{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. Michael Neubert)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.682.10", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor puts as top priority the reduction of inflation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.682.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.684.5", "colnum": "684", "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 right hon. Gentleman will know precisely what is the law passed by this House on any proposed merger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.684.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "As it is impossible to wipe out the knowledge of how to make nuclear weapons, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether, if every country with nuclear weapons were persuaded to remove that capability and if a conventional war broke out and we were winning, she could give a guarantee that the opposition would not use that knowledge of how to make a nuclear weapon to redress the balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Air Crash (East Midlands)", "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": "nts. The fire, police, hospital, ambulance and rescue services involved all deserve the highest praise. Without their speed, skill and dedication, there would have been many more fatalities. The House will wish to join me both in praising all those involved and in an expression of deepest sympathy to the relatives and friends of those who died, and wish a speedy recovery to those who were injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ys later? Why did he confirm on radio on the Friday morning exactly the information which would presumably have fuelled the speculation that he wanted to prevent—the reason he used to justify not giving the information to the House? I wrote asking for such a justification, but I was not aware then that the Secretary of State was leaving for his holidays, a judgment with which I publicly disagreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " be examined. I strongly refute the hon. Gentleman's remarks about security matters. I refute what he said about muddle: there was none. When I came to the House on 22 December I was aware of the existence of the warning, but it was important, so soon after the disaster, to refrain from speculation about the cause—the hon. Gentleman said as much himself in a supplementary question that afternoon.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "emarks about security matters. I refute what he said about muddle: there was none. When I came to the House on 22 December I was aware of the existence of the warning, but it was important, so soon after the disaster, to refrain from speculation about the cause—the hon. Gentleman said as much himself in a supplementary question that afternoon.— [Interruption.] That was the hon. Gentleman's remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What have you done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "wn to the British Airports Authority. Of course they have been known for some years and I have discussed them myself with the BAA. There is a misunderstanding about that. I am grateful that the hon. Member for Glasgow, Shettleston (Mr. Marshall), unlike some other hon. Members, confirmed that the Government accepted the overwhelming majority of the Select Committee's recommendations two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "The Minister is bragging about the number of people he is helping with income support. Will he now admit to the number of people he has robbed of money from the point of view of income support?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the Minister is trying to prove to the House that unemployed people are largely workshy and shiftless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I have given way more times than most Opposition Front Bench spokesmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "t happens abroad, as indeed I do. In her speech, to which I listened with great interest, the hon. Lady did not answer the point ably made by my hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redmond), and perhaps I may make it again. If a person is offered a suitable job for which that person is suitably qualified and turns it down, is that person, under Labour policy, still to be entitled to benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cold Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "With our customary generosity and magnanimity, it is a pleasure to congratulate the Government on adopting two of the improvements that we suggested to the severe weather payment scheme that we suggested, and on removing some of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cold Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Inner warmth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "We would especially like to see the regressive aspect of the claim removed. The Under-Secretary spoke about 63 places of measurement of temperature for severe weather payments. I represent a constituency which contains Tomintoul, the highest village in Scotland, and the whole area of the Braes of Glenlivet, which are perhaps better known to many people as a source of the golden liquid of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-10", "file": "debates1989-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "6613f3189aa012fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cold Weather Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "preceding_text": "g them, receive them. Tonight nobody has commented on the 1 million or so pensioners who are not claiming income support when they could do so. Because of that those people lose out on heating additions. Can the Minister tell the House that, when the system is fully in place, his Department will be able to identify all those who receive only the basic pension and should be claiming income support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-10a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.838.9", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I would very much like to hear the result of a similar inquiry addressed by my hon. Friend to a psychiatrist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.838.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Merger Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) is making rather a meal of this. He asked why it had taken so long to bring these proposals forward. It may have escaped his notice that they involve legislation. I believe it only right that we should have waited until the Bill was before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Merger Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"First day?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ed until the Bill was before the House— [Interruption.] The moment the Bill was debated on Second Reading I warned the House and the country that proposals of this sort were on the way, and the hon. Gentleman quoted from a part of my speech near to the point at which I made that statement. As I am proposing legislation to amend the Bill, it seemed right that on the first day back after the recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Merger Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ading I warned the House and the country that proposals of this sort were on the way, and the hon. Gentleman quoted from a part of my speech near to the point at which I made that statement. As I am proposing legislation to amend the Bill, it seemed right that on the first day back after the recess—[HON. MEMBERS: \"First day?\"]—or second day back, I should put the policy straight away to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.4", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Merger Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will stop making sedentary interventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.843.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.848.6", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Water Privatisation (Merger Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend should know that the proposed system of regulation will stop the consumer being exploited by monopolies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.848.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "preceding_text": "B7;5 per cent., compared with 10 per cent. in July 1987, with the biggest reductions being in some areas where the problem has previously been greatest—the west midlands, Wales and the north-west. There are still areas of the country where further improvements are needed, and I recognise that. At this point, the whole House will welcome to the debate the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "y of State has not yet been underground to have a look for himself, and I am prepared to bet that he would not dare to take a look underground. Many hon. Members know what coal mining is all about. Why does the Secretary of State not take seriously the points that have been made so that he gets the full picture as to why women should not be allowed to work underground? I shall end with this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "sinesses, will deal with those clauses in detail. We are seeking to strike a balance between safeguarding employees' rights and enabling employers to improve their competitiveness and create new job opportunities. For example, clause 9 exempts employers with fewer than 20 employees from the requirement to provide their employees with particulars of any disciplinary procedures which apply to them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "s not based on consensus and agreement with the unions and the local authorities is crippled at the outset and is doomed to failure. ET will not be the success that the Secretary of State has wanted, because he did not use his intelligence enough and was neither able nor prepared to make a few concessions to get the support of the trade unions and the local authorities. It is essential to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "pposition Benches. More women than men are now establishing their own businesses. If capable, women should be at the top in their own right and it would be surprising to discover how many would reach the top if given the opportunity. Existing statistics demonstrate that we cannot do without women. Some 80 per cent. of those needed to make up the short fall in school leavers will need to be women.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "rights of men, women and families to a job. There should be an inquiry into the barriers erected by the Economic League. There may be resistance in the Select Committee on Employment to such an investigation, but there should be one. The league has been exposed on television and in the newspapers. We may have to wait for an inquiry, but we shall hold one when the Labour party is returned to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "ever, been guilty of fighting for peace, against the Vietnam war, for democratic rights in Iraq, representing my union at all levels both locally and nationally and as shop steward convenor fighting to improve the wages and conditions of the workers in industry. For these activities I am not ashamed. At the moment I am working with the most deprived section, the unemployed, in a voluntary capacity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "iend announced recently that he intends to review the operation of the pre-entry closed shop. I welcome his announcement. I hope that his review will be completed shortly so that appropriate amendments can be included in the Bill. About 3·7 million people are estimated to be captive within the closed shop arrangements. That information was provided by the Labour party's research department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "analysis of the Spanish press during the past four weeks. On 14 December, inspired by the elan and enthusiasm of young workers, apprentices and school students in their campaign against training schemes which are modelled on the YTS, Spain was rocked by a general strike of millions of workers for the first time in 50 years. Politicians there said that it could never happen, as they have said here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.945.3", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will hear me out, I shall give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.945.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " the poll tax is about accountability. We heard that on Second Reading, in Committee and on Report and Third Reading of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Bill. Local authorities were to be made accountable for what they did. Now, under the sham that the Government have introduced, Strathclyde and Glasgow will not be accountable this year for the sums that they will raise in poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ict poll tax payment by the council. It would have been able to reduce the regional poll tax by £30, too. How absurd! As the poll tax is phased out, so accountability disappears. Glasgow, Strathclyde and other local authorities will have to increase their poll taxes merely to stand still. Even if they reduce their expenditure or maintain it at the same level, their poll taxes will inevitably rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "t of Perth and Kinross, Alex Murray, has stated publicly on more than one occasion that the SNP policy is not to break the law. It seems that again we have the humbug and hypocrisy to which we have grown accustomed from that quarter. It seems that those who are in office and have responsibility behave properly and responsibly. Those who have little hope of ever gaining office behave irresponsibly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-11", "file": "debates1989-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "0c6ca28ac69b8683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "ease over the figure, after the imposition of penalties on Edinburgh as a result of its budgeted programme last year, is no less than 44 per cent. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that that is unfair to his constituency, he must have a curious idea of fairness. Before I attempt to answer some of the detailed points that have been made tonight, it is worth repeating the main features of the settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-11a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.979.4", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": " The Anglo-Irish Agreement was meant to be the strategy to reduce support for the men of violence by bringing in serious reforms for the disaffected community. Blanket searches create disaffection and support for paramilitary activity—that we know. The Government seem to have given up. If they give up on any political strategy of reform and improvement and go for repression, things will get worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.980.7", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "The list that I gave in my main answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.980.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.980.9", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that we have extradition arrangements with the Irish Republic but that from time to time we have certain difficulties over them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.980.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.981.6", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. This is the third attempt wrongly to describe my views on Northern Ireland. Like the majority of British people, I believe that there should be a political settlement and that Britain should politically withdraw from Northern Ireland. It is not my view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.982.6", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "While privatisation is important, does my hon. Friend agree that it is equally important that additional functions are devolved to the district councils to give them extra teeth and a more constructive role? Does the noble Lord agree with me that there has been disappointment since the Anglo-Irish Agreement in terms of the number of functions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.982.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister tell the House what plans she has to prevent the dreams of home ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.4", "colnum": "989", "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": "With regard to bed-and-breakfast accommodation, as the hon. Gentleman is aware, it varies very much between local authority and local authority as to how they make use of that provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.5", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunnachie", "preceding_text": "What plans has the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.13", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister seen or heard of the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.989.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "In a moment. I have just given way. But to assert that monetary policy works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1008.6", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No. I have just given way to the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1008.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ney for the simple reason that they need to cover their costs and are forced into a great amount of debt? The Chancellor seems not at all concerned about that. Will he do anything about the expansion of credit in this country? This morning I received another invitation to spend £800 on a Visa card by 31 March to get two free tickets to America. Surely the Chancellor should do something about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1009.4", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "preceding_text": "When, in due course, as the Chancellor says, interest rates go down, will the exchange rate go down also?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1009.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "l devolution and total ungovernability. It was only appropriate that the entire Yugoslav Government resigned, because they could not find a way out of their economic difficulties, on the very day that the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook produced his idea. But let me come back to the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East, who is with us, and ask him a straight question—in fact, two straight questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "fferent view. The Chancellor cannot blame the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries or rises in world commodity prices. He has no one but himself to blame. As inflation increases to 7 per cent., when it is less than 2 per cent. in Japan, predicted to be 3 per cent. in Germany arid predicted to be 4·5 per cent. in America and Canada, what does the Chancellor say about his objectives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to point this out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": ", in France 10·4 per cent. and in Britain 8·4 per cent. Again Britain is doing badly. It is only because of the distorted nature of the British economy that Conservative Members can comfort themselves in the apparent success of the Chancellor's policies. The truth is that we have had a decade of neglect which has not been in the interests of creating a balanced and prosperous nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "e international economy at that time, and with horrendous consequences. Instead of adjusting the steering or changing down, most of them slammed on the brakes. The hon. Member for Horsham, knows—perhaps even the Chancellor knows—that one country's imports are another country's exports, and that the result was the contraction of mutual OECD trade. This Government have not had to face such problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-12", "file": "debates1989-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "bb9272ca407ddfd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "ss learned people might conceivably think important. He omitted the fact that capital investment is growing at more than twice the rate of consumption, that private investment is at its highest level since records began—he expressly stated the contrary—that manufacturing output is at its highest ever level and growing fast, and that non-oil company profitability rose by about 10 per cent. in 1987—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-12a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As I tried to explain to the House, British Rail is achieving much better use of its trains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.4.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As usual, the hon. Gentleman is mistaken. I have explained to the House that major improvements are being made to British Rail and that massive investment is being undertaken. Right hon. and hon. Members who are reasonable know that great steps are being taken to improve British Rail. The PSO is being reduced because British Rail is more efficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Security (Heathrow)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "tion was issued on Friday evening and comes into force today. It introduces the following new provisions. Passes are only to be issued to airport employees or to personnel working for firms which the airport manager is satisfied are reliable and reputable. I think that the House will agree that some of the firms operating in this area in the past have been far from reliable. Before issuing a pass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "imes about the Labour party's paranoia about secrecy. I know that he is a man of some integrity, so I hope that he will answer my question honestly. If he believed that a Conservative Government had been undermined and that attempts had been made to destabilise that Government, would he not have taken exactly the same attitude as Labour Members have and have called for some form of public inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "ake the hon. Gentleman's point, to which I am sure we shall return in later debates. I have long advocated parliamentary scrutiny of the Security Service. My amendment No. 38 deals with that question. If such a Select Committee were formed, its membership should consist of hon. Members who have been here since 4 o'clock or 4.30 this afternoon. They are all very much interested in security matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "tion in Cuba. Two dozen of us turned up with placards saying, \"Hands off Cuba.\" We marched down the streets in Liverpool trying to get a big gap between each person so that the demonstration would look three times greater than it actually was. The idea that we were being manipulated by Soviet agents is absolutely ridiculous and the hon. Member for Torbay (Mr. Allason) should be ashamed of himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ly listed as a member of the National Front was able to work at No. 10. My second point about that individual is that he was taken on as an assistant to the chairman of the Conservative party for the 1987 election. He pursued a number of dirty tricks during the campaign. I suspect, therefore, that he may not have been the kind of lowly clerk that the hon. Member for Torbay (Mr. Allason) suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "port from the Select Committee if the Secretary of State did not respond to it? Its members would get into difficulties: they would be pressed by people such as Opposition Members to reveal information that they had highly secret operational matters; and if they did not, they would find themselves accused by most Opposition Members who spoke in the latter part of the debate of not doing their job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-16", "file": "debates1989-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "5977c65e612a59f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "cials are served by Cabinet Office staff whose accountability, such as it is, is through the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister? Finally, does the Minister accept that the effect of those organisational arrangements is to remove Ministers and Parliament from an opportunity to direct the Security Service? I shall be grateful if the Minister will answer a number of additional, short questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-16a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.138.4", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "Typically, the hon. Gentleman is wrong in virtually everything that he says. In fact, there are now 428,000 people in training under YTS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "nd us that the number of deaths in the construction industry has risen and is rising and is at a wholly unacceptable level. But I do not accept his analysis entirely of the reasons for that. In terms of the number of inspectors employed, it must be remembered that merely employing inspectors does not automatically produce a reduction in fatalities, and there is no evidence to suggest that it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "hat the growth of lump labour and self-employment is making a serious contribution to the level of deaths and injuries? Is it not also clear that we are not training the correct people in the industry because of a lack of apprenticeships and so on? Is it not clear that some people put profits before the interests of the workers in the industry? Whatever the Government are doing, it is not enough.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When it comes to speaking through the back of the neck, I cannot hold a candle to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend come to Luton Town football club on a Saturday afternoon, accompanied by the Leader of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.151.9", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ons in the Sudan. It has been very difficult to conduct relief operations there, particularly in the southern part of the country, although we have contributed to the world food programme's airlift into Juba in the southern part, and the recent International Red Cross operation. We provided £15·4 million in emergency assistance to Sudan last year, and are ready to give further help in 1989.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.151.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "BREL (1988) Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "help us to meet the transport needs of the 1990s? What effect will it have on our balance of payments problem? Does it mean that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will castigate us all for overspending and hike up mortgage rates once again in an attempt to remedy our balance of payments problem? We reject the idea that privatisation will be good for the railway industry or for BREL. On the contrary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "BREL (1988) Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "nts problem? Does it mean that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will castigate us all for overspending and hike up mortgage rates once again in an attempt to remedy our balance of payments problem? We reject the idea that privatisation will be good for the railway industry or for BREL. On the contrary— [Interruption.] Conservative Members may think that this is funny, but the Labour party does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "BREL (1988) Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " going to bring with it. We also have sound financial backing and good marketing opportunities. This sale represents an injection of major technology into BREL. Now there is the opportunity for BREL to join a European consortium and bid for orders not only in this country but elsewhere. The hon. Gentleman asked me whether this was an interim statement. I am not prepared to reveal to him the price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": "It is not denied that there were many rumours relating to Harold Wilson, but his own conduct inspired many of those rumours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": "It is not denied that there were many rumours relating to Harold Wilson, but his own conduct inspired many of those rumours— [Interruption.] Well, I shall give hon. Members a small example. Harold Wilson made 14 visits behind the Iron Curtain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So will the Secretary of State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "preceding_text": "ential to be able to deal with applications for warrants as quickly as possible. If we adopted some scheme for judicial intervention such as that put forward by my hon. Friends, argument would be on the basis of written papers. The judge might have no previous understanding of or experience in Security Service issues. He will have to make a first judgment on issues that have never been before him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is nothing wrong with that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. In the context of the threats that we face in this country and the long-established roles of the judiciary and the Executive, to which the hon. and learned Gentleman, with his considerable experience in the law-albeit north of the border—has referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.271.6", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Labour Ministers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ing that, of course, in practice it would not be any other Minister;, the fact is that under this legislation it apparently can be any other Secretary of State. The Minister is, in effect, saying that we are giving powers to every Secretary of State of every Department to issue warrants. That Minister will not be there all the time. We could have more nefarious, unscrupulous or ignorant Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "n committed because the events were permitted under a warrant issued under this act by the Secretary of State; and shall inform the individual of his rights to have the matter investigated by a tribunal as specified in Schedule 1 to this Act.' When speaking to the last group of amendments, my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) referred to a situation that I want the Minister to address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ing goes wrong, the individual will be left in considerable doubt as to what has happened. The purpose of amendment No. 84 is to ensure that the individual is given a clear statement that what he believed to be a criminal offence was not criminal but something authorised by the Home Secretary—and that as a result, he has a right, under schedule 1 to the Act, to appeal to the tribunal for redress.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-17", "file": "debates1989-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "bb210dfd821624af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disraeli.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "y Service, let us write into the Bill the appointment of the staff counsellor, because he fulfils an important role. I have added one further function to the functions of the staff counsellor—a development that dates from 21 December, when the Official Secrets Bill had its Second Reading. I have forgotten which statesman said that he had caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-17a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.317.8", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that those funds nowhere near compensate Brent's loss of rate support grant which is now about 40 per cent.? Since we in this House trade statistics all the time, will the Minister accept an invitation to come to the advice surgery which I hold each week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.317.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "As Tunisia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "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": " various representations received on his behalf and I have considered further representations put forward by his solicitors and others acting on his behalf. I can, however, find no reason to alter my view that Mr. Mendis does not qualify for refugee status under the United Nations convention, or to reverse my decision to deport him, which was taken and has been reviewed in accordance with the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The responsibility for the operation this morning rested with the chief constable, but of course he had to take into account the fact that the church had been the centre of attention and that many supporters and friends of Mr. Mendis had gathered there. There were 300 people around that church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.338.4", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a criminal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "This House is fairly used to inundation with the normal ration of humbug and cant, but have we not moved on from the days when a man or woman could escape the criminal law merely by reciting the Lord's Prayer and claiming benefit of clergy to an era in which the provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.338.4", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a criminal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "This House is fairly used to inundation with the normal ration of humbug and cant, but have we not moved on from the days when a man or woman could escape the criminal law merely by reciting the Lord's Prayer and claiming benefit of clergy to an era in which the provisions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a criminal.\"]—of the Race Relations Act 1976 have laid down clearly that religious or racial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.338.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Don't call him a criminal then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "d cant, but have we not moved on from the days when a man or woman could escape the criminal law merely by reciting the Lord's Prayer and claiming benefit of clergy to an era in which the provisions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a criminal.\"]—of the Race Relations Act 1976 have laid down clearly that religious or racial—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a criminal.\"]—I am prepared to wait until I get silence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Have we not, through the Race Relations Act, laid down the principle that in law nobody shall be in a different position because of what they do, in religious, or what they are, in racial or in any other status or by sex?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not our policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ll consider the implications of changing the policy that the Labour party has criticised. Once it became established that we had moved outside the boundaries of the United Nations convention and the test of the well-founded fear of prosecution into a situation in which people had only to come here and say that they came from a disordered and troubled part of the world and preferred to remain here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I repeat my genuine surprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.343.6", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litherland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litherland", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 20, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the position of my constituent, Viraj Mendis, in the light of the information given to this House via the Home Secretary today\". The Home Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.343.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "that he has announced today revolves around his and the Government's assessment of human rights up to and beyond 1985 in Sri Lanka, were I or one of my hon. Friends to apply to you through a ballot or any other means for an Adjournment debate to test in the House that assessment of human rights in Sri Lanka, would you expect the Home Secretary to defer any action until that debate had taken place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.344.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Mr. Viraj Mendis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is abusing the privileges of the House by seeking to raise points which are not matters for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Elimination of Poverty in Retirement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "tricity, water and telephones are abolished for pensioners; to provide for concessionary transport schemes for the elderly; to ensure that unit costs for food are the same for small purchasers; and to ensure that the state old age pension is linked to average earnings. This is my sixth attempt, with the support of hon. Members and hundreds of pensioner organisations all over Britain, to introduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No. I said that I would not be able to give way as often as I might have done because of the time factor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "to give way as often as I might have done because of the time factor—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I have answered it. I do not propose to tax child benefit. My party has never done so, and I do not expect to do so. I hope that that finally gets through to the hon. Members for Richmond and Barnes (Mr. Hanley) and for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett), who have not been listening to what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": "d and background of child benefit because it is important to put the matter in perspective. The hon. Gentleman was right when he said that child benefit was introduced in 1975. The Opposition record on child benefit reminds me of earlier debates. It takes me back to the reality of Socialist economic failure at the time when the Labour Government lived in the unlovely embrace of trade union bosses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": ". It takes me back to the reality of Socialist economic failure at the time when the Labour Government lived in the unlovely embrace of trade union bosses. [Interruption.] Despite sedentary interruptions from Opposition Members, I shall remind them and the House of what happened in 1975. I agree with the hon. Member for Livingston that it is important for us to remember the basis for this benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "n published. The comparison is appalling, and I do not know how the Opposition have the temerity to initiate this debate. Between 1974–75 and 1978–78, support for families with children dropped in real terms from £7·4 billion to £6·8 billion—a reduction in real terms of 7·3 per cent. One may compare that with the period in which my Government have been in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "eading debate on 13 May 1975 when Alec Jones, the then Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, said: The Social Security Act 1975 lays down formal provisions for annual review of benefits paid\"— and that Act established the basis of the benefit that we are now debating, which I make clear for the benefit of those right hon. and hon. Members who are ignorant of that fact. I repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "n. There is no argument why other tax allowances should go up while this one goes down. My answer to the invitation from the hon. Member for Livingston to vote with him is that the Opposition motion could not have made it easier for hon. Members on these Benches who favour child benefit. It is well worded and in a perfect world I have no doubt that droves of Conservative Members would vote for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "at a child can suffer when changing school at five, this arrangement is to be welcomed. The best work with under-fives has always taken careful account of the need for continuity with what follows when children start their statutory education. In short, a crucial factor in education is the quality of the teachers. That means that there must be enough of them and that they must be properly trained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " I am sure that Opposition Members will welcome what I have to say about that. There is now strong evidence that the supply of teachers for this age group is improving rapidly. Recruitment to all forms of initial teacher training for the early years is very buoyant indeed. Since 1986, the intake to post-graduate certificate of education courses of training for teachers of three to seven-year olds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "e National Curriculum Council will have a part to play in the work of the group, and I expect it in due course to be involved in taking forward its recommendations. The committee's report, which will be published, should prove a valuable source of guidance to all those providing nursery education. We shall announce details of the membership of the committee and its terms of reference very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is the only Conservative Member out of the 17 hon. Members who represent south Yorkshire. I knew that he would come out with something like that. There were cuts during the Labour party's tenure of office. We had taken over from a wretched Government under whom there was a three-day week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ts the chance, although he could not disprove it in Committee. Many Conservative areas, whole counties, have virtually no nursery education provision. The areas which do have it have very little. However, the Government pay tribute to nursery education. The Prime Minister has done that and she did it before when she was an education Minister. However, the Government have done very little about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They had no money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "hildren aged over two, and, if making a statement on such a child, to make the provision indicated. That is an important step forward, and I am sorry that not every local education authority has proceeded with it. The Opposition make great play of the need to understand and support local democracy. It is a result of that that, unfortunately, they have not all made the provision that we would wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": " queue to get their children into nursery schools, and later having to send them straight on to the primary school. Parents do not always want their children to go to the nursery class that is attached to a specific primary school. They want to choose the pre-school experience that they consider to be best for their children. I defend that to the end as I believe that it is of critical importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": " importance. [Interruption.] The Opposition yell at me and try to cover up the fact that, really they are asking the Government to provide blanket state education. That was the message that came loud and clear through every speech made by Opposition Members. The hon. Member for the City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg) made it plain that that was his view. I am sad that he is not in the House at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-18", "file": "debates1989-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "517ba60134712ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Pre-school Education and Child Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about fathers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "ey should be identified as early as possible. That is why parents have the right to ask local education authorities to assess from the age of two whether a child has special educational needs. I want to make one or two general observations. We have scarcely heard a word about mothers, who generally want their babies to develop into normal young children, physically, emotionally and intellectually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-18a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "A percentage always goes to the farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.476.6", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Proportionately, I probably represent more sheep than any other hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.476.