they have, in the context of a year when many have seen radical reductions in their taxation and large increases in their earnings is to ignore the enormous targeted impact that we have been able to make. Of course, they are right to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.4", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is very unseemly to shout.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.460.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. We have tried to simplify the system. There was considerable difficulty in starting the new family credit system, especially as there was a postal strike in the middle of it, which did not help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "esting that the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) made no serious attempt to refute it. The trouble with logic is that it carries one forward into unexpected areas. Will my right hon. Friend explain to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the attractions of applying the same logic to tax relief on mortgages—another indiscriminate benefit accounting for precisely the same sum of £4·5 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.469.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "uents will view what I have said with dismay only as a consequence of the inaccurate way in which their interests are represented in the House and of his continuing to argue the same point. I know something of his constituency, and if the hon. Gentleman did his work as a Member of Parliament rather than pursue that argument, more of his lower-paid constituents could benefit from increased take-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am anxious to call as many hon. Members as possible. I cannot be held responsible for the answers that are given. I am sure that the Secretary of State did not intend to cast any aspersions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.472.5", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": "What has the Secretary of State to say to the widow living in Bradford with five children, who earlier this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I understand why the hon. Gentleman is not welcome in the chair of the national executive committee. Never have I heard such complete inaccuracy. His European Economic Community comparisons are utterly wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the British people will continue, as they have in the past, to elect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ayers' money is therefore yesterday's debt to fill the hole in the 1988 budget. We have just had an afternoon of high drama in the House, where a Minister's reputation has perhaps disappeared for ever—if it existed at all—over £200 million. We were talking about the amount of money required to uprate child benefit to the inflation rate, which was £200 million. Yet this intergovernmental agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "gilant to ensure that they respond to the possibility of the centre of gravity moving to Brussels. In our constitutional description, we would, of course, talk of the centre of gravity moving to the Council of Ministers. As a result of that, scrutiny exercises such as those pursued by the House would be even more important in the future, as would the welcome development of the European Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "m another in Scotland. I was recently discussing with a number of managers the prospects for 1992. I said to one, \"What about 1992?\" He looked at me rather blankly and said, \"Well, what about it?\" I said, \"How do you think we will do?\" After thinking for a while, he said, \"Well, John, I think that we will qualify again.\" He obviously thought that 1992 related to Scotland re-entering the World Cup—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " have to prepare a new draft proposal for European Union before the 1992 deadline and that it will be for the Parliament elected in 1989 to accomplish this task. The House should be under no illusion that some of the money will be used for the development of European union, whereas sovereign states meeting together do so far more effectively than if they are compulsorily harmonized on every issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " Cash), who was shut out of the debate on Monday by the informal deadline, gave an immensely worthwhile exposure of the Opposition's position. The hon. Member for Hamilton asked my hon. Friend why he was dwelling on it, but it was simply because that was the main arena in which the hon. Member for Hamilton had deployed himself. My hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle (Mr. Leigh)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-27", "file": "debates1988-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "3c8a3e7f0b9c6b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "hon. Members—including the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley and the hon. Member for Belfast, North—will attend the seminar with me in a month's time so that we can discuss these issues in detail. The hon. Members for South Down and for Roxburgh and Berwickshire referred to intimidation. That is covered by the SPED scheme. I note the point made by the hon. Member for South Down about that scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-27a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-28", "file": "debates1988-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1130788b279b7b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-28a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "diate-level waste but only for low-level waste. It was too late. It is a pity that they had not studied the recommendations of the report a little more closely. If they had, that mistake would not have occurred. But the mistake had been made. The bandwagon was rolling, and it was far too late for the Government to do anything but eventually to abandon their proposals, which they did on 1 May 1987.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-28a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-28", "file": "debates1988-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1130788b279b7b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-28a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Contemptible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "ere being destroyed, and the Scandinavians said that their lakes were being destroyed and that fish were being killed in southern Norway, so the Prime Minister thought that she should look into the matter. A meeting was held at Chequers, but the mistake that was made was to invite Lord Marshall to attend. It was a long weekend. It must have been one of the longest and dirtiest weekends in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-28a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-28", "file": "debates1988-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1130788b279b7b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-28a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "wer the Government still have no policy on low-level waste, having cancelled the sites in Conservative constituencies. It is all being dumped at Drigg near Sellafield in a way which, despite the acceptance of the nuclear industry in that area, is becoming unacceptable to the community there in view of the nature of the dumping, the amounts involved and the fact that there is no end to it in sight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-28a.600.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "t has been submitted by the health authorities that Welsh nurses have been disadvantaged for many years because a higher proportion of nurses in Wales are undergraded than is the case in England? Why, therefore, must the Welsh Office try to enforce a settlement on the authorities that will match the settlement in England? Is the Welsh Office so impotent that the Treasury can just walk all over it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": "thority will not depend on its expenditure. It will depend only on the assessed need of each area, taking account of the local characteristics. My problem is that we call that the revenue support grant, so we move from RSG to RSG. I intend to call it the needs grant so that at least I can understand about which one we are talking. I hope that the Opposition will not see anything difficult in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I hope that when I come to discuss those matters the hon. Gentleman will think my case reasonable. I recognise that Cardiff may not wholeheartedly agree with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "rticular attention to the way in which rate capping worked, and I apologise if I misunderstood him. The 1988–89 expenditure figures will be increased by a factor that will be set out in the rate support grant report. I am trying very hard to make the system as simple as possible. This is the one area where I have failed to achieve that, but I shall try to describe it as clearly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman is not defending the concept that I mentioned earlier of selling future receipts from local authority housing sales to a City institution, using the money artificially—in other words, lyingly—to reduce this year's expenditure, and obtaining money from the taxpayer that is never paid back later. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not saying that, because I have great respect for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": " is absolute nonsense. Last year sex crimes and crimes of violence increased by 16 and 17 per cent. respectively. I agree that burglaries went down by 6 per cent., but compared with the position 10 years ago there has been a massive increase in crime, resulting in considerable pressure on police resources. The Government are creating a society that is based on greed and on \"To hell with tomorrow.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Yes. The hon. Gentleman spoke about what is happening to repairs and so on in Newham. It can apply to Liverpool or elsewhere. Government Front Bench spokesmen have admitted that the Government have taken millions of pounds away from local authorities. That is why local authorities are in that position. The hon. Gentleman does not give that side of the story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.690.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "on was collected in rates income, and the auditor identified possible savings of £1·75 million on rates collection, mortgage advances and off-street parking. On the sundries deficit of £37 million, the auditor identified room for a saving of £50,000 and possibly a further saving of £180,000. Why is Sheffield city council involved in skip hire, window cleaning and municipal funeral services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.727.9", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " been shown on the same form. As a result, the Department is assuming a higher spending figure for both 1987–88 and 1988–89, although the figures are inconsistent, because to have a higher figure in 1988–89 Brent must have had a lower figure in 1987–88. Those figures were reported publicly in March 1988. As a result of the Bill, Brent stands to lose £9 million in grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.727.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": " the first full council meeting under the Conservative controlling group. It means that at all meetings all debates will be terminated, with the mayor using his casting vote, at 10 o'clock. It will be assumed that all motions have been moved and seconded and, without debate by councillors, the guillotine will fall and all motions will be carried by the mayor's casting vote. That is more draconian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "built accommodation, but it is being sold off by the Tory city council. It is flogging off that accommodation, thereby creating longer waiting lists and fewer homes. The Tory city council does not care about the young newly weds who cannot get a home of their own either because the council is not building any more new council houses or because mortgages are too expensive in the city of Nottingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "There are just 10 minutes left before the winding-up speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.755.14", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ollection. We know that a French bank was reported to have bought its parking meters. It is bookkeeping transactions or financial deals which are unrelated to true spending and which alter the level of reported total expenditure but which gain Government grant that we seek to prevent in our proposals. It is especially necessary that the close down of the present system offers a unique opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.755.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.761.4", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "olutions to go through on the nod. There may well be some public expenditure involved. The resolution that we are debating authorises the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any increase attributable to that Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other Act. However, the financial effects of the Bill are not clearly set out in the explanatory and financial memorandum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is Maria Heep?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "will lose control of that council and we shall then be able to put things right in Nottingham. My hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South is right about the cuts that the Government have made in local authority grants, which seriously affect the services provided by those authorities. Earlier today the Minister would not give way to me. He is going to get it now. He stood there like Maria Heep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "justify the statement that there may also be a small reduction in the administrative work load of local authorities.\"? It sounds like pious hopes. As with so many other aspects of local authority legislation that we have unfortunately passed in the House, Ministers and Conservative Members have some ideas about what they would like to see in the future, but at the same time they are unprepared to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-10-31", "file": "debates1988-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "cde0d673828a8241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (Penalty Points)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-10-31a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "May I be first on this side of the House to congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on his first appearance at the Dispatch Box in his new post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct in saying that some 20 million people—more than one third of the population—will be exempt from charges on sight tests and dental examinations. Most people can pay small charges for dental and eye examinations. They are very willing to pay small charges. They cannot pay the big charges for operations for cataracts, hip replacements and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", hip replacements and so on. [Interruption.] Small charges amount to a very considerable sum which enables us to have reductions in waiting lists, such as the initiatives we have had in the past. If we are deprived of those small sums, people will not be able to get the operations they really need as soon as they otherwise would. Many people would be quite put out if they were not allowed to pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "tion proceeds, will continue to decline as a proportion of national income. At the same time, substantial additional funds have been made available for the Government's most important public expenditure priorities. The figures which I am about to give all represent increases over the plans in the last public expenditure White Paper. First, health. An extra £1¼ billion—£1¾ billion—is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "proportion of national income. At the same time, substantial additional funds have been made available for the Government's most important public expenditure priorities. The figures which I am about to give all represent increases over the plans in the last public expenditure White Paper. First, health. An extra £1¼ billion—£1¾ billion—is— [Interruption.] An extra £1¼ billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "An extra £l¼ billion is being provided for the National Health Service in England in 1989–90—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Chancellor on a wonderful statement and speech but may I tell him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.834.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I regard the advice of the chief medical officer—as I regard the advice of all my officials—as confidential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for giving way. He seems to be under the firm impression that by introducing or raising such charges he stimulates the uptake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "With great respect to my hon. Friend, who is a colleague of long standing, he does not do me a service by slightly parodying my argument. Of course, I was not saying that levying charges would in itself encourage a greater uptake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.864.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No, I have no intention of introducing charges on any other things. As my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Dame J. Knight) may recollect from our previous exchanges about eye tests, I never say never in politics, so I will say now, as I said on those occasions, \"for the time being\". I am certainly not party to any desire to extend charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The average family also spends £4·50 a week on tobacco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "uld be adduced: it is not much, it is the price of three or four gin and tonics; there is no evidence that it would stop people coming forward; women surely value their lives more than £3·15 and, indeed, encouraging them to pay £3·15 might make them value the smear all the more. Were the Secretary of State to do that, he would be drowned in a gale of derision because the whole point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": " If that were not enough, on leaving Conservative Central Office the other day, I was hailed by a senior lady official who shouted \"Charges!\" at me. Memories of the military assault course immediately flooded back. When I turned to her, she added, \"Dental and eye tests.\" I asked her what she meant and she replied, \"The Tory women are behind you.\" I can think of better places to put the Tory women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. I am mindful that hon. Members have been asked to limit the length of their contributions, and I do not wish to waste the House's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": " I am mindful that hon. Members have been asked to limit the length of their contributions, and I do not wish to waste the House's time. [Interruption.] I look forward with great interest to the deeply intellectual contribution of the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton). I cannot think of anything worthwhile that he has said in the past, but perhaps tonight he will break the trend of a lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "The logic of the argument of the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy (Dr. Moonie) is that we should have no prescription charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "the market and eventually we will find that optical tests will cost very little and, perhaps, a good deal less than the £10 proposed. Over the years the National Health Service has changed and people's perception of it has changed. When it was created in 1948, no one had any disposable income, and the National Health Service did not do a great deal more that repair broken bones and remove tonsils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep your mouth shut then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to take part in the debate because the only time that one of my speeches in the House was reported around the world was when, in mid-flow, the crown expertly fitted to my front tooth by the National Health Service fell on to the Bench beside me. I hope that I shall be more successful this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " who are least able to pay—will be exempted from the charges. We have dealt with the deterrent argument and heard that between 1976 and 1986 the number of people who received dental treatment increased by 7 million. We have heard also that people on the borderline of income support might be deterred from taking dental treatment. If that argument is true, is it not an argument against more charges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "suade them to go for treatment. Let me take up the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, North (Mr. Griffiths) and by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, Acton (Sir G. Young) about prevention campaigns. I wish I could have the attention of my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, North, although I realise that it is difficult to hear against the background of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ut on dental examinations—will go back into the Health Service. I am not saying that every penny will go back into the dental service but there will be significantly expanded provision in dental services. My hon. Friend knows, from the figures that I have cited—an increase from under £300 million to over £800 million in eight years—I say that against the background of real achievement in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is called vested interest, and I thought that Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is called vested interest, and I thought that Opposition Members— [Interruption.] Another point was very properly raised during the debate, which was the question of additional charges. I know that a number of hon. Members are concerned about this matter, and I say categorically that the Government have no plans to introduce further charges —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "r dental inspections and charging for people to have their breasts checked for cancer or to have a cervical check. Of course, I have said that there are no plans—nor would there be—to charge for such examinations. There is a difference in kind between those checks, which are a systematic search for disease, and dental checks, which are basically a check to see whether dental treatment is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "riend gives a false figure and I shall correct him later. There are 1,500 cases of cancer of the mouth each year. That means, spread as an average across all the dentists in the United Kingdom, that the average dentist would see two or three cases of oral cancer in his entire working life. The off-chance of picking out an oral cancer cannot be the basis for 100 per cent. free dental examinations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.914.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.914.4", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.914.14", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "When the bell intervened, Mr. Speaker, I was saying that my hon. Friend had quoted his article in the Evening Standard which, no doubt, has remunerated him well enough to enable him to pay for his next check-up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.914.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I am teasing my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I purchased a copy of the Evening Standard to read my hon. Friend's article. The figure that my hon. Friend gives of 2,600 oral cancer cases includes cancer of the throat which is not detected by dentists. It is cancer of the mouth cavity that accounts for 1,500 cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.14", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "With respect to my hon. and learned Friend, he suggested that I profited from the article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.16", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is not a point of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.20", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " with the treatment of eye disease. I attended the opening, by Her Majesty the Queen, of the brand new, rebuilt Moorfields eye hospital last week. That cost £15 million, only one tenth of the mere £140 million of which my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow spoke. We want to reduce the number of patients on the waiting lists. For £25 million last year, we did over 100,000 more in-patient operations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.20", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "spital last week. That cost £15 million, only one tenth of the mere £140 million of which my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow spoke. We want to reduce the number of patients on the waiting lists. For £25 million last year, we did over 100,000 more in-patient operations— [Interruption.] —and we shall do more than that next time. I wish that Opposition Members would be quiet for just a few minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.915.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.921.10", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Lords amendment No. 22 deals with the question of whether we should introduce charges for eye tests as a contribution towards the Health Service's rising expenditure. We have just had a rather closer vote than those to which we are accustomed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.921.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.921.12", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ister of Health and a personal friend of mine, speak extremely eloquently about the problems of oral cancer. He touched on the subject of eyesight and spoke also about glaucoma. I accept entirely the sincerity with which he spoke. I also know that he realises that both my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State and myself are equally concerned about the problems of oral cancer and glaucoma.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.921.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.921.12", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " Both my hon. and learned Friend the Minister and I gave examples of the kind of treatment that can be provided out of such sums. 10.30 pm I respect the sincerity of hon. Members of both sides, but they are not addressing themselves to the fact that by voting as they do they are denying patients throughout the country the prospect of treatment. In this debate, no doubt I shall be told that we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.921.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "o apologies for reminding the House of that background. It is against that background that I shall listen again to the arguments that will be adduced about the possibility of undetected glaucoma if we do not vote against the prospect of the most prosperous 60 per cent. of the population—those who do not fall into the exempt categories—facing a horrendous bill of up to £10 every two or three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is against that background that I shall listen again to the arguments that will be adduced about the possibility of undetected glaucoma if we do not vote against the prospect of the most prosperous 60 per cent. of the population—those who do not fall into the exempt categories—facing a horrendous bill of up to £10 every two or three years. [Interruption.] Yes, I am angry, because we are facing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "eading from the column known as Nemo which, as hon. Members who follow optical matters will know, appears in Optician of 1 January 1988. It deals directly with the core of the debate—whether people will go to the optician with less frequency because of the charges. I shall read from Nemo because I have been challenged to produce support from people within optics —having found one, I shall read it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.925.25", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We shall sit around and watch the eye disease develop which would otherwise have been detected.