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister consider that the erosion of apartheid in South Africa and its eventual abolition—an objective shared by both sides of the House—is likely to be accelerated or delayed by the attempt to use financial blackmail to prevent English Test cricketers going to that country and teaching young blacks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.479.10", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "ce was made aware this morning that one of the families that did not vote in the ballot has been involved in the worst child sex abuse case on our records. It involved 16 children and their parents. Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to commend the work of Nottinghamshire county council's social services department in this particularly harrowing case? Will she also take the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.479.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.480.6", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the good news today that the unemployment figures have come down considerably?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.480.7", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Had the news been otherwise, we should have been asked about it constantly by the Opposition. I am glad that unemployment continues to go down. It has gone down for 29 consecutive months. The numbers of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.480.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As usual, the hon. Gentleman is utterly wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": "This is the reality of job share. Given the Prime Minister's new-found enthusiasm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Debate on Monday 23 January: The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order. The Housing Revenue Account General Fund Contribution Limits (Scotland) Order (SI 1988 No. 2081).", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about tax evasion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am concerned about the situation in some of our big cities where people who need help do not receive it because others do not pay their way. I am suggesting that it is not easy to ask people to pay their rents if the individuals doing the asking do not pay their rents. That does not seem unreasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.505.5", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "alty system, inexplicable changes in GREs and the many other facets of the present arrangements. Few people will be unhappy to see the end of the present rate support grant system. Rates will become a thing of the past. Few will regret the passing of rates, except perhaps those Labour Members who would like to retain rates based on capital values and then to add to it a system of local income tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.505.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A blip. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "ry, about inflation. He used a figure of 2 per cent. and I told him what the independent view was. I shall now give my view. The rate support grant that we are discussing today is based on 4 per cent. inflation in 1989–90. Does anybody believe that inflation will be only 4 per cent. in 1989–90? Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer believe that? No, he says that there will be a bleep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.514.6", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surrey, South-West!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding me of that point, which had momentarily escaped me. We know that that is having a dramatic effect. The Under-Secretary of State will know that her own area, West Sussex, is bottom of the league in providing nursery education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.514.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ambeth. The racial mix in those boroughs is different from that in the majority of Conservative Members' constituencies. Until the Government understand that, they will not begin to understand the problems of Brent and Lambeth. I give the Minister an open invitation. I will go with him to Brent and we will sit down with its officers, elected councillors and Labour party local government spokesmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why have GRE?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "per cent. rate increase for Leeds. That increase has nothing to do with Leeds' expenditure, because Leeds has expended at the level calculated by the Government. Why, therefore, a rate increase of 12 per cent.? The simple fact is that the Government are punishing the ratepayers of Leeds. The Minister may reply that Leeds city council could cut its expenditure and therefore stop the rates going up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": "bsolutely adamantine—in our dissatisfaction with the effect of the rate support grant on Solihull council. This is not a matter of personal criticism of Ministers. I have heard tonight much cheap politicking and the blaming of the Conservative Government. Hon. Members should look carefully at the origins of the redistributive effects within this legislation that allows for the rate support grant.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.555.2", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "res and explained earlier why it was 14 per cent. If the Minister cannot follow me, I will try again. The reduction in grant is equivalent to 7·6 per cent. If we take inflation at 6·4 per cent. into consideration, and if my mathematics have not deserted me, that makes 14 per cent. That was the increase that Wakefield required to stand still. I hope that the Minister has followed me.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that when he said that people were leaving the borough of Ealing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that when he said that people were leaving the borough of Ealing—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] The hon. Gentleman said that people were leaving the borough of Ealing and going to Harrow, West for better education. His constituency is well down the list when it comes to nursery provision. He is afraid of the real issues on education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-19", "file": "debates1989-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "731c2266fb291316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "er the question.\"] The hon. Gentleman said that people were leaving the borough of Ealing and going to Harrow, West for better education. His constituency is well down the list when it comes to nursery provision. He is afraid of the real issues on education—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] When it comes to education, the hon. Gentleman does not know what is happening in his own constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-19a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "aker, who is leaning forward a little at this point, that I acknowledge that the point raised by my hon. Friend is, without a doubt, not one for today's business. However, I may have to organise seminars—which I believe is the yuppie word for them—telling women, who may or may not go down the pits if the Employment Bill is passed, how to deal with the Mines and Quarries Act 1954. I say en passant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.592.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It certainly is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is hardly relevant as to whether or not there should be a by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.593.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.5", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is now a serious matter, and it involves you. We learnt this morning that the Home Secretary lied to us when he made his statement about Viraj Mendis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.7", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary led us to believe that he was giving an assurance, which has proved to be false. He sat there and told us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.7", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary led us to believe that he was giving an assurance, which has proved to be false. He sat there and told us— [Interruption.] He gave an assurance to the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.9", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. You were right in your interpretation of what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.613.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.614.7", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "On a different point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is plain that the Government will not respond to the issue and do not care a jot for people such as Mr. Viraj Mendis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.614.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.615.9", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "That is the point that I was developing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.615.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.615.9", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "That is the point that I was developing. [Interruption.] Part of the problem is that as the Common Market is of the establishment orientation it does not want to tread on any toes and stop these people returning. It is important to recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.615.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.616.8", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "No. I shall deal with the question why the Euro-Commissioner is not included in the list of disqualifying officers. The establishment of this place has decided that it would be good if people went out there and came back. Woy Jenkins of the wadicals did exactly that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.616.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " being foolhardy and wanting to carry matters to the Nth degree. That is not my scene. Many hon. Members, including me, managed to pick up on the road this morning a few points on how writs are dealt with, what that is all about, whether it is satisfactory, whether we should add to the list of disqualified officers and whether some should be brought back. Those questions have emerged this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "e present today. In the debate on 30 November, he said that the way in which procedure had been used with regard to abortion was the most worrying feature as it affected Members and that that had been made clear to the Procedure Committee. What has emerged—I ask you to consider this, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if not now, then later—is that a private Member's Bill that commands a majority in this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.627.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "which was drawn fairly first in the ballot, was to allow the House to decide whether it approved my motion or not, and I was therefore willing to respect and abide by the will of the House, but this dilatory motion is a deliberate attempt to thwart the will of the House and not to allow my motion. Is it fair—even if it is technically in order—for one hon. Member to speak for more than three hours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.629.10", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ction is properly carried out. The constituency covers about 950 sq miles: it is 50 miles across and 19 miles long. It is one of the most beautiful constituencies in the whole of Britain. I do not want to cause some of my hon. Friends—and other hon. Members—to get up and say that there are other constituencies just as beautiful. Many issues will be raised upon which which the verdict will be cast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.629.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.634.6", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "se it will cover such a large number of areas which form the basis of any decent electoral contest. I know that the odds are stacked against us. It has always been a Tory seat. It was not even opposed in the war years. We can appreciate what kind of constituency it is, but that should not deter those of us who will help to raise issues and provide a verdict on behalf of our candidate Frank Dobson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.634.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Correct allegations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have held back from making this point of order because I was hoping that we would eventually move on to discuss my motion. At least half a dozen allegations of queue-jumping have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.642.6", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Manor of Northstead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "ch I did not know existed, and of which, certainly, the people of this country are unaware. It is a matter of considerable interest, for example, that European Community rules and not rules of the House provoked the by-election. We should consider carefully the list of disqualifying offices. One of the oddities that baffles the public is the procedure for applying for Northstead or whatever it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.642.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "edia—that you, Mr. Speaker, had no alternative but to call the moving of the writ as today's first business. The Chair showed no favouritism; procedure made it clear that the first order of business had to be the calling of the writ, if it was to be moved. People outside must also know that at no time today, irrespective of what had happened, would it have been in order to debate the Abortion Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.655.7", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "With great trepidation I suggest that what my right hon. Friend the Father of the House said was not as accurate as I would like it to be. The majority that such Bills take is not the majority of the House but a majority that is taken on a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.655.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-20", "file": "debates1989-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "654a70b8e19b0d40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Richmond, Yorks By-Election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Man?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "As one of the youngest hon. Members of the House may I state, following my right hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Sir. B. Braine), who is the Father of the House, that whether the procedures are adhered to or not, or amended, nearly 20 attempts have been made to put an Abortion Bill through the House and so far as the man in the street is concerned", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-20a.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.675.8", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "In the right hon. Gentleman's views of the current state of the Welsh economy I recognise the eagerness of the Labour party to spread depression at the earliest possible moment. The figures that I gave in answer to an earlier question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.675.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Yes, and one of the laws that we have undertaken is to obey and fall in line with the European convention on human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "preceding_text": "ere. The article—it is by Robert Kilroy-Silk, not me—concludes with the words: The fact that I had to pose the question to myself is in itself an indication of his failure to make an impact. We have the answer there. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook made an impact today, and so did other Opposition Members, by allowing us to get into the situation in which a guillotine motion must be proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.709.2", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Warley, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.709.2", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Warley, South— [Interruption.] I am sorry, I congratulate the hon. Member for Warley, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ed to make that speculation. The House will listen with respect to the Home Secretary's explanation. We understand that he is dealing with a difficult security matter but he must give a frank explanation to the House. We have not received any such explanation. Instead, a Bill of profound constitutional importance which continues to curtail our citizens' liberties is being rushed through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": ". We have done our job of scrutiny. As has been said, at 9.55 pm last Thursday, the Government clearly intended to prevent the Committee from sitting beyond 10 pm. Those who read the report will see that the Government and their supporters voted to finish at 10 pm. The Opposition voted against that proposition. We were quite prepared to carry on. There are only a couple of amendments to deal with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": " that the Opposition were very keen that the Committee should shut up at 10 o'clock. There was the same confusion as has illustrated the Opposition's attitude to the Committee stage throughout. I do not entirely blame the hon. Member for Huddersfield. We have a certain amount of information about this matter. It is clear to me that the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "were going to be? The answer that the hon. Member for Huddersfield gave was the Government's handling of the Brogan judgment. The serious contribution on that matter today came, as one has come to expect, from the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan). I shall deal with what I understood him to say, although I am afraid that I returned to the Chamber in the middle of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.733.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Will the Home Secretary give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.735.4", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "is House wishes to see effective measures against terrorism. The difference on the Government side of the House is that we also will the means. Of course, that creates occasional difficult problems and the need for special powers. I do not believe that the Opposition have thought the matter through. The hon. Member for Newry and Armagh thought and spoke on behalf of his supporters in the Province.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.735.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": " he or she suddenly becomes safer and more reliable as soon as the new appointment is announced. That is a load of nonsense. I cannot accept that a Select Committee is unworkable on the ground that hon. Members cannot adhere to the necessary rules of secrecy under which a Select Committee would have to work. From my experience, when people are given responsibility, they rise in stature and become—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "Secretary is not his own man when it comes to decisions on these matters, partly, as I have already said, because he does not have under his control a structure which enables him to formulate policy. The other long debate in Committee was about civil liberties and, in particular, an individual's right of protest, advocacy or dissent. New clause 4 and amendment No. 47 were prominent in that debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service 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": "country's well-being. I turn now to the comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) who, with my hon Friend the Member for Thanet, South (Mr. Aitken), has addressed himself to the issues although we disagree on the fundamentals of the Bill. He had made a criticism this evening of alleged pirouetting by the Minister of State at the Dispatch Box. My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "few political points. Ministers are full of brave talk about choice, but choice for them has a very special definition. It is distorted and destroyed for those in the public sector who wish to exercise choice by continuing to rent. Renting has, quite deliberately, been made a very unattractive option for anyone who is above the rebate level. That cannot be defended. The Minister may be a nice man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.822.6", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": " Scotland. Secondly, it is rare in the history of Parliament for a Minister to be given one week's notice of the detailed case that is to be made against him and to be given the opportunity at the Dispatch Box to reply to the criticisms that are made of him and still to make such a pathetic effort of defending the Government's record. Another item should be mentioned at the beginning of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.822.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "the target of zero inflation but the Morning Star on Saturday said in banner headlines that inflation was 6 per cent. plus and rising. The Morning Star has always taken a keen interest in inflation and counter-inflationary policies. It was rightly drawing attention to the way in which the Government's economic policies are failing and the way in which inflation is imposing increases upon councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.828.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.832.4", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman several times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-23", "file": "debates1989-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "0c6e4bde2feb29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "I was born and bred in Govan. I know what it was like to live under a private landlord. My mother and late father know what it was like for five of us to live in a single end. We were over the moon the day the note came through the door from the Glasgow corporation offering us a decent house—a house with a bath. I had never seen a bath. I thought that it was something that you put a goldfish into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-23a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The overall burden of taxation is falling. It is true that there was a time under the previous Labour Government when the burden was less than it is now. That was because they borrowed so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.869.7", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not quite certain what my right hon. Friend said but we both hold precisely the same view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.869.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your guidance in connection with the private business listed for 7 o'clock this evening, the Avon Light Rail Transit Bill. It has been drawn to my attention that a letter is circulating among Conservative Members, signed by four of them, making specific allegations about my motives for opposing the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your guidance in connection with the private business listed for 7 o'clock this evening, the Avon Light Rail Transit Bill. It has been drawn to my attention that a letter is circulating among Conservative Members, signed by four of them, making specific allegations about my motives for opposing the Bill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh.\"]—which are wholly untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.874.7", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Ms. Primarolo), Mr. Speaker. I was the Labour Member who received that letter. I think it was sent to me inadvertently. It was probably meant for the hon. Member for Harrogate (Mr. Banks). I inadvertently opened it and inadvertently read it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House condemns the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, for its failure properly to protect consumers. I must begin by saying how sorry we are that the Minister has been taken ill and is unable to be with us today. I know that I speak for the whole House when I wish him a speedy and full recovery and look forward to seeing him back at the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.881.8", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ject, we have been planning and developing it for some considerable time. I shall explain that in a moment. Our case is not only that the Government have ignored the consumer, but, worse than that, when the Government appoint members to their own statutory advisory committees, such as the Food Advisory Committee, the premier committee, they go out of their way deliberately to exclude the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.881.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.883.6", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "tunity to clear the air and tell the House the names of the offending farms? As the general public, we have the right to know the answer in both those cases. Hard on the heels of salmonella we have the listeria issue. It is clear that, following television and media disclosures, we have a major problem with listeria. Not only has the dedicated Professor Lacey of Leeds university produced evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.883.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "industry. Indeed, the food law standards, to which I shall be referring later, are increasing and consumers are better protected than ever before. Consumers have a much wider choice on the supermarket shelves than ever before. In response to the market policies of this Government, the food industry has shown great ingenuity as it satisfies consumer demand. New products and foods are now available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.890.5", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "d consumers? I have already pointed out that, since 1979, no Supply day has been given up by the Opposition to discuss those matters. What audacity the Opposition have to appropriate consumerism as their own creed. There can only be two reasons for the Opposition's neglect of food and consumers—either their satisfaction with our policies of the last decade or their lack of interest in the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.890.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "In a moment. I am not sure about the Department of the Environment, because of its deplorable record on water authorities in the past few months. It also tends to be producer-oriented rather than consumer-oriented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "s but, to quote his phrase, as \"landscape entrepreneurs\". His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales would probably endorse that, but I do not believe that it is quite what the Minister had in mind. Landscape entrepreneurial activity is all very well, but another farmer who was at that gathering, Mr. Oliver Walston, from East Anglia—he will not be unknown to the Ministry—has commented that free trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie (Kirkcaldy)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie (Kirkcaldy)", "preceding_text": "s, to the cotton-wool bread that they are forced to eat, to the salt and sugar laden convenience foods? \"It is nothing to do with the Government,\" they cry. That is the level of intelligence of Conservative Back Benchers: \"It is everybody's fault but ours.\" The only hygiene, the only handwashing, that is going on is Pontius Pilate washing his hands of the whole issue on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.910.2", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "emma over listeria. If the Government tighten standards on, for example, the maximum three-day detention period for cook-chill food, the catering industry, which has huge contracts and investments worth billions of pounds, will face disaster. If the Government tighten up as they should, that will have an incredible impact on the industry, which is so well represented by Conservative Members today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Avon Light Rail Transit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "resumably on a repayment basis later. According to the promoter, the construction company is providing some £3·5 million. It is a very unusual system whereby a construction company pays to construct something that it is employed to undertake by the principal promoting company. I, too, am sorry that the sponsor is not here to take up this point and answer it to the satisfaction of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.972.6", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Avon Light Rail Transit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": ". Sayeed), although I do not see why he should sneer at the end. If he is saying that, having made this offer, he is not going to bother, it is an arrogant affront to the House that he should present a Bill with the backing of the payroll vote and, when hon. Members seek information, fob them off with a sneer such as I saw just now. It is an affront to democracy and to the procedures of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.972.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-24", "file": "debates1989-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "e85b046cd68ad962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Avon Light Rail Transit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ilway, and that one factor in ensuring decent standards of employment would be the right to trade union membership. While the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare may be intimidated by—or perhaps he supports—the Government's antagonism towards trade unions, he could have settled some of our doubts had he made the position clear. I support the introduction of light railway systems anywhere in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-24a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1009.8", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that the Government's continuing attack on public sector housing is resulting in increasing homelessness, which is getting worse and worse, in increasingly long waiting lists for repairs because the public sector does not have the necessary money due to the cuts, and massive unemployment in the building industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1009.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1009.8", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " not clear that the Government's continuing attack on public sector housing is resulting in increasing homelessness, which is getting worse and worse, in increasingly long waiting lists for repairs because the public sector does not have the necessary money due to the cuts, and massive unemployment in the building industry? [Hon. Members: \"What?\"] Yes, there is. Never mind what the Government say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1009.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "For a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chairmen\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Lady talks to her right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Health, perhaps she will draw his attention to the cost benefits of having elected members rather than appointed members running things—for example, in water authorities with chairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "What I heard of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "ous farmers in that way. Profitability and costs for both the Community and the farming industry have not yet been worked out, which is another reason why we voted against the package. Part of the cost will be due to implementation of the various schemes, and we could get no clear indication of that. I do not know whether this is the first time that we have voted in accordance with our interests —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "That remark was unworthy of the hon. Gentleman. Having spent an admirable weekend with him in Nicosia I may say that it was uncharacteristic of him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was last week's Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": "I support this Bill, because it enshrines in legislature some form of basis for the security services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ic of the hon. Gentleman to criticise my right hon. Friend in that way. Anyone who sat through the long hours of the debates on the Security Service Bill would have noticed my right hon. Friend's attendance in the Chamber, and I hope that he will not be gratuitously criticised. It is the Government's firm view that secrecy must be at the heart of the work of the security and intelligence services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The justification is the operational needs of the service. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has given me the chance to extend my argument. I was not going to, but he wants me to. If a member of the services breaks the obligation of lifetime secrecy, that person certainly gives information which is almost certainly harmful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1095.7", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ansfield Cummings, who was head of MI6 during its inception and remained head from 1919 to 1923, kept a log book since it was his habit, having been a sailor. Recently his family asked, for sentimental reasons, to see it. They were told that they could not see any of it or obtain the information they sought—the name of the theatrical costumier from whom Sir Mansfield Cummings bought his disguises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1095.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1095.7", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "a log book since it was his habit, having been a sailor. Recently his family asked, for sentimental reasons, to see it. They were told that they could not see any of it or obtain the information they sought—the name of the theatrical costumier from whom Sir Mansfield Cummings bought his disguises. [Laughter.] How would it be detrimental to the state if that information were given a wider audience?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1095.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman succeeds in engaging the attention of the Committee and in getting a good laugh from his right hon. and hon. Friends. I will not comment on operational decisions taken by the service in the past. That is a tradition followed by Governments of all political colours in respect of major and minor operational decisions. I hope that it will continue.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was about solicitors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be permitted to conclude my argument. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that he wants the issue to be addressed in a sensible and rational way. That is precisely what I am seeking to do. The other half of the question concerns the position of Crown servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " I am even more reluctant to ask the Minister of State to speak again, but to say that the solicitor's relationship with his client is covered by professional privilege is to imply that it is a privilege that transcends an Act of Parliament—and that is simply nonsense. I assure the Minister of State that no part of the Bill allows a client to consult a solicitor in the terms that I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "emoirs of Cabinet colleagues before they were published. To illustrate the difficulty—Mr. Crosland told me that he said it, but others have claimed credit for doing so—they turned round in unison and said, \"Harold, would you allow your memoirs to be vetted by Hugh Gaitskell?\" That was the end of that argument. In no way would Harold Wilson have permitted his memoirs to be vetted by Hugh Gaitskell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "role of the Comptroller and Auditor General is absolutely crucial, but, as I understand it, the wording of the Bill does not make that clear. If there can be clarification, let the Minister give it. Secondly, the House of Commons is entitled to know that advice was given on this subject by the Security Commission. Were Lord Griffiths, General Sir Hugh Beach and Philip Allen invited to give advice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1128.7", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I hope that hon. Members will not intervene while I set out the types of people who will be notified. I wish to give the Committee as clear an indication as possible of how, on the basis of the present situation, the notification power will be used. I want to be helpful, but I cannot and will not reveal operational secrets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1128.