\" Does that mean that these commercial men—all professional men are business men as well as qualified people—will solemnly all set the same fee, at a level which deters customers from coming over the threshold of their shops? They will all sit around watching their incomes drop as fewer patients come in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.925.25"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "th me that competitive pressures may not exist in rural areas. But, even in rural areas, I cannot believe that opticians will be too far away from other opticians for such pressures not to exist. Although they may have a slightly protected market, they will not sustain their position if it is clear to their rural customers that in nearby towns such as Leeds or Hull there are no charges for a test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ght to challenge the direct comparison with full-blooded screening. We are not talking about cervical cancer or breast cancer screening. Both those tests are expressly designed to show whether the first signs of a particular condition are present. We are discussing average patients going for eye tests to see whether they need spectacles, or going to the dentist to see whether they need treatment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ull-blooded screening. We are not talking about cervical cancer or breast cancer screening. Both those tests are expressly designed to show whether the first signs of a particular condition are present. We are discussing average patients going for eye tests to see whether they need spectacles, or going to the dentist to see whether they need treatment — [Interruption.] What I have said is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.929.8", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises a serious point. I believe that the bulk of responsible optometrists and opticians give a full sight test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.929.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.929.8", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises a serious point. I believe that the bulk of responsible optometrists and opticians give a full sight test— [Interruption.] —and we have the powers to specify the extent to which the patients and customers are tested. We shall look at the necessity to use them if we find that people are giving quick sight tests and not screening for glaucoma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.929.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ich that quotation is taken. Before he comes to the quotations from my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Social Services, I would point out that when the quotations are taken in context it is clear that we were describing the then measure and the then measure kept the eye test in the National Health Service. The charge for it was not at issue in the explanation of the deregulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "tions from my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Social Services, I would point out that when the quotations are taken in context it is clear that we were describing the then measure and the then measure kept the eye test in the National Health Service. The charge for it was not at issue in the explanation of the deregulation. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman has not read Hansard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "ividual hon. Members who have argued against the Government's principles. That leads me to suggest that it is not simply one or two additional charges that are at stake but the concept of who pays for preventive medicine in Britain. Therefore, in voting against this we are voting not just against the charge but against the whole concept of the market philosophy of this stinking Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Don't be silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": " glaucoma or cataracts until it is too late. We should be trying to encourage people to visit their optometrist, optician and dentist. If a charge of f 10 or £15 is slapped on to the sight test, as I believe will happen, those pensioners just above income support—whom Ministers tell us will not get any support from the state—will have to make a choice between paying their gas or electricity bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "rselves whether we are right to regard expenditure on eye tests for those who can afford them as a priority or whether it would be better to divert that money to other aspects of the Health Service. The problem goes right back to the beginning of the Health Service in 1948. The other day, I was looking at the minutes of the Labour Cabinet of 13 December 1948. Aneurin Bevan, after only five months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "is speech. I want to refer to the Health and Social Security Act 1984. My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State has quoted what Opposition spokesmen said at that time. There can be no doubt that the arguments advanced by the Labour party were fundamentally flawed. Opposition Members said that, as a result of the measure, people would go blind and the price of glasses would increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "means that it will offer proper eyesight tests. Anyone who suggests otherwise is insulting the opticians' profession. I believe that the Lords amendment will be rejected and that the proposals of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will lead to wider availability of eyesight tests. The Bill will act as an incentive for the public to get their eyes tested, not as a disincentive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend think that some of the opticians will give free washing machines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "the speeches that she made on the subject, when she expressed great fear about the consequences of that development. I say to my hon. Friend that I hope that she and others will take comfort from what has happened. It has shown that the predictions were not accurate and that the Government have been able to create an altogether better market and an altogether more satisfactory service than before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I propose to intervene briefly. I had intended to speak at length but I do not think that that would be helpful given that it is 1.40 am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-01", "file": "debates1988-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "975c4297e217ca9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Medicines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the Commission, which should take them to court. The same would apply to any country that tried to impose a standard beyond that agreed in the directive. It is a permissive directive that allows countries to come up to standards set in the directive, but not to go beyond. If I have that wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-01a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1016.9", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1016.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I have some of those houses in my constituency. Those rents are not fixed unless the rent officer agrees any change. But it must be right that rents should rise to the general level of rents in the area concerned. I am still waiting to hear from the hon. Gentleman whether he will withdraw the word \"scandal\" that he used on Monday", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1018.9", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I can deny it, because the hon. Gentleman is wholly untruthful in what he has said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1018.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I have been here for 22 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1022.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "n) and for Warwick and Leamington (Sir D. Smith) have said. There is no doubt that there is some good in the Bill, but there is also a great deal of bad. We have, at times with the co-operation and help of the Minister, improved the Bill, and I would pay some tribute to the Under-Secretary for his good humour and patience in Standing Committee, because there were undoubtedly occasions when he did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting and Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "on a programme. It is true that a member of an organisation cannot be held to represent it in all his daily activities. The key to the issue is the word \"represent.\" When a councillor is speaking in Northern Ireland, it is not the subject about which he is talking that will decide whether his speech can be broadcast directly, but whether he is talking on behalf of one of the named organisations. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting and Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ld have received the same sort of reaction from the overwhelming majority that I am trying to describe this evening—that banning the expression of a view because it causes widespread offence should not be acceptable in a free society, no matter how genuine the offence or how much offence is caused. In a free society, limitations should be imposed on broadcasts and broadcasters when, and only when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting and Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "view because it causes widespread offence should not be acceptable in a free society, no matter how genuine the offence or how much offence is caused. In a free society, limitations should be imposed on broadcasts and broadcasters when, and only when— [Interruption.] I see that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is congratulating his hon. Friend on making that point. He said, \"Well done.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting and Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is southern Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": " had such controls for 10 years. Last week I took part in a debate at Trinity college, Dublin, on a completely different subject. I was privileged to have the opportunity to discuss a number of matters with some members of the community who have held, and still hold, offices far more senior than any Labour Member has held. Every person said, \"We have had this law in southern Ireland for 10 years\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1127.3", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "I say clearly that if the hon. Gentleman could produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1127.3", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions\".", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "d Sinn Fein into the high office of chairman of Strabane district council, as it did two years ago in Omagh district council and as it did three years ago in Fermanagh district council. They have walked hand in hand in the council chambers. It has also voted for the past four years to elect the Sinn Fein vice-chairman of Magherafelt district council. However, that is taking us away from the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "t will happen next time. Perhaps the broadcasters will stop inviting people like me to broadcast. That will be another form of censorship. This is the road down which we are going. That is the danger for our country. I have a sense of foreboding. The Government are ripping out the strategies that lay behind the Anglo-Irish Agreement. The agreement said that we had to stop the advance of Sinn Fein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1147.6", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I was talking about reporting. There is a public interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-02", "file": "debates1988-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d98f2c4740d243d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1147.8", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "No. I shall make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-02a.1147.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-03", "file": "debates1988-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e798458be9a26ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1171.6", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's attack on my right hon. and hon. Friends who are Department of Trade and Industry Ministers is perfectly monstrous and totally without foundation. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-03", "file": "debates1988-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e798458be9a26ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1172.6", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. The Criminal Justice Act 1988 gives local trading standards officers powers relating to videos similar to those that apply to other aspects of their work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-03", "file": "debates1988-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e798458be9a26ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1173.11", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1173.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-03", "file": "debates1988-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e798458be9a26ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman would at least take the trouble to look at what my hon. Friend said in full rather than what she said in the reports in some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-03", "file": "debates1988-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e798458be9a26ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Public Accounts Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:There were others as well.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has given the House part of the lesson that I was about to give. I might as well introduce it now. The interest of many hon. Members and of those outside alerts the Committee to certain matters that are worthy of further consideration. The hon. Gentleman's case is precisely within that definition. Because of his efforts, we realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-03a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-04", "file": "debates1988-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "194473a37e870b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-04a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "hey wait for seals to die before pretending to be concerned about North sea pollution—and later deny that pollution has anything to do with the deaths, although the eating of polluted fish obviously weakens the resistance to any virus. The Secretary of State does not like the truth. He must be one of the most ill-tempered, insulting Members of the present Parliament, but he cannot take it himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-04a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-04", "file": "debates1988-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "194473a37e870b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-04a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "of the environment. Now the Secretary of State is repudiating the \"precautionary approach\" declaration that he signed. Of course the right hon. Gentleman does not want to listen to what I am saying now. He is the most ignorant man in Parliament as well, and has turned up in place of his Under-Secretary. At least last week she had the courtesy to listen to what was being said by Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-04a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-04", "file": "debates1988-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "194473a37e870b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-04a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ion in everybody's back garden—probably over the dead body of the Secretary of State for Energy who does not seem to agree with his right hon. Friend. The other major environmental initiative, which is not new, is the Government's proposed privatisation of water. Compulsory metering trials are already taking place. The metering of water is a tax on bath time. It represents a tax on large families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-04a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "time of contributions. Since the Chancellor is such an advocate of targeting, will he now acknowledge that such a policy inevitably brings a more means-tested system and creates a wider poverty trap? Can he also tell us why it is that, when he targets handouts to the better-off, his aim is unerringly accurate, but when he targets benefits to the poor he always misses many of those in genuine need?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " will he now acknowledge that such a policy inevitably brings a more means-tested system and creates a wider poverty trap? Can he also tell us why it is that, when he targets handouts to the better-off, his aim is unerringly accurate, but when he targets benefits to the poor he always misses many of those in genuine need? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It is the Chancellor's fault for talking to the press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Had the public not been misled on so many occasions over SERPS, child benefit and housing benefit, it might be more possible to believe what the Chancellor has been saying in denying his own words. Will he now specifically confirm that the Government will not, now or at any other time, means-test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "r at any other time, means-test or reduce the national insurance pension? Will he pledge that the Government will not withdraw, reduce, or means-test the right of all old-age pensioners to free prescriptions? Will he give an undertaking now that the Government will not introduce any new charges? As the mobility and attendance allowances are not covered, although they are vital to 3 million people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.21.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, that was an extraordinarily long series of supplementary questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, that was an extraordinarily long series of supplementary questions— [Interruption] —designed simply to conceal the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has once again demonstrated his infallible knack for getting the wrong end of every stick. The Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ay, and despite the fact that the Labour Government, which the right hon. Gentleman supported, although he was not a member of it, that the Labour Government cheated the old-age pensioners. They cheated the old-age pensioner twice. On two occasions, they withdrew the Christmas bonus. They changed the uprating system from the historic uprating to the so-called forecast, cheating them of £1 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": ", although he was not a member of it, that the Labour Government cheated the old-age pensioners. They cheated the old-age pensioner twice. On two occasions, they withdrew the Christmas bonus. They changed the uprating system from the historic uprating to the so-called forecast, cheating them of £1 billion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question!\"] Then they fiddled the forecast—that is what they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "We are most grateful to my right hon. Friend for the statement that he has just made and for clearing up what most of us thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.8", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "On the second point, my hon. Friend makes an important point, which I think has considerable support on this side of the House. On the first point, I am afraid that it is true that the standards of the press have slipped somewhat since I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.22.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct. I will repeat what I said earlier on. I am not surprised that, because of the noise and baying from the Benches opposite, it was difficult for my hon. Friend to hear it. When the party opposite were in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I have considerable respect for the hon. Member, but what I have no respect for is his attempt to terrify millions of old-age pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "mpt to terrify millions of old-age pensioners— [Interruption.] It is a disgraceful way to try to seek temporary political advantage—a disgraceful way. Let me say that the only announcement I have to make—the only change I have to inform the House of—is the one that I informed the House of today. This is a matter which I hinted to certain journalists on Friday. They misunderstood what I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "f old-age pensioners— [Interruption.] It is a disgraceful way to try to seek temporary political advantage—a disgraceful way. Let me say that the only announcement I have to make—the only change I have to inform the House of—is the one that I informed the House of today. This is a matter which I hinted to certain journalists on Friday. They misunderstood what I was saying— [Laughter.] There is no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.6", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "5 a week in SERPS. Many more people now have occupational pensions. Many more pensioners now have savings. Unlike with the Labour Government when inflation robbed them of the value of their savings, they are now getting a real return on their savings. So that is why pensioners as a whole have had their incomes rising faster than that of the rest of the community. But there still remains a problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.24.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdrawn!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear that the less salubrious hon. Members opposite, of which the hon. Member who just spoke is a conspicuous example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.27.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Pensioners (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bring him back!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I am sometimes criticised by my colleagues for the fact that I rarely drink. Should not the Chancellor apologise for his slur? It should make no difference whether a slur comes from the Chancellor or from anyone else. Why can he not apologise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Broadcasting (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " insulting page and three quarters. Paragraph 8.7 includes the ominous message that BBC radio will rely on licence fees for some time to come, but there is no suggestion of how BBC radio will be financed when, as the Home Secretary intends, the licence fee is abolished. We have no doubt that the Government mean that, sooner or later, all radio will be commercial radio, and that will be a disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Broadcasting (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "chise holder to achieve a balance that he considers sensible. As for previewing, the White Paper does not add to what I have already told the House about the Broadcasting Standards Council. It will be put on a statutory basis. Lord Rees-Mogg, the chairman, is now discussing with the broadcasting authorities how he would operate, and he is making some progress in working out agreement on standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Broadcasting (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " general approach—at least, I hope it does. Lord Rees-Mogg will let us know what he believes, in the light of the discussions, to be the right statutory basis for his authority, and we shall make proposals accordingly. Having listened to the right hon. Gentleman, I believe that the difference between us is that he believes that the only way to sustain quality successfully is by restricting choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Broadcasting (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " White Paper, the hon. Gentleman will see that the thrust of its proposals is to ensure that wider choice for the viewer is real choice, and not simply a choice between identikit shows. He believes that the right way to achieve that is to bring all new opportunities such as the satellite and Channel 5 under the same detailed control, with numerous officials sitting down and regulating exactly what", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.40.6", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Broadcasting (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I gladly swallow the hon. Lady's compliment, but I shall not answer her second question. Because of the breakdown of restrictive practices in the press it is becoming increasingly possible, locally and nationally, to produce newspapers at lower prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.40.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Broadcasting (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "tlined in answer to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker). The general principles include newspapers, concentration of ownership within the television industry and the possible concentration among foreign holders of television interests and our own. Those are possible proposals set out to consider the concentration of ownership. Since we are a democratic and listening Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Broadcasting (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is normal practice for embargoed copies of a ministerial statement to be issued to the press, but they are embargoed until the Secretary of State gets up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "attractions in having the other dates which have been suggested and I shall deal with each case on the basis that it will probably cover a reasonable cross-section of local authorities. Common to all the cases is the fact that they are the cases of local authorities for which another date would have been preferable. They are not cases of local authorities which would suffer by having another date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.76.6", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.76.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Bradford, South should recognise that we should support a local authority which has changed control and wishes to do things for those who are least able to help themselves. An example is what that council is doing with old people's homes. The so-called \"secret document\" which the hon. Gentleman produced was no doubt another example of the kind of theft of which we have seen so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "radford: we want those elections. The Government have banned the election in those 36 large towns and cities next May. They could easily have restored the annual elections in those cities when they abolished the metropolitan counties. Bradford can get away with what it is doing now because it does not have to face the electorate for two years. The Labour party is not afraid to face the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a second, although the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "y powers that the Minister may exercise, so I repeat the case even at this late stage: some local authorities, through no fault of their own, will lose badly under the Bill. The penalty for that will be paid by ratepayers. This is typical of the arrogant way in which the Government treat local authorities. Collective and individual grant penalties will remain in place, even if no longer justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I want to speak on Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I want to speak on Third Reading—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"] You will be aware, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I have been in the Chamber for most of the debate, although for most of that time I was on duty and did not have the opportunity to say a few words. I shall be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I am speaking to the Bill, Mr. Deputy Speaker. That comment was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West. Things are changing. There is a clear sign in Nottingham and Newham that the people realise what is going on. There is no doubt that Govan will prove another point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "every time there is a pit closure. I do not care what he may say at the Dispatch Box. We are losing money because of the Government's policies. I blame the Chief Whip, too. I shall drag him into the argument, because he makes sure that his Tory colleagues are present to vote for the Government's policies. Why does he not let his colleagues go home if they wish to, so that we can win now and again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-07", "file": "debates1988-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "e709e611f664d118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " look after the people who need services. I heard several of my hon. Friends talk about elderly people's homes in local authority areas. We in Labour-controlled local authorities are providing a first-class service for those who need it, particularly the elderly. They have made their contribution, and we should look after them properly. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer denies them their rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-07a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If it had not been for the excellent stewardship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "An announcement will be made about the shipyard in Sunderland when my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is ready. He is not yet ready, or he would have made such an announcement. Let me point out that Solidarity is a great deal more than a trade union. As a matter of fact it is not recognised as a legal trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time to read the report of the private notice question yesterday to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and especially the contribution from the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field)? Is it not clear from those exchanges that the Opposition are far less interested in getting extra benefits for those who need them than in making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "a fact that you have ruled on several occasions that the Floor of the House should not be used as a cloak of privilege, in such a way as to enable persons who have no right to reply to be insulted, called liars, cheats, thieves or whatever? Surely it must be a matter for you, Mr. Speaker, when the Floor of the Chamber is used by a senior member of Her Majesty's Government to call 10 persons liars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "British Rail", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the privatisation of British Rail. When I tabled the Bill in July, I little imagined that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport would make such a robust speech about privatisation at the Conservative party conference. What I seek to do today is to persuade the Government of the best option—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "British Rail", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "im 9 hours 22 minutes to return to London—some might think, a good thing too. In 1988, he can be back in London boring the rest of us in only 6 hours 19 minutes. That is not bad for a nationalised railway in 50 years. The truth is that the golden age of railways never existed—particularly in the 1930s. No one should be in any doubt about the positive achievements of the publicly owned rail system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin M. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin M. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "The passion felt by Labour Members is clearly not matched by a willingness to put their time and their votes where their words suggest they should. Their opposition may make very good copy for the press and the media as it did in June, but that is about the limit. Words are enough as long as they appear in the paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.250.10", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I hit the wrong mark. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover hit every nail on the head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.250.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.252.13", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way. Sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.252.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.254.2", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "If the dollar falls or rises, the price of foreign coal becomes unstable. That is a problem that the Government have to sort out, but they cannot. We know that the pits will close because Tory Members will troop through the Lobbies tonight. They have a two-line Whip. Several hon. Members have been excused so that they can go back to their constituencies and say that they did not vote for the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Rochford. That has been done, but not by me. The multiplicity of companies involved in the Bill place the hon. Gentleman in a position of some embarrassment because, in his capacity as parliamentary consultant to the British Chemical Engineering Contractors Association, it is possible that, without his knowledge, he could be compromised by an application by any of those companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman used the words \"honourable hypocrites\" about Conservative Members. I think that that is unparliamentary.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.260.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the Noes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.264.7", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered) : On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Today, we have had a lot of talk about tapes. If anyone listens to the tape of this debate, it will be absolutely clear beyond doubt that at the appropriate point there was no cry of \"Aye\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.264.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.272.11", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs (Mr. Eric Forth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs (Mr. Eric Forth)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.272.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.272.13", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.272.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-08", "file": "debates1988-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e886586e7050d51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " is interesting to note that the Government did not include that in the first place, but had to be forced to include it by our amendment in the House of Lords. There was no vote on the issue because the Government knew that they would be beaten in a place where, at least until today, bleeding hearts had some strength. The physically and mentally handicapped are well represented in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-08a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.297.4", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "xieties that have been expressed about the ranking of pupils and selection. He is right to say that my right hon. and learned Friend has given a clear indication that the results of testing will not be used to rank children in class and that the information will be limited to parents and teachers. There is no question of pass and fail examinations being used to provide entry to a secondary school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.300.6", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "a majority of parents provided for in the School Boards (Scotland) Bill and urging the other place to reject those proposals to bring Scotland into line with England. The cry in Scotland appears to be Anglicisation, and in London that Scotland is being prevented from having a separate system. My hon. Friend points to the evidence of considerable support for our proposals, and he is right to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.300.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that the majority in Scotland are opposed to the school boards proposals. I believe that they will be welcome. Let me draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to what the leader of Strathclyde's education committee, Convener Malcolm Green, said the other day. In response to our opting-out proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.301.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Student Support (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "the centre of the debate is access. There are three aspects to access. The first aim is to get the mix of grants and loans right, and I think that my right hon. Friend has done that. The second and far more important aim is to improve the quality of schools, and my right hon. Friend is doing that. But there is a third aspect, to which I attach great importance, because the Government seem to want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Student Support (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "that I am proposing today. In the 1960s the Swedish Government decided to freeze grants, as I propose today, and to introduce top-up loans. They let that system run on to the present system where only 10 per cent. of the expenditure is on grants and 90 per cent. on loans. They went too far and are now increasing the grant element back to 30 per cent. We are proposing that grant and loans together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Student Support (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "It is always interesting to hear the Secretary of State pretending that a draconian cut in education is progressive. Is it not a fact that the serried ranks behind him, due to the riches of mummy and daddy, are bound to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Student Support (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her support. Secondly, the loan will be written off and cancelled either 25 years after it has been incurred or if the person has reached 50. Naturally there will be no recovery of loan should a graduate die.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Student Support (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "As I have said, since 1979 there has been a substantial increase of nearly 200,000 students. We have set ourselves a target of increasing, in the lifetime of this Parliament, by 50,000 the number of higher education students. I think that we are likely to reach that target this year, two years before the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Earth Tremors (Stoke-on-Trent)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "iscussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the need for a full and thorough investigation into recent earth tremors in the north part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. This week's earth tremor affected people living in Smallthorne, Bradeley, High lane, Mill Hill and Chell. It measured a magnitude of 1·9 on the Richter scale and is the third tremor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.324.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "r place in the Chair. There was a likelihood of a closure motion, but it never materialised. The Ayes were called because nobody else stood up and there was no call. That appears in column 261 of Hansard for last night. Madam Deputy Speaker, as Seond Deputy Chairman said: As many as are of that opinion say Aye. There was no answer. She continued, To the contrary No. At column 262, Hansard records:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have no power to order that. The matter should have been pursued last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Deputy Speaker put the Question again and collected the voices. That is what Hansard clearly shows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we should get on with today's business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We really should get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Parental Leave", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "on of that, and in their role as employer, the Government should move towards parental leave. My Bill is also supported by the Equal Opportunities Commission. It believes that there is an urgent need for such an arrangement to assist the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities and to encourage a more equitable sharing of the latter. It is also supported by the National Childbirth Trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "sibility for housing has no constituents whatsoever. He has no constituents who tell him about the plight of the homeless, who come to him homeless or who tell him about the effects of the cuts in housing benefit, about their difficulties in obtaining a move or about their conditions. I have not checked, and I have no idea how large an estate or how large a home or homes the Earl of Caithness has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not have much time for her, either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": " understanding at all, it would be doing its utmost to fulfil its statutory responsibility for housing and would be putting pressure on the Government to allow it the finance necessary to house the homeless. Lady Porter, who almost acts as a dictator of the council rather than a normal leader of a local authority, does not seem to have any time for her Conservative colleagues, who are supposed to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "The obvious comparison is with New York—a city in the most advanced capitalist country. We know the sort of policies that are pursued in the United States and it is understandable that London and New York should have the same homelessness problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.348.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stand up and say it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "The obvious comparison is with New York—a city in the most advanced capitalist country. We know the sort of policies that are pursued in the United States and it is understandable that London and New York should have the same homelessness problem. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.351.4", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " arches without being tourists. We will get on in our own time. Having said that, I think that the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey was a little hard on the noble Lord, the Minister for Housing, Environment and Countryside. That noble gentleman has responsibility for vast estates in Scotland, so he may understand certain homelessness problems because of difficulties in housing his gillies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.351.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.351.4", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " was to be used to restore that office block for use by homeless families. It was all raised on the private market by a progressive relationship between the housing association, the local authority and the developers, Belway Homes—a first-rate developer with a good track record in that area. The project was arranged, the foundation stone laid and work began—but then what happened? The association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.351.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.359.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.361.4", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "No; the Minister must listen; he is not even listening properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Bradley", "preceding_text": " what is to happen to thousands of homeless people. It is not good enough for him to say that the Government are discussing with the new landlords the nomination rights that may be agreed between the various parties. We are referring to statutory rights and duties under the law to protect thousands of homeless people. This Minister comes from the north-west. I invite him to come to Manchester and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.362.8", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "I know that Lords amendment No. 6 is a clarifying amendment, but it would mean that a landlord will need a court order to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.362.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "be transformed and transferred within very short order. I have already touched on that point. There is a balance to be achieved. I have already said in a previous debate that I think that there is an important role for local authorities to deal with the problem of homelessness. The more we can encourage the private sector, principally housing associations, to concentrate on those low-cost housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "id on housing—I re-read it this morning—could not have been clearer. We are exposing local authorities in their control of housing to competition, and providing the opportunity through this legislation for tenants to give their local council the sack. The hon. Member for Hammersmith does not like that because he and many of his hon. Friends believe that the council estates are their sole preserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.383.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ommodation. The Minister has said that tenants can go to a rent assessment committee at any stage. If, because of the provisions of the clause, a tenant cannot go to a rent assessment committee to get his rent lowered and cannot afford the rent to which in his desperation he agreed, is evicted by the landlord, will he be considered to be intentionally homeless? I hope that the Minister will reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "ly typical of all landlords—mercifully—the pressure would nevertheless be there. As long as the pressure is there, we have a responsibility, here and in the other place, to get the matter right. We say that the other place did not get it right, and we want to know how we can try to get it right now. Dragging the case out would not necessarily lead to any increase in the amount of ordinary damages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ?It is the same one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "less be there. As long as the pressure is there, we have a responsibility, here and in the other place, to get the matter right. We say that the other place did not get it right, and we want to know how we can try to get it right now. Dragging the case out would not necessarily lead to any increase in the amount of ordinary damages. [Interruption.] I hear an hon. Member, from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.405.10", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Clause 31", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I wish to speak to amendment (a) to Lords amendment No. 35. It is important to describe the background to rural deprivation. We have concentrated in this debate on inner-city deprivation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.405.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.405.13", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Clause 31", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "ural England live on the poverty line. The gap between rich and poor in rural areas is widening. It has been especially noticeable since 1985. Nationally, about 11 per cent. of all households have a gross disposable income of at least three times that of those on supplementary benefit. In rural England, the figure is 26 per cent., so a minority—the rural poor—are living among many affluent people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.405.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.405.13", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Clause 31", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "luent people. [Interruption.] From a sedentary position, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. King) is interrupting. If he is so knowledgeable about the problems of the rural poor, he should get to his feet and make a contribution to the debate. If not, he should be quiet. For the last 12 months, Opposition Members have been attempting to improve the Bill to benefit the rural poor, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.405.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "le of housing associations. That has created enormous uncertainty in the housing association movement. The Secretary of State will know of the long debates we had in Committee about the status of these associations. The hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) tried at first to claim that they were public sector bodies: they are not. Labour Members—and all other hon. Members—agreed that they were not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "ons of the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends. I support what the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey said not just because he told us earlier that he was a Liberal but because of the need for affordable rents to which he referred in his speech. One danger is that, because of the Government's allocation of grant, housing associations will have to charge rents that are virtually market rents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I abide by whatever you say, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I would have thought that security matters relate to the level of rent, as do housing associations which must decide on rent in the light of their grant allocation. As my remarks are in line with those of previous speakers, I trust that they are in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "t mean for me?\" If the housing association can reply, \"You will become a secure tenant and, as a housing association tenant, you will have most of your rights that you have now, together with some additional ones such as the right to information and consultation, the right to assign and the right to exchange\", it is quite likely that that tenant will be keen to become a housing association tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "sultation, the right to assign and the right to exchange\", it is quite likely that that tenant will be keen to become a housing association tenant. [Interruption.] Shut up. I do not mind interventions from Conservative Members, but I find sedentary interventions from my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) who is sitting 3 ft away from me to my left, to be rather disconcerting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has a ready grasp of the situation, which I am sure is better than that of the Secretary of State who diverted me for a moment, because, as my hon. Friend was speaking, the Secretary of State was excavating the contents of his left nostril.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It was not a pretty sight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " Speaker. It was not a pretty sight. [Laughter.] I am finding it difficult to continue, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I turn now to amendment (a) to Lords amendment No. 44. Much as we like the Lords amendment, it can stand much improvement. Our amendment attempts to include among tenancies which can remain secure, and are granted after the Act comes into force tenants who become housing association tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": " State intervend in the debate—no doubt he has the right to choose when to speak—and my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) responded. The crucial rights in the House are not those of Front-Bench Members but those of Back-Bench Members,who must be able to defend the interests of their constituents. My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon),who has been here for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Now that you have called your Member of Parliament, perhaps you will allow me to help. There was a fairly lengthy debate on the previous group of important amendments. My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) is relatively new to the House and, as a member of a minority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Clause 35", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " the House of Lords who had never been elected by anyone and would probably not know a constituent if he saw one was released to meet the world on a Sunday programme and suddenly announced that tenants in housing action trust areas would have a vote after all. Twelve months on, the Government generously agree that tenants can have a say. My hon. Friends and I are here today in substantial numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Clause 35", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "peaker have not yet been debated. If the Government intend to end this Session with a guillotine on the Bill, which I understand will take three hours of debate, and then force through 53 groups of amendments in the remaining days of this Parliament, they might be advised to think again about how they could make their life just a little easier. I shall give the Government a simple piece of advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Clause 35", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In body.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is now with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-09", "file": "debates1988-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "559caed19b5a1284", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Clause 35", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": "sals as undemocratic and unprincipled. The Government have confirmed us in that belief time and again by denying us the right to explore what is going on. The Government have proposed a curious voting system. As my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, South (Mr. Boateng) said, the dead and those who do not vote are deemed to have voted in favour of a transfer. The Government call it the inertia vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-09a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.482.9", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ther certain small sanctions which we have agreed through the Commonwealth, which we also honour. My purpose is to ensure that we do everything that we can to help Poland come to an agreement with the International Monetary Fund as to how best to conduct her industrial and financial affairs in future. We in this country will be the first to help to reschedule Poland's debts and to give extra help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.482.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "It would probably be kinder not to comment on the business shambles proposed for tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Environment, we had to abandon last night's important business? Will the right hon. Gentleman give careful consideration to something that will happen on 21 November? Has he come clean with the House yet that there will be an exhibition—yet again—of the intrusion of cameras, sound equipment and lighting into the Chamber some time during 21 November? How many hon. Members have been told about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "an asked a number of other questions. He implied that the fire was the fault of the Government as they had reduced costs. The inspector stated: In my judgement there is no evidence that the overall level of subsidy available to London Regional Transport was inadequate to finance necessary safety-related spending and maintain safety standards. The House will have the chance to study that paragraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "equate to finance necessary safety-related spending and maintain safety standards. The House will have the chance to study that paragraph. [Interruption.] On the contrary, I have quoted the sentence and the paragraph. The inspector went on to say: I accept the evidence of the most senior management in London Regional Transport and London Underground that if funds were needed, funds were available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "at things are done. I asked you yesterday to listen to the tapes, Mr. Speaker. Some may say that \"Erskine May\" has nothing to do with tapes, but \"Erskine May\" is a very old instrument of our proceedings. We have tapes available, and anyone listening to a tape of that incident will realise that no Government Member, or any Member supporting the motion, said Aye. There was a distinct shout of \"No\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.514.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.515.11", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the clause be read a Second time. As many as are of that opinion say Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.515.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of the contrary, No. I think the Ayes have it. The Ayes have it. The Question is, That the clause be added to the Bill. As many as are of that opinion say Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, they were not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not know whether the hon. Lady was present, but when the Question was put on Tuesday both \"No\" and \"Aye\" were shouted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.5", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not know whether the hon. Lady was present, but when the Question was put on Tuesday both \"No\" and \"Aye\" were shouted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, they were not\"] I ask hon. Members to read Hansard . The Deputy Speaker said: The Question is the motion on the Order Paper. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. To the contrary No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.7", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the Noes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.11", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) met the press this afternoon, at no time did he make any reference to the embargoed report? Although the pledge from the Department of Transport was that the report would be available at 1.30, it was not available until considerably later, by which time my hon. Friend had written out the notes that he intended to impart to the press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.516.