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "t decisions having formed the right opinion, but the question is what might happen in changed political circumstances. At some stage in the future, his post might be occupied by someone with a very different view of what constitutes reasonable action. The Cabinet might be comprised of people holding such a view. They might say that a journalist or a member of a Select Committee should be notified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-25", "file": "debates1989-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "be09b798fca2bcd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1146.2", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Monopolies and Mergers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "preceding_text": "ve and completely divorced from any assessment on a personality basis. After all, in this country there must be compelling reasons of national interest for members of a company—that is to say, the owners and shareholders of the company—to be dispossessed of their right to dispose of their assets as they see fit. Essentially, we must allow people who own assets to dispose of or acquire them freely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-25a.1146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1166.4", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right. That is the scale, and indeed if we were to go back to that particular Labour Government tombstone of a £40 billion public sector borrowing requirement, I could abolish the whole of income tax and I would not get as big a borrowing requirement as that, but I have to tell the House that I shall not be doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Once again, the right hon. Gentleman did not listen to what I said. He had worked out his supplementaries, irrespective of my answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1174.6", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister appointed Lord Chalfont to the post of deputy chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, was she aware that he is the director of a private intelligence company with extremely grubby connections in the past and whose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1174.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1175.8", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1175.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1184.4", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Another good reason why no one should go to Emperor Hirohito's funeral is the disgraceful decision by the Japanese authorities to kill 300 minke whales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Personal Telecommunications", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I must reject the implied suggestion that officials of my Department are not looking after the best interests of Britain in their negotiations in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I said at the beginning of this debate that this was the only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I am sure from the actions of the Alliance party in the past that it would be prepared to do such dirty work as it did for Sinn Fein. The leader of the Liberal Democrats—if that is the name of his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "for putting his view so ably. As soon as this appalling Bill came into existence, it became inevitable that such discussions would take place without a solution being found. The Government will accept no amendments tonight. Hon. Members feel the frustration that we feel, although not as desperately. No matter how long the debate lasts, the Government will have their Bill; they will have their way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "of evil terrorists. The families of those who have been murdered deserve the sympathy of the whole community, whether the victim was a Protestant or a Roman Catholic. The murderers are contemptible and deserve to be punished with the full force of law and order. I regret that after 20 years we still suffer from terrorism to an extent which would not be tolerated in this part of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "Yes; I agree with my hon. Friend. This is a miserable Bill. It is an insult to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "e breeders of violence. I feel rather sorry for the Minister tonight, because this is very bad legislation. He has an impractical Bill which will cause great disharmony, first in the council chamber and then in the community. The irony of the situation is that this child is loved by nobody. When the Bill started its passage, it was supported totally by, as I understand it, the Unionist fraternity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "s deliberations, but clause 7 is the worst part of it. It enables the Government to abdicate their responsibility to enforce the legislation. It tries to ensure that individual electors, councillors or councils do what the Government should be doing—endorsing their legislation. The clause will be dangerous for the individual and will do much harm to the future of local government in the Province.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-26", "file": "debates1989-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a542ce1842d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "tuation in the United Kingdom to be here for the debate. But it is also very easy to be brave and to make brave statements when one is many miles from the problem. So long as Members say that the sea is between us, and we can keep the killings going among the poor souls in Ulster and keep it from the rest of the mainland, that is unfortunately what people in Ulster are tempted to believe at times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-26a.1265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-27", "file": "debates1989-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "13341f1ea8af778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Privacy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "n. We have children and families. We do not like to carry out some of the intrusive operations that we are given by our editors. We are professionally embarrassed. However, if we fail to get the story\"— such as the one quoted by my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, South (Mr. Aitken)— we get the sack. Even our editors are driven by the competition of free market forces in an ever-downward spiral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-27", "file": "debates1989-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "13341f1ea8af778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1324.4", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Privacy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has remembered what he wanted to say.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-27", "file": "debates1989-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "13341f1ea8af778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1335.0", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Privacy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is nodding off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "ee that so many Conservative Members have turned out to support the Bill; I only wish that I had seen as much ardent enthusiasm for the protection of the individual earlier this week. I notice that the Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household is nodding his head. I do not know whether he is nodding his head in agreement or whether he is nodding his head in appreciation of the irony of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-27", "file": "debates1989-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "13341f1ea8af778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Privacy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "treet—that is the politest way to describe him—said: People who promote themselves as Members of Parliament, or write books and flog them to the public, or open their houses for profit, forfeit their right to their personal lives. They know that. They've known that throughout the history of this great country of ours. That is an example of arrogance in the press that we are here to complain about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-27", "file": "debates1989-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "13341f1ea8af778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Privacy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Burton was right to say that Mr. Blom-Cooper implied that the time has come for the law to step in. On the contrary, Mr. Blom-Cooper pointed out, in a thoughtful article in The Times last Saturday : If only the Press would be prepared to make self-regulation work by co-operating more fully with the work of the Press Council, privacy Bills like Mr. Browne's would be unnecessary. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-27", "file": "debates1989-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "13341f1ea8af778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Privacy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "preceding_text": "sue today. The question is whether the Bill is the right vehicle. It should be rejected because not only is it the wrong vehicle but it is incapable of improvement in Committee to the extent that it will avoid several pitfalls that I shall explain to the House. First, I am surprised that no Opposition Member spotted that clause 1 of the Bill provides that proceedings may be brought by any person\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1360.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-01-27", "file": "debates1989-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "13341f1ea8af778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-27a.1364.26", "colnum": "1364", "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/1989-01-27a.1364.25"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with all the points of order together. I missed the point last Thursday that the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) was making. I think that it arises from the answer to a written question. I shall certainly bear in mind what he has said in so far as it is within my responsibility. The other matters are patently not for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "cluded are not terrorists. Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman thinks that they are, and considers that many of us are supporters of terrorism. I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman. I have given way to him on so many occasions that if a count were made the result would be unbelievable. He is a congenital intervener. I give way to the hon. Gentleman. It seems that he does not want to intervene now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No, I have answered that question and I cannot clarify it further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "ught, but getting at the funding of that evil empire. The powers in this Bill will allow that power to be used against terrorists. I am as concerned as the hon. Member for Redcar (Ms. Mowlam) that a Bill of this sort should be for an indefinite period. It is not, as she asserts, a piece of indefinite legislation. She knows well that the Bill is subject to a regular annual review wholly or in part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "is reasonable suspicion for a period which will allow the police to carry out inquiries—for example, forensic inquiries—which are often necessary to ensure that prosecution can be pursued successfully through the courts. The most disturbing feature of the Bill is that we have not looked carefully enough at schedule 1. I am sorry that we have not had a chance in Committee or on Report to debate it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "House of Commons Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "and other facilities for Members. The pace of development on the Bridge street site is still dreadfully slow, and the Government must realise that Members on both sides of the House are no longer prepared to tolerate such conditions. The sooner that financial control of our new buildings programme is taken out of the hands of a Government agency and placed firmly in those of the House, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "House of Commons Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "mbers of Parliament can have. The public are forced to wait outside, often in the rain, for many hours and then in Central Lobby often for a long time before Members can be found. If they succeed in getting a ticket for the Gallery, they cannot leave the Gallery other than for a short time, they cannot get refreshments on their own and there are no facilities for changing children or leaving them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.119.4", "colnum": "119", "heading": "House of Commons Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "s a waiting area and provide proper refreshment facilities for the public there? Anyone who cares to walk around the building and to have a look at staff working conditions would be appalled. It is a disgrace. During the recess I went into the Vote Office and was appalled to see paper stacked up to the ceiling. If I had been a shop steward for them, as I have been in the past in the public sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "House of Commons Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "That may be so. However, I have been a Member of the House for nearly six years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-30", "file": "debates1989-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "ae162b2e893fb042", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "House of Commons Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ons for refusal should be made known to the applicant and to the sponsoring hon. Member. That does not appear to be an unreasonable request. I believe that this House has an awful lot of catching up to do. The conditions under which most hon. Members work are appalling. My hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone), who has been here since June 1987, received his desk only this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-30a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I remind the right hon. Gentleman that the question was about receiving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I could have expected that the right hon. Gentleman might take a totally different view, one taken by many people far to the left of him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "I would, with permission, like to make a statement about the National Health Service review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "aging care. The main proposals apply to all the United Kingdom, but there are separate chapters in the White Paper devoted to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland explaining how they will be applied in those countries. Implementation of the proposals will have to follow a process of discussion with many people in the service. We will be issuing in the course of the next week or two eight detailed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) must resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.8", "colnum": "165", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "If I may help the House, I think that my right hon. and hon. Friends are reading documents that were placed in the Vote Office as I rose to make my statement. My right hon. and hon. Friends prefer to look at those sources for their information, not at information that comes to them in plain brown sealed envelopes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.165.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. No documents are available in the Vote Office. If Conservative Members have such documents, they have been given to them by Government sources. We have not got them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "st. The principle will in future apply throughout the Health Service as a whole. As part of this new way of getting resources to hospitals, the present elaborate system which we all know as the RAWP system will come to an end. Over the past 12 years it has made an important contribution by helping to equalise the resources available to each region, but that task has now very largely been achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ch it is getting from the Government. The hon. Gentleman treats in a most derisive way what he refers to as the accountancy and financing aspects, about which he asked me various questions. Again, I find that astonishing. If the hon. Gentleman shares my belief that there is no reason why the public service should not be run with the same efficiency and consumer consciousness as the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ons. Again, I find that astonishing. If the hon. Gentleman shares my belief that there is no reason why the public service should not be run with the same efficiency and consumer consciousness as the private sector— [Interruption.] —he cannot dismiss the value of modern management disciplines, financial accountability and consumer consciousness that we are seeking to build into the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e which a hospital might provide to the patients and not just to the costs. Indeed, what we are suggesting gives greater incentives to enhance quality. On prescription costs, the hon. Gentleman has the temerity to attack what we are proposing to exercise downward pressure on prescription costs. I have read some of the Labour party's published documents, including the party's so-called green paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " to the services of the NHS. We look forward to the debate. We will be consulting. We have a policy which will be followed up by working papers and detailed discussions in the next few months with everybody interested in the subject to work up the implementation of these proposals. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will make a better contribution to that debate than he and his party have made so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The National Health Service has a rather poor track record in communicating with its own staff and the people who work in it. For that reason, immediately after this statement we are having an exercise that will communicate with all our staff throughout the Service, and we shall discuss with them the implications for them and their patients of what I am proposing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.185.2", "colnum": "185", "heading": "NHS Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am familiar with the problems of Shropshire, not least because they are often pressed upon me by my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Mr. Conway)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "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. It is pretty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": " that be enforceable and ensure what was fair. It would be open to any tribunal to impose its own view of what was fair, even that were at odds with equality. Does one assess fairness in terms of selection procedures or the composition of the work force; in terms of both or of neither? That uncertainty will at best breed litigation. At worst, employers will avoid legal controversy by doing little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Prove it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "preceding_text": "result of religious discrimination, but it would be naive of anyone with the slightest knowledge of the Province not to argue that some of it comes about as a result of religious discrimination. I believe that to be the case, and if any hon. Gentleman would like to argue the point I should like to hear from him now. There is that problem; it would be foolish and naive to pretend that there is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How will you do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "the Bill because the survey showed that, pro rata, more Roman Catholics than Protestants were without a job. So that is the issue to which we should be addressing our minds. You will have gathered, Mr. Deputy Speaker, my serious reservations about the ability of legislation to improve perceived discrimination. I repeat my opening words I am in favour of equality of opportunity in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it will be cured by legislation. I suggest that it would best be cured by market forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Sandwell)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "ing challenges. The Government set up that audit, but far from helping the borough of Sandwell in the the two areas mentioned in the report, the Government have considerably reduced the housing allocation entitlement in the next financial year. I hope that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley, West will say something about the social services and the growth that is needed there .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-01-31", "file": "debates1989-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "b7253d1d524a05fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Sandwell)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "l year. I hope that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley, West will say something about the social services and the growth that is needed there .[Interruption.] Although unemployment has been falling slightly faster in the borough than in England and Wales as a whole, we still have one of the highest proportions of unemployed people who have been out of work for more than a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-01-31a.268.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.281.9", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "The provisions in the Act exempt from liability those with severe mental impairment from birth or as a result of an accident. Degenerative diseases are often of a fluctuating nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.281.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.284.6", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "We gave careful consideration to the position of crofters. The hon. Gentleman, who is an honest man, will be the first to appreciate that it is difficult to suggest that a crofter should be given an advantage over another member of the public who might have the same income. A crofter on low income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.284.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.286.6", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "I put it to the Minister that Strathclyde region has an excellent lighting department, but because he has forced competitive tenders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.286.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "New Writ (Richmond, Yorks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Before any writ is issued, and before any by-election takes place, there ought to be an explanation as to why, on 27 January, the Prime Minister could murmur, \"I may not be Prime Minister at six o'clock tonight.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "New Writ (Richmond, Yorks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "tion with the word \"Govan\" tattooed on his fingers. Therefore, the Labour party would not be keen on having an election in Scotland, or anywhere else, just now. The Labour candidate in Richmond is performing the same sort of function as the Light Brigade performed for this country in the Crimean war. He knows that he is going into the jaws of death and the mouth of hell, and we admire his courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "New Writ (Richmond, Yorks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "entleman about the importance of Europe and later in my speech I intend to develop my thoughts on that at greater length than I have done thus far. I understand that the hon. Gentleman is concerned about the sitting of the Select Committee on European Legislation, which was supposed to start 21 minutes ago. The hon. Gentleman would like to be there, as would many of us. It has been suggested that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "New Writ (Pontypridd)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Wakeham)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Wakeham)", "preceding_text": "I should first like to pay tribute to Brynmor John, who died so sadly on 13 December. He had been a Member of this House for more than 18 years and was extremely well liked and respected on both sides of the Chamber. He will be greatly missed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "New Writ (Pontypridd)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. Since I have compaigned consistently on the issue of devolution for Wales, the House knows exactly where stand on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "New Writ (Pontypridd)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has asked what the right hon. Gentleman the Lunchtime O'Sparkbrook would have to say if he went to the constituency of Pontypridd. I ask my hon. Friend if he knows whether there are any decent restaurants there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.329.2", "colnum": "329", "heading": "New Writ (Pontypridd)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "I confess that, because of the laughter of other hon. Members, I did not hear my hon. Friend, but I take it that it was a germane point, and perhaps almost as relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"24.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to believe what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, given that since 1979 there have been 19 or 20 changes in the way in which unemployment figures are calculated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "If Opposition Members are concerned about low pay and poor people, surely they are concerned about the position of unemployed people, particularly the long-term unemployed. Do they have no conscience? Are they not concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "not that of raw meat. Not only have circumstances changed since 1909, but there have been developments since legislation was introduced in 1986 to exclude young people under the age of 21. There is no evidence that the removal of the right of those under 21 to take their cases to wages councils has led to lower pay for them. There is every reason to believe that it has encouraged their employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way again. Family credit is a generous replacement of the old family income supplement. It is a viable and worthwhile benefit that makes a substantial difference to the income of working families. Expenditure on family credit in its first year of operation is estimated at £420 million. That compares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "family credit system is more than £25—nearly double the £13 of the average family income supplement award. That is evidence that families most in need are claiming benefit. We continue to encourage the take-up of this new benefit. It has been in operation for only 12 months. Last summer I issued a leaflet which was distributed amongst jobcentres to explain family credit and other in-work benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "abrics and trimmings. We recently had a visit from 'The Wages Council' and unfortunately we're not paying quite the full amount per hour to the part-time workers. The ladies who work here were quite happy with the arrangements we had with them, but that didn't count, because according to the inspector, 'We were breaking the law'. Whose law? In the end I felt like a criminal and that I didn't like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I have always believed—even when I thought I was a Socialist—in a high wage, high productivity economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.373.7", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I speak as a wet-behind-the-ears new Member. But for a dozen years I ran an employment agency and dealt with staff, some of whom had the so-called protection of wages councils and some of whom had not, and I can best answer the hon. Gentleman's question by considering which of those groups was better off. Hopefully, all hon. Members believe that people in receipt of low pay need to be helped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.373.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ge because they do not believe, from a philosophical point of view, that there is much to be gained from taking that step. They do not feel that the actions of wages councils are distorting the economy enormously. I believe that wages councils are depressing wages and are institutionalising people in low-paid groups. That must be true because of the way in which wages are low under wages councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "Thank you for the opportunity, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-01", "file": "debates1989-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "49910a837095800d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Low Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "red by wages councils are paid the correct rate. Opposition Members seem to be completely prosecution-minded and say that that is not enough and they want to see more prosecutions. I should have thought that the Opposition would be more concerned about doing something to ensure that the present structure of wages councils was abided by. If an inspector finds that due to a genuine misunderstanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-01a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that there are a considerable number of appointments. To list all of them would cost far too much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.429.5", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "May I first of all sympathise with the Leader of the House on the widespread media reports that he is due to be dismissed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman promise the House a debate on the Government's apparent continued determination that Britain will be represented at the funeral of Emperor Hirohito by the Duke of Edinburgh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": " a debate on the private Bill procedure report but am doing much by collecting the views of Departments so that I can make an informed speech to the House. The hon. Gentleman may like to have debates in which knowledge and information are not purveyed; I prefer debates in which some information is given. I am with the hon. Gentleman in wanting that debate as soon as it can practicably be arranged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ions by the Security Service. The Minister of State gave what we believed to be a considered reply, which appeared in column 1109 of Hansard for 25 January. He said that the passing of such information to solicitors would be covered by what he described as \"legal professional privilege.\" I have now received a letter from the president of the Law Society saying that that statement is simply untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary seems to be arguing that there is a concept of balance of harm. He said that it would be open to argument that, although some harm had been done, even more good had been done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "I stand in defence of my hon. Friend the Member for Corby (Mr. Powell). Is there not a major flaw in new clauses 1 and 4? It is what the person making the disclosure actually believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "mple, the law on obscene publications. The Home Secretary sounded what I thought was an ominous note when he said that the law on obscene publications was unsatisfactory. Does that mean that we are to have another prudish attack on the laws of this country, taking us back to the time when people had to go abroad to read what they wanted to read? Are we to have that from the present Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to take it from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.496.4", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a barrister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Miss Boothroyd. I apologise to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley, West (Mr. Archer), but the matter is of some importance. My right hon. and learned Friend who is about to speak has been a Law Officer of the Crown, a solicitor and not a barrister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the reference to the reasonable person in English law. The hon. Gentleman has got it wrong again. That person will not necessarily be found innocent. He will have to prove that he had reasonable cause, not that he imagined that he had reasonable cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "heeler) made an admittedly very brief intervention and left a few minutes later when the hon. Member for Paisley, South had started speaking. My hon. Friend is the very distinguished Chairman of the Select Committee on Home Affairs, and I understand that, but I am sorry that he was not able to be here longer because he referred whimsically to the five hours that we have had on this debate already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "est whistleblower cannot blow the whistle without being convicted of crime. It is nonsense, because he can go to the staff counsellor without being convicted. If he does not like what the staff counsellor says, he can go to the Minister without being convicted. If he does not like what the Minister has to say, he can go to his Member of Parliament and say, \"I am bound by the Official Secrets Act\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-02", "file": "debates1989-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b50e3f6568b77fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": " knock on the Home Secretary's door or the Foreign Secretary's door or any one of those doors in the corridor—and the matter will be examined. That is true under any Government, and authority will be given to the whistleblower to explain precisely what he is complaining about without any question of prosecution. That is how the law operates and how the law would operate after this Bill became law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-02a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-03", "file": "debates1989-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "8575cdb7371936a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-03a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I heard that. I can assure the House that it is not the same. It may be for the convenience of the House if I now explain the Government's view of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-03a.590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-03", "file": "debates1989-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "8575cdb7371936a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-03a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "ving the Bill a Second Reading. Both the Minister and the hon. Member for Epping Forest queried the idea of the Government appointing press commissioners. I sympathise with the Minister. I suspect that if the Government did that, I would be one seeking to table an early-day motion. But that is because this Government's record on abusing Government appointments of governors of major bodies is poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-03a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-03", "file": "debates1989-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "8575cdb7371936a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-03a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "ance bounty hunters who concoct stories, knowing that there is a ready market, even if their story only involves Mrs. Brown down the road. I know of two cases. The first—I will not say where it happened—involves a miner who was fined for parking in the wrong place. There is nothing wrong with that. The only thing was that he was wearing silk stockings, a suspender belt, and other women's clothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-03a.606.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Water Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "It is true that my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot) introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Water Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "the words that were used in 1909 in Lancashire by the grandfather of the hon. Member for Crawley. I refer to the occasion when Winston Churchill spelt out that the prows of the property speculator were reaped in direct proportion to the disservice done to the rest of society. That is how we can measure what the property speculators will be doing. We are told that the Government appointed Schroder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Water Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " shareholders. Ministers have told us that there will be regulations, and so there will. However, as Keith Court, the boss of South West Water, said when he thought that he was not being reported, the job of the industry will be to outwit the regulators. As the Secretary of State is to be the principal regulator, the smart money will be on those who are intent on outwitting him. His record so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Water Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "If Lord Crickhowell was too ill to be a Member of Parliament, he is still too ill to be the boss of the National Rivers Authority. I stick to that position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Water Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ent on at some length about it. It is fair to remind the House that all Governments have had recourse to that measure. There is little virtue in Opposition Members adopting holier-than-thou attitudes, as they have this afternoon, especially when one recalls that it was the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot) who in one day—20 July 1976—actually guillotined five separate and major bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Water Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "sk in the meanest town hall. I responded to the hon. Gentleman's comments as I have an interest in this matter as a non-executive director of the group that manufactures the cups that he described. The hon. Member for Bootle proceeded truly to amaze the Committee with the depth and breadth of his wisdom on medieval affairs when he said: We should like to see the British landscape of William Tell\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Water Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I am relieved that my hon. Friend relieves me of the necessity to speculate on the hon. Lady's attitude on that occasion. I am sure that the leader of the Labour party will bear in mind the contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like in Paris.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "el on public transport they would not be defending this wretched little Bill and the silly things that are happening to London transport. The best way to deal with the problem of fare evasion would be to return to the flat-fare system that the GLC was trying to construct, and keeping fares at a low level. If the system is seen as a service, there will be no excuse for anyone to evade paying fares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-06", "file": "debates1989-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "7e81a67701cb58e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Adoption Allowance Schemes", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "at adoption allowances are now well used. The hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East showed the House his extensive legal knowledge. He is correct in suggesting that, as a theme, it is important that the interests of the child should be paramount. I believe that the Scots courts have adopted that principle for many years. I agreed with everything that the hon. and learned Gentleman said and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-06a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.788.8", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "When assessing the conditions of service men and service women in Belize, will the Secretary of State bear in mind the comments made during the debate on the Defence Estimates about pay, allowances and conditions throughout our armed forces and give a categorical assurance that he will consider council house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.788.