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Immigration Guidelines", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I do not feel that it is necessary to address me with some contempt in the way that you use your voice, M r. Speaker. The point is that there is a sense —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Immigration Guidelines", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "callers who wish to resolve their particular immigration problems over the counter. In that context, I can tell the House that the benefits of the changes in the immigration rules, against which the Opposition foolishly voted earlier this year, are now beginning to show and that at Lunar house both the public inquiry office and the telephone inquiry bureau are offering a much improved performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.550.7", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Northampton Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " been left for my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish to allay the worries of ramblers and others about access to footpaths. Matters of that kind should have been made clear well before Third Reading. We could then stick to the real purpose of the Third Reading debate—whether to take the Bill and like it, with all the various powers that it includes, or not to like it and not to take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.550.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman was not here for the opening speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"80 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "s of this sort come before the House week after week, month after month. They will come before the House year after year. We have been promised by one Minister after another—it does not matter which party is in office, and that is one of the tragedies—that no contravention will be made without the authority of the House. However, we continue to approve orders and, as Mr. Delors said, 82 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.605.6", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "It did not sound as brave then as it does at this hour of the night. The point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.605.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-10", "file": "debates1988-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "40be0df22b788650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "tulate the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) on obtaining this Adjournment debate, but resist the suggestion that as Cabinet Minister responsible for this matter, coming to the House to answer an Adjournment debate raised by the Member of Parliament with the most direct interest because his constituents are affected, constitutes an abuse of the House. It constitutes an entirely proper response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-10a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his kind words. I wondered how long the debate would continue before Govan was mentioned. A period of silent contemplation is more appropriate in certain quarters than discussion of that matter. I was dealing with the question of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.624.5", "colnum": "624", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "It seemed to me that the best way to proceed in an orderly fashion was to adjourn our consideration and bring forward this motion today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.624.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.624.7", "colnum": "624", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "consideration of the School Boards (Scotland) Bill, and a further two hours for the Housing Bill. If, however, the House spent less time discussing this motion and took the School Boards (Scotland) Bill formally, then that additional time within the total of six hours would become available for consideration of the Housing Bill where, I recognise, there is a large number of amendments outstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.624.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I reject entirely the hon. Gentleman's judgment. Whether this is a precedent seems to me not to matter. Every precedent happens for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "in parliamentary history. It has gone from June 1987 to November 1988, and is laughably called a parliamentary year. Nevertheless, the Government need to guillotine two Bills on the last but one sitting day of the Session. Nothing could demonstrate more effectively the incompetence of their business managers. This is a record bit of incompetence. This is the first parliamentary Session in history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman always does\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "An engaging feature of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) is that he never allows facts to get in the way of the arguments that he wishes to put. He takes no account of what has happened in the House when he makes his standard speech, with the standard amount of abuse, on guillotine motions. I welcome the guillotine motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "To my knowledge, the hon. Gentleman made no speeches during any stages of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " in, still had not informed its tenants what their rents were. No wonder most tenants were in arrears. That is an example of the incompetence of municipal housing managers throughout the country. I have spoken for long enough. That will prompt a cheer from the Opposition. Let me conclude by referring back to what Opposition Members said about the Housing Act 1980 and the Education Reform Act 1988—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "thing as a bit of a Friday lark. Homelessness—the appalling problems of people without anywhere to live—is a joke to most of these juveniles. It is a disgrace and an absolute shame that these important matters are treated with so little regard by Conservative Members. Their only excuse can be that they do not know anything about council tenants and that they are totally politically inexperienced —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "lic will not tumble what has happened. I wanted, had there been time—and there still is time if the Government are prepared to provide it next week—to discuss amendments Nos. 72 and 73 because they gravely affect my constituency. I have many hundreds of council tenants on whom one of these housing action trusts, the Government hope, will be imposed. Now what does that mean for them? Windmill lane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. The hon. Gentleman came in five and a half minutes ago, and he is not going to interrupt my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "School Boards (Scotland) Bill and Housing Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "vitably go up. The property mafia will be rubbing their hands at the prospects of the profits. They are going to make enormous killings out of this exercise. Rachmanism— a word that was introduced into the English language in the 1960s—is a malevolent, stinking name. I had better warn Conservative Members, there is going to be an addition to that collection of ghastly names. There are going to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Clause 60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "No, it is not true. The new housing association assured tenancy that is in this Bill is not identical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Clause 60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blackmail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "hat will he advise his tenants? Will he advise them that they should seek to make use of and take advantage of that facility? If not, I must advise him that, if we do not find an estate which is in a bad condition and which is willing to accept a housing action trust, I have no alternative but to return that money to the Treasury because it is in a certain line and allocated for a certain purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.682.3", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Clause 60", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ons. The right hon. Gentleman may want to intervene to say what he will write into the Bill. Words spoken in the House in debates are not worth the paper on which they are written in respect of giving people fundamental rights. Repeatedly, Ministers in this and previous Thatcher Administrations have given commitments in the House which subsequently have been cynically and deliberately disregarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Clause 60", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Secretary of State or the Under-Secretary of State will explain why they should say that the Secretary of State decides whether a ballot is appropriate. Why should that caveat be in the legislation? Is the Secretary of State saying that that will be removed? Will he decide whether a ballot is appropriate? Will there be a ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.683.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.696.8", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Clause 74", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, as an amendment to the Lords amendment, after 'authorities)' in sub paragraph (a) insert 'and the amount of expenditure prescribed for an authority under the said Part shall be adjusted by the amount of any such payments'. We shall not ask the House to divide on this amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.696.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Clause 99", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I have said yes to that already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Clause 99", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "Precisely. That is what the National Consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-11", "file": "debates1988-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b62d90a2c8ce1918", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Clause 99", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "ed against the transfer would be transferred against their wishes. That is incorrect. Again I challenge the Minister. The leaflet ignores the position of licensees who will be denied any right to vote, including people allocated homes on an estate subject to an allocation, who could well have their homes transferred over their heads without having any say in the matter. It is therefore misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-11a.705.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "CITY OF LONDON (SPITALFIELDS MARKET) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Orders read for consideration of motions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.728.9", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "reatly increased costs attached to employment such as travel to work? If the man moves to employment that pays £150 a week, will the Minister accept that he will be only £8 a week better off as a result, with further losses in benefit? Does the Minister agree that there is a worsening poverty trap? The Chancellor of the Exchequer is throwing money at the rich, but he is doing nothing for the poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.728.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "y for his party. I refer to the moral difficulty in which he might find himself in trying to disagree in the long term with serious attempts to help specifically families in work on low incomes. I would have thought that ours was the sensible way to address national policy, whereas in an interesting magazine interview that I read in the latter part of the summer, the hon. Gentleman makes it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.734.2", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "After the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.734.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "and her colleagues. but I remind the hon. Gentleman that if anybody should be sitting uncomfortably in shame, it is the giggling Opposition Front Bench. They should recall that, for almost all the time that Labour was last in government, the value of the child tax allowance and the family allowance for families on average earnings was far below in real terms what it has been under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Means-Tested Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "e, under Standing Order No. 20, for the purpose of discussing a matter that is specific and important and requires urgent consideration, namely, new evidence relating to the Government's intentions for means-tested benefits. The matter is specific because of the unanimity yesterday in the journalistic record of the Chancellor's briefing last Friday, the independent corroboration of that record in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Tobacco Products", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "should be free to choose their own method of death—whether from high-tar cigarettes or from throwing themselves in front of the airport bus. I am glad that the Minister did not endorse either proposition. I strongly support the proposals on labelling which would take the health warning off the side notes of the packet and put them up front on the two larger sides—back and front. That is desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-14", "file": "debates1988-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3f5b4ff2d8bd4b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Articulated Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "is pointless pretending that the House of Commons has a scrutiny role when it is in fact powerless in this respect. The presence tonight of the Government Chief Whip, the right hon. and learned Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Waddington), is interesting, but I doubt whether he has hundreds of troops rallied outside for fear that the Opposition will seek to press the House to a Division on the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-14a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "r Lewisham, West (Mr. Maples) on the most excellent speeches that they made in moving and seconding the Loyal Address. My hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey is famous for his wit and affability, and his performance today was even better than his reputation. It was an absolutely marvellous speech. I noticed that he was typically modest about his own contribution to government. We miss him very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "t Loyal Address today. I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West on a typically persuasive and thorough speech. I enjoyed it very much. I have a fellow feeling with him, being a London Member, particularly as we suffer from RAWP in the Health Service, as he knows well. It was a most excellent speech and I, too, hope that he will keep his seat for as long as I have kept mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me deal quickly with some of the comments made by the Leader of the Opposition before making my remarks on the Gracious Speech. There are now far fewer pensioners on low incomes today than there were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.4", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " was held in Britain, confirmed that the state of the North sea was generally good and that environmental damage was largely confined to localised areas such as the German and Dutch Wadden seas. If people are interested in the cleanliness of rivers, they might turn their attention to cleaning up the Rhine. With regard to the RUC, I may point out that expenditure in 1986–87 was £319 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.19.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.20.3", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "iven. In share ownership, more opportunity has come from the Government to the people. All those are movements of power from central Government to the people, giving them far more independence—which is something that Opposition Members cannot stand because they want people to be totally and utterly dependent upon the state for pretty nearly all their needs and wants. I turn to the Gracious Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.20.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f which are imported—a major factor in the deficit on current account. If savings and investment are to be kept in reasonable balance, borrowing must be checked, so that non-inflationary growth can be sustained. That is why we have raised interest rates. The highest rates will take time to have their full effect, both to exert downward pressure on inflation and to help reduce the deficit on trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.22.3", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tion and education of children; and, thirdly, there are measures for safeguarding the security of the realm, fighting terrorism and combating crime arid hooliganism, such as the Football Spectators Bill. I shall deal first with industry and commerce. Under that heading, we have two major privatisation measures for water and electricity. The Water Bill will be a major environmental measure as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.22.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e transferred to a new company jointly owned by the suppliers. In Scotland there will be two independent companies broadly based upon the existing Scottish electricity boards. In England and Wales we aim to maintain the proportion of electricity produced from nuclear power at the current level, which would mean four more nuclear power stations, including Sizewell, by the year 2000. That in itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ointly owned by the suppliers. In Scotland there will be two independent companies broadly based upon the existing Scottish electricity boards. In England and Wales we aim to maintain the proportion of electricity produced from nuclear power at the current level, which would mean four more nuclear power stations, including Sizewell, by the year 2000. That in itself— [Interruption.] That in itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said, \"we aim to\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In precisely the same way as the Home Secretary and myself have always been accountable to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, we do not discuss this matter. The matter has not been addressed in any way at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I develop my speech further before I give way. If he would like to intervene later, I shall be happy to consider his request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "us to any other conclusion—it will result, not in more freedom of information, but in further restrictions, tighter controls and more sanctions in the hands of the Government. Similarly, while my party supports the need for a Prevention of Terrorism Act as a temporary measure for Northern Ireland, we shall oppose the Government's attempts to make it a permanent feature of the British legal system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "inate foreign policy initiatives. We are missing opportunities to raise standards for the consumer. We are missing opportunities to tackle poverty, which blights the lives of so many of our fellow citizens. This is a programme from a Government dominated by the poverty of their public spirit and their narrowness of the view of Britain's role in the world. It is a programme that is all about dogma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-22", "file": "debates1988-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "dafbf73860e27c1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "or Bury St. Edmunds would accept that modernisation suggests an extension, but is that true? We must consider that modernisation involves transforming weapons from land-launched to air and sea-launched. That is not really modernisation. It moves weapons into a different class. Instead of mutually agreed disarmament, the Russians have beaten us to it. They are dismantling more weapons more quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-22a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.111.8", "colnum": "111", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, David Marquand to the European Commission, Roy Jenkins to the European Commission, Fred Peart to the House of Lords, and Matthew Parris. Before we go any further, the House of Commons should seriously discuss whether it is proper that those who are privileged to be elected, as we all are, ought to be allowed in mid-term to go off to other jobs. Death is excusable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.111.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I shall talk about Tory Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "h leagues. I am worried about the wording that has been used. We talk about \"soccer hooligans\". Hooliganism is not confined to soccer. I have recently been to cricket matches where all has not been too kosher. I have been to rugby league and rugby union matches at which one or two people have been slightly offensive. I have even been to race courses and seen the odd person drunk at a race meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "that a bomber is staying at a Bayswater hotel.\" That is not the point at issue. The question is whether a state within the state, employing people with no feeling of responsibility to the Government elected by the people of this country, can continue as it is. The Government wish to conceal information because that suits their book. I dare say that all Governments will want to conceal information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "e the consequences.\" If one removes the safeguard of conscience from people who, in the course of their work, may come across something they feel it would be in the public interest to divulge—whether one gaols them, punishes them, or makes them into public villains—they would only be doing what we told the Germans at the Nuremberg trials they should have done, which was to disregard unjust orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "she was totally divorced from reality. One of my constituents described her as being drunk with power. The Prime Minister commands the Cabinet, the Tory party and, unfortunately, the Leader of the Opposition, on frequent occasions. She is not superhuman, but the opposition to her has been so poor that she appears to be a great deal more capable than she is. I shall quote from her speech yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "on that the Government had cheated on YTS. He should have continued to argue that case against the Prime Minister, and I shall tell the House why. Four thousand young people in Glasgow have been cheated. They were promised that they would get job opportunities, but instead they have been made penniless. In the middle of the by-election campaign, we heard statements from the social work department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "ell us to speak English rather than speak in the tongue of a man known internationally—a man who wrote \"Auld Lang Syne,\" a hymn that is sung everywhere. Every Scot will feel the implied insult in the hon. Gentleman's remark. We Scots are in this place only temporarily. Given that we have an entirely different set of values from those of the Prime Minister and her acolytes—a superior set of values—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to update his vocabulary. This is not 1977 or 1978; this is 1988. We are referring to Scotland within the European dimension. All the emotive old phrases about a break-up and a rupture do not arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend should remember that only three weeks ago I supported him when the House discussed Scottish legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-23", "file": "debates1988-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "b464729060ea7a13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "It was done under the ordinary processes of existing Scottish law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-23a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.244.2", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is throwing many figures around. I have some serious cases in my constituency of people who have applied for benefit. I have reason to believe that the Department of Social Security is telling the doctors who examine those people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The unelectability of the Labour party is illustrated by the idiotic remarks from below the Gangway. We need no lectures from the Opposition about our record on pensions. It is an extremely unwise tactic for them to adopt because they can be nailed by the facts. I intend to ensure that the facts of our relative records are made clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "c remarks from below the Gangway. We need no lectures from the Opposition about our record on pensions. It is an extremely unwise tactic for them to adopt because they can be nailed by the facts. I intend to ensure that the facts of our relative records are made clear. [Interruption.] The facts are clearly unpalatable to the Opposition. First, under the Labour Government, pensioners' total income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I am always happy to welcome the hon. Gentleman. The truth may even help his digestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I am always happy to welcome the hon. Gentleman. The truth may even help his digestion. [Interruption.] A course in wit from the shadow Leader of the House—what a perversion of the truth! Thirdly, the average gross income of a pensioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "national income distribution. Happily, the proportion has now fallen to 24 per cent. Everyone should welcome that crucial and major change in such a relatively short period. We have always recognised that some pensioners do not fit the picture of rising prosperity that has transformed the lives of so many others. The House will be aware of the group to which I refer. They are the older pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Some of my constituents are down here today, trying to lobby hon. Members. They are not being allowed to come anywhere near the House, and when I went out to try to meet some of them I was informed by a young policeman, \"Get over there on the right hand side.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.261.4", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Boscawen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yeovil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Boscawen", "preceding_text": "er on the so-called \"official poverty line\" is also increased. The Leader of the Opposition used the words \"official poverty line\" in his response to the Queen's Speech, and I think that he used the word \"official\" advisedly—because he knew that he was talking nonsense when he said that there were 3 million on the official poverty line. The leader of the so-called party below, the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.261.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Conservative Benches have created poverty, and there is a lot of it in my constituency. I get around my constituency and I see it with my own eyes. Some of the things that the Government are doing, particularly to the elderly and the disabled, make me want to weep. I visited a disabled person on Sunday morning. I make all my visits on Sunday, because that is the only time that I have to make them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "le living in the properties. We had hoped to try to sort something out. British Coal was invited but came nowhere near the meeting. It was frightened to death. It knew what it would get if it attended. British Coal should come off that one. I should like to refer to local government and democracy. This afternoon I was invited by Yorkshire Television to be interviewed on the matter. The Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-24", "file": "debates1988-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "0ceae0a2f96fe866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " policy. This Government have pursued economic policies that have produced steady growth and a balanced budget, which have made possible substantial increases in spending on social programmes such as health and social security. That is why my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security could make his important announcement this afternoon. The package of measures that he announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-24a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-25", "file": "debates1988-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87dce6a228b4c042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "tate for Defence replies to the debate, he will emphasise the particular importance that we place on a chemical weapons ban with effective verification. I shall now deal briefly with conventional arms control. I spent polling day in June 1987 at Reykjavik, and while I was there we were able to hammer out an agreed NATO position and an agreement that there should be talks on conventional stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-25", "file": "debates1988-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87dce6a228b4c042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nd conditions and the right to partcipate in decision-making in the workplace. Those are the proper rights of a trade union anywhere, but rights which the Prime Minister detests and tramples on in Britain. The Prime Minister went to Gdansk to cash in on Mr. Welesa's popularity, without having the faintest understanding of or sympathy for the concepts for which he really stands. The Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-25", "file": "debates1988-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87dce6a228b4c042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nister is at serious odds with West Germany, as emerged clearly during my visit to Bonn a few weeks ago when I had discussions with Herr Genscher, the Foreign Minister, and Herr Scholz, the Defence Minister. There is also, of course, the opposition of the Belgians to modernisation. Chancellor Kohl of West Germany made it clear that he is opposed to any modernisation that would be a way around INF—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-25", "file": "debates1988-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87dce6a228b4c042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.359.4", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Gentleman for pointing out to me in a radio interview that these letters had been received. It was a clerical oversight because Mr. MacKenzie's letters had been diverted into the part of my Department which deals with routine correspondence from the public, and I must admit that the Department had not been dealing with it with excessive speed. The moment I discovered the letters I replied to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.359.