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.788.8", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "When assessing the conditions of service men and service women in Belize, will the Secretary of State bear in mind the comments made during the debate on the Defence Estimates about pay, allowances and conditions throughout our armed forces and give a categorical assurance that he will consider council house— [Interruption.] A Freudian slip, Mr. Speaker—I would buy another if I had the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.788.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yonger", "preceding_text": "I appreciate my hon. Friend's point. Belize is certainly a good place for jungle training. I was able to take part in some jungle training myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.795.8", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister comment on the specification and supply of EFA radar systems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.795.8", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister comment on the specification and supply of EFA radar systems—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"]. Will he ensure that his decision will not prejudice Britain's electronics and radar industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.795.8", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister comment on the specification and supply of EFA radar systems—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"]. Will he ensure that his decision will not prejudice Britain's electronics and radar industries—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"]—research base, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.796.10", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The facts I have given to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.796.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not listen. I said that the increase in prices—if they are trying to start from a higher base—will have virtually no effect because we are introducing a better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.798.9", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Given that it is Government policy that before a school moves out of local authority control there should be a vote by parents, and before housing moves out of local government control there should be a vote by tenants, why is it not explicit Government policy that before a hospital such as Guy's in my constituency moves out of local authority control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.798.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Road Safety (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "unced only a few days ago that there would be consultation. He has asked for the consultations to be completed by 30 April. Were it to be decided that changes in the law should take place, there is no reason to assume that they could not be fitted into a new traffic Bill. As to when such a Bill will be brought forward, the hallowed answer to such requests is \"As soon as parliamentary time allows.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.820.5", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "y will identify with that term, and with the description of the London transport system as a European black spot. Unfortunately, we can only expect the position to worsen, despite all the Secretary of State's rhetoric and the plans that he has announced over the past couple of weeks. Certainly the possibility of Cabinet changes concentrates the minds and statements of various Secretaries of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.820.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.820.5", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " likely unless immediate investment is made in airports and new runways. In the British Rail system we see the Government's prejudice against any form of public transport. Tragedies such as the Clapham junction crash show that investment in the railways is inadequate. The Government's amendment claims that investment is at record levels and contrasts it with that under the last Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.820.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "bility and increased personal freedom—two Conservative ideals One would think that the Secretary of State would want to give greater priority to roads. He said in the same speech that Government spending was 50 per cent. higher in real terms than under the last Labour administration. That is not true. I asked the Secretary of State and his answer can be found in the parliamentary written answers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ked him the same question in a letter a week or so ago? I shall tell him why: because not all the recommendations have been implemented. The important ones about the control of the police and on airport security fund were all dismantled by the Government in 1983, which made our airports less secure. The Government have much to answer for because of the reduction of security and safety at airports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "ht that the good temper of the earlier statement would pretty soon disappear, and it has, though the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) is in quite a jolly mood, I have to confess, and I hope that he will remain jolly throughout my speech. I will try to deal with the subjects that he has raised—at slightly less length, in view of the shortage of time available for this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ts of its operations, including safety. Laxness and inefficiency would be far more worrying. Another claim hinted at in the motion, though not so much in the speech of the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East, is that congestion also poses a real threat to safety. That is not the case. For example, despite the massive increase in air travel, there has been a considerable improvement in safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I believe in ministerial responsibility. I do not hold civil servants responsible for forecasts—I hold Ministers responsible for accepting the forecasts. I suspect that Labour Treasury Ministers may have had something to do with the blame for those forecasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "erhaps my hon. Friend will be in touch with him. I think that the answer to the question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North-West (Mr. Bellingham) is that the scheme will cost about £20 million and should be open in 1991. The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East said that we were not investing enough in British Rail, but investment now is the highest in real terms for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.835.4", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Member's views about the Settle to Carlisle line and I am considering all the representations that have been made. They need careful study and I will make an announcement as soon as I can, but I think that it will be a little while yet. The point that I still cannot get into the heads of Opposition Members—I simply cannot understand why not—is that facts are facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.835.4", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "e have been deeply disappointed. Perhaps the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape) will tell us when he winds up. When shall we be told the Opposition's intention? Is the subject so low on their list of priorities that we cannot be told what they would do? Perhaps they need to go to Moscow to find out. Are their internal party wranglings so bitter? Perhaps Mr. Todd will not come on side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.835.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "claim that investment in the railways is at an 'all-time high' is simply not correct,—except in current price terms, which is not of any interest. The graph shows that, following the period 1981–84, in which for four consecutive years, the lowest-ever levels of investment since the Second World War were recorded, there has indeed been a strong recovery in railway investment in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "idcup (Mr. Heath). Conservative Members dare not mention that. Not even the Secretary of State's PPS, who is now doing his duty, is allowed to laugh at that,but it is the reality. The Secretary of State announced welcome proposals for railway investment, and mentioned two schemes that have been given his approval. One of them is the Cambridge to King's Lynn scheme, which is welcome but surprising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Science and Scientific Research", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " of tenure. It goes on to say that the availability of such staff is the only means of servicing applied research problems. The unit goes on to say that it is utterly demoralising to be faced year after year with internal cuts and savings targets. Most serious of all, no one in this unit is now engaged on curiosity-led pure research to develop new techniques for the applied research of the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Science and Scientific Research", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " emigrants blame the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Government for the exodus. The author goes on to say: They are part of a migration that may be the largest single influx into this country from a single source since Jewish professors were forced to leave Germany and Austria in the 1930's. The article quotes David Cannadine, a Cambridge historian, who went to Columbia university in September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Science and Scientific Research", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Most British academics are so poorly paid that they do not get into the higher tax brackets. Moreover, what has happened to the brain deain in this decade is proof, if ever it were needed, that relative tax rates have nothing to do with the flight from British universities to the United States. As the tax rates have gone up, the flight from this country has increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Science and Scientific Research", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": " are about. However, when I listen to speeches such as the one that we have just heard from the hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Michael)—which was interesting in its way—my reaction is that neither he nor many of his colleagues ever seems to allow that over a broad area of Government activity the Government may possibly get it right some of the time, in some places, on some issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.909.6", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Social Services (Designation of Functions)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Local Authority Social Services (Designation of Functions) Order 1989, which was laid before this House on 19th December, be approved. Following your ruling, Mr. Speaker, it may be for the convenience of the House if the two instruments-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.909.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Access to Personal Files", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "preceding_text": "It may be for the convenience of the House if we take motions 3 and 4 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-07", "file": "debates1989-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "5aa876f654964d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Access to Personal Files", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Objection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "We now come to the Weights and Measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-07a.951.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "Certainly not the hon. Gentleman.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.972.2", "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": "right hon. and learned. Friend accept that many Conservative Members will be delighted that the Foreign Secretary gave a poor reception, to members of the World Council of Churches, because: many of us are worried and suspicious about where the funds of the World Council of Churches are going? Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept that much of that money is going to terrorist organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "As someone who opposed the Russian occupation of Afghanistan from the beginning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "bate and, a few weeks ago, in another place. The White Paper is the Government's child, but its godparents are Professor Peacock and his fellow members, my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster, North (Mr. Wheeler) and the members of the Select Committee on Home Affairs. I know that my hon. Friend is hoping to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. One of the godfathers commented in The Times today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1023.4", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "s potential role, I am horrified by the thought of what Lord Chalfont will do—given the chance—to the IBA. I accept, with due deference to the other place, that Lord Chalfont is a bit of a joke. He is the only man in history to become a peer, a Privy Councillor, one of Her Majesty's Ministers and a member of the Labour party all on the same afternoon. Although he is a joke, he is a dangerous joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1023.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "I agree with the last comments of the hon. Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham). As a non-executive director of London Weekend Television and a superannuated, somewhat faded television interviewer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": " to make that choice for themselves. Elitists believe that they are so clever that they can make everybody's choices for them. They cannot cope in a modern world. It is not the Government who are deregulating broadcasting or the White Paper that is deregulating television; it is the technology and the choices that will be freely made by the people. Surely the purpose of taking part in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "it absolutely plain earlier and I will repeat this point for the right hon. Gentleman who seems to have difficulty getting it into his head, I am not quite certain why. People should not be too quick to assume that there will be no limit on newspaper interests in regional Channel 3 licences. That is the position. My right hon. Friend the Member for Kincardine and Deeside (Mr. Buchanan-Smith) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I have said that I will not give way again. I have quite a bit more to say and very little time in which to say it. We started from the basic premise that the thesis of some Opposition Members as we have heard today—and certainly that of John Mortimer—that quality can be sustained only through a restriction in choice is essentially wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Precept Limitation (Prescribed Maximum) (Inner London Education Authority) Order 1989, which was laid before this House on 27th January, be approved. Today's debate concerns the financing of ILEA in 1989–90.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1083.3", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The outer London boroughs are spending £1,141; ILEA is spending £1,510 on the same basis—32 per cent. more than the outer boroughs and 46 per cent. more than the metropolitan districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1083.7", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was challenged by Opposition Members and it was suggested that I know nothing about inner London education. I should point out that I was a member of ILEA for a number of years, as were a number of my hon. Friends. No one on the Opposition Benches has ever been a member of ILEA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1083.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1086.6", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman clearly seeks to make a point. It is true that the limitation rates have been raised so that the Inner London education authority may raise £960 million. As a result of the moves my right hon. Friend has made, the precept maximum in the draft order will allow the authority to raise that sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1086.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "This is a short debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1091.6", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "r, having twice considered the ILEA figures, arrives at the increases that she has in the permissible amount that the authority can raise. It is of course true that parents in London are net getting the best possible deal—but it is evident from the results of London local government by-elections that they realise where the blame lies. It does not lie at the door of this Government, but with those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1091.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1096.3", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "do not apply for the vacant headship posts. I hear that when headships are advertised, the calibre of applicants is disappointing to those who are responsible for drawing up the short lists. The reasons given by the majority of those who could and should be appointed is that they find oppresive the political interference from county hall in education matters. They are not prepared to take this on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1096.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "We have just heard an example of Tory party political propaganda based on the two-sides-of-thestreet argument. We have heard such examples on many occasions. In the 10 years that I have been a Member of Parliament I have not heard one constituent in the borough of Lambeth make the complaint that the hon. Gentleman has described. I have travelled around the borough on many occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-08", "file": "debates1989-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e2d70139885bb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1102.9", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Rumbold", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman questions what I said. It was perfectly true. Wandsworth has been one of the authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-08a.1102.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Morrison", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Opposition and the sillier sections of the press are getting the salmonella problem completely out of perspective, while the Government are entirely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "cuses on the detailed composition of our spending plans. The second change is that we have split the White Paper into separate volumes for each Department. This makes it much more accessible and easier to use. For example, from now on, someone interested in the cost of Scottish roads needs to buy only the Scottish volume. Departmental Select Committees will find this approach much more convenient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": " to 19 volumes in the present year, although the House will be relieved to know that expenditure itself has not grown at the same rate. Nor is it a dry document. It is a detailed and comprehensive account of our stewardship of public expenditure. It provides more and better information than ever before both on how we spend the nation's money and the value that the public get from that expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "ruption.] Opposition Members may not think that the value that we get is important, but we do. That may be one of the distinctions between us. The wealth of material in the White Paper reveals beyond any doubt that we pay the same close attention to the detail of expenditure as we do to the overall totals. But it is the substance of the White Paper, rather than its presentation, that is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "unfermline, East by how much he would increase public expenditure. We still await an answer from the hon. Gentleman, and I look forward to it. Nor am I optimistic that we shall get one today because the hon. Gentleman plainly has no idea what his public expenditure costs would be. He is into promises but not into costing them. Let me help him with some of the more recent promises that I have seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "important issue to hon. Members on both sides of the House. The question is simple and the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East and his hon. Friends will undoubtedly wish to respond to it. Which would the Opposition prefer, this Government's record on investment or that of their predecessor, the Labour Government? Before Opposition Members answer, perhaps I can help them out a little—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "selective measure because it excludes much of public sector capital. However, even on the selective measure which the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East chose, he made his claim on the basis of a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the figures. His figures were not the figures for total gross investment. His were net figures, net of receipts. Effectively, they were net of council house sales.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Dunfermline, East are fishy. Last month I said that the hon. Gentleman was a purveyor of more dodgy material than Arthur Daley. I am now bound to say that I realise how unfair I was to Arthur Daley, now that I have had a chance to examine the figures. If the hon. Gentleman had got his figures right, he would have realised that general Government investment is now 10 per cent. higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "is hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East wittingly or unwittingly misled the House. I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will spare us lectures based on the wrong figures and answer my straight question. Whose investment record does he prefer, ours with more investment or the previous Labour Government's with declining investment? The country knows very well which is the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "is an accountant and I hope that that is not a disadvantage for him—he will see that the figures are perfectly clear for anyone who chooses to read them. The figures produced by the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East for investment also neglect investment by public corporations. Perhaps he believes that investment in water or railways is unimportant. The Government do not, as the White Paper shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ared with the chronic under-investment during the 1970s. Investment in water was cut by the Labour Government by 25 per cent. in the five years to 1979–80. That led to an outdated and overloaded sewerage system which we are now renovating. The lesson is clear. A successful economy can invest, and we are. An unsuccessful one cannot and cuts investment. That is what the Labour Government did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "[Interruption.] I think that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East said, \"Wicked.\" I did not quite catch the word he used. There is nothing wicked about it. It was simply incompetence which led the Labour Government into that position. I must tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his colleagues that a successful economy can do something else that an unsuccessful one cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "hat is dead money for today's taxpayer. It does not build roads or railways, improve the National Health Service, education or defence. It simply pays the interest on past debts. Our policy on that debt is clear. We will maintain a balanced budget. However, we are going further than that. We are repaying debt. As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out in the Autumn Statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lightbown (Lords Commissioner to the Treasury)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lightbown (Lords Commissioner to the Treasury)", "preceding_text": "y's economy, the Government requires drastic measures to reduce public expenditure and cut down capital investment\". What an echo of the 1970s for Tass to understand what the Labour party did not. The Government of the Soviet Union understand. Perhaps the Opposition Treasury team should follow their colleagues who deal with foreign policy and go to Moscow to get up to date with Socialist thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "he cost of subsidising private medical services by giving tax relief to pensioners who use them. He said that he did not know, and that it would depend on demand. That means that it is open-ended. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury. who is responsible for controlling our public finances, has agreed to a change in our taxation system without knowing the consequences in terms of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If I had asked someone to make a helpful intervention in my speech, I would have written that question for the hon. Gentleman. It shows clearly that the last Labour Government assessed public expenditure needs according to the individual case made and did not keep to a constant proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "the theory of crowding out. No wonder; perhaps the Chief Secretary, who constantly wants to intervene, could tell us whether the Government still believe that the crowding-out theory obtains in the circumstances of today. The Government have none the less been operating under the assumption that there ought to be such a constant reduction. They fight shy of putting the case for public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "both for the people who live in the south and for those who live in the north. It is not good enough to say that there is the occasional town in the north—whether Harrogate or Edinburgh—that is better off than some parts of the south. The statistics are blindingly clear that there is a growing and massive divide between the economic opportunity of those in the south and that of those in the north.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "at I may spare the Chief Secretary even more embarrassment—is the Government's record on overseas aid. When the last Labour Government left office, they were providing 0·52 per cent. of GNP in overseas aid. In 1987, the Tory Government gave just 0·28 per cent. of GNP in aid—the lowest figure ever recorded. Under the Tories, British aid has declined by over 15 per cent. in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ent resources. The sums involved are not large, and the Government have a £15 billion surplus. The spending of that money on aid would not add to any inflationary problems in this country but could bring much-needed relief to people living in very difficult circumstances indeed. Any Government with any sense of decency would use that money to increase overseas aid as one of their first priorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "internal economic matters but in joint action to shape international developments that affect all our interests. We should not be in that position were ours not an economy with growth, substance and vitality in it. We live in a heady atmosphere, so far removed from that portrayed by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East that one can hardly believe that he lives in the same country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "preceding_text": "be spent, whatever the objective. We believe that our country's wealth should be spent wisely and responsibly. It should be spent on reinforcing the enterprise culture, so that we may move away from the dependency culture which many right hon. and hon. Members born into the welfare state have grown up with. The Government's success has been in persuading voters that that is the right path to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "posal that the Government should seriously consider repaying the whole of the national debt by 1995. Certainly that must remain a real possibility on the agenda for economic success. The fact that all those things have been happening in the economy and public expenditure has been so controlled means that, whenever one travels abroad, one finds that we are the envy of much of the rest of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "by decentralisation, and I welcome the suggestion in the newspapers that the Government are considering further decentralisation. There are too many civil servants at too much office cost in London. I do not understand why the Civil Service should be exempted from private sector practices. The private sector pays people according to their performance; civil servants should be paid in the same way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1207.3", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": " just under a Labour-controlled authority. A lot of investment was made by a Conservative-controlled Northumberland county council. The national constraints applied in the south-east mean that our investment in schooling has been low. I have argued with my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary that the time will come when we must have more of the cake, but part of the reason for that is precisely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1207.3", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "mberland county council. The national constraints applied in the south-east mean that our investment in schooling has been low. I have argued with my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary that the time will come when we must have more of the cake, but part of the reason for that is precisely— [Interruption.] Does the hon. Member for Durham, North-West want to hear my point? We all listened to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": " to pay for private treatment. What are we supposed to make of the proposal to give tax relief on the cost of pensioners' private health insurance? Tax relief is public expenditure forgone. The proposal is targeted towards those who already have extra money to spend. Surely, if money is available, it would be fairer to spend it on health care for all of us, not on incentives for the more affluent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "likely to need medical services? It is surely legitimate to ask the cautious, steady—I hesitate to say parsimonious—custodian of the public purse how much the tax relief will cost. The representatives of prudence surely know the answer. The scheme could not have been announced without an estimate of the cost. I shall willingly give way if someone from the Government Benches will tell me what it is", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "ic expenditure. The first and easily the most efficacious way—in spite of what the Chief Secretary said to my hon. Friend the Member for Durham, North-West (Ms Armstrong)—seems to be to lure the Chancellor into an off-the-record press briefing with Sunday newspapers about his real plans for the service in question. Experience shows that the resulting outcry will gain extra money from the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "bvious that we are not the farming lobby. Recently, the hon. Lady has been saying, \"I want to be alone,\" echoing Greta Garbo—not, as is often thought, the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen). She has been alone in the Grand Committee Room. I was told that the hon. Lady wanted to be alone with her memories but we now learn that she wants to be alone with her memoirs instead$", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "thorities that have to cope with the problems of inner cities. The total fall in rate support grant to those local authorities is £318 million since June 1981. Alongside that we must set the reduction in regional development grants. Indeed, the entire budget of the Department of Trade and Industry is due to fall by 30 per cent. over the next three years. The Government believe that it is not what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "ort grant to those local authorities is £318 million since June 1981. Alongside that we must set the reduction in regional development grants. Indeed, the entire budget of the Department of Trade and Industry is due to fall by 30 per cent. over the next three years. The Government believe that it is not what— [Interruption.] Share what? This could be a very damaging allegation from the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ly the state can do, and which only the state ought to do, but the state should not over-extend itself. It is most likely to do things properly if it confines itself to doing what it is essential for it to do. One reason why the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East wants to increase public expenditure is that he believes that it can be used to remedy the defects of the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-09", "file": "debates1989-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "83498a8efeecd368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1236.5", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Credit Institutions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "MS. Finally, I want to make an observation about the manner in which these proposals have been formulated and how they have been considered by this House. I am glad that they have been considered on the Floor of the House. Nonetheless, in terms of questions put to the Minister, I had to treat this virtually as a Committee stage because so much is unclear about the proposals and their implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-09a.1236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-10", "file": "debates1989-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e30b678f4737beb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1283.5", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": ": We had to have identity cards during the War because of the danger of Fifth columnists. The malaise of violence in our society is like a Fifth column, another enemy within the state. Old-age pensioners suffer more than anybody from the fear of going out as they lose the ability to defend themselves. Mrs. Dorothy Rhodes-that is a good name and I shall repeat it in case any hon. Members missed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-10", "file": "debates1989-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e30b678f4737beb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "f the serious consequences of the Bill. The Lindop committee on data protection described the use of a universal personal identity system and reported: It would … present a considerable threat to the privacy and perhaps the freedom of the private citizen. It is recommended that UPI should not come in unless there has been special legislation and a committee to examine its purposes. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-10", "file": "debates1989-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e30b678f4737beb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "slation and a committee to examine its purposes. Finally—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] My hon. Friends may cheer, but I have spoken for less long than my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North and others. The Bill needs to have a reasoned case put against it on grounds of principle and utility. If my hon. Friends want to examine the utility of the Bill they may do so; I propose to do the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-10", "file": "debates1989-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e30b678f4737beb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1302.7", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I rather like France so I shall not comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1302.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-10", "file": "debates1989-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e30b678f4737beb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Traffic (East London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has got that wrong. He is inventing a voting pattern for his constituency. It is extraordinary that the Chairman of the Select Committee on the Environment cannot come out against major road building solutions for London which will cause massive damage to the homes of his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-10", "file": "debates1989-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e30b678f4737beb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Traffic (East London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "toke Newington that we should not be building roads in London especially for car commuters from outside London. When I go back to the day of the launch of Auto Express, when I opened my mouth and put my foot in it, I said that I had no intention of using taxpayer's money to build extra roads so that commuters could come pouring in from the home counties or from outer London to inner London by car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-10a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.4.7", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ion is one point, but the point that my hon. Friend picked up from the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) is that three quarters of deaths and injuries take place in built-up areas. Motorways are not the answer in built-up areas. Bypasses or relief roads may be an answer, but the normal answer is traffic management and traffic calming so that where there are many pedestrians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.4.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "d a ruling whereby this matter can be opened up? As you will understand, I am not satisfied if some Members of this House whom the security services do not regard as trustworthy are to be given access to classified material. We know that at the moment there are six such Members. We know not who they are; we know only that they are Conservatives, and in saying so, I am not scoring political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.22.6", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If he maintains that it is a matter of privilege, he should raise it in the appropriate manner, which is to write to me about it. Before he does so, however, I have to say to him that I cannot be held responsible for what hon. Members may allege in the Chamber, provided that what they say is in order. The hon. Gentleman is being very unfair to his colleagues by taking time out of private business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.22.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Moral Values", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "s is there any justification for the class system'? We can carry the thread through to Don Camaro in Latin America who said: If I give food to the poor, I am called a saint; if I ask why the poor have no food, I am called a Communist. There is today the most powerful alliance between Marxists and Catholic priests. There are many people who believe that Karl Marx was the last Old Testament prophet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Moral Values", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "I should be delighted if his Lordship would write to me and tell me. I do not mind whether what the Bishop of Durham said was right or wrong. He has every right to make such statements. If he is wrong, no doubt he will write and tell me so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "bers of the British Security Service, not necessarily with authority from the top but perhaps as an act of private enterprise on the part of some Security Service oddball such as Peter Wright or his friends. Under the Bill, a member of the Security Service could not report such a murder except to someone within, or closely associated with, the security services. Such people in the higher echelons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.78.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "Will the shadow Leader of the House tell us under what clause of the Bill persons could be prosecuted for that offence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "There seems to be some hesitation among Conservative Members", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.80.4", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "If she had been notified as such a person—I am sorry if I got the phraseology wrong—she would be committing an offence. It is no good the Secretary of State pretending that it is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.80.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker: (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker: (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Order. We are not discussing that subsection or any other subsection. We are discussing the motion on the Order Paper. I do not see any reference to that subsection on the Order Paper", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Well, we got the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Well, we got the Bill. [Interruption.] Yes, we hear the question about the Prices and Incomes Bill. That too was legislation that had to be dealt with at once because it was a matter of national emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "rom my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State stated: I must emphasise that authorisation to members or former members in respect of disclosures of information about their work will be rare and given only in exceptional circumstances. There is no easy way of reconciling those two statements. I refuse to believe that my hon. Friend the Minister said what he did to lure me into the Division Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The Sun.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ny of the extravagant claims which often characterise these debates, but some of the facts are beyond dispute. The first is that this guillotine has no friends except the Government and their acolytes. The Times condemned it. The Daily Telegraph condemned it. If even The Times and The Daily Telegraph in their present form cannot bring themselves to support the Government, who in heaven's name can?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "lause 6, which was moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Mr. Allason), to which my hon. Friend the Minister of State replied: It will not come as any surprise to those concerned to know that authorisation to members and former members to disclose information about their work will be rare and given only in exceptional circumstances.\"—[ Official Report, 25 January 1989; Vol. 145, c. 11031]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.113.3", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the House, which is the master of its privileges, has ever asserted that communications to an hon. Member are privileged.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-13", "file": "debates1989-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad4ecdf0bca6260e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.114.4", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Official Secrets Bill (Allocation of time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "e of the attack which, in a way, goes deeper. It is the accusation of authoritarianism in our handling of such matters. I strongly rebut that. If one looks at proceedings on this matter in the past 12 months, one realises that that attack cannot be sustained. If one considers the White Paper and remembers how, it contrasted vividly with the predictions made by the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-13a.114.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "\"smug\" and \"complacent\", the hon. Gentleman merely illustrates that it is unwise to write one's supplementary question before hearing the answer to the main question. If the hon. Gentleman is trying to suggest that there has been a major increase in YTS accidents he and his hon. Friends should know that the bases on which accidents are recorded were changed in 1986. If one takes that into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is running a bit scared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.142.7", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that no less than 41 per cent. of the Government's claimed increase in jobs in the past two years allegedly comes from self-employment? Is he aware that those Government figures are simply invented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.142.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.145.6", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "ll the Government give a commitment that the Social Security Bill before the House will contain some concession to eliminate this scandal? If not, will the Prime Minister agree that the policies that she has pursued over the last decade are the antithesis of the sentiments she preached on the doorstep of No. 10 in May 1979, when she had the gall to quote that great prayer of St. Francis of Assisi?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I really had expected better of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.146.7", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It seems to me schoolboy stuff. May I take advantage of the question that the right hon. Gentleman has asked, as there appears to be some confusion?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.146.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.146.9", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". In England and Wales the Ministry of Agriculture is considering whether unpasteurised liquid milk and cream for sale to the general public should also be banned, and a consultation document will be issued shortly. A code of practice for major manufacturers of soft cheeses has already been issued, and one for smaller cheese-making businesses is in draft. On listeriosis, the chief medical officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.146.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f medical officer's advice is that pregnant women and certain other categories of people should not eat certain types of soft cheeses. That advice applies irrespective of the type of milk from which they are made. The chief medical officer also gave advice that these people should fully reheat cook-chill meals and ready-to-eat poultry until they are piping hot. Those are the facts and the advice.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, you criticise our Back Benchers for wasting time; what about the right hon. Lady?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.160.8", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "If there had been an extra six minutes, as Scotland had in that match when rt scored the vital goal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.160.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is not a point of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "fferent views—not only to Parliament but to the people of this country—on how to tackle some of the most deep-seated problems in our urban communities and rural areas. The fact that, after a decade of Conservative Government, we still have those problems shows the slow learning abilities of successive Conservative Ministers. The Bill has all the hallmarks of its successors, or rather predecessors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.177.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "is much more to talk about in the Bill and there is much more of it that we oppose. I have made the point once, but I make it again, that we fundamentally oppose the new housing finance proposals which will require council house tenants effectively to pay an additional tax to subsidise the poll tax and housing benefit. That is a major departure from the policy followed by all previous Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "now defunct authority. There was no way that we had an opportunity to sit pro rata in the membership of committees. There was no way at all that we could operate within the standing orders of the council, because, if we found a way of getting round the standing orders, the standing orders were changed. It was easy: if the rules do not fit, change the rules. This happened in Sheffield city council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "I am rather disturbed that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned the name of the person concerned. I have not used the name of any councillor in this place. The man died some while ago, and it besmirches his memory for an hon. Gentleman to bring up his name. I have not mentioned any names. If the cap fits, let the hon. Gentleman wear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": " a ballot paper or even works behind closed doors, when there is no way that anyone else can snoop. But it is a different matter for a chief officer to be seen on the streets of Sheffield during a by-election, delivering Labour party leaflets. That must be stopped somehow. There must be a cut-off point. It would be wrong of me to say that I do not know of a Tory who holds high office in a council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " benefit is intended to relieve poverty and is thus rightly part of the national social security system. We therefore feel that it would be inequitable for the responsibility for financing housing benefit payable to council tenants to be transferred to local government…this change could prejudice and would certainly complicate any future attempts to reform the system for relieving poverty\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "ot bad enough on its own. Last year, for example, there was the nasty clause 29. That was bad enough, but it was only one clause and it was almost so stupid as to be unenforceable. However, the 1989 sinister quotient has gone up to a whole part—one fifth of the entire Bill. Part I has serious implications for the civil liberties of thousands of people. Because of the shortness of my allotted time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "ure years. The consultation paper…makes it impossible for many authorities to achieve this objective. As a local authority which from before 1979 has promoted the national legislation in housing, notably the sale of council houses, …we now see as almost a certainty that councils like ourselves, who have built up large capital receipts, will have our 'permissions to borrow' cut back\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.218.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": "tes to standing orders. Given the widespread and well-documented manipulation of standing orders in various councils, I am somewhat dismayed that according to clause 16 the Secretary of State \"may\" require authorities to adopt certain procedures. Why not have a compulsory element to protect the interests which after all are there to protect minority parties? Copies of my booklet will be available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": " make up the gaps in the public sector. If public sector housing is cut from 70,000 units in 1979 to about 15,000 next year, the private sector will be unable to make up the difference, especially if interest rates are then banged up as well. Of course, housing will get into trouble. It is a case of too little, too late. Let the London Boroughs Association say it again, because it says it so well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.245.7", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "d by hon. Members, such as the hon. Member for Liverpool, Broadgreen (Mr. Fields). We knew that he would attack them, because he is the unacceptable face of the Socialist party. We did not expect hon. Members such as the hon. Member for Copeland to back this sort of job for the boys. We believed that there was still some honour left in the Labour party, but we have seen tonight that there is none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.245.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "We had an interjection from the hon. Member for Broadgreen, when he told the House whatever he was mandated by his local Labour management committee to say. He suggested that it was all right that Mr. Hatton was paid by the neighbouring council of Knowsley. That was the burden of his remark. Evidently, it is all right that the London borough of Hackney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "would want me to refer to that, because otherwise what he said was partial and one-sided. He referred to one side of the argument without mentioning the fact that what he was proposing was, in fact, the justification of Mr. Hatton, both in his capacity as the leader of the Liverpoool city council and as someone paid by the neighbouring Knowsley council. That is what the hon. Gentleman put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.246.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.247.6", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for the Minister to attack my borough council of Knowsley and then not to give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.247.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.248.7", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ll be meeting members of the London Grants Committee to see whether we can do something about that. The hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) asked about teachers. There is nothing in the Bill to cover teachers, and the White Paper made it clear that the Government's proposals, as carried in the Bill, do not cover teachers and lecturers. No doubt the Committee will discuss this matter, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Taunton (Mr. Nicholson) for his congratulations and his kindness. When I went to Taunton Deane, even the opposition members of the local council were at least interested enough to listen, to talk and to discuss, which is more than the guilty consciences of the Opposition are willing to do this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "—and on a much greater scale than we had expected. When the hon. Gentleman was bowled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Local Government and Housing Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": " in Liverpool. Conservative Members may sneer, but we have built houses, put people to work and set up nurseries. This legislation will do nothing to help the workers. We shall not say yes to this money, but we shall talk about money as part of our policy review. There will be agitation in the Labour party in favour of taking over the banks, insurance companies and finance houses at their expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-14", "file": "debates1989-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "73a4c8996e0a0805", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Local Government and Housing Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "preceding_text": "mentioned in the House, and I should like some time to raise several points. Before doing so may I comment on something that the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) said? He talked about twin tracking, about people getting jobs with one council and being members of another. Perhaps one good reason that a local authority has for employing councillors is that they are the best people for the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-14a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.301.5", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend speaks with authority on these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.301.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "The complex pattern of trade between national plants is subject to so many variables as to rob any estimate based thereon of tangible significance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "That was the case yesterday. Yesterday the hon. Gentleman had had the Bill for 10 days, but he 'was still in the dark. He is short on argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.318.8", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that he has had the statement for only 20 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.318.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.318.8", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that he has had the statement for only 20 minutes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-five minutes.\"] If he cannot understand it in 25 minutes, he is no damned good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.318.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "re of these exchanges. I am sure that Mr. Speaker will share my anxiety that, so far as is possible within the time parameters that have been set—both at this and later stages of the Bill—there should be an opportunity for the House to satisfy itself on matters which are clearly of considerable importance. I have noted that Ministers, too, are responding sympathetically and I hope understandingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "y men, who claim in a roundabout way to have been members of the SAS. I do not doubt for a moment that anyone casually mentioning that to a stranger in a pub would be unlikely to be telling the truth. Let us envisage the scene in the Swan public house in Erdington high street shortly after 11 o'clock on Friday night. It is likely that I shall be in there enjoying a pint after a busy advice bureau—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "n turn may pass the information on. Let us face it; very few people wander the land with a copy of Archbold and a full index to the criminal law under their arm. This is an intensely sensitive point. I am further concerned—I raised the point on Monday night in an intervention, and I raised it earlier today, and if the hon. Member for Banbury would listen he might receive a little bit of education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " of Archbold and a full index to the criminal law under their arm. This is an intensely sensitive point. I am further concerned—I raised the point on Monday night in an intervention, and I raised it earlier today, and if the hon. Member for Banbury would listen he might receive a little bit of education— [Interruption.] I say that with great care because it is so easy to be glib about the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I was just about to try to deal with points of that sort—and that one was raised specifically by my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Mr. Allason).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.352.6", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That will make it worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "of pure fiction, in which there is not a word of accuracy. Is my hon. Friend the Minister telling the House categorically that such works will still be permitted if the Bill is passed in its present form? On my reading, that would not be the case. People such as John Le Carr? will be liable to prosecution, although there will be some discretion, and it is possible that they will not be prosecuted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "rks of fiction, there was a clear conflict over the legal interpretation of what the clause meant and whether the word \"or\" should be \"and\"—or, in the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Mr. Gorst), whether we wanted \"one\" or \"two\". At the end of the day, the House was united in thinking that there was no doubt that the clause would trigger the prosecution of Mr. Le Carré—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " there was no doubt that the clause would trigger the prosecution of Mr. Le Carré— [Interruption.] —apart from my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry), who took an individual view. Those were legal matters, and with the best will in the world we cannot say that my hon. Friend the Minister of State has inspired us with the confidence to use him to represent our interests in court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "That seems even more far-fetched. I repeat that there could not conceivably be a prosecution under the Bill on the ground of embarrasment to a British Minister. That is not a criterion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ion. The clause is drawn in wide terms. It does not matter what the Home Secretary says to explain this clause or any other clause. Ultimately, a judge will have to direct a jury as to whether it should convict and the judge will have regard to what the statute says, not what the Home Secretary or anyone else said during the debate or what a press release might say. The statute is the key element—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "The 1911 Act is so global in its scope that it covers everything. My hon. Friend knows how few international organisations there were in 1911. There was no EEC or NATO, there were no major international organisations—they were all created in recent years. My hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor) spoke about the EEC. Why should it be treated any differently?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-15", "file": "debates1989-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6373ab86331afc32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Beef Imports (United States)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ort of Professor Lamming's group of experts, which described the European Commission's actions and those of the European Parliament as a case of legislate in haste and repent at leisure\". I do not disagree with their issue of principle, but I do disagree with the notion that it is a case of repent at leisure because. in a nutshell, unless on 20 February the Commission and the Council of Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-15a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": "r-up of food poisoning? According to its statistics, one in 12,000 eggs is contaminated and since 30 million eggs are distributed every day in Britain, 2,500 eggs per day must be contaminated. Will the Minister take into consideration that the average person eats 151 eggs a year, so one in 79 people in Britain will eat a contaminated egg and the average person will eat two infected eggs in a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They are proceeding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.5", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows that under this Government there has been no oil price hike, no major rise in commodity prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.7", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the blistering attack yesterday by the Lord Chief Justice of England on the Government's Green Papers for law reform? Is she further aware that the result of those Green Papers will be the virtual abolition of the independent Bar, which will drive up legal costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.9", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "What has happened to cause the Government to stand on their head?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.482.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "could not agree more. As a Minister I regularly wrote a column for the Walton Times, . I had written it before I became a Minister. I also used to write a column for The Times, but I had to stop that. I continued to write a column for the Walton Times. I do not know the circulation of the Walton Times, but it was not great. The Prime Minister of the day said that I had to stop writing that column.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "iament. The proposal is deficient because it would cover Members of the other place, whereas we are really speaking exclusively of Members of the House of Commons. In any event, I have not known an hon. Member to use—not misuse—privilege in bad faith. That is the test. I have used it and subsequently I have apologised, but not in relation to an issue as significant as that which we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.539.4", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "er for Caithness and Sutherland is right in saying that it is a matter of balance. We have had a leisurely debate, with between 20 and 25 right hon. and hon. Members present for most of the time, with the usual—but rather reduced—gifted group of convinced critics of the Bill on both sides of the House. Those right hon. and hon. Members have not attracted the support which they obviously hoped for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.539.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "We are still left with the proposition of the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham, and we cannot get away from that. Once a secret is disclosed, it is no longer a secret. There could be an argument about damage—and I understand that—but by definition, such a secret is no longer a secret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.549.6", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "ne book. Earlier this year, The Daily Telegraph published the name of the new head of the KGB. No action was taken. The Moscow correspondent of The Daily Telegraph rejoices in the name of Ian Smiley, which is most appropriate. He told us—and no harm has been done to relations between this country and the Soviet Union—that the new boss of the KGB is General Vladimir Kryuchkov. Nothing has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.549.6", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is harm?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": " uncertainty at the offices of The Guardian in Farringdon road as to whether it will be safe to publish such information in future. Paragraph 63 of the White Paper says: in cases in which the prosecution would under the Government's proposals have to show that disclosure was likely to result in harm, the offence would not be made out if no further harm was likely to arise from a second disclosure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "urity Service Bill, I mentioned the increasing effort of the security services devoted to counter-terrorist work. There are quite a few organisations—two or three in Northern Ireland and others in the middle east—which are quite sophisticated and probably attempt to piece together, bit by bit, disclosure by disclosure, how we counter their efforts in relation to techniques, equipment or personnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am giving instances not of past cases but of present dilemmas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e was outrageous. The Home Secretary told us to look at terrorist examples. Yet a few days after the shooting in Gibraltar, what was fed out to the press by the Bernard Ingham machine and taken up by papers such as The Sunday Times was lies, for which they had to pay thousands of pounds in damages to people who had been maligned. Some of those libel actions were fed out from No. 10 Downing street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "at \"international relations\" means the definition in clause 3(5). That is right. I am merely pointing out the difficulties we then have in clause 6(4). We are saying, therefore, that we are not dealing with the relationship of international relations, security aspects, defence and intelligence, but are giving the full meaning of the word to \"or\" and, therefore, isolating \"international relations\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.599.5", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sir I. Gilmour)— when it is procedurally in order to do so. If that is on Report, as you have suggested, Mr. Walker, we will fall in with whatever arrangemens suit the Committee.\"—[ Official Report , 15 February 1989; Vol. 147, c. 337.] My right hon. Friend had to add that conditional \"if that is on Report\" because that is a matter for selection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "Even allowing for the amendment in its current terms if the information is oral, as leaked information very often is, can my hon. Friend perhaps give the Minister some advice, if the Minister is prepared to listen, as to how one disposes of it? How could one prove that one had got rid of it or that one had forgotten it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.611.7", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "preceding_text": "journment of the House. It says in paragraph (a): Members are precluded, under the rule of anticipation …from discussing on an adjournment motion a notice of motion or an order of the day which already stands upon the notice paper or order book. I have already on the order book for today a notice of motion dealing with the disgraceful waste of ratepayers' money by Derbyshire county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.611.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.612.9", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I raise an important point with you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because I have heard tonight from various sources that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) and his hon. Friends—some of whom I permitted to speak in my debate—intend to speak for the entire time of the Adjournment debate and not allow time for a Minister to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.612.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It is clear, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.614.7", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about Reg Race.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rom 61·9 per cent. to 37·4 per cent. That means that, in contrast with the position when Labour left office in 1979, the ratepayers of Derbyshire in all 10 constituencies have had to find £62·6 for every £100 that has been spent. It is important that we get it on the record that rates increased generally, and in Derbyshire, because of the massive cut in the rate support grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.614.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.614.7", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the waste?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "fice in 1979, the ratepayers of Derbyshire in all 10 constituencies have had to find £62·6 for every £100 that has been spent. It is important that we get it on the record that rates increased generally, and in Derbyshire, because of the massive cut in the rate support grant. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about Reg Race.\"] One reason why the rate support grant has been cut is in order to finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.614.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.614.7", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "constituencies have had to find £62·6 for every £100 that has been spent. It is important that we get it on the record that rates increased generally, and in Derbyshire, because of the massive cut in the rate support grant. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about Reg Race.\"] One reason why the rate support grant has been cut is in order to finance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the waste?\"]—those people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.614.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.615.3", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "One of the reasons why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.615.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.615.6", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I realise the problem that you have, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.615.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.615.9", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I think that one of the problems you have to face, Mr. Deputy Speaker, is that most of the Tory Members have come out of the bar. They have been drinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.615.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I was just a little concerned about the fact that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I was just a little concerned about the fact that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] You are having some difficulty, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-16", "file": "debates1989-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "a7f02387568c4f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I was saying, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you are having great difficulty dealing with people this late at night. I was trying to make the point that Tory Members are trying to prevent the Derbyshire county council's Labour-controlled case from being put in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-16a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-17", "file": "debates1989-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6d0f0f16eb7d74d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.624.4", "colnum": "624", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "industries group and I serve under the distinguished chairmanship of the hon. Member for Devizes (Sir C. Morrison) for whom I have affection as well as respect. We work together harmoniously but we disagree about this matter. The hon. Member for Berkshire, East is not the right person to introduce such a Bill. Such a sensitive issue calls for careful handling and there are only a few hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-17", "file": "debates1989-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6d0f0f16eb7d74d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on—try harder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "r be denied the opportunity of consultation, but to that I would add that no one should feel neglected. The hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for Crawley—who described the idyllic conditions at Longchamp—believe that racecourses can provide family entertainment. In the view of the Horserace Betting Levy Board we shall not see those conditions here until hooliganism has been dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-17", "file": "debates1989-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6d0f0f16eb7d74d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.641.6", "colnum": "641", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " is a senior Member, he would do well to remember that if he plans lo make a constroversial speech, he should wait to hear what other folk have to say about it. At present, sporting events are taking place entirely in contravention and breach of the Sunday Observance Act 1780, which describes such gatherings as \"disorderly houses\" or, \"disorderly places\"—rather like the parliamentary Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.641.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-17", "file": "debates1989-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6d0f0f16eb7d74d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been here all the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman was listening to what I was saying, he would know that I had just dealt with that. If he has just come in, I am sorry that I gave way to him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-17", "file": "debates1989-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6d0f0f16eb7d74d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.654.7", "colnum": "654", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The people who will be disturbed by noise from sporting and racing events have no choice, and neither do staff. What choice is my hon. Friend giving stable lads and betting shop staff? There are 10,000 betting shops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.654.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-17", "file": "debates1989-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6d0f0f16eb7d74d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.675.9", "colnum": "675", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "n reviewing and building a case for racing, which could include Sunday racing, we must take those matters into account. There are 100,000 people working in the industry and they are strongly opposed to the Bill. Who is in favour of racing on Sunday? I suppose it is the gambling industry. It is a multi-billion pound industry and its turnover and profits will increase. We have no objections to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-17a.675.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-20", "file": "debates1989-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "fc91e4e4d7a7c82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-20a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "During the period of this enormous fall in unemployment, there has been an enormous surge of inward investment and great diversification of the economy. The only role of the Labour party is to stir up any bad news that it can get hold of to give a bad image of Wales. The hon. Gentleman was a Minister in the Welsh Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-20a.696.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Net Book Agreement (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "962. The court's judgment stood economics on its head. It was carried away in a romantic world where \"books are different\". The judgment supported the publishers' case and argued that if the net book agreement was abolished and competition resulted, prices would rise and that the small stockholding bookseller would go out of business. That is exactly what has happened under the net book agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Net Book Agreement (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "revent Miss Babbidge's bookshop from succumbing to market pressures. As another lady, for whom I have immense respect, once said, \"You can't buck the market.\" The judges attempted to buck the market in 1962. I, and many others, believe that their judgment did not consider the economic facts of life. Hon. Members may ask why a Bill is necessary and why the Office of Fair Trading cannot take action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.850.3", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Net Book Agreement (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "most impossible legal task. Unfortunately, when Parliament passed legislation on restrictive practices, no provision was made to empower the Office of Fair Trading to review such agreements without returning to the restrictive practices court. The fact that the NBA has not been reviewed by any authority acting on behalf of the consumer in nearly 30 years is, I believe, against the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.850.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "announcement that she had taken charge somewhat underwhelmed her right hon. and hon. Friends. I saw a report in The Independent that one of the Cabinet Ministers supposed to be a member of the ad hoc committee denied knowledge of its existence. And from The Times we heard the story of the Back Bencher, necessarily anonymous, who said: We have seen it all before. It's 'Maggie steps in' yet again. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "e worrying events have unfolded—and we have had two particular new features of food poisoning which have been identified steadily over the past 12 months—the Labour party has not taken any great interest, until today. One feature of the background is the worrying increase in the incidence of one type of salmonella and of listeriosis, which may be connected with food throughout the developed world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": " months. By the middle of last year, there was concern about salmonella enteritidis phage type 4 in eggs in particular. In July last year, the Government took what I would have thought would be the worrying and significant step of warning people in the National Health Service to use liquid pasteurised egg and not raw egg products. The Opposition did not react to that and took it as a minor matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "aw egg products. The Opposition did not react to that and took it as a minor matter. [Interruption.] On 26 August last year, the Government took a step that had to be considered carefully because the evidence was still unfolding. We took the fairly startling step of advising the public to avoid eating raw eggs and we gave a public health warning. Again, there was no reaction from the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "cessor. They are in the published details of the responsibilities of Government Ministers. .1 apologise, of course, that it took so long to answer the right hon. Gentleman's question. I fear—as is always the position when people first suspect a conspiracy and then think of the alternative—that his question, quite improperly, remained in the bottom drawer of some official over the Christmas recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.865.6", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "a new problem has emerged. I agree with the hon. Lady that it now falls to us and the industry to tackle that problem and to reduce the level of infection to the minimum practicable and eliminate it as quickly as possible. However, a new problem has emerged, and we must give warnings. We shall maintain those warnings until we are satisfied that it can be lifted—that is the essence of this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "This debate must be about reassuring the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.867.8", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Yes, I believe that I can give that. We have made orders controlling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.867.