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-25", "file": "debates1988-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87dce6a228b4c042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Whitney", "preceding_text": " have been able to devote billions of pounds to expanding the Health Service, with £2·2 billion promised for next year and nearly £1 billion devoted this year to an historic pay rise for the nurses, a minority of nurses, the leaders of COHSE and NUPE and the Opposition parties are making so much political trouble that you, Mr. Speaker, have been persuaded to allow a private notice question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-25", "file": "debates1988-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87dce6a228b4c042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.366.4", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "worth exploring. We have seen cognitive dissonance in domestic policy—for example, the poll tax, and the creation of private monopolies to make water and electricity more expensive. We saw it this morning in the National Health Service. I often compare the Prime Minister with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp—unfortunately, it is a blow lamp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-25", "file": "debates1988-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87dce6a228b4c042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ng people. The obstacle that the Prime Minister presents to progress in any of those areas is serious. Although the Foreign Secretary will enjoy our support—if that is the right verb—in standing up to her and trying to weasel his way around the obstacles that she has created for him, we shall do our best to help. I should like to finish with a few words to my own party, because in my sunset years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-25a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.438.7", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": " the midlands has produced the equal and opposite reaction in the south. In reality, many Tories are now getting what they voted for, but they are discovering that it is not what they really want. In Berkshire, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire and elsewhere protests mount as development rolls over towns and villages. It is impossible, however, not to feel a little sorry for the current Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.438.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "ir present territory, but perhaps in France, Europe and further afield still. The hon. Member for Copeland scarcely mentioned the Water Bill. However, I happened to hear the interview that he gave on Radio Cumbria on Thursday night. No doubt he thought that as he was well away from Westminster and had left the House early on a Thursday evening he would be out of earshot. But I heard the broadcast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ation so that, for the first time, there will be a major national body with a single dedicated remit to tackle water pollution. It will have comprehensive powers to regulate all discharges into rivers, estuaries and the sea and to take action to forestall or remedy pollution. I shall now quote from an article in the Financial Times of last Friday to show how wrong the hon. Member for Copeland was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ajor national body with a single dedicated remit to tackle water pollution. It will have comprehensive powers to regulate all discharges into rivers, estuaries and the sea and to take action to forestall or remedy pollution. I shall now quote from an article in the Financial Times of last Friday to show how wrong the hon. Member for Copeland was. [Interruption.] I hope that the House will listen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolute rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "That is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolute rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "issions substantially—one of which is the cause of acid rain—there will have to be an increase in the price of electricity. However, I want to make it clear that the price increases will be due not to privatisation, but to the improvements to the environment for which the Labour party has rightly asked. Labour Members will not be able to say later that the price increases are due to privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolute rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " Copeland. On the eve of the last election the Labour party said that it would ban fox hunting. However, the hon. Gentleman suddenly remembered his own constituency and said, \"but not in national park areas.\" That is the level of consistency within the Labour party. That is the extent to whch the Labour party's views are based on science. That is the hon. Gentleman's commitment to the environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman seems to be suggesting a system whereby interest rates will increase for new borrowing, but not for existing borrowing. That is what it means. If it does not mean that, perhaps the right hon. Gentleman can tell us what it does mean, because he suggested that as a great solution to our economic problems. As I am anxious about the mortgage scene, I should like to know what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "e. The more that that link between Soviet interests and the unilateral cause became clear, the more discredited became the unilateral cause in this country. It was something of a nostalgic trip down memory lane for me to read Mr. Shevardnadze's speech in September—incidentally, on the same day that an excellent speech on the same subject was made by the British Prime Minister—in which he referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "nt whereas a larger development on the same site is allowed. We may have to ask for a judicial review of that case. The hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike)—the hon. Gentleman represents an area that I know well—said that he believed in local government. So do I. I do not like power to be centralised. A centralised state is almost as bad as a Socialist state. There is much wisdom outside Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to see the reference in the Gracious Speech to firm financial policies designed to bear down on inflation. It is of course legitimate for Opposition Members to say that the rate of inflation has increased, but I am satisfied that action is being taken by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": " Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) said in the last few minutes, I make no apologies whatever for reminding the House once again of the degree of industrial recovery that has taken place in this country in the past eight years. We have had eight years of uninterrupted economic growth at an average of 3 per cent. That is the longest period of such growth for half a century, I tell the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "g the House once again of the degree of industrial recovery that has taken place in this country in the past eight years. We have had eight years of uninterrupted economic growth at an average of 3 per cent. That is the longest period of such growth for half a century, I tell the hon. Gentleman. [Interruption.] I shall come to the hon. Gentleman's interest in a moment. In this economy, since 1980—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had an exchange with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in a debate some weeks ago on that very matter. The reference that he made to the report to which he referred was based on a misunderstanding that has already been cleared up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.524.4", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "al base. It follows that nowhere are the benefits of the greater national prosperity that we have created clearer than in those parts of the country which have faced some of the worst difficulties of earlier failures to bring about the necessary industrial change and to get the economy on the move. I am well aware that the Opposition do not like being told some of the facts about the improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "In the past years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "European Community (Transport)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": " strikes me as better to consider the proposal on its merits first, and then to consider other countries' attitudes. As I understand it, our opposition to the proposal on infrastructure is shared by Germany, France, the Netherlands and Denmark, so we expect that the proposal will not be adopted. We believe that most other countries share our lukewarm attitude to the proposal on combined transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "European Community (Transport)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Talk about the Community.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "transport should operate on a commercial basis without subsidy. Freight already receives a subsidy as road building is undertaken by taxpayers. Only this month the Department of Transport announced that more than £4 billion will be spent on main roads over the next three years. I have got that wrong: the Government \"invest\" in road building and \"subsidise\" railways. What a difference in attitude.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "European Community (Transport)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "Therefore, the hon. Gentleman will support the Government on the infrastructure proposal.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.549.2", "colnum": "549", "heading": "European Community (Transport)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "d by the Council of Ministers, to use generalised criteria and to pick from a generalised list, most of which will do the United Kingdom no good. Labour Members spoke about integrated transport, but combined transport is really piggy-back services. Until we have smaller wheels on our trains, we are not likely to benefit much from that. Indeed, the Germans have said that they will no longer use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-28", "file": "debates1988-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "4d1fb2b20b8f320b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.549.2", "colnum": "549", "heading": "European Community (Transport)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t a lot of interference from his hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott). We also welcome the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor), who spoke on behalf of the Social and Liberal Democratic party. It is worth reading the report of the Scrutiny Committee which recommended that the two proposals should be taken together. When we put forward the explanatory memorandum in July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-28a.549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "While not wishing to subscribe to the overheated rhetoric that we have heard from Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I do not want to delay the pig sticking that we are about to enjoy, but, further to the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon), I should point out that she was getting round to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.580.2", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "n) of what happened in the House on 25 October, which was the last occasion when the hon. Gentleman opened a major debate for the Labour party. On that occasion he blundered so badly in his speech that after he sat down he had to go upstairs to pressurise the Official Reporters to amend Hansard so that it included words that he had not uttered in the Chamber. All the hon. Member has shown is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.581.7", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I refer you to column 494 of the Official Report for 27 October 1988 when you confirmed that the record had in fact been changed and you apologised. The assurance that I now seek fom the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.581.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "I gladly withdraw it, Mr. Speaker, if we have an assurance that no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "I gladly withdraw it, Mr. Speaker, if we have an assurance that no—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—Opposition Member will seek to tamper with today's record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I, too, have a letter from the Editor of Hansard, Mr. Speaker, apologising for the mistake that he made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.6", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "tor of Hansard, Mr. Speaker, apologising for the mistake that he made. [Interruption.] Since Conservative Members persist in demanding to know what the letter says, it says: I understand that you may have been caused some embarrassment, for which I apologise. If the issue is raised, please feel entirely free to quote my assurace that the responsibility for this regrettable mishap is entirely mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "a smaller proportion of our national income than is the case in other countries and is growing more slowly, and even when it is recognised elsewhere that the market will not do the job itself and public investment, co-ordination and involvement is necessary, this Government are so wedded to free market dogma that they will not bridge the science gap by investing to prepare properly for our future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "We have just heard perhaps the most trivial opening speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "We have just heard perhaps the most trivial opening speech— [Interruption.] —in any economic debate on the Queen's Speech that I have ever heard during all my time in the House. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown), towards the end, asked me four questions. I can answer his four questions with a single answer—there will be no change of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East did not give way once during his speech so I will not give way. We had a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "nfermline, East not aware that living standards in this country are higher than they have ever been before? Is he not aware of that? As for investment—the hon. Gentleman took a lot of time over investment, so perhaps he and hon. Members opposite will listen to this. I know that they do not like hearing the truth and I know that it is very painful for them, but I hope that they will listen to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.6", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The key to economic success is confidence. For some years now, confidence in the British economy, among business men and consumers alike, has been rising. But it was not until our third general election victory, in June of last year, that—not surprisingly—confidence moved into overdrive, so much so that there was a real danger that spending would rise too fast, generating inflationary pressures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.593.6", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "their greatest impact. The plain fact is that there is no alternative to the use of interest rates to keep the economy on course; and it works, which, of course, is why all other well-conducted economies rely on it—most recently the United States, which only yesterday, like us, raised its interest rates to their highest levels since 1985. And what of the current account of the balance of payments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.593.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "gap. A country in a similar position will draw on the savings of the world, which has been greatly facilitated by today's global markets. Unlike the United States today, however, or the United Kingdom in the 1960s and the 1970s, the present current account deficit is not the counterpart of a capital inflow to finance a budget deficit. On the contrary, we have a substantial budget surplus, which I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.10", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "tely. But what it does mean is that it will in due course correct itself, as personal savings rise again, not least in response to the higher level of interest rates and the end of the great housing bubble. And meanwhile, it is readily financeable. Our reserves stand at record levels. Our net overseas assets are second only to those of Japan. The world has confidence in us. And sterling is strong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.12", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, our reserves stand at record levels. Our net overseas assets are second only to those of Japan. The world has confidence in us. And sterling is strong. Moreover, I am determined that it shall stay strong for the indefinite future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.594.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The Front Bench opposite is not the slightest bit interested in a serious debate on the economy. That is absolutely clear. Those with long memories will know that there is no such thing as a balance of payments crisis; there is only a sterling crisis. And that there is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "r member states expect of us. In the worst situation, in which we are not prepared to go along with 1992, the others will go themselves. Let us look at the position of the Chancellor and the Governor of the Bank of England about establishing a European central bank and a European single currency. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor knows that these things are inextricably bound up with one market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "voted to deflation, to stopping inflation. At one time he wanted to get it down to nil. We have heard a little less about that recently. Full membership of the EMS is essential and I should like to add one political factor. How can we expect the other members of the Community to co-operate with us in what we want in outside affairs? We have a row with the Belgian Government over alleged terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "recast to end the year at 4 per cent. While this is still too high, it is a testimony to the soundness of our policies that the present strong and sustained upswing … has not led to any resurgence of inflation. Last month inflation rose to 6·4 per cent. and it is unlikely to keep within the Autumn Statement forecast for an average of 6·25 per cent. in the last quarter of 1988.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "an replace your car … you can afford that fitted kitchen … you can take a well deserved holiday … With a Girobank Personal Loan, you can say goodbye to window shopping and buy the things you want right now. We have all received stacks of those letters. People all over the country have received such material and, along with the tax cuts, these letters create a spending climate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "yesterday what we know today, we should all be millionaires. It is easy to know the answer after the event. At the time of the Budget, as the Chancellor has tacitly admitted, future growth in the United Kingdom was miscalculated. Because of that, Britain is now suffering not the \"stagflation\" that we suffered under the previous Labour Government and successive Labour Governments but \"boomflation\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Carrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Carrington", "preceding_text": "ated by subtracting one very large number from another and is therefore subject to the inherent volatility and uncertainty of those two numbers. I suspect that we would all agree that the personal savings ratio is too low. One of the major challenges facing the Government is to raise the personal savings ratio. High interest rates are a start and I believe that they will push up the savings ratio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "he poor. However, at the time, many people including those wonderful youthful experts in the City described it as brilliant. They proclaimed the Chancellor \"Man of the Year\" and \"Chancellor of the Century\". A century is a long time in politics. Just last year the Chancellor was chosen as \"Parliamentarian of the Year\" by the Spectator. This year, I believe that he was not even invited to the lunch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.660.5", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman seeking to raise a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "spread share ownership, the wider ownership of property, shares, pensions and savings. In short, the creation of a property-owning and capital-owning democracy is not merely an economic but a social policy of immense benefit to the British people. Most of the debate today has been focused on the economy. Since the beginning of the previous Session, Britain's dynamic economy has produced more jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "More than 2,000 of my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-29", "file": "debates1988-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "8861d7ca77f3e088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "More than 2,000 of my constituents have asked me to present a petition to save the beautiful and historic Settle-Carlisle railway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-29a.676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "clear to the United Nations the PLO's explicit acceptance of my hon. and learned Friend's points. We want progress to be made in that direction and we should like action to be taken by both sides. We think that yesterday the United Nations reached the right judgment on the substance but that the language used was not best calculated to produce the change of heart in the United States that we want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.690.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: But—", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "y as follows: I wish to make clear that in the view of the British Government Mr. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, should have been allowed to come to the United Nations headquarters in New York. This is the legal obligation of the United States. My delegation endorses the opinion given on this matter by the United Nations legal council\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.709.2", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Scottish Transport Group", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that I suggested it several times. I am delighted that the Secretary of State agrees that the headquarters should be moved to the centre of its operations. Will the Secretary of State guarantee that, if anything is done in the future about Caledonian MacBrayne, any proposals will be referred first to the House? We must have primary legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Scottish Transport Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.712.7", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Scottish Transport Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "When the Secretary of State mentioned the possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.712.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Scottish Transport Group", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like Forsyth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": "hope that the Secretary of State has noted that two potential recruits for the Scottish Select Committee have sprung up to take part this afternoon. The right hon. and learned Gentleman failed to answer my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk, East (Mr. Ewing), who asked how often he has travelled on a bus. How often has he struggled on to a bus with a collapsible pushchair, a toddler and an infant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.716.4", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Scottish Transport Group", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is English.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "May we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.716.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Prime Minister's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "ith additional documentation, on Friday night. We now know from the Crown Prosecution Service that that was not the case. The Prime Minister has misled the House. The Prime Minister also failed to mention the dilatoriness of the Government in dealing with the Ryan case. Ryan was arrested on 30 June, but the Government failed to serve warrants until 5 September. On 25 November a decision was taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Prime Minister's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he cannot allege that any hon. Member or right hon. Member has deliberately misled the House. He must withdraw that allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Prime Minister's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he cannot allege that any hon. Member or right hon. Member has deliberately misled the House. He must withdraw that allegation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Withdraw the allegation, please—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Prime Minister's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "ountry, of course, the sub judice rule applies. A warrant is issued when a person is not within the jurisdiction of the court. If, after that, at any time he comes into the jurisdiction of the court he becomes the subject matter of the charge to which the warrant relates. Would it not be sensible, when you review these matters—I do not require an answer today, but perhaps a statement could be made", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I ask for your guidance. because this is a serious matter. I hope that it is not being suggested that it is not possible, in a very important debate, for hon. Members on both sides of the House politely to ask an Opposition or Government spokesmen to give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "s not being suggested that it is not possible, in a very important debate, for hon. Members on both sides of the House politely to ask an Opposition or Government spokesmen to give way— [Interruption.] May I make my point?—so that they can make an intervention. We all accept that organised barracking is wrong, and I was not aware that there had been such a thing by those on the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.727.6", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "It is not a different point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.727.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Ballot for Notices of Motions for Friday 16 December", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we should have a redraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.731.6", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Ballot for Notices of Motions for Friday 16 December", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You said that you would redraw the ballot, but all you did was redraw the third name. You left in the name of the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett), who had put in two names and had virtually cheated by doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.731.