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "their orders for soft cheese, I shall repeat that healthy adults have probably consumed listeria several times in the past few days without even being aware of it or showing any symptoms. However, pregnant women are at risk if they eat cheese with listeria. In the 1980s there were outbreaks of listeria, first in Canada, and then a particular cheese, Vacherin Mont D'or, caused deaths in Sunderland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "hall repeat that healthy adults have probably consumed listeria several times in the past few days without even being aware of it or showing any symptoms. However, pregnant women are at risk if they eat cheese with listeria. In the 1980s there were outbreaks of listeria, first in Canada, and then a particular cheese, Vacherin Mont D'or, caused deaths in Sunderland— [Interruption.] —in Switzerland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.872.4", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "gestion of being subject to political interference in his medical judgment. He is also best qualified to give medical advice to the public and he did so. What I said to my hon. Friend was that she should decline to give interviews, because the only interviews that she would give was where she would face attacks from people like the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) demanding that she withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.872.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.872.4", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "lic and he did so. What I said to my hon. Friend was that she should decline to give interviews, because the only interviews that she would give was where she would face attacks from people like the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) demanding that she withdraw— [Interruption.] Yes, certainly. At that stage, this responsible Opposition put the issue on a par with woolly hats and Edwina-baiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.872.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We have had quite enough of that. I gave evidence on it for an hour to the Select Committee on Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, the hon. Gentleman should take that up with his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.873.7", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ry short time and then bringing the food up to piping hot again that the process has a good record and is giving rise to no concern. Contracting-out was said to be about to cause a wave of food poisoning throughout the hospitals. We have gone through a tendering process for well over three quarters of hospital catering, and the rate of salmonella infection in hospitals is dropping, not increasing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.873.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "r to debate this afternoon. They would have been more relevant to a Supply day debate. On the hon. Gentleman's first, and serious, point, let me say that I regret that it has taken 20 months, since we first announced our intention to consult, to produce these regulations. I can give the hon. Gentleman a perfectly straightforward explanation: the experts have taken a long time to come to agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.902.6", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "That was probably the least worthwhile intervention that we shall hear this evening. However, it confirms the accuracy of the statement that I made to the Leader of the Opposition when I pointed out that his hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, North regularly takes an egg in the Members' Tea Room in the morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.902.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": " lovely smelly cheese. I would quarrel with the French about many things, but their cheese is delicious, and to suggest that it is bad for people is absurd. The truth is that germs are everywhere. They are all over our skins—some 2 million on every square centimetre. Every time that we open our mouths to breathe we suck a load of them in. They are a damn sight less dangerous than many politicians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " the strength of public feeling. But the issue goes to the root of the Conservative party's approach to the quality of life. Food safety and environmental protection cannot be attained purely by market forces. The food issue proves that even wealth cannot guarantee food of safe quality. Increasingly, both prosperous and poor people in Britain are seeing a great reduction in their quality of life.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "We have had a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "dustry are taken fully into account; and, thirdly, to ensure that, throughout the food chain, there is effective monitoring and a framework of fully adequate regulations and the right framework to enforce them. In carrying out these responsibilities, we act on three principles, which I think it is very important to bear in mind: first, thorough surveillance and monitoring; secondly, prompt action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.932.6", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "perspective clear. Our consumers are better protected than ever before in terms of our knowledge of potential risks and the action taken to reduce them. I emphasise the point on reduction of risks since it is impossible to live in a risk-free environment. Those who ask that we should be salmonella-free do not understand the nature of the problem. Salmonella has existed ever since man can remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "That is a clear response to the charge of the right hon. Gentleman that our emphasis is on protecting producers. On the new legislation on pesticides, on the fact that we have 17 measures dealing with the new strain of salmonella—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "That is a clear response to the charge of the right hon. Gentleman that our emphasis is on protecting producers. On the new legislation on pesticides, on the fact that we have 17 measures dealing with the new strain of salmonella— [Interruption.] They are all in parliamentary answers. It would be pointless to reply to them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " in any country in the world, because I have consulted all my ministerial colleagues in the Community, and I am confident that that is so. Similarly, with mineral hydrocarbons, we received the advice of our food advisory committee on 2 February this year. Within a week we had not only taken a decision but announced it to Parliament. That is the promptness with which we act. Let me turn now to BSE—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Incidentally, the hon. Gentleman ought to know that there are very few cases of salmonella enteritidis virus type 4 coming from food protein, whether imported or domestic. Nevertheless, one of the 17 measures that we have implemented is to take powers to stop the protein going from the plant. Those powers have been in operation since 2 February, and we will use them whenever the evidence is there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " that my hon. Friends will forgive me for not giving way. There will be other opportunities for them to speak, and I must get through the rest of my reply. Effective heat treatment is known to be the only way in which to minimise the risks of transmitting milk-borne diseases to the consumer through unpasteurised milk. I therefore feel that it is right to take that step now. We shall be publishing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " because they lacked interest in and knowledge of the subject? The answer is yes to both questions. Now, suddenly they try to belittle our policies, which some of them have supported for the past 10 years and others have ignored. I refer to the exchanges in the House on 5 December 1988 when my right hon. Friend reported on salmonella in eggs and the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) responded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Gentleman is willing to say that outside the privilege of the House, I shall listen to him. He knows perfectly well that what he said is not true. I must return to my narrative of the events behind the order. On 19 December, all seven authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "the rate limitation round. Officers from Hackney, Lewisham and Southwark met my officials. All these meetings were frank, but courteous, and my right hon. Friend and I found them of help to us. Indeed, the contact we had with authorities was a measure of the progress we have made in the past few years in tackling extravagance, waste and inefficiency in local government. All the capped authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "out Camden. I will tell the hon. Gentleman much more directly. I know very well that if Camden runs a good service it has nothing to fear from going out to competition. It has something to fear only if it runs a bad service. Why does Camden want to employ somebody to make sure that it does not lose the contract? We want competition to ensure that the people of Camden and of all the other boroughs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ear from going out to competition. It has something to fear only if it runs a bad service. Why does Camden want to employ somebody to make sure that it does not lose the contract? We want competition to ensure that the people of Camden and of all the other boroughs— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) and his views about religion are well known. He is an expert on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.951.5", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.951.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-21", "file": "debates1989-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a60767d1aed8c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "icy of disposing of assets. The wealth of Thamesdown has been created over many years by its success and by its location as an attractive place in which to relocate industry. The borough has been the beneficiary of that wealth, but it has never been prepared to capitalise on it because Socialists say that all property belongs to them and should never be used for the wider benefit of the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-21a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I understand that my hon. Friend is a member of the Standing Committee on that Bill, so he will be able to express his views on that matter. I think that he is wrong about the leader of Brent council who I believe is not now in arrears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "It is strange that the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) should even comment on this issue as his local authority has not used the £27 million that it has drawn in capital receipts to carry out repairs to existing stock although it has a significant number of dwellings awaiting major repairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": " in capital receipts to carry out repairs to existing stock although it has a significant number of dwellings awaiting major repairs. [Interruption] It is hypocritical of the hon. Gentleman to suggest, as he has today and on previous occasions, that there should be an increase in money for public housing when in their last three years of office the Labour Government cut public housing expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.984.8", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "Very quickly, does the Minister agree that the royal opera house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.984.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "The only time that I would have used the word \"contempt\" yesterday was with reference to the contemptible nonsense that the right hon. Gentleman spoke on Radio 4 when he was defeated by my hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn, Hatfield (Mr. Evans). The right hon. Gentleman's account of the press briefing from No. 10 is absolute nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman spoke on Radio 4 when he was defeated by my hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn, Hatfield (Mr. Evans). The right hon. Gentleman's account of the press briefing from No. 10 is absolute nonsense— [Interruption.] We have made it clear that we shall consider carefully the effect of the amendment passed in the Lords and make a decision on that, and we shall, no doubt, announce it shortly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I accept that Back Benchers have rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. We recognise that these are difficult decisions for you to have to take, but my hon. Friend the Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) has an important point. It must surely be for Opposition Front Benchers to decide, in the light of answers and circumstances, who may want to seek to catch your eye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Wakeham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Wakeham)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You explained to the House most helpfully that the Bill as originally presented has been amended by the change of one word on page 2—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am sure that you will agree, irrespective of your rulings, that this has been a wholly legitimate series of points of order. But I hope you also agree that the House has been put in an intolerable situation. We have virtually lost the debate which would have been initiated by the right hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1012.9", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is intolerable that the Bill refers to an Act that does not exist. We are told that that is no drafting mistake, but an amendment was tabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1012.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Official Secrets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If it is the wish of hon. Members that the House should suspend informally for 10 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In the dinner hour\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "eport, 21 December 1988; Vol. 144, c. 538.] Didn't the Minister of State do well? Yet less than a month later those assurances were completely repudiated—not just by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary in what I am sure he thought was a top-secret letter exchanged between him and my right hon. Friend the Member for Pavilion, but up popped the Minister of State, with an apparently straight face", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "d be signalling that, in certain circumstances, these matters could become general and accepted currency. The new clause has not taken on board the difficulty in bringing any such matters to court. How could the prosecution introduce evidence without revealing or confirming in some detail information about the use of those provisions which are essential if we are adequately to protect the citizen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend forgets that the Bill is a major liberalising measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " My hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, South (Mr. Aitken) made two points about amendment No. 8. In general, the harm test would apply to all the examples that he gave. The harm test in this sphere is exacting. However, I wonder whether my hon. Friend really thinks that it is right and automatically justified that any terrorist threat reaching us from abroad should be disclosed, however alarmist.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "us suppose that he takes it into his head to bargain with rival bidders in the media for the damaging disclosure—we will assume that it would be damaging—of that document which is of high value to the media. If he did that, of course it would be an offence under the Bill. Now let us suppose that for fear that he may not be paid he consults his solicitor in advance about how payment may be secured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "d have thought that that would be, in the view of any hon. Member, a dangerous and absurd result. It cannot sensibly have been asked for by anybody and there could be no justification for it. What is more, it would damage the law of legal professional privilege, and for the first time it would extend the protection of legal professional privilege to anyone using a solicitor for a criminal purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "t of privilege. He also said: The function of legal professional privilege is to aid the administration of justice and not to aid crime. But such a person's position is quite different from that of someone who discloses information to his solicitor in the process of seeking advice in good faith about his own legal position in relation to it.\"—[ Official Report, 16 February 1989; Vol. 147, c. 503.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " privilege protects all communications and disclosures between a client and his solicitor which take place in the ordinary professional employment of a solicitor. That is what was said in the Cox and Railton case. But there is, and has always been, excluded—the House insisted on the exclusion in the two recent Acts that I mentioned—those communications which are done to further a criminal purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the court will look much further than the face of the legislation if this point ever becomes a practical consideration; I emphasise that. Of course, it would have to imply the consent of the Attorney-General of the day to any such prosecution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1079.4", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " rules rightly been prominent in debate. They have also had the support of a powerful section of the press, which has often emitted more smoke than light. Of course, the press has a perfectly legitimate interest in maximum disclosure, so no one should be surprised by that. Despite all those formidable assets, however, the critics have not been able to mobilise more than a certain level of support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1079.4", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, this is it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "have not been able to mobilise more than a certain level of support— [Interruption.] I hope that no one will try to tell me about the power of the Whips, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Mr. Gorst) did earlier when lie referred to the ignorant majority. I know the limits on the power of the Whips, having stood at the Dispatch Box and seen a Government measure come apart in my hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stockton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Abbott", "preceding_text": "We have heard the Secretary of State in the Chamber and on the radio define the Bill as a great reforming measure. He has talked especially about how the Bill has limited and narrowed the scope of the existing legislation. Unlike the hon. Member for Southport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-22", "file": "debates1989-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9efeb086736efde0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I assure you that no such gesture was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-22a.1091.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1139.4", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the question number?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I apologise for just arriving in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1141.6", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has been telling us about that record for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1142.2", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister make urgent representations to the Prime Minister of South Africa on behalf of Mr. Oscar Mptha, a sick, 80-year-old man who has been in gaol for nine years?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "How many more opinion polls will there have to be which show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "asked a question about the provision of classified information to Select Committees. He immediately hid—as indeed, you did, Mr. Speaker, two weeks ago—behind the concept of security being so important that these matters cannot be discussed. Where do I go from here, Mr. Speaker, because this matter remains? I do not intend to give up, and I may have to persist in ways that the House might not like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I note what my hon. Friend says and I shall look into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "f as big again in real terms as the Marshall Plan after the war. But the Chancellor said at the Royal Institute of International Affairs: Another area where the rival visions of the Community are seen is the so-called 'social dimensions' of 1992. The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the right hon. Member for Wallasey (Mrs. Chalker), made a speech at the Management Centre Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "No. I am not providing opportunities for Conservative Members to make a brief appearance in Hansard before they disapper for the evening. I have given way enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "oured the repeal of section 2 of the European Communities Act. as the House must know very well. Whatever may be the result of our present policy reviews there is a total lack of enthusiasm for the sort of Europe spoken of by some in my party and the Conservative party. I suspect that, as the election approaches, that European Social Democratic manifesto will not feature very much in our campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "ho dream dreams and hope hopes, but without vision the Community would never have been created. The Prime Minister warns of a centralised federal Europe, showing that she does not really understand the word \"federal\". It means co-operating on the broad issues of economy and environment within the federation while giving self-recognising communities the institutional right to run their own affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "early compliance will require a 'multi-billion pound' investment programme. We have heard words from the right hon. Lady but have seen no real action. In fact, the Government's action has been to stop any real progress on the environment. I think that the right hon. Lady will recall that, even more recently, the British Government vetoed the decision to take real action on sulphur dioxide control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-23", "file": "debates1989-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "69954ddb90c41c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1237.5", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "allenged by Lord Elwyn-Jones, he was severely embarrassed. He could not answer the questions that were put to him. Parliament is rightly concerned about fraud, but we want action, not words. Again, the contradiction—I must not say hypocrisy—the double standards, the double dealing and the double-talk of the Government have been shown up. Perhaps I should let the Government relax for a few moments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-23a.1237.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-28", "file": "debates1989-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "8918fe766e5fb3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-28a.247.4", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "d that that will take about two years to complete. The next milestone will occur later this year when all eight member nations will review progress and consider the alignment between the programmes for the ship and its major weapons systems. My hon. Friends the Member for Portsmouth, South and for Maidstone (Miss Widdecombe) asked about making greater use of the WRNS, and they were right to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-28a.247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-02-28", "file": "debates1989-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "8918fe766e5fb3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-28a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Wood Treatment (Pesticides)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I cannot recall having given that answer myself to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-02-28a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I believe strongly that if those who are unionists, like the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends, want constitutional change in the United Kingdom, that matter is of common interest to all parts of the United Kingdom. Such a decision cannot simply be based on a diktat from any one part of the kingdom, be it England, Scotland or Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt that Scotland is seen as a prime location for inward investment by both the United States and Japan, and that that choice has been made because of the market that is available throughout the European Community for products manufactured in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.266.4", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "When the Secretary of State meets the general secretary of the STUC, will he discuss his concept of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.266.11", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I think that I have forgotten my question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.266.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "Is it not to the credit of Scottish enterprise that so many contracts have been gained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.272.4", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The Government's behaviour in this matter is disgraceful and callous. We are talking about a very disadvantaged group of the population. The Government continue to hide behind medical advice. I put it to them that their medical advice in this matter is wrong and should be reconsidered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "In all of that the hon. Gentleman did not ask me a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.273.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Remand System (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Hanley", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Hattersley) and the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) mentioned the Deloitte, Haskins and Sells report. Would it not have been better if they had not been so selective in their quotations but had continued reading from the report? It says: We do not underestimate the work that would be involved in realising the proposed approach. It went on to say: We believe, however\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Remand System (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What skills?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "general answer to his question must be yes. Of course we are pressing ahead, first, to reduce the size of the remand population and, secondly, to improve conditions in which prisoners are held. In both respects we are making some progress, but the question is whether, in addition to those two things, we should experiment with and try to bring in some private sector skills to help with those tasks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.283.5", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Remand System (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "With her experience, the hon. Lady will know that the arrangements at Harmondsworth, for example, were run pretty well. They are reviewed from time to time. In the time that I have been at the Dispatch Box, I have not heard great outcries from the Opposition about the way in which that arrangement works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.283.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Remand System (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that the public will view this measure as giving magistrates the maximum opportunity to protect the public from people who should be locked away and not be granted bail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Remand System (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "year there has been a sizeable fall in that population. That might be temporary, so I do not want to overrate the argument. However, that fall may show that some of the efforts that have been made to contain and reduce the remand population are working. The Police and Criminal Evidence Act for the first time gave me powers to impose time limits. The right hon. Gentleman knows that I am doing that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "l Hebrew word—the chutzpah, to say a couple of weeks ago: I've always supported devolution—a devolution that is right for Wales\". \"Something old; nothing new\"—that is the Labour party refrain. As Neil Ascherson, the Observer columnist, put it: Devolution is a withered word\". The phrase \"something old, something new\" applies equally to the speech of the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Griffiths report?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "preceding_text": "Mr. Wigley) will appreciate and understand that. We published our draft strategy for the development of mental illness services in May last for a six-month period of consultation. The responses to our proposals have been very favourable and encouraging. We will publish a final version later this spring, and we shall move to the new strategic planning framework in the financial year 1990–91.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-01", "file": "debates1989-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "73bfadd704c4251e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " industry and may increase the concentration in the supply of beer and cans. I put a straightforward question to the Minister: does he think it desirable for one major brewer—Elders-Courage—to purchase a major supplier of cans to the British brewing industry? Is that what competition is about? I shall now move briefly to the issues raised by the unsavoury events of the morning of 10 November 1988.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-01a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.393.7", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Bill will do two things. First, it will set up a separate National Rivers Authority and, secondly, it will make certain that the provision of water is very much more efficient than it has been in the past. I also point out that, although the Opposition talk a lot about water, they cut the capital expenditure on water by 20 per cent. We have put up the capital expenditure on water by 30 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.393.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.413.4", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "l stock of dwellings in the country immediately after the war. The figure is now only 8 per cent. That is in stark contrast to 30 per cent. in France and 40 per cent. in Germany. That 42 per cent. of the private rented stock is in poor condition is a direct consequence of the interference in the market that prevented good landlords from making a modest return and encouraged disreputable landlords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "I shall, Madam Deputy Speaker. I assure the hon. Gentleman that if I am wrong and if Nottinghamshire county council never played any part in producing the leaflet, I shall be the first to apologise for that mistake, as I always do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": ", which the hon. Gentleman does not know much about, but which exist in his city. That tactic is deployed there. The reason why it is deployed by him, and by the hon. Members for Hammersmith and for Copeland is that they are frightened of giving tenants a choice. They are frightened of competition for their municipal fiefdoms. They are frightened because it is the last bastion of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "t face up to the problem. What is it? It is a crisis of mortgage rates and market rents. It is a catastrophe of escalating homelessness. It is a lack of low-cost accommodation for rent or sale. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's disastrous reliance on interest rates has clobbered home owners with a vengeance. We should never let anyone say that the Conservative party is the party of the home owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.421.6", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": " as a result of interest rates remaining high over a sustained period, homelessness goes up owing to mortgage repossessions. The fastest growing area of homelessness is now due to mortgage repossessions. One in every 10 families is going to the local authority and asking for housing under the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977. They have been made homeless because they cannot pay their mortgages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.422.6", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "il would gain £13 million. But it pales into insignificance in the face of the problem that the Secretary of State has created for the Labour and Tory boroughs that have carried out such activities, by his refusal to introduce a proper system of local government finance. He tells local authorities to use business practices. Hammersmith and Fulham used them successfully and made £13 million profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.422.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made a silly mistake that he could have avoided if he had done a little more homework. He would then have found that the family to which he referred was the responsibility of Slough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.425.5", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": " are saying that the private sector will provide, whereas local authorities cannot. What they are doing constitutes one of the nastiest forms of bullying that I have seen for many a long year. I attend meetings up and down the country which are packed out, with up to 400 people present. Many are very elderly—in their sixties, seventies and eighties. They go to the meetings because they are scared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "to sign? Of course he would not. What is so wrong with her approach is that bullying and frightening people is unnecessary. The Minister talked about Nottinghamshire. I eventually got hold of a leaflet published by the Notts Housing Bill Campaign—not by the Labour party. Why did it take so long to find? Because it was published about a year ago, when the Bill first arrived. Much of it is accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "e is unnecessary. The Minister talked about Nottinghamshire. I eventually got hold of a leaflet published by the Notts Housing Bill Campaign—not by the Labour party. Why did it take so long to find? Because it was published about a year ago, when the Bill first arrived. Much of it is accurate. [Interruption.] It is difficult to see that it is inaccurate. There are some points which are incomplete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I am not talking about appearing or debating. I am saying that where we cannot agree on what is misleading. we should put it to an independent organisation, which is what the Minister is refusing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.427.4", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I will not do it now, for the sake of Back Benchers who want to contribute, but I would be happy afterwards to go through this leaflet with the hon. Gentleman to pick out any inaccuracies. I would say to him that at the time it was written it was basically accurate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I shall give lots of examples. I shall give the example of Dorset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I know that is a county. In Dorset right now people are using holiday accommodation lets and moving into the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-02", "file": "debates1989-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "55a1e95028bc59b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": " The Government should recognise that they must continue to engage with local authorities, housing associations and others in order to do something about housing. The more one disengages, the greater the problems are. The truth of what I say becomes more and more apparent when the situation is looked at sector by sector. For example, the owner-occupied sector, for which there is all-party support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-02a.431.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-03", "file": "debates1989-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6cf9afe42f7fb2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-03a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons Members' Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "g grants totalling £13,100 a year under this section and the moneys to be appropriated are needed to continue these grants and to fund any further cases which may arise. Finally, I wish to record our warm appreciation to Mr. J. L. G. Dobson and his colleagues in the Fees Office for their skilled and unstinting help to the trustees and for their always humane concern for those whom we seek to serve", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-03a.575.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Train Accident (Purley)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "upport, in the form of the public service obligation grant paid by the Government, has been cut by over 35 per cent. in five years, a saving of over £2 billion at current prices? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree with Mr. Stanley Hall, who said that safety is being compromised because the Government are tight-fisted with their current financial support? Does he accept that the financial climate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Train Accident (Purley)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I note the hon. Gentleman's initial remarks and accept his views and those of his party. As for the Scottish railway accident, it is difficult for me to give the House accurate information. It occurred only a few hours ago, just before one o'clock this afternoon, outside or near Glasgow at Milngavie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Train Accident (Purley)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I note what the hon. Gentleman has said about his party's expression of regret, which I welcome. Railway investment is now at its highest level for 20 years—£560 million this year, and an average of £755 million over each of the next four years. That is a prima facie case for saying that what the hon. Gentleman suggested was improbable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Train Accident (Purley)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ntioned Mr. Hall's article. I understand what he is saying. He alleges that the investment may have been adequate but that the running expenses are not. I answered that earlier when replying to a question about the increase in resources that have been available to Network SouthEast in the last three years. When the hon. Gentleman reads Hansard, he will find that I gave a full answer to that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Train Accident (Purley)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I want to register my protest that sufficient information about the Scottish rail accident is not available to make a report to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.622.4", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "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": "is likely to bring results that will ultimately be to the benefit of the pupils themselves. Thirdly, I believe that I speak for hon. Members on both sides of the House when I say that the debate takes place in the context and against the background that, over the past 10 years, education standards in Scotland have continued to improve, to the benefit of all the pupils in Scotland. It is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.622.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "n might like to get his own act together before commenting further. There will be no question of a school's being given self-governing status if its numbers are so few that it would not be viable. We are concerned with schools that are so popular that they are packed to the gunwales but whose closure has nevertheless been proposed by the education authority for reasons other than educational ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ndustrial society. They will also offer an opportunity for raising standards and expectations of pupils, parents and teachers generally. The provision of this new type of school, with the teaching of technology and science a predominant theme, reflects the Government's awareness of the needs of industry and commerce and of the necessity to develop the qualities that employers in these fields seek.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "hers generally. The provision of this new type of school, with the teaching of technology and science a predominant theme, reflects the Government's awareness of the needs of industry and commerce and of the necessity to develop the qualities that employers in these fields seek. [Interruption.] I hope that Opposition Members are not suggesting that technology academies are some doctrinal proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.634.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am told that it is a discussion document, so presumably it has something to discuss and represents what may be the Labour party's policy. As the hon. Member for Fife, Central would expect, my hon. Friends and I have studied the document with great care and attention. It is a weighty document—21 pages. I thought that it would contain a mountain of new ideas, initiatives, policies and proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": " he said. The Secretary of State answered during his speech the hon. Gentleman's criticism about selection. I am not sure who first enunciated the principle, \"My country, right or wrong\". This afternoon we heard the amendment of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) to that principle—\"My local authority, right or wrong\". That is the nub of the debate. Are there certain circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.651.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I noticed the arrival of the hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Dunn). No doubt he is practising for the Committee stage. Clause 63 refers to national testing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.682.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.683.4", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " to undue influence from local authorities—anxious not to lose part of their fiefdom—so that they will be able to make a rational decision, free from intimidation. I believe that parents are clear about the responsibilities that they are assuming and are prepared to shoulder them—as has already been made clear by some who are involved in the process. The headmaster of Skegness grammar school said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.683.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.683.4", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " their fiefdom—so that they will be able to make a rational decision, free from intimidation. I believe that parents are clear about the responsibilities that they are assuming and are prepared to shoulder them—as has already been made clear by some who are involved in the process. The headmaster of Skegness grammar school said— [Interruption.] These are important considerations because they give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.683.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "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": "I take this opportunity to welcome the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) to the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Grant-maintained schools\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ntegrity of an education authority if one were to suggest that it was not providing information to parents about their children's performance in the way that the Government are planning. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) began his argument against the Bill by saying that the phrase \"self-governing schools\" was wrong. He suggested that we should use the term \"grant-aided schools\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "arscadden (Mr. Dewar) began his argument against the Bill by saying that the phrase \"self-governing schools\" was wrong. He suggested that we should use the term \"grant-aided schools\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Grant-maintained schools\".] I should say \"grant-maintained schools\". Perhaps we avoided the term \"grant-maintained schools\" because we thought there might be some confusion with \"grant-aided schools\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ools have been involved, 26 of which are not subject to closure. The hon. Gentleman also asked about voting and consulting the wider community. There will be an opportunity to consult the wider community. The ballot will be held and the Secretary of State will consult on the parents' views. The most bogus threat was that the hon. Gentleman argued that opting out would mean bringing back selection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had not just wandered into this Scottish debate, he would have known that that precise point was addressed earlier in the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had not just wandered into this Scottish debate, he would have known that that precise point was addressed earlier in the evening. [Interruption.] The answer is simply that two rights do not make a wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-06", "file": "debates1989-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52fcda366e644f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "knows that Labour Governments could have considered the problems that he has described and that they chose not to do so. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, South complained about the level of rates in Edinburgh. He should have said that Edinburgh had a high-spending Labour authority which forced up the rates. In days gone by Edinburgh used to be a byword for efficiency and economy of local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-06a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that he has received from CND a briefing on the competitive strategies doctrine?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.746.8", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are continuing to play with words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.746.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.751.4", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the Prime Minister on speaking for the whole country on Saturday morning, when she attacked her Secretary of State for the Environment?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.751.5", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Our?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I advise the right hon. Gentleman to listen to an interview that I gave to Channel 4, in which I pointed out that our Secretary of State for the Environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.751.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.751.5", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I advise the right hon. Gentleman to listen to an interview that I gave to Channel 4, in which I pointed out that our Secretary of State for the Environment—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Our?\"] My right hon. Friend, ours on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.751.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.753.8", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " three recent accidents caused great personal tragedies and great concern to everyone, especially those who work for British Rail. As for trying to find the causes of the accidents, we must await the official inquiries and not attempt, in any way, to postulate the causes. As my hon. Friend knows, I have visited the hospitals in both Clapham and Purley and I very much regret that I shall be unable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.753.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.753.9", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that if we are to build—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.753.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Train Accident (Bellgrove)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for what the hon. Member says. As it happens, this accident occurred on the double line, not the single line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Train Accident (Bellgrove)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are all serious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I strongly refute what the hon. Gentleman said in the last part of his question, but I will try to deal with the serious points that he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Train Accident (Bellgrove)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As I have told the House on a number of occasions, we must get to the bottom of the recent accidents to discover the causes and take immediate action when we know what is required. There has been considerable investment in ScotRail and there have been all sorts of improvements at stations such as Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley and by Strathclyde PTE in electrification and rolling stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Train Accident (Bellgrove)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ew rolling stock is due on that line. The hon. Gentleman asked me about what British Rail has said. It was not said by me. I believe that it was said by counsel to British Rail to the Hidden inquiry this morning, but I shall have to check that. I am merely quoting what counsel for British Rail said. I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman that we do not want to prejudge the result of the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "onsider the detailed points that he made. I was simply replying to assertions repeatedly made by Ministers, and by the Minister this afternoon, that, since December 1988, the Government have introduced 17 measures. Those measures have not been introduced. The Government intend to introduce them and any leglislation in the form of statutory instruments will certainly be supported by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "e drop increased to nearly 30 per cent. Following his appearance on television the week after that, consumption had gone down by 49 per cent. Such was the assurance from the Minister. I do not think that it was right for him to appear on television and use the word \"ridiculous\". I get the feeling that he is becoming a little remote from this place. My wife's favourite film star is Humphrey Bogart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scaremongering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "f research, and perhaps more research. A review of Government research and the publication of that information would be most helpful. With the benefit of hindsight, if the Government publish this information for goodness' sake let us try to do a better job than we did with the publishing of Sir Donald Acheson's advice on what to do about eggs. If ever I saw a diabolical advertisement, that was it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "ed with salmonella\". It is my personal regret that she is not present this evening. By her absence, she has shown further her lack of concern for the proceedings of the House and for the damage which she caused the British egg industry and to her Government. I wish to put on record that I wrote to the hon. Lady this afternoon, letting her know that I intended making some remarks about her conduct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": " for making a public statement acknowledging that she was wrong, that her statement was wrong, and that the advice that she gave the British public was wrong. The Secretary of State for Health's refusal to ensure that his junior Minister took the appropriate action and his public refusal to dissociate himself from his junior Minister and to dismiss her make him complicit in that sin of commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "bruary, and one campaign has been launched to educate the public in the hygienic handling of food. That is not bad—we have got one out of 15 so far. The more observant of my hon. Friends will recall that we are dealing with 17 initiatives, not 15. That leaves two that still have to be accounted for. Every day for the past week I have been to the Vote Office asking for a copy of the Zoonoses Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nic handling of food. That is not bad—we have got one out of 15 so far. The more observant of my hon. Friends will recall that we are dealing with 17 initiatives, not 15. That leaves two that still have to be accounted for. Every day for the past week I have been to the Vote Office asking for a copy of the Zoonoses Order— [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover asks, \"What is that?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ember for Bolsover asks, \"What is that?\" [Laughter.] That is what I heard, and I know that my hon. Friend would deprecate any suggestion that we should use anything but the most proper language. I asked the Vote Office for a copy of the Zoonoses Order; I asked the Library for a copy; I asked the Minister's own press department for a copy. They all said, \"We do not know what the Zoonoses Order is.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-07", "file": "debates1989-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cdb3c840bc117175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Egg Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "much-vaunted 17-point initiative. That order—the only one with teeth—has not yet been tabled. It was supposed to be implemented on 1 March—a week ago—but it has not yet been tabled. Copies are not available, and no one in the poultry industry has yet had sight of it. Hon. Members on the Government side are shaking their heads as if to suggest that what I am saying could not be true. I invite them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-07a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-08", "file": "debates1989-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f7c0b97b15a339b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "t. Is it not obnoxious that pensioners who have given so much to the community should have to plead for a little comfort and dignity in the fullness of their years? My maiden speech in the House, which was in October 1964, was on behalf of pensioners. More should be done for pensioners. I hope that the last speech that I make in this House will be on that subject, whenever that occasion may occur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-08", "file": "debates1989-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f7c0b97b15a339b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman took nine minutes to speak, having undertaken to take five, I might have had more time to reply to his questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-08", "file": "debates1989-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f7c0b97b15a339b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commercial Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not have the power to veto the proposals on the two, three and four-axle vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-08", "file": "debates1989-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f7c0b97b15a339b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commercial Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As it happens, so far I have rather a good track record in the Council meetings, in spite of the hon. Gentleman's perpetual calls for my resignation, which we shall no doubt hear again next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-08", "file": "debates1989-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f7c0b97b15a339b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commercial Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I think it is a bit late for him to be out. Of course, he is a great man for talking about a crackdown on cowboys in relation to heavy goods vehicles. When it comes to cracking down on cowboys, he is about as successful as the Indians in the films that I used to watch when I was a boy. On enforcement, it is the hon. Gentleman's bow and arrow against the repeating rifles of the cavalry, I am afraid", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-08", "file": "debates1989-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f7c0b97b15a339b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commercial Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "s, but we would still like to hear from him, or any other members of the entourage that he will no doubt take with him on Wednesday, of his determination to use, if necessary, his veto on some of these proposals. If the Secretary of State does that, he can be assured that my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East and I will stand shoulder to shoulder with him, which should please him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-08a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1024.7", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it really in order for the Minister to ask my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) to produce evidence when he has asked for an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1024.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "The Minister cannot get away with that reply to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1036.2", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "With regard to the hon. Gentleman's first point, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State may have felt that he has been monopolising the House this week, having appeared in the Chamber every day so far. On the other hand, we might have been surprised at the fact that the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) did not stay for the debate on lorry weights yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": " All hon. Members recognise the problems that you and the occupants of the Chair face when there is a preponderance of hon. Members coming from one or other party who are interested in a particular topic. As you know, there was considerable discontent —particularly among my Scottish and Welsh colleagues —about your refusal on principle to call them in series, without alternating with Tory Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": " one or other party who are interested in a particular topic. As you know, there was considerable discontent —particularly among my Scottish and Welsh colleagues —about your refusal on principle to call them in series, without alternating with Tory Members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"] Generally speaking, it is true. There is considerable concern on the Opposition Benches today about your decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "There is considerable concern about your decision to call a substantial number of Government Members before calling any Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1058.6", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "n the boundary of Keswick a few months ago and when I submitted all the evidence from those independent persons to him in written statements, he has refused to accept that there was such a near-collision? Why was he willing to accept the statements of the pilots who had not even reported the fact that a near-miss had taken place? Does he not understand that pilots have an interest in telling lies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Parliamentary Private Secretary says, \"Hear, hear.\" That shows his complete ignorance of the matter. It is patent nonsense to imply that we do not support the armed forces. The Labour party is committed to the defence of this country, and its record in government since the war shows that this is so. There may be individual Opposition Members who do not support all the policies of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "shabby and baseless Government who are prepared to allow the country to be ripped off through gargantuan frauds at the same time as they persecute the civil liberties of individuals. The Government victimise people for combining in trade unions. At the same time they are happy to allow another combination to be rampant—a freemasonry of generals, civil servants, industrialists and Tory politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It did not work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is it not significant that Lord Prior was appointed just some months before the Secretary of State for Defence had to take a decision on Nimrod? Many hon. Members believe that Weinstock appointed him only to ensure influence among his former Cabinet colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "mittee has a majority of Conservative Members. It says that there should be a time period between people leaving Government employment and taking up related industrial employment. If the Chairman of the Select Committee on Defence feels that that is not so—I am glad that he has put it on record—we shall look at what his Committee does in future years to see whether it is impartial in its approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1070.4", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "oduce planes and put them in storage, in exactly the same way that Tornados are put into storage, the whole project—plane and radar— founders. The Tornado is foundering because Marconi cannot produce the radar in an agreed and proper form. The choice for EFA radar is either the Ferranti-led,, all-European radar—the ECR90—or the Marconi-led MSD-2000 which will be developed from the American APG-65.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1070.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I understand that it is a heat-seeking missile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-09", "file": "debates1989-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a37f04c1e47d357e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "I have just said that seven are on order and that the first one is due to be rolled out this summer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-09a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-10", "file": "debates1989-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "17f6534b7e0b733b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Lawlessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "vernment to examine why 85 per cent. of men who have left their wives fail to keep up the maintenance payments for their children. That is a scandal, and a clear example of fathers being allowed to abdicate entirely their responsibilities towards the children who, after all, they helped to bring into the world. I believe that there is some evidence, although it is somewhat scant, that the parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-10", "file": "debates1989-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "17f6534b7e0b733b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Lawlessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is in a better position to tell me exactly what happened in those days, because I was a very young lad when capital punishment was abolished.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-10", "file": "debates1989-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "17f6534b7e0b733b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1145.2", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Lawlessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "e the Government on the firm, and in some cases the far-reaching, measures that they have already taken to combat the rising tide of crime. The Government's record on providing the courts with increased powers, providing the police with increased resources and on heightening the profile of crime prevention is good. I wonder whether I have time to compare that record with the Labour Party's record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-10", "file": "debates1989-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "17f6534b7e0b733b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Lawlessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member will break the law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I shall advocate selective non-payment as part of a general campaign of civil disobedience, and I shall be involved in that action. The poll tax legislation provides in cases of non-payment for attachment of earnings, sending in the bailiffs or imprisonment. In my case it would be attachment of earnings, because I am fortunate enough to have reasonable earnings that can be easily attached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-10", "file": "debates1989-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "17f6534b7e0b733b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Lawlessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "and I understand that point well. I was not talking about the people who will inject enthusiasm into the working party. I was saying that once again it is the Government's intention to give the impression of doing something about the problem without actually doing anything that would have any effect. The fact is that there is rising lawlessness in this country, and we have a Home Office committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-10", "file": "debates1989-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "17f6534b7e0b733b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Lawlessness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "t. We are pursuing vigorously our policies to combat crime and to protect our citizens, but we are not helped by the Labour party's official policy. When I first became a Member in 1979, in our first period of office, we were told by the Labour party that unemployment caused crime. What an insult that was to law-abiding unemployed people in this country. That point was repeated again this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-10a.1194.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has just read out his own brief of which he has not troubled to check the accuracy. He has not consulted his hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape). Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should resign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The hon. Gentleman seems to have little idea about what is going on in London. London passenger transport is growing faster than in any capital city with the exception of the opening of the underground in Hong Kong. During the past five years Underground passenger journeys have increased by 70 per cent. and the number of British Rail season ticket holders has increased by 20 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Skills Training Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " demand for training for unemployed people. I should have thought that the hon. Lady would welcome the fact that unemployment has decreased. The pity has been that we have not been able to develop training for employed people and for employers in the way that should have happened. There is no merit in having half-empty skill centres. I remind the House that the all-party Public Accounts Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Skills Training Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, not all competing countries. The training and enterprise councils are intended to improve training standards. Not just in the past 10 years, but in the 10 years before that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter and Monday 1 May)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "By tradition, the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " to be drawn up. The hon. Member for Battersea commented on the fact that the Prime Minister has been \"greened\" recently. His one mistake was to bring her into any consideration of artistic matters. We all know that she is into re-reading Freddie Forsyth and going to \"The Mousetrap\". I suppose that that is a start, but she has a long way to go before she can genuinely claim to be one of the muses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seven and a half per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Very well—7 per cent., and rising.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "he Broadcasting Standards Council is a substitute for the existence of regulatory broadcasting. There is nothing in the White Paper on broadcasting to ensure good standards, but only provision to control decency and taste. That is another factor which will inhibit the proper development of our arts. The threat of another obscenity Act is also still with us. There is intervention in all those ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr John Prescott (Kinston upon Hull, East)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr John Prescott (Kinston upon Hull, East)", "preceding_text": "Secret inquiries are not acceptable. One can see the conflict of economic interests and safety. For example, because there were more seats on the aeroplane, the exits from the plane were blocked. That was a clear indication of economic factors taking priority over safety. That is unacceptable, as is the conflict over smoke hoods and the buck-passing between the CAA and the Department of Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-13", "file": "debates1989-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5666a8ec180982e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr John Prescott (Kinston upon Hull, East)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr John Prescott (Kinston upon Hull, East)", "preceding_text": "here were more seats on the aeroplane, the exits from the plane were blocked. That was a clear indication of economic factors taking priority over safety. That is unacceptable, as is the conflict over smoke hoods and the buck-passing between the CAA and the Department of Transport. [Interruption.] That is one of the interesting conflicts. The fire brigade people are talking about the difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-13a.131.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.269.7", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant for the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the county constituency of Vale of Glamorgan in the room of Sir Herbert Raymond Gower, deceased.— [Mr. Sillars.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.269.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.281.4", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister reflect on the fact that the national dock labour scheme has brought great stability to the docks and it has also allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister believe that the shameful decision of Judge Pickles to sentence my constituent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " proposed to create another 5,000 jobs, arising from some of the reconstruction that is being undertaken at the docks as an extension of the work of the urban development corporation. It seems to me that there are fresh opportunities there. The hon. Gentleman will know that the company is delaying the close-down, to enable its workers to obtain other jobs and other training before closure occurs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "ould be referred to a Committee of Scottish Members. I still believe that that is the answer and, that instead of this procedural motion, the Leader of the House should have moved a motion to enable us to look at our procedures so that Scottish legislation, which deals with a distinct policy such as education, could be considered solely by hon. Members who are elected from Scottish constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": " from the noise coming from the Benches around me and the way in which hon. Members have reacted. Hon. Members do not understand what the House is doing to Scotland. Major Scottish institutions and fundamental matters affecting Scottish society are being railroaded by an English majority that neither cares nor understands and which is callously used by the Government to get their majority through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.345.8", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "I had the same success in getting amendments through as the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.345.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "In common with my hon. Friend the Member for Angus East (Mr. Welsh) I am interested in the term \"disorderly conduct\". I do not know what happened in 1973 among the hon. Members on the Liberal Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-14", "file": "debates1989-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "39d3e86754201a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "he Committee, as I expect was done today, how are these defined in our Committee rooms? We know quite clearly when we are in the House and when we are out of the House. For example, if I step across this line, by convention I am out of order. If I move into the Gangway, I am out of order. How are we to determine, when a Member is in a Committee room, whether he is actually in the Committee or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-14a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks as though he is the only person who understands the textile industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.417.8", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " he told us that there was only a \"temporary blip\". But yesterday he confirmed that inflation is 8 per cent. and, even on his own estimation, it will stay high for the whole of 1989. According to the Chancellor, it will fall to 5·5 per cent., which I think even he might view as being relatively high. To make matters worse, the Government themselves have created those inflationary own goals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.417.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.417.8", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "rom those other countries, and the Chancellor has had the good fortune to be in office during a period of remarkably low commodity prices. Inflation in this country is a home-grown phenomenon—and we are looking at some of the gardeners on the Government Benches. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a disillusioned monetarist who displays no real understanding of the contemporary causes of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.417.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " over the years of this Conservative Government have reduced quality, safety and efficiency. There are one or two items in the Budget that we welcome. Some 10 years after it was promised, the Chancellor has abolished the earnings rule for pensioners. He has given a tax preference to the use of lead-free petrol. He has reduced national insurance contributions at the lower end of the earnings scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "teadily towards a much simpler and more efficient tax structure. No Chancellor for generations has so reformed our fiscal structure, and that work has continued in this Budget. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) said, correctly. that the tax burden has gone up. He is right about that, and I will tell him why. It has gone up because we are repaying Labour's borrowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ion in today's terms. That is not a burden that we are prepared to have and to pass on to the next generation, even though Labour Members were prepared to do so. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East may not believe it, but perhaps he does not understand these matters. Indeed, he has as much likelihood of understanding how the economy works as Donald Duck has of winning Mastermind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " such an extent that last night on \"Newsnight\" when I specifically asked him, he categorically denied having called for public expenditure increases and said that he had called only for interest rate cuts. As my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Smith) pointed out, the right hon. and learned Gentleman not only called for increases in public expenditure but moved a motion to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disraeli.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " learned Gentleman remembers who said this in defence of Government forecasts of the trade gap: Obviously these are matters which are extremely difficult to forecast. I do not think that getting them right or wrong is the prerogative of any particular Government.\"—[ Official Report, 12 March 1979; Vol. 964, c. 18.] Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman remember who said that? I shall tell him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "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": "rease of more than 3 per cent. in the priority programmes. That is a far more substantial increase than has taken place for many years and it was particularly well targeted. Capital expenditure rose—or, at least, it is to rise in the year beginning in April—by a record amount, particularly expenditure on the National Health Service. I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Budget?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "gh 10 years on it seems to have deserted him. As we saw a moment ago, when the right hon. and learned Gentleman talked about the growth of credit, his frankness is not all that has deserted him; his memory appears to have gone, or at least become selective. I set out our solution to the trade gap a moment ago, but what was the right hon. and learned Gentleman's solution? It was a dynamic solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The majority of local government expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "e met in the future, by central Government grant, which comes out of the progressive tax system. The balance is met from the community charge, and payment of this element should be according to the services received. My right hon. Friend's Budget this year falls between the most far-reaching tax reforms for a generation and the introduction next year of independent taxation for husbands and wives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. That appears to be a very authentic picture of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Can it appear on his security pass for circulating round the House of Commons?