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "on Christmas day.\" That will not normally be one of our objectives. It appears to me that it would be easier for you, Mr. Speaker, and for practically every hon. Member, if we had a calendar set out in advance, and, by and large, the Government made us stick to it. While we have our present approach to parliamentary government, the Government will always be able to fix what happens in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": " were introduced in 1984. Admittedly, it was a temporary arrangement, but how was anybody to know that the Dutch farmer was later to return to dairy farming? Mr. Wilder, who pocketed the cash that was available, has now changed his mind and decided to return to dairy farming. May I ask my right hon. Friend the Minister whether it is possible to appeal against this European Court of Justice ruling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.813.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "It is the latter case. I opposed that provision in the Commission's proposals. I am glad to say that it does not now appear that it will be included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for that concession. I shall test him once more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-11-30", "file": "debates1988-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3742e5c658b47287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Zealand Butter", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "ember that New Zealand butter was one of the main sticking points, and we were given an assurance that the EEC would do nothing to make it difficult for New Zealand to find export markets elsewhere. What happened? Our butter production went up, and when New Zealand sought to sell butter to Hong Kong, an island without a single dairy cow, as far as I know, and almost on the doorstep of New Zealand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-11-30a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.857.13", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I understand that we have a large and growing cheese mountain as a result of EC surpluses. Of course, we expect to get nothing but hard cheese from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.857.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": " imports in my answer to the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Lloyd). He said that there are no notifications of the disease anywhere else. We are studying the position carefully. I know, as my hon. Friend the Member for Cornwall, South-East (Mr. Hicks) knows, that the disease started in the south. Nobody knows why there have been far more incidents in the south-west than in the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman began well. There have been outbreaks of the disease in every county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "We remember when there were \"no immediate proposals\" to break the link between pensions and earnings. We remember, too, when there were \"no plans\" to add new NHS charges. We recall also when there were \"no immediate proposals\" to freeze child benefit payments. Against such a background of mendacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "We remember when there were \"no immediate proposals\" to break the link between pensions and earnings. We remember, too, when there were \"no plans\" to add new NHS charges. We recall also when there were \"no immediate proposals\" to freeze child benefit payments. Against such a background of mendacity— [Interruption.] — who can believe that the Prime Minister has no plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.5", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that that word was not directed towards me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.6", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I was using the word in a general sense, Mr. Speaker, but if you so wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.870.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is very exceptional Mr. Kinnock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Patrick Ryan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ssisted by the Prime Minister's hysterical outburst on Tuesday, and in particular by her endorsement of the hon. Member for Hampshire, East (Mr. Mates)? Does not the Attorney-General agree that Belgium and Ireland are sovereign states and cannot be treated as erring Cabinet Ministers? As the Attorney-General has acknowledged today that there is a difference in practice in each country, should not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Patrick Ryan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to you, Mr. Speaker. Should not the Attorney-General have first advised the House? Surely he should not have allowed the Crown prosecution service on his behalf to brief the press, given the danger of prejudicing a fair trial. The Attorney-General knows of my support for him in extradition matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Patrick Ryan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "t and he would be the first to acknowledge it, but why can he not get his act right? What has become of the Home Secretary's promise that the Director of Public Prosecutions would ensure personally that warrants were checked for accuracy and sufficiency? Will the Attorney-General confirm that on Wednesday, when draft warrants arrived, Irish Government lawyers pointed out a number of serious flaws—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Patrick Ryan", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ersons who are suspected of serious offences to justice in the courts of the country where the offences are alleged to have occurred. I am asked whether I ought to have advised the House first. I do not think that I can be accused of being backward in coming forward with statements. I have volunteered more statements in this House in a shorter time than any other Attorney-General in living memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Patrick Ryan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "The Crown prosecution service told us that there were mistakes in two of the warrants that were sent to Dublin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Patrick Ryan", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "What my right hon. and learned Friend has said, the manner in which he has said it, and the frequency with which he comes to discuss these issues in the House is wholly acceptable, as is the way in which he discharges his onerous responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I do not accept either of those points and, judging from the way in which the hon. Gentleman put his questions, he did not expect me to. I do not accept his interpretation of the position of the Scottish Select Committee. I suspect that we are in this difficulty because of the lack of realism in some parts of the House, but that is another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.897.5", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "arrassment that has been caused to you and the House, especially to Mr. Brown and Mr. Yea. That is the text of the Editor's letter to me. The House is aware that I have already regretted the way in which the issue was raised. I also referred yesterday to the fact that I would deplore it if there were any truth in the suggestions that there had been an organised attempt to disrupt Tuesday's debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.897.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Erskine May?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "me I made an intervention in the heat of the moment which might have appeared to cast some aspersion on the Chair and yourself. If that is the case, I totally and unreservedly withdraw it. I would not wish to raise a point of order today for that reason. However, as you so rightly said, if points of order are to be raised, they should be raised at the first possible opportunity. Hansard, page 432—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. He did not do that. I made that plain at the time. It was a general accusation which was not made personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.923.4", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Let us get on with the debate. It is very important. The noble Lord spends a great deal of time and energy explaining the problems and advantages of Scotland to my right hon. Friend and myself. I resent the attacks made upon him, but will not take the matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.923.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.925.6", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "us hope that the policy will work. The quota-hoppers will then leave the fleet and we shall start to reduce it. We have held consultations and we must find positive ways to reduce capacity. Before hon. Members become too impatient, I shall deal with The Hague convention. They will be pleased to know that we managed to raise the matter of The Hague convention at the last Council meeting in Belgium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.925.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-01", "file": "debates1988-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "93f66fc4879e1e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.936.4", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Summer Time", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "inated to see in the report of the Select Committee on European Legislation the actual guidance from Mr. Speaker's counsel who stated specifically and categorically that the summer time order should not fall under article 100A. If it had stayed under article 100A, we would still have the right to say no if we did not like it. We know that under this proposal the EEC is allowing the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-01a.936.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "ce, but, as the Minister has given such inadequate answers to hon. Members, will he answer a nurse who has written to me? She asks: Where is the 18 per cent. rise the nurses are supposed to have had? As one of the NHS nurses I can assure you I have had 4 per cent. along with the majority in Cardiff royal infirmary. She goes on: We feel that Maggie Thatcher or the south Glamorgan health authority\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "CKUP developments in 1987–88 and we expect to spend another £261,000 in 1988–89. We are certainly giving PICKUP courses a high priority in Wales. We have two full-time PICKUP development agents and their support staff are funded by the Welsh Office. Funds have been provided for every local authority higher education institution and university college to appoint a PICKUP co-ordinator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.9.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend disagrees with me. Perhaps my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is a member of his parish council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "l. That which my right hon. Friend and hon. Friend considered and which both rejected should be reconsidered. It is wrong to say that a citizen should have to go through such a complicated procedure. Many people, not only in Northern Ireland but in my constituency, and even in Wiltshire, North, do not take matters daily to the High Court. It is not part of their normal experience or comprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.69.4", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Reading, although I have some reservations which I shall enter later. It is with some sadness that I reflect upon the fact that in seeking to provide the Government with an instrument that will assist in the defeat of terrorism, we do so against the background of the Prime Minister's bungling mismanagement of the extradition affair last week. That seriously damaged our capacity to fight terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.69.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declaration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "beral Government in the early part of the century and the Liberal party at the end of the last century argued for home rule, they were accused of supporting the Nationalist case. If he does not know that, he has not read his Liberal history. The Labour party's position is not all that different from that of the Liberal party in the past. Is the hon. Gentleman really supporting an oath being taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Terrorism Act 1974, the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the shoot-to-kill policy—failed; and extradition is not doing very well. Any other assembly in the world that was discussing the situation in Northern Ireland today would be going through that list, but only the British Parliament is able to gather together and congratulate the Minister, with qualification, on producing a Bill that imposes an oath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.84.2", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "egotiation. Although I am not an Irish Member, I wanted to speak in this debate because every attack that the Government make on civil liberties in Ireland encroaches on us. It begins in Ireland and then comes here. I have seen it with police action, with the Prevention of Terrorism Act, as with constituents of mine in Bristol. The reputation of British justice abroad is about as low as it can be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.84.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.86.2", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for not allowing me to be tempted down that irrelevant path—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.86.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "nise again, the Government's determination to pursue policies towards this end. I again emphasise that only in that way can the root causes of the present troubles be eliminated and the basis of the electoral support for the advocates of violence be removed. In this context, the declaration is an irrelevance. It is a sop which will not contribute one jot to the progress of peace or reconciliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.114.5", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I can understand why the Prime Minister is departing. She is going to get hold of an egg as fast as she can to prove that a junior Minister is wrong yet again. However, at the moment we want to discuss this money resolution because, in the absence of any explanation, it would be worthwhile to speculate on the consequences of the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.114.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Young Persons (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I hope that hon. Gentlemen will listen with some care to what I have to say. They know as well as I do that all hon. Members have a real concern for people of that age group who may be vulnerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.146.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-05", "file": "debates1988-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "8b1da44b8c1e7951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Young Persons (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "ffer of a YTS place will have been made. For those who can go on to YTS but who cannot live at home—either because they have no home or because they would be at risk of physical or sexual abuse if they did—income support is available for the same period. Again the offer of a YTS place is guaranteed. Therefore, we have gone to not inconsiderable lengths to protect young people who are most in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-05a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.159.8", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The Minister can save himself the time and trouble, because those figures are already there. They show that, of those 136 constituencies, 130 are constituencies of hon. Members who represent the Conservative party, and six—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.159.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "No, it does not. It shows that the hon. Gentleman is fixed on the proposition that if he repeats nonsense often enough it becomes the truth. The fall in unemployment during the last 12 months has amounted to 504,000. It is now running at 7·7 per cent. and it has been down for 27 months running. If the hon. Gentleman cares to look at international comparisons he will find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.165.6", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "ages councils two years ago reduce the level of wages for that group, but not produce the 50,000 to 100,000 new jobs that the Government promised in July 1985, is not the single purpose of the provisions announced by the Secretary of State to increase the exploitation of school leavers, which will inevitably lead to an increase in injuries and deaths? If the Secretary of State is really concerned-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ardo report is hypocritical and unconvincing? Far from being a novelty of information to her, the precise consequences wrapped up in that report were inevitable as a result of the decision by her Government to withdraw all benefit from 16 and 17-year-olds. Does she accept that the \"guarantee\" of YTS places, on which the withdrawal of all benefits to 16 and 17-year olds was based, was and is a lie?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The YTS guarantee is being met", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time to note the Western Morning News report of yesterday that the Royal College of Nursing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "European Council (Rhodes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that this has been an extremely successful summit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.176.8", "colnum": "176", "heading": "European Council (Rhodes)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the progress that we have achieved makes the single market irreversible", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.176.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "European Council (Rhodes)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman would be the first to understand that I asked about this and that the legal advice which I received led me to give that answer. If the right hon. Gentleman challenges the legal advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Scottish Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is certainly enormous in geographical terms, but it covers a total population of 55,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Scottish Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is certainly enormous in geographical terms, but it covers a total population of 55,000— [Interruption.] No one is questioning the importance of it. As I said, these are not final conclusions on the areas of the local agencies. The hon. Gentleman must consider whether an area as small as Skye or as small as Skye and Wester Ross—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.203.7", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Scottish Question Time", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "I take it that you are familiar with the fact that English and Welsh Tory Members of Parliament have asked nearly 20 per cent. of balloted questions and 15·9 per cent. of supplementaries, whereas the SNP has asked only 5·9 per cent. of supplementaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.203.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Scottish Question Time", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I repeat that this is a United Kingdom Parliament and I have no authority to change that. It is a heavy responsibility for Mr. Speaker to be completely even handed. We welcome back the hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Sillars) after some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "r policies that provide terrorists with the opportunity to claim, here or abroad, that the democratic processes are denied to them and that violence has become their only avenue of expression. At the time of the atrocity in Enniskillen, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said with great courage that to oppose the reintroduction of internment, which many Conservative Members demanded then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.228.8", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have answered the hon. Gentleman's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.228.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "lve the problem, or worse, which may be counter-productive. We do not prevent terrorism simply by passing an Act of Parliament and calling it the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Secondly, we have to beware of doing something, which, because it is seen to be unfair, will lose the sympathy of decent, law-abiding people and transfer that sympathy to the very people to whom we are trying to deny support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": " Labour party. This appalling Bill is pregnant with injustice and vendetta. It first appeared in 1974 when, as I have said, many hon. Members were afraid to express their views about it, although some did. They were not simply afraid to do that in the party; they were afraid of the reaction in their constituencies. Some hon. Members were frightened about what their management committees might say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-06", "file": "debates1988-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "016d9d5c84bbb666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "It is clear that many Conservative Members are not interested in this because they are chatting. The hon. Members who are chatting by the Bar do not seem to be interested in one of the basic functions of the House—the scrutiny of expenditure. The financial effects of the Bill are described on page V of the explanatory and financial memorandum. I should like to raise a few questions that, no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-06a.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.303.5", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the great problems that we face in world trade is the fact that the pound continues to go higher? If the pound is allowed to continue its rise against the currencies of our competitor countries, is it not possible that we may return to the position of 1979 to 1981, which would be hugely damaging to manufacturing industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.315.5", "colnum": "315", "heading": "North East Shipbuilders Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Reluctantly, and with great regret, I therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.315.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "North East Shipbuilders Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Reluctantly, and with great regret, I therefore have to tell the House that I see no further realistic prospect of maintaining NESL in its present form, and its shipbuilding yards will therefore progressively close as the current work load runs out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "North East Shipbuilders Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Reluctantly, and with great regret, I therefore have to tell the House that I see no further realistic prospect of maintaining NESL in its present form, and its shipbuilding yards will therefore progressively close as the current work load runs out. [Interruption.] There remain possibilities, which I have asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "North East Shipbuilders Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "expressed in one of the yards for purposes other than shipbuilding. Both my predecessors and I have made it clear that, should it not prove possible for shipbuilding to continue on Wearside, we would bring forward a range of measures to assist those affected and to promote alternative employment in the town. There will be three main elements. First, we propose a new enterprise zone for Sunderland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "North East Shipbuilders Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "he jobs that have been created in Consett—welcome though they are—have not replaced or redeveloped a skill base, and have therefore not given the town and its surrounding area the confidence that there is skilled and productive work for the next generation. That is what the people of the north-east want and what the people of the north-east deserve. They have given their all to build this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants somebody to arbitrate between us about figures, I suggest that it be the hon. Member for Bootle, who was a member of the Select Committee on the Environment which published the figures in its report and showed quite clearly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "today to create private monopolies, and to introduce profit-making into domestic water supply. We reject that idea absolutely. Tomorrow, Tories will vote to put the interests of private monopolies before the interests of families and the environment. They will vote tomorrow to undermine the foundations of policy on our national parks and common heritage. More than a century ago William Wordsworth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I resent the hon. Gentleman's use of the phrase \"dubious figures found by my research assistant\"; I hope that he will withdraw it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "rnment to ensure that the price control mechanism allows those increased costs to be recovered. Absolute clarity on cost time scales and recovery through charges is imperative if the companies are to be floated successfully. Much of the debate has centred on the environment, but we should remember that this exercise is primarily about establishing efficient and profitable public limited companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "enterprises because they will have the capital to do so. If there is any restriction on that, I invite the Minister, even within my 10 minutes, to tell me that I am wrong. If I am right RWA holding companies will become part of the national and international machine of the movement of capital moneys. They will be quoted on Tokyo, Frankfurt and New York stock exchanges. Their shares will be traded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "gular bathing and whose clothes and bedding needed to be put in a washer several times a day? All those examples involve a large consumption of water. If Ministers had that experience they would not be proposing this legislation. The Bill is the ultimate in Tory complacency and callousness. It is about people washing less often, cleaning themselves less often and flushing their toilets less often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsythe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsythe", "preceding_text": "I am entitled, as an hon. Member, to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-07", "file": "debates1988-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "71ce669b5d3db6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "ngthened to include additional safeguards. The existing arrangements, whereby debts may be paid off by instalments and people in receipt of income support may have serious debts deducted from benefit by the DSS and paid direct to the water undertaker, will continue. The new companies will be required to prepare or adopt a code of practice on disconnections at least as extensive as the present one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-07a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.419.17", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.419.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.420.7", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware of the statement from the CBI which states: \"We are consistently\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.420.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.430.9", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "In view of the hostile resolution at the CBI conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.430.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.430.9", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "In view of the hostile resolution at the CBI conference—[HON. MEMBERS: \" Reading.\"]—and the fact that the base rate increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.430.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.433.4", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "viet Union is to the advantage not only of the people there but of the whole world. I welcome the words that President Gorbachev used at the United Nations. He said: The principle of freedom of choice is mandatory. I wish that all Opposition Members believed in that principle. He went on to say: Freedom of choice is a universal principle that should allow for no exceptions. I agree with that, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.433.