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ion relate to matters that they reckon to have disposed of: no longer do we have a public sector deficit generating inflation; no longer are the unions rampaging around the country forcing unrealistic pay increases; no longer can it be blamed on the Labour Government; and no longer can it be blamed on those favoured villians of the piece—the preceding Conservative Government so often criticised by", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "periences. I believe—I realise that this will not be accepted by the hon. Member for Burnley—that the labour market today tells us the story not of the 2 million unemployed, with its echoes of the 1930s, but of high levels of activity in the economy and emerging shortages of labour throughout the country. As Government statistics are somewhat at a discount these days, certainly for the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Calum Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Calum Macdonald", "preceding_text": "that access to higher education—universities and polytechnics—and to colleges of further education has actually diminished during this Government's period of office. I want to spend a moment on that subject. I see that a quizzical look is coming over the Minister's face, but I can tell him that that is true, that access to education has fallen at a lime when industry is crying out for more skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "Yes, the proportion. It is astonishing that the Minister does not know the effects of his own policy on higher education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-15", "file": "debates1989-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "24121ae1302051ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "nister to the response to a question put to the Secretary of State for Education and Science last month by my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith). The Government's own figures show that the percentage of 18 to 24-year-olds entering first degree courses—universities, polytechnics, colleges of further education—actually fell between 1979 and 1987. In 1979 it was 1·95 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-15a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.521.5", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a distinguished member of the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and I should be grateful if he would pass on the congratulations of the House to the RSPB in its centenary year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.521.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.528.7", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "It is right to want higher quality and it is obvious that that will have to be paid for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.528.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Why is the Prime Minister's first reaction always to shoot the messenger rather than listen to the message?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.529.7", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall the manifesto commitment of the Opposition that a new Labour Government would call a national economic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.529.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have allocated very much greater resources to the National Health Service than ever before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have allocated very much greater resources to the National Health Service than ever before— [Interruption.] In the lifetime of the previous Labour Government it was £8 billion a year; now it is £24 billion a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " £3 a week on average, which people will have available for other purposes. We have been able to create the prosperity that the hon. Gentleman and his constituents enjoy through Conservative policies, which have led to a higher standard of living and a higher standard of social services than we have ever known before. All poor people on income support and family credit will get free NHS eye tests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman usually listens carefully to what is said, but he has overlooked an important point. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor was concerned about the protection of taxpayers' information, which is not quite in the same category as official secrets of the state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Hostels (Income Support)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "lcome for what the Government have done, I should hate to hear the criticism. The Government have listened very carefully and, as a conscious recognition of the valuable role of the hostel sector, have ensured that hostels do not lose money by the changes. It is quite clear that, despite that relatively difficult welcome, the hon. Lady has been desperately trying to find problems in the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Hostels (Income Support)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have visited a women's refuge. The hon. Lady would not want to distinguish between her natural supportive emotions and what I have said. I have said that the present financial structure that supports these organisations will continue and will be protected. I cannot comment on each and every women's refuge or hostel in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.552.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "ons of pounds on operating theatres and on equipment for them, and for eight hours of the 24 they are doing nothing. That is shocking. I can tell the Government why that situation exists. It is because consultants will not work a night shift. We expect the workers that provide all the necessary services to work mornings, afternoons and nights. What is wrong with a consultant working a night shift?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " give another example of news management. At 10.30 pm on Tuesday, the day of the Budget, the Chancellor was giving his forecast on Radio 4. I am not sure that I have got it right, but he said something like this: \"There has been a massive break-away from the policies of the past of high taxation\"—the implication being that Labour is the party of high taxation and that he has broken away from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what one gets from Members of the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "sts under which a person can go to an optician and have a quick test which would not detect cancer, diabetes or many other diseases. The Chancellor could have produced a programme for public spending on essential services. The Government could have spent a little more to ensure that airlines—and in particular Pam Am—received the bomb warning immediately, rather than sending it by post at Christmas", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "rent policy for the Post Office, I am sure that it would take on many more people, but I do not want to take up time on that. The Government send letters by second-class post to Members of Parliament. I shall not name a Department because it would be unfair, but Departments are doing that. It is time that the Government got rid of their dogmatic obsession about saving public money and expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.619.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-16", "file": "debates1989-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "6d20cb109a3c03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ur upward movement in the single figures will be, because we are determined to give priority—as this Budget shows—to getting inflation back down. It is that feature of the Budget which probably has the greatest support on the Conservative Benches and in the country. The Opposition expressed concern about savings and asked how the Budget would improve the aggregate amount of savings in the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-16a.624.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ow refer to the two points on which I wish to concentrate, although fairly briefly. First, this Government have now been in power for a decade. The debate is an opportunity to look at matters over the decade, in the light of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget. On this occasion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has proved himself to be a wise man. He is not a far-seeing man, that we must know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "appened to a greater and worse degree. We have heard the employment figures. Increases in the number of people employed are welcome, but there are still more than 2 million unemployed. On the basis of the statistical adjustment that is made at the end of the month, according to the season, the figure is just under 2 million, but the number of people who do not actually have jobs is over 2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "s higher than at any time in the past 45 years when we have been at the top of the cycle. Indeed, interest rates are higher than they have ever been. Thirdly, the adverse balance of trade is of a scale that we have never had at this point of the cycle. All these things constitute an appalling aspect of the development of the cycle in this decade, compared with the previous four and a half decades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "decade, the market dogma adopted wiped out any question of regional aid. The market was going to put everything right. If the market preferred the south, it would move to the south and everything would be put right. We know that that was nonsense. Even if we wanted the market to move to the south, we did not make it possible for it to do so. We did not provide housing, roads, railways or anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "red the new arrangements with the guilds. I find that difficult. I know that we have been looking back the whole time. We looked back to Marshall and the 19th century to give us our economics. He was not entirely satisfactory, so we looked back to Adam Smith and the 18th century for more economics. He has not proved foolproof, so now we are looking back to the guilds for our training arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor shakes his head, but that information comes from my best statistical advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.4", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "That has been confirmed by the spokesman for the Opposition, who has his own source of information. We then come to the question of the prime lending rate, which affects the whole of our industry and our citizens. Last week, we were 14 per cent., West Germany 7 per cent. and Japan 3·38 per cent. Why can we not have an economy run with similar figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.6", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Chancellor has said that that will go up to 8 per cent. West Germany is 1·6 per cent. and Japan is 0·9 per cent., with very low interest rates. On the question of trade, if we take the current balances as a percentage of GDP, we have a deficit of 3·26 per cent., West Germany has a plus of 3·09 per cent. and Japan has a plus of 2·76 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.7", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " the Chancellor has said that that will go up to 8 per cent. West Germany is 1·6 per cent. and Japan is 0·9 per cent., with very low interest rates. On the question of trade, if we take the current balances as a percentage of GDP, we have a deficit of 3·26 per cent., West Germany has a plus of 3·09 per cent. and Japan has a plus of 2·76 per cent.— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.754.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I did not accuse the Chancellor of a lack of compassion. I said that those who so constantly deal in interest rates as a solution to economic problems do it from a purely intellectual approach, without realising the human consequences, and I stick absolutely by that view. We did not have to deal with interest rates of that kind, and I believe that we were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": " taxation. It is said that Thatcher lets the people spend more of their own money, that the Tories are the party of low inflation and that Labour is the party of high taxation. I hate to say it, but it is a whopping great lie. The truth is the reverse. Thatcher takes more money from people and lets them spend less than Labour did. The statistics show that the Tories are the party of high taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "s ours; its growth in industrial production has been four times as high and its growth in manufacturing output has been five times as high. The great achievement of the past 10 years is not that we have managed to rival Japan or West Germany, but that having fallen below France, we have now fallen below Italy on almost every indicator. The Britain that the Chancellor tells us will enter the 1990s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "turing output has been five times as high. The great achievement of the past 10 years is not that we have managed to rival Japan or West Germany, but that having fallen below France, we have now fallen below Italy on almost every indicator. The Britain that the Chancellor tells us will enter the 1990s— [Interruption.] If the Chancellor does not think that that is true, I shall give way to him now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "its he cannot use now but which he is to use this year only to pay off the national debt. The worst thing about the surplus—the Chancellor made it absolutely clear in his Budget speech, and perhaps the Prime Minister made it even clearer when she spoke to the Conservative council on Saturday—is that, even when we know that we have 1 million schoolchildren in classrooms that were built before 1914—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "l they have to offer on this front is a call for lower interest rates and indeed a lower exchange rate. How they imagine lower interest rates would deter borrowing beggars belief. The truth is that what they put forward is an inflationists' charter, for the simple reason that the Labour party is the party of inflation, just as it is the party of high taxation—it always has been and always will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "oday than its failure to comprehend the truth about investment. That was shown, once again, by the response made by the Leader of the Opposition to the Budget itself last Tuesday, when he said: After 10 years … the proportion of total investment in GDP is lower than during any year under the last Labour Government.\"—[ Official Report , 14 March 1989; Vol. 149, c. 313.] That is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ic adviser Professor McWilliams, who recently gave a lecture under the auspices of the CBI entitled \"The Renaissance of British Management\". Needless to say, it was barely reported, but I warmly commend it to the House—not least to the party opposite, whose need for economic education is palpable. Let me quote a few extracts. United Kingdom growth in the 1980s can now be seen to have been faster\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Is the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Not only was the right hon. and learned Gentleman totally unable to answer my question, but he was also totally unable to distinguish between the remission of taxation and an increase in public expenditure. He was quite unable to understand the difference between them. Let me return to the Budget. It has above all been a prudent and cautious Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Not only was the right hon. and learned Gentleman totally unable to answer my question, but he was also totally unable to distinguish between the remission of taxation and an increase in public expenditure. He was quite unable to understand the difference between them. Let me return to the Budget. It has above all been a prudent and cautious Budget. [Interruption.] Perhaps, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "I shall raise several questions on this money resolution. I spoke on the Water Bill [Money] (No. 1) resolution. I am concerned, because the first money resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "e as an important step by the Government in recognising the need for a loan facility, which Ministers, of course, failed to recognise throughout the Committee stage. The Secretary of State is obviously not aware of the difficulties that his junior Ministers have been suffering over recent weeks and months. Our response to paragraph (b) is that at last perhaps the Secretary of State has recognised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"ILEA.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As usual, the hon. Gentleman does not mention which authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "shers' Aske's, that case concerns an application to become not a grant-maintained school but a city technology college. The hon. Gentleman knows full well that ILEA won in court in the first instance, and that it now has leave to appeal to the House of Lords. Citizens and local authorities have a right to go to court and have their rights established, not have them crushed by Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ue nature. The first major pamphlet sent out by the trust—I understand that it was sent to all eligible schools—was called \"A New Choice of Schools\". I have a photocopy here. It is very cleverly put together, with pictures of children on beaches and in school libraries, and it talks in tendentious terms about the problems that schools have faced in the past. Turning to page 10, we read as follows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Publish it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises a case about which we have documentary evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So is this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "In a moment. The money that has been used for that campaigning is public money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.864.5", "colnum": "864", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to mislead the House, but 61 schools are in the process of opting out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.864.7", "colnum": "864", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "May I clear up the point that I was asked to clarify?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.864.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.868.5", "colnum": "868", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " has been used for such purposes by LEAs. Indeed, pressure has been put on Labour councillors. The hon. Member for Blackburn knows of a Labour councillor in Bolton who has had to resign the whip because he is in favour of grant-maintained schools. In conclusion—I know that other hon. Members wish to speak—we know that the hon. Member for Blackburn is implacably opposed to grant-maintained schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.868.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "In all my years of refereeing football matches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "On a point of order Madam Deputy Speaker. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The right hon. Gentleman's speech is not within the terms of the order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.869.8", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I assure you, Madam Deputy Speaker, that every word of my speech will deal with the activities of grant-maintained schools and the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.869.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "If that obligation does not exist and the trust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.871.7", "colnum": "871", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.871.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "You are right, Madam Deputy Speaker, but nobody interrupted the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs), so I thought that it would be in order to reply to him. To return to the trust, it is advising on the gerrymandering of boards of governors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.872.4", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman how they voted. They voted in a way which has been challenged, rightly, in the courts, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.872.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "because of the nature of the political debate surrounding grant maintenance—whereas the objectives of the trust were perfectly clear and not concerned with the debate in the House on the Education Reform Bill—charitable status would not follow automatically. It was therefore brought to our attention that the document was in error. Immediately that that document was shown to us to be in error, the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must contain himself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.874.5", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "e the ballot successful. My right hon. Friend acts in a quasi-judicial capacity in determining any application to him for grant-maintained status, but he could not, of course, offer advice on the preparation of an individual application. I shall now give way to the hon. Member for Bridgend. The hon. Gentleman has not risen and, having given him every opportunity, I see no reason to detain further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.874.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.874.7", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman is well known for his chicanery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-20", "file": "debates1989-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0627832d527e317c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PROCEDURE RESOLUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Methinks the Conservatives do protest too much. The questions so far asked about the Grant-Maintained Schools Trust have not been answered. The reality of this debate is that there are regulations before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-20a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.899.6", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Health Service Journal this week carries an advertisement for a finance director for a London teaching hospital, which it indicates is going to opt out? Will he please name that London teaching hospital or, if he does not know the name of it, will he find out and tell me by the end of today? Is it not reprehensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.899.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.903.8", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "We have another Minister bragging at the Dispatch Box. Is he aware that I opened a health fair in my constituency last Friday and that I was told in no uncertain terms that more resources were needed? There is £14 billion in the bucket so the Minister should put his hand in and get some out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.903.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I wish the right hon. Gentleman had listened to the reply I gave previously. However, I unerstand that he has usually made up his questions before he has heard any of my replies. The Health Service White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ened to the reply I gave previously. However, I unerstand that he has usually made up his questions before he has heard any of my replies. The Health Service White Paper— [Interruption.] I should point out straight away that there are now far more doctors in the Health Service than there were when the right hon. Gentleman's party was in Government and there are far more nures. But the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The White Paper gives a choice, both to general practitioners and to hospitals. I know that the right hon. Gentleman does not believe in choice, although yesterday he professed to believe in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.906.9", "colnum": "906", "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 my right hon. Friend will have an opportunity later today to rebut the totally unfair accusations that have been made against him by lesser men.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.906.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that I am not short of a few bob?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.907.6", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that the people on the lowest incomes are fully protected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.907.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the National Audit Office has shown, very frequently the rents have not been properly collected. Those people who are poorest already have their rent paid 100 per cent. by housing benefit, so the rent arrears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": " Pan Am bombing this 'threat' was thoroughly reinvestigated by the Finns, the US and other concerned Governments. It is our unanimous conclusion that the Helsinki 'threat' was baseless. In view of this, it is disgraceful that the hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) has cruelly deceived the relatives of those who died by encouraging them to believe that this warning was genuine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.911.2", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": ", will the Secretary of State tell us exactly when the letter dated 19 December was posted? Why was it delayed at all and, when that letter was finally sent, why did it not go by the speediest means available? I now turn, as the Secretary of State did, to the question of what has become known as the Helsinki warning. Why did the Secretary of State dismiss this warning as having little credibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.911.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.911.4", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "State also tell us why. on 10 January, when he made a statement to the House about the warnings that had been received, he referred only to the Helsinki warning and made no mention of the 22 November warning? Why, in that statement. did he disclose the warning that he said was unimportant, and yet make no mention of the warnings which, he now tells us, were critical? Turning to more recent events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.911.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "aph, the letter of 19 December added little. It added that there was more wiring than normal but that this was not a significant indicator. It said that the batteries were not secured and that the jack plug might be taped to the side. The batteries, wiring and role of the jack plug had been referred to in the 22 November telex. Therefore, the House will be able to judge that the important warning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ing and role of the jack plug had been referred to in the 22 November telex. Therefore, the House will be able to judge that the important warning— [Interruption.] I do not want to duck any of the questions put by the right hon. Gentleman. He asked me when the photograph was sent out. As I said in my statement—which I am sure that he heard—the photograph was sent out in the second week of January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "— [Interruption.] I do not want to duck any of the questions put by the right hon. Gentleman. He asked me when the photograph was sent out. As I said in my statement—which I am sure that he heard—the photograph was sent out in the second week of January—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—because many of the people concerned with sending it out were at the time dealing with events after the Lockerbie disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "gave no credence to the Helsinki warning was that it was not worthy of any. The American Government do not think it worthy of credence; nor do the Finnish Government. The Lockerbie investigators are not following up any trails relating to that warning in their inquiry. The only person who seems, for some extraordinary reason, to be still pursuing it is the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East is still on that old story, but I have already explained that the Lockerbie investigators gave it so little credence that they are not even following up a line of inquiry connected with it. The right hon. Gentleman's next point concerned recent events. He asked me about my movements on Wednesday. I am not prepared to comment on meetings with individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " some people, most of whom are not present, of what I am alleged to have said last week has astonished me. At no time have I known—or, indeed, could I have known—more about the progress of the investigation than was stated by the Lord Advocate last Friday. He is in charge of the investigation, and he knows all the facts. I know no more than he does, and I have nothing further to add on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.913.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.915.7", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "tion. He said that it was wrong to speculate on structural failure, but that was very much in people's minds at the time and it was extremely important that that matter should be disposed of and that people should not reach premature conclusions about whether the disaster was caused by a bomb or by structural failure. In one of his better remarks, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.915.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.916.10", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "If I have been guilty of using an unparliamentary word—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You have.\"] If I have, I withdraw it. The question remains——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.916.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.916.13", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Out of respect to you, Mr. Speaker——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.916.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.917.4", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Lockerbie Air Crash", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I think that on reflection he will realise that that is an unfair remark. On 22 December, I told the House what I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "l for Scotland, had a Second Reading and gone into Committee to be examined. At the moment, it would take a very able Philadelphia lawyer to whip through the new schedule and come up with the right conclusions as to its effect. The Minister is only an Edinburgh lawyer, not a Philadelphia lawyer. While I have a great deal of admiration for Edinburgh lawyers, some of whom rank among my best friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ilemma for the private enterprise monopolies they seek to create. They are planning to cosset those private enterprise monopolies. The Secretary of State has already, unprecedentedly, guaranteed them immunity from prosecution. That is an on-the-record statement. We know, because of our possession of the leaked memorandum from Mr. Michael Carney, the secretary of the Water Authorities Association —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "umber of billions of pounds that it will cost to make the necessary improvements, and we are in a similar position. My guess is that the Secretary of State's proposals have no hope of reaching fruition under private enterprise. So, if the hon. Gentleman wants more precise figures, perhaps he would ask his right hon. Friend to give the House more precise figures so that we can all enjoy the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "rugby match on Saturday. I was travelling down from Pontyprydd to Cardiff. Looking at the river, very little progress seems to have been made in the past 15 years. I do not criticise the Welsh water authority, which is undertaking important work, but this underlines the work that we still have to do, and which has to be paid for one way or another, whether from general taxation or by the polluter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "asel words, I find no satisfaction in \"where possible\" or \"in a code of practice\". We all know too well how they will be pushed easily and quickly aside with a big offer for a major lease of a reservoir for the fishing and angling facilities in our communities. I find no satisfaction in the code of practice or those words. I apologise for talking now about angling because it seems like a sideshow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "preceding_text": "de to develop around Rutland water was made by the Anglian water authority in 1984. It proposed some hideous Swiss-type chalets around the catchment area—to follow the theme of my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Sir G. Shaw). Thank God that that very prejudicial application was rejected. The water authority did not proceed with an appeal. I must ask my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in my back yard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can take them seriously or not, just as he likes. I am making this speech to put my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on notice that the Rutland people expect the Department of the Environment to defend the environment around Rutland water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "te such changes to ensure that the public interest is protected. When dealing with new clause 20, the hon. Member for Copeland seemed determined that the new plcs should not own any freehold land. I find that puzzling. Be they waterworks, buildings or just open land, those items will have to be valued and people will have to make a judgment about what might or might not happen in the longer-term —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": " and I am surprised that there are not more hon. Members in the Chamber tonight. I suspect that the reason is that they know that we do not have to worry too much about the Bill because, even if it becomes law, nobody will buy the shares. And they know, of course, as we come nearer a general election, that it is not worth buying them anyhow because we have to take water back into public ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1015.7", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I am absolutely delighted that this Bill achieves the privatisation of nearly 500,000 acres of land. I am sure that my hon. Friends are just as pleased as I am. I can well understand the hon. Gentleman's sourness and chagrin that his backdoor nationalisation plan to get hold of this land is frustrated by this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1015.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": "r being a brilliant artist and civil engineer. I cannot comment on his artistic talent—my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) assures me that he is a good artist—but I trust that in his retirement he will find plenty of time to practise that hobby. I was interested to read in the New Civil Engineer , the magazine of the Institution of Civil Engineers, that the Secretary of State —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. David Trippier)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. David Trippier)", "preceding_text": " essential adjunct to the measures in the Housing Act 1988 and the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988, deregulating private lettings. The measures came into force on 2 January in Scotland and on 15 January in England and Wales. For lettings beginning since the Acts came into force, landlords can charge a market rent. It is clear that in many areas market rents will be considerably higher than fair rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "I am trying to follow the hon. Gentleman carefully. Is he saying that it is Labour party policy to scrap mortgage interest relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman to some one day—indeed, he may not have to go all that far to meet them. The Minister is trying to wriggle out of the problem. He knows that what we are talking about, and what I have been talking about for a long time, is a subsidy system which is fair within and between the rented and purchase sectors. We must move towards that in such a way as not to throw either rent payers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1044.6", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "I am about to tell the hon. Gentleman that he should calm down and stop losing his temper because he is devaluing the currency of what he is trying to communicate to the House. We are anxious to hear from the hon. Gentleman precisely what his and his party's policy would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1044.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "share with a younger sibling. Is that what the Government expect? In Glasgow it is the norm for students to live at home while at university or college. The Government are setting housing norms which will take housing provision and standards back in time instead of making progress by raising standards and conditions. If the Government implement the order, they will have a great deal to answer for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I support the measures put forward by my hon. Friend. I did not intend to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-21", "file": "debates1989-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "880e45f73f4787f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "stened to all the points that the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) was making and the fire with which he spoke, it became clear that there was much less in what he was saying than the passion he was using to put it forward. Anybody looking at the housing scene must recognise that there has to be a limit to the amount of subsidy on housing benefit, both in terms of cost because of the area —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-21a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend consider the beaches at Dover and Deal? Will he in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1083.5", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend consider the fact that the beach at Deal has problems because the Opposition, when in power, did little to improve it, especially when a Labour Member was representing that constituency? Now that a Conservative Member represents that constitutency, will my hon. Friend consider the representations of that Member and ensure that the beach at Deal is improved in the near future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1083.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Of course not. I am entertained by the contempt in which Conservative Members hold the opinions of the British people and by the dismissive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1130.3", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady prefers, I can read into the record the results of the Gallup poll, the MORI poll—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1130.9", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "not. He is, however, in a certain amount of deep water on this issue. The Times had the heading, \"Flotation is heading into deeper water\"; The Independent , \"The wrong way to sell water\"; the Daily Mail , \"Why water charges are overflowing\"; the Financial Times , \"Water sale in a muddle\"; The Daily Telegraph , \"Privatisation water torture\"; and The Observer , \"Risk of drowning in water sell-off'.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1130.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "It means that there is a whipped, arm-twisted, bullied and cajoled majority for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "or developed in ways which are undesirable to the area and are certainly not in the interests of conservation or the environment. In my view, the rights of access and the leisure and recreation facilities that have been developed over the years will be jeopardised. Nor is this just a fear of the more unusual groups— those whom many of my hon. Friends would describe as the bearded weekend ramblers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1140.5", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "in this country. In theory it would provide a check on the abuse of monopoly power—but only in theory. It is in the nature of natural monopoly that one cannot be sure of the counterfactualisation against which it is to be measured. Comparing one natural monopoly with another can guarantee only that neither abuses its position more than the other; it cannot guarantee that abuse does not take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1141.3", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I will give way when I have finished this paragraph. The first purpose of the amendment, therefore, is to give equal importance to the examination of consumer interests. I trust that we on the Conservative side of the House are interested in consumer interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "My majority is satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1142.4", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Emma Nicholson", "preceding_text": "who will suffer the effects. I am delighted to have two outstanding planning authorities in my constituency—Torridge and West Devon. In addition, we have the Dartmoor national park committee. I do not imagine that it will be better to pluck those decisions away and to have them made here or by the parish council, the county council or even, for example, by Macclesfield town council. I am confused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1144.7", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "It is sad that Buxton