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y heard earlier this morning, we will offer whatsoever we can to the limit of our ability. When we were informed of what they wanted, we responded immediately. The disaster relief unit in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is standing by. Our ambassador to Europe has already been to the Commission. We have already had offers of help from the British Red Cross, and it is in touch. We have already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed immediately. The disaster relief unit in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is standing by. Our ambassador to Europe has already been to the Commission. We have already had offers of help from the British Red Cross, and it is in touch. We have already— [Interruption.] I am sorry that Opposition Members do not seem to be interested in the help that we are prepared to offer. We have already had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Welsh Rate Support Grant 1989-90", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I admire the courage of the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) in putting those views because the rate support grants for which I have been responsible have been very different from those that were drawn up before this Administration came to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "who begat the last great water reorganisation. He was then a young Heathite Cabinet Minister, pledged to interventionism. As a Cabinet Minister, he saw the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath) sack the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley), the present Secretary of State for the Environment, who was then an Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "s a major contribution to allay the concern that is felt across the House. Why is it always the wicked Tories who want to see a nuclear holocaust that will wipe out our nation's families? Why is it that we are said to want to see the destruction of the ozone layer, resulting in a hideous future for our children and do not want to see Britain's children brought up in a safer and more pleasant land?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "y. But what of the increase in the price of water of 42 per cent. in 1975–76? Did the hon. Gentleman not notice it at the time? Had he forgotten it? Last, but very far from least, the hon. Gentleman had the temerity to criticise the condition of our rivers and beaches. The hon. Gentleman knows very well that the main cause of our present problems lies in the record of the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.523.4", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.523.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "2 million per year. In no year since 1978–79 has investment under the Conservative Government reached the level of investment under the Labour Government. For the Minister to suggest that the problems faced by this industry today are the responsibility of the Labour Government is to ignore the fact that this Government have been in office for 10 of the last 14 years and that they have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.528.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-08", "file": "debates1988-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bc9c35c79cf36201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "hdrawing their previous privatisation proposals in 1986, I had hoped that such proposals would never come back to the House in any form. I regret very much that they have. When we consider what the Government now say to justify their position—that this is a \"green\" Bill, that the NRA is the linchpin to what they are doing—it draws a wry smile from us, because those points were not made originally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-08a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-09", "file": "debates1988-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e89b88915cc783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-09a.562.7", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "In that case, perhaps the hon. Gentleman will excuse me if I do not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-09a.562.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-09", "file": "debates1988-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "59e89b88915cc783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-09a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Multi-fibre Arrangement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "If the Minister talks to the same industrialists whom I meet from time to time and if he reads the same correspondence from the CBI, he will recognise that many people in industry attribute the difficulty to the last Budget when unnecessary tax cuts were given to the richer sections of the community, which caused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-09a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that my visit to the Longannet complex was impressive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Railway Accident (Clapham Junction)", "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": "into the rear of the 07.18 Basingstoke-Waterloo train. An empty train from Waterloo then ran into the wreckage. At least 30 persons are known to be dead and it is feared that the number will be higher; there are 113 injured, 31 very seriously. I am sure that the House will join with me in expressing our deep sympathy with the families and relatives of the dead and with those who have been injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": " them on an equal footing with the successors to the CEGB and the area boards. There will be more than just two generators. I have mentioned the independent generation projects being considered; there will also be opportunities to buy from Scotland, from France, from the established independent generators and even from the generating projects in the process of being launched by the area suppliers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I have already said why we need a nuclear component in our electricity supply. Security of supplies demands diversity. The hon. Gentleman is a moderate man and he did not want Mr. Scargill to win the miners' strike any more than we did. If we had not had nuclear power in 1985, Mr. Scargill would have won—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "The nuclear industry will have no more protection than the coal industry already has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "The nuclear industry will have no more protection than the coal industry already has— [Interruption.] Some 70 per cent. of all our generating capacity is coal burning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland will give the hon. Gentleman all the answers that he wants about the Hydro Board in the course of the Scottish day tomorrow", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "onmentally benign methods, and this point has become increasingly important recently. We can point straight away to the non-fossil fuel requirement in the Bill as a sign of the extent to which the Conservative party regards it as important that we should try to pump less poison gas into the atmosphere. When we measure the Bill against the challenges outside this place, its importance is increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": " the warming effect of pumping ever-increasing amounts of hot and non-benign gases into the atmosphere. In addition—something that dwarfs every other consideration—we have to look at the extent to which the Bill provides an opportunity for the country to play its part in meeting not just our energy needs—those of a developed country with a high standard of living—but those of the developing world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "outlined? The Bill will promote competition, and cheapness flows directly from competition. Perhaps more importantly, the Bill will free the industry from the dead hand that it has on it because the Government always have to have a say. The Bill will allow our power engineers and fuel and environmental scientists the opportunity to sell the known expertise of our industry to the rest of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Claptrap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "of our ex-municipal assets cannot prove effective. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State played a leading part in presenting to Parliament the Bill that deregulated buses. Opposition Members argued, \"No one else in the Western world has privatised their buses. It cannot and will not work for the community. No one will want to buy the services; there will be no investment and no competition.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "s areas of the industry were nationalised under one Bill, they should be privatised under one Bill. In fact, they were nationalised under the control of the then Minister for Fuel and Power; they were only separated and the Scottish boards put under the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Scotland by a Tory Government in 1955. The Secretary of State should have got that little fact right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-12", "file": "debates1988-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "dc8b1d36677c1e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "in there. It is interesting that the Secretary of State for Energy did not mention a golden share. The phrase did not cross his lips. Over the past few days we have heard many rumours and much speculation from the Scottish Office about golden shares. Golden shares can only be about ensuring that the companies do not fall into foreign hands, but the Government do not consider England to be foreign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-12a.737.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.764.7", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "hanks to those in various capacities who helped the injured. I am sure that the whole House will want to return to that question, which is one of deep public concern. I wish to raise with the Prime Minister another matter of public concern. It is now clear that by her performance in the House and in Rhodes, the right hon. Lady threw away the possibility of securing the extradition of Patrick Ryan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.764.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n which to prosecute. I understand that the Irish Attorney-General agrees that that is so. He made his decision on an entirely different ground. In Ryan's case the extradition proceedings in Belgium were in public, and wide publicity had been given to the nature of the charges and the allegations on which they were based before extradition from Ireland was ever requested. May I make a third point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "and they should be investigated by a court. The Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act 1976 provides a means whereby certain serious offences committed outside this jurisdiction may be tried here. that is, in Ireland. Such a trial may … take place before a court of three judges … Heavy penalties are prescribed by Irish law for those offences. Is it not still the case that because she cannot", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.766.7", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "It is obviously a quite unacceptable insult to the people of this country to say that Patrick Ryan would not receive a fair trial in Britain. That belief should be conveyed to the Irish Government as coming from everyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.766.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ose figures demonstrate that there is a problem. The Chief Medical Officer has issued guidance, most recently on 5 December, stating that the risk to normally healthy people from eating cooked eggs was very small, although they should avoid eating food with raw egg in it. For vulnerable groups, such as babies, the elderly and pregnant women, eggs should be cooked until the white and yolk are hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " healthy people from eating cooked eggs was very small, although they should avoid eating food with raw egg in it. For vulnerable groups, such as babies, the elderly and pregnant women, eggs should be cooked until the white and yolk are hard. [Interruption.] It is our duty to give advice. That is what the Chief Medical Officer has said and it is my duty to repeat it. We shall continue to reassure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "eve that he disputes the interpretation and conclusion that we have reached. With regard to the Health Service, the hon. Gentleman made some reference to the fact that some of the improvements in the Health Service expenditure were being funded by efficiency savings and by reductions in NHS employer contributions. Let me make it clear that the improvements in no way affect the pension entitlements", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "e some reference to the fact that some of the improvements in the Health Service expenditure were being funded by efficiency savings and by reductions in NHS employer contributions. Let me make it clear that the improvements in no way affect the pension entitlements [Interruption.] I am not suggesting that the hon. Gentleman said that, but, for the purposes of the public who may think that such a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.787.5", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": " the consumer in the event of an inadequate service being provided. I understand that the Opposition are to vote against that provision, which is unprecedented in this country. I listened with great care yesterday to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) who, having made his contribution to the debate, appears to have decided that it was not necessary to be present for the second day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ble to introduce real competition in a number of sectors of the electricity industry for the first time. For example, independent generators will have the opportunity to come forward, and in various parts of the United Kingdom there will be competition between generators. In addition, industrial bulk purchasers of electricity will have the opportunity to choose where to purchase their electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No one has said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " to suggest that, if we cannot have perfect competition, a monopoly is preferable. That is totally at variance with the experience of the rest of the Western world, and against the interests of the British public, whether in Scotland or in England. The Opposition's assumption that the electricity industry under state control has had a perfect record of planning for the future needs to be examined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "mber for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Sillars)? The hon. Member for Govan told the House, and constantly has been telling Scotland, about the way in which he would oppose the Conservative Government. He has not been here this afternoon, but I was telephoned by an irate constituent who saw the hon. Member for Govan at 1.30 pm today doing his Christmas shopping in Marks and Spencer in Argyll street, Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " guarantees that we are not prepared to give.\" If we doubt whether the honesty to give that guarantee and to face up to the problems will be forthcoming, we are entitled to say that there is a fundamental flaw in the scheme. I ask the Secretary of State for Scotland to respond on this point. That is the bluntest possible warning from Mr. Miller and it is essential that the Goverment respond to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "at the hon. Gentleman has an honoured place in the Conservative kindergarten on Scottish affairs but I am interested in the attitude of the Secretary of State. Does he accept the point made by the SSEB's chairman that the SSEB cannot be responsibly, sold unless we spell out the taxpayers' liability under clause 88? Does the Minister accept that or does he repudiate it, and, if so, on what grounds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "tituency of Glasgow, Govan and welcome the news given to the House by the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson). I am a fairly typical constituent and I have no doubt that all the other constituents of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Sillars) will be as appalled as I am at the disgraceful and scornful way in which he clearly regards his duties in the House on behalf of his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "at this parity will not be snatched away. This is a point of much wider application than merely to my constituents on the Isles of Scilly. I heartily agree with the Select Committee on Energy; which states: We do not think rural customers should be charged more per kilowatt hour consumed than people living in towns\". It is a sad reflection on the Opposition that they have not seized on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Mans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Mans", "preceding_text": "ountries running PWR stations rather than on our own experience in respect of Magnox and AGR stations. The relationship between electricity generation and the environment is becoming more important. There is a good case to be made for retaining the nuclear option because, with nuclear power, many of the environmental problems associated with it were taken into account when its cost was calculated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "preceding_text": " all our existing nuclear power stations. They want to make the fuel pellets for the PWRs. They strongly believe that what they contribute to the electricity supply of this country is concentrated, reliable energy. In my hand I have the equivalent of 1½ tonnes of coal. It is a small pellet from an advanced gas-cooled reactor. It provides a vivid picture of the nature of nuclear electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Michael Spicer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Michael Spicer)", "preceding_text": " their own shares and of launching great new regional centres of power, we mean radically to improve the system. That is the answer to the question: \"Why privatise?\". In a moment I shall answer some of the other questions raised on both sides of the House about how much competition and how much regulation. Let me deal first with some of the specific points which have been touched on in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "nd, of course, will expect to receive dividends in return for doing so. We shall certainly not permit the supply companies to pass through into prices all the cost increases that they incur. They will therefore have the incentive to contract as efficiently as possible for future generating capacity. Several hon. Members have argued that we should not have made special provisions for nuclear power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.861.5", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland spent a great deal of time explaining that, but perhaps the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Mr. Douglas) was not in the Chamber at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.861.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-13", "file": "debates1988-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "16e774d518d0d4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.861.7", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "ompetitive pressure that matters.\"—[ Official Report, 12 December 1988; Vol. 143, c. 692.] When, as in the case of electricity, three quarters of costs are at the point of production, that is manifest nonsense, and the hon. Gentleman knows it. He does not believe it himself—he is grinning. Of course he cannot believe that competition in three quarters of the industry has no effect on the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-13a.861.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Almost everyone must have a great deal of sympathy for the people of Sunderland because of the number of jobs that they will lose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that, Madam Deputy Speaker. British shipbuilding, in contradistinction to British Shipbuilders, certainly has a future. The United Kingdom should take a certain amount of pride—I certainly do—in the fact that we are in the lead in the restructuring of shipbuilding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "ts in the north-east because I did not think it right to speak from hearsay. In contradistinction to what has been said by some Opposition Members, that package is very much welcomed in the north-east. It recognises the fact that the Government were not prepared to pull the rug from under the north-east and not offer some hope of future economic growth. The Government should be applauded for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ater part of the fees will be met. I am pleased to announce that the level of assistance in such cases will be 75 per cent. of the costs of approved fees for the preparation of a detailed bid, in each case not exceeding £65,000—that is, maximum assistance of £48,750. In addition, the Scottish Transport Group will run seminars for managers and make a video on buy-outs which will be shown at depots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " of the companies that are doing the buying out. That is not the problem. I have mentioned Stagecoach, which is active down south. It is a transborder operation. It is a firm of couthie Scottish capitalists of the many-a-mickle-mak's-a-muckle school of exploitation. When Scottish bus employees are asked by whom they do not wish to be taken over, they respond unanimously, \"Souter.\" So the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "I have been and tried. I know that it is not rubbish. It is right that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland should set as his target much higher standards and better services and facilities than we have at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "No doubt the hon. Gentleman will read Hansard tomorrow. I shall invite the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North to repeat outside the Chamber exactly what he said today. I think that that is all I need to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I shall not give way. I have been accused before of giving way too often and then speaking for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1003.4", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Excellence\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "rector, Mr. Trevor Smallwood, who is this year's president of the Omnibus Society, said that the Transport Act 1985 had produced competition, efficiency and opportunity. His company has been in the forefront of providing new services and going into towns which previously had a monopoly provision from another operator. The hon. Member for Cunninghame, North, who has sadly left us, made a speech of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1003.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "ate had a great deal of fun talking about the position in Grampian. It is another example of intellectual somersaults in the Scottish Office, where one incident is somehow translated into being ideological support for the Government's activities. For example, the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) this week took an opinion poll supporting parental involvement to mean support for school boards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "rship because they were failing to provide a service. I suspect that that was done by people who were more in turn politically with the Secretary of State than with me. If privatisation goes ahead, any hope of an integrated public transport policy will go out of the window. One of Edinburgh's difficulties is the city centre congestion caused by the large number of cars seeking to enter the centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1024.4", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again because time is short. The fact is that women feel a lack of security and are afraid to travel alone at night in lonely areas. Only a few months ago a woman was murdered on a train—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1024.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1024.4", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "el by bus to some local hospitals. In my constituency a young boy travels from his home to his secondary school and he has been refused access to a particular company's buses because one driver claimed that his behaviour was unacceptable. Oddly enough, the boy's behaviour is acceptable on every other bus he travels on. When his father protested, the bus company did not have the courtesy to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1024.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Your having to intervene demonstrates the incredible lack of interest on the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1033.6", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": " what time the debate will finish. The cards are in our hands for a change, and I will carry on regardless. If the Secretary of State wants to get his troops home early to their beds tonight, we deserve a better reply to the debate than that we received from the Duke of Hamilton's wee brother. He has probably never been on a bus in his life. I have certainly never seen him on a bus in Bannockburn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1033.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chairman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "e, North (Mr. Walker) has made a fair point. I do not intend to elaborate on the use of the patronage powers with regard to Alex Fletcher, Anna McCurley and Peter Fraser. Last week, I met John Corrie who was kicked out by my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson). John Corrie told me that he had been appointed a member of the Transport Users Consultative Committee for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "ley and Peter Fraser. Last week, I met John Corrie who was kicked out by my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson). John Corrie told me that he had been appointed a member of the Transport Users Consultative Committee for Scotland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Chairman.\"] Yes, chairman. I could not believe it. I asked him, \"When were you last on a bus?\" but he ran away from me on his horse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "efore—I have been a Member of Parliament for 14 years and I have led delegations to Ministers in Governments of both political complexions—had any Minister's performance been so incompetent. He sat there, as he did tonight, and just read the brief that had been prepared for him by civil servants. My local government friends were there, as were my friends and comrades from the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "rliament for 14 years and I have led delegations to Ministers in Governments of both political complexions—had any Minister's performance been so incompetent. He sat there, as he did tonight, and just read the brief that had been prepared for him by civil servants. My local government friends were there, as were my friends and comrades from the trade union movement. [Laughter.] Hon. Members laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "ducing the number of accidents from both the consumer and producer point of view. Several hon. Members have referred to the effect of the legislation on fares. Will the Minister tell us what is his estimate of the effect on public transport fares? It is all right for the Minister, who has a chauffeur-driven car at his disposal. I must say in the Minister's defence, however, that very occasionally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-14", "file": "debates1988-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "e46e094819807a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Scotland) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " given by the Secretary of State in respect of sums borrowed by Caledonian MacBrayne Limited, David MacBrayne Limited and any subsidiary of theirs\". On a nostalgic note, I was surprised to learn that the firm of David MacBrayne still exists. My impression was that it had been subsumed into CalMac. At one time there were three or four companies, but I do not want to go into the history of that now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-14a.1047.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1075.4", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "We are in regular contact with representative organisations, such as the ITV Association, the Association of Independent Radio Contractors and the Cable Television Association, all of whom represent Scottish interests. Among other contacts this year, I have visited Scottish Television and Radio Clyde, and discussed Gaelic broadcasting with Comunn na Gaidhlig.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1075.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1075.5", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Perfectly forgivable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1075.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1075.7", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": " the day? Is he further aware that the Peacock committee was divided on that, and that the majority which went for auctioning nevertheless said that the licensing authority should be able to accept a lower tender if it thought that that was in the best interests of the area to be served? Before he reaches the definitive point of legislation, will he take that on board, particularly in relation to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1075.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1079.7", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister read the report stressing once again the dangers of global warming that was published last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1079.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1079.7", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister read the report stressing once again the dangers of global warming that was published last week? [Interruption.] Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did not hear me. I asked whether she has read the report once again stressing the dangers of global warming. Does she recall that a little over a month ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1079.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall take points of order later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The same rules must apply to every hon. Member. The House knows that points of order are taken after Question Time and business questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "ther \"Hero from Zero\" does not grab hold of Harrods? Is Bulldog Drummond to be sent to the Mexican fastness of Sir James Goldsmith to make sure he is not cornering the market on salmonella-free eggs? What does it mean? It certainly means that a new type of employee is to be required for MI5 to monitor overseas people who are posing threats to the economic well-being of this country—LSE professors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1132.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1176.2", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "owers of police officers and the special branch. Police officers act under the authority of their own legislation. The special branch is part of the police force, which is under the authority of the chief constable. Any complaints about the special branch go to the Police Complaints Authority. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, West referred to the extremely important issue of accountability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "he House a model of that general supervision. He suggested that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary would be going off to the Cabinet at 9.45 am on a Thursday and someone would come up to him with a warrant. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook went on to say that what he expected to be interposed between my right hon. Friend and his decision-making process was some sort of parliamentary body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "The money resolution should not go by without my making a few comments, as there are some issues to raise. The money resolution is broadly based.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-15", "file": "debates1988-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "eba0e440acf0b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1182.9", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "holds or has held high judicial office within the meaning of the Appelate Jurisdiction Act 1876. It does not reassure me because those people come from a privileged educational position. The majority of judges were barristers—although there are some qualifications to that—and the education of barristers has been designed by the establishment to keep the sons and daughters of the working class out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-15a.1182.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-16", "file": "debates1988-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "815711a1170139f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-16a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "The Unborn Child", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that in the proceedings on the Bill in the previous Session to which he has referred, a clear majority in the House was in favour of my amendment of 24 weeks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-16a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-16", "file": "debates1988-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "815711a1170139f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-16a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "The Unborn Child", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "f that occurred on the Floor of the House during Home Office questions yesterday. It also occurred today during the speeches by the Father of the House, my right hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Sir B. Braine) and by the hon. Member for Mossley Hill. You will no doubt have noted, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that Home Office questions yesterday were hijacked by a number of anti-abortionist Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-16a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-16", "file": "debates1988-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "815711a1170139f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-16a.1242.2", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "The Unborn Child", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "uent, articulate middle-class constituents one iota. They are people who know their way around the world. They can go to private clinics abroad rather than break the law here. By and large, if such people have an abortion, they have it early, unless a handicap is found later in pregnancy. There would be no trouble for them. However, such legislation would be the worst class legislation imaginable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-16a.1242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a large element of cant and hypocrisy in the comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to ignore the very point that my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Dykes) made—that the supposed support for pensioners while the Labour Government were in office meant that, on average, the pensioner had an increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.8.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.11.4", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "What action is the Minister taking to ensure that paperwork is readable? Conservative Members do not hold as many surgeries as my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "On the first point, what I meant by \"overhang\" is fairly clear. I meant that there is a significant surplus of eggs on the market which affects all egg producers at present—and all those with flocks. That is the problem that I am addressing. Payments will not be made to producers who have already culled flocks. One cannot do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": " authorities on the 1989–90 settlement. That is substantially less than in some previous years. It is not possible to produce a settlement that pleases everyone, and inevitably some authorities have done less well than they hoped. However, the lower level of response can, I think, reasonably be interpreted as indicating a broader level of contentment than we have achieved in previous years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Child Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "y to legislate on parents' physical control of their children, which is occasionally necessary. My three children are now 18, 17 and 13 and my wife told me yesterday that she has issued three smacks in their lives. I do not know who got what, but it happened because she was exasperated—and on each occasion it cleared the air. She felt better, the children felt better, and everything was all right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Child Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " child-lines are open to abuse through the British Telecom and Mercury networks. I was not aware of that, but my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Health was on the Front Bench when the hon. Lady made her remarks, and I know that he will give them the characteristic care and attention that he gave to matters of defence procurement for which he was responsible until the end of last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "rees with the fundamental philosophy expressed so often by the Secretary of State—that there can be no central planning for London's transport. Yet the speeches from both sides of the House—again, this is probably unique—have suggested that that is just what is wrong with London's transport and traffic. The market has palpably failed as it inevitably must to solve the problems of London's traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No, I have only about four minutes to answer a long debate. The point about safety is that 5,200 people a year die on our roads. The more movement we can transfer to the railways, while maintaining the safety on the Underground and overground, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-19", "file": "debates1988-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72e915183dcaeef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Matches (Public Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "s—which is what I think will happen—the grounds will become infinitely more attractive to ordinary people, who will over a period of time attend in ever-increasing numbers. I am amazed by the Opposition's unconstructive approach to these matters. For the first time ever clubs will have a comprehensive list of their members for whom they will be able to provide far more facilities than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-19a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Following that reply, I am bound to ask: why not let the police be the total decision-makers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "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, the poorest have their housing paid for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. In 1979, housing benefit cost £1·5 billion. We now spend £5 billion. About 6 million households have housing benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "end has anticipated what I was about to say. It was precisely because we were conscious of the fact that not all pensioners had shared evenly in the improvement in pensioners' incomes that my right hon. Friend made his announcement that from next October additional help will be made available to them in the form of a new and extended structure of pensioner premiums under the income support scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.306.7", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "tional information. I turn finally to a subject that I know arouses strong feelings in all parts of the House and that I understand i s to be used as a pretext by the Opposition to vote against the second order. We all know why the hon. Member for Livingston should be seeking, with varying degrees of success, if I understand correctly the radio reports, to persuade his right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.306.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "urning off heating supplies to the elderly and turning them out into the night. I was startled to read in the Sunday Times that I had turned down a separate vote on child benefit. Given the lengths to which we went to obtain a separate debate, it is rich cheek to suggest that we turned one down. Conservative Members know that that is not true and that the House was never offered a separate debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he comes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "pendency\". His Back Benchers, who know precisely when to cheer, although perhaps not precisely what to cheer, give tongue. Then, with a confident smirk, the magician finally whisks away his cloak. The stage is empty; the great illusion is complete; the welfare state has quietly disappeared and the amazed members of the audience turn to each other and say, \"How did he do that? I did not see it go.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Peter Lloyd)", "preceding_text": " to maintain the real value of pensions. I acknowledge that we have not linked them with earnings, as the Labour Government did, but on two out of five occasions the Labour Government fell down on their pledge. We want to make a pledge that we can honour. The hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) was right to say that there was a 20 per cent. increase in state pensions under the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "tituencies to find out why they were not prepared to serve and to see whether there might be a way of meeting their concerns. I was told that because of their consistent attendance at Standing Committees considering Scottish legislation, in addition to their other duties in the House, they did not believe that they could give sufficient time to the work of a Select Committee. In the light of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "That is a stupid and offensive attack. My visits were made during the recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "That is a stupid and offensive attack. My visits were made during the recess. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] If the hon. Gentleman cares to note the companies which sponsored my visits to these different parts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "That is a stupid and offensive attack. My visits were made during the recess. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] If the hon. Gentleman cares to note the companies which sponsored my visits to these different parts— [Interruption.] It is all on the record. He will see that I was acting in an unpaid capacity to assist them in their sales programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " involved and active in matters which could be construed as being purely English business. I am sure that the Water Bill is important and I have no objection to Members from all parts of the United Kingdom taking an interest. That is to be recommended and I am strongly in favour of it. But Opposition Members apparently say one thing when Scottish matters are affected and another when they are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "trongly in favour of it. But Opposition Members apparently say one thing when Scottish matters are affected and another when they are not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] At 8.6 pm, as is shown in column 381 of the report of our debate on the Water Bill, on 7 December, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Provan (Mr. Wray) spoke for 10 minutes. He was concerned about the Council for the Protection of Rural England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "ocal government. Policy changes are taking place in all those major areas and large sums of money are involved. These matters must be scrutinised. It is not sufficient, as the Leader of the House said, to suggest that that scrutiny can be dealt with by other procedures that are available to the House. There used to be a Scottish Question Time once every three weeks. It is now once every six weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "derstand that the established conventions are maintained unless instructed by the House to do otherwise. After listening to every word in the debate and considering what has taken place, I have noticed a shift in ground. The idea that one or two English Members may be acceptable was a runner, but, somehow, the idea that all five Conservative Members should be drawn from England was not acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "structed by the House to do otherwise. After listening to every word in the debate and considering what has taken place, I have noticed a shift in ground. The idea that one or two English Members may be acceptable was a runner, but, somehow, the idea that all five Conservative Members should be drawn from England was not acceptable. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] For a start, there were no volunteers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might direct his attention to other Standing Orders. Our most important remit is that the Government shall have a majority on all Committees. That is paramount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "trong Minister and was always on top of his brief. He always gave a lead. We knew him, too, as a man rooted in his family and in his community, which he loved. Nobody denied that he had integrity and courage —plenty of it—as well as independence and culture. He valued his Welsh heritage. It is no exaggeration to say to the House that he was a truly good man and a very disinguished parliamentarian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "00 in expenses, yet the same Ministers are talking about writing off those expenses while they ask Harry Rider to pay back £10 a week. My early-day motion 162 deals with pensions as a whole. I would argue that instead of spending hundreds of pounds on Ministers, we should allocate a similar amount to the pensioners, whose £10 Christmas bonus, had it not been frozen over the past decade and a half—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.415.5", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I received a Government salary for the two years during which I was a member of the Government. Of course there are inconsistencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-20", "file": "debates1988-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce5b160f7b259ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.416.5", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "This matter is always raised with me. It is an intimidating factor for me, but I will not allow the fact that for the few months until June I shall be a Member of the European Assembly, and receive one third extra salary —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-20a.416.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.429.9", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.429.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that in communities such as mine where people exercised the right-to-buy three or four years ago, \"for sale\" signs are now up in the council house windows and many of those houses are going to the highest bidder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.431.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.435.5", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": " his comments in the Scottish Grand Committee on 21 March when he said that evidence of real and substantial demand for opting out would be necessary before he would consider it? Why was that not mentioned in the Conservative manifesto or in the proper consultative document? Why has there been no requests from parents, teaching organisations or from the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend ensure when he next meets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that there cannot be a single economic market until there is a uniform business rate for the whole of the United Kingdom and that the impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.445.5", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the point of order needed to be raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.445.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Meat Imports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "My officials have been in touch with the Ministry and I hope later today to talk to the Minister myself. Under the EC rules, all meat that is imported from other EC states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.446.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " heated meetings going far beyond anything which Mr. Des Wilson has so far been able to contrive. In the end, the Bill was passed, the tumult subsided, the interest groups turned to something else, and the Act struck the balance that Ministers had described when defending it. I think that it will be so with this Bill also. The Bill is not, and does not pretend to be, a freedom of information Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is difficult for any judge to prevent a jury hearing arguments which will amount to a public interest argument?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "Yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "o the House and the country. The buying and selling of major British companies where overseas interests are involved will be affected. One cannot simply say that everything is commercially confidential, and we are not allowed to know anything about it. In this particular case, there are good grounds for believing that Conservative Ministers allowed House of Fraser to be purchased by a known crook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "aked to colleagues here and to selected journalists. Details of that malpractice came to light only through the publication of a book by David Leigh called \"The Wilson Plot\" which, under the Bill, would be banned. The second case involved Jack Jones, a distinguished former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union who was falsely and ridiculously accused of being a Soviet agent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "y through \"The Wilson Plot\" book, publication of which—I remind the House—would be banned under the Bill. The third case involves Miss Isabel Hilton who was falsely accused of being subversive after reading Chinese at university and joining the Scotland-China Association. Against that background she was denied a job at the BBC. Miss Hilton found out about that only after a report in The Observer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "n the New York courts to bring him back here to be tried for unauthorised disclosure in the United Kingdom? What about the thousands, perhaps millions, who see such news via a satellite broadcast? Under the Bill, they will be caught, not for watching it but for telling their neighbour or someone at work about what they have seen and heard. The same would be true if they videod such a transmission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "dom and they act like tyrants. I tell the Government that there is a consensus on the Bill—something for which the Prime Minister has repeatedly asked—but that that consensus does not belong to the Government; it belongs to the Opposition and to some distinguished right hon. and hon. Members on the Conservative Benches. Ours is a consensus for freedom, openness, honesty and accountability because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. John Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. John Patten)", "preceding_text": " points made and have made changes that are reflected in the Bill. That is why I am convinced that so many of my right hon. and hon. Friends support the Bill. An impressive list of six thoughtful and independent-minded hon. Members have spoken strongly in support of the Bill. I refer to my hon. Friends the Members for Wycombe (Mr. Whitney), for Bristol, East (Mr. Sayeed), for Banbury (Mr. Baldry)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.538.3", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "would be extremely difficult sometimes for a publication review board to go into areas which were still of operational importance to the security of the nation, its economy or the welfare of its citizens. The system that I have outlined, parts of which have been outlined to the House for the first time tonight, gives the sort of cast-iron assurances that someone who wishes to publish has redress —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.539.7", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "g one of two things—either that this is an area into which the criminal law should not enter and which should be left entirely to the civil law, or that it wants such a muddle and fuzz that the criminal law will be a dead letter the day the Bill is enacted. The Government recognise, as does my right hon. Friend, who has done so much to promote openness in Government since he became Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.539.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "e shall have to take them through the Bill line by line. In his marvellous speech, my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury summed up all the protections that are available to the media. The House should recognise that we have constructed the Bill in such a way that no media defendant will be convicted except on the clearest evidence that he knew or had good reason to know the harm that he was doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Crash (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for his courtesy in making this statement. I am sure that everyone in the House recognises that there is nothing that can be said by the Secretary of State for Transport at this time. I am sure that the whole House joins in offering sympathy to those who have suffered and who are grieving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.547.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Crash (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": ". I am sure that the whole House joins in offering sympathy to those who have suffered and who are grieving. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We also offer our best wishes to the emergency services who are currently carrying out their desperately difficult tasks. I am sure that the whole House is confident that they will be doing so with the dedication and professionalism that we have come to expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community Structural Funds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joe Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joe Ashton", "preceding_text": ", leaving Bassetlaw district council, which is 45 miles from Nottingham and has all the aggravation of the industry, with 15 per cent. That stops us getting rate support grant. Out of 633 constituencies, 606 have a better employment rate than we have in Bassetlaw. We are at the bottom of the fourth division for new jobs. Our council is not loony Left of even Labour-controlled—it is a hung council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-21", "file": "debates1988-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b150241448528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Community Structural Funds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Loony Left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that part of his constituency comes under Mansfield district council, which is a solid Labour council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-21a.558.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1988-12-22", "file": "debates1988-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ca6bb1d889835bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-22a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Air Crash, Lockerbie", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "paid to the sensibilities of the people living in the area affected—including those to which the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel) referred. On behalf of all Scottish Opposition Members, I express personal sympathy for the hon. Member for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro),whose anguish last night was the mark of a man who is truly a part of the community that he represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-22a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-22", "file": "debates1988-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ca6bb1d889835bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-22a.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Air Crash, Lockerbie", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I understand—although it is a very preliminary impression—that one recorder has been found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-22a.605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1988-12-22", "file": "debates1988-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ca6bb1d889835bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-22a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "xercise independent and legitimate scrutiny and oversight of the Government in the Commons. Once again, the powers of such a second Chamber would need to be entrenched and to be separate from those of the Commons and other institutions. The Commons would then be seen for what it is—the place where Governments propose and carry their business, with a Government-in-waiting on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1988-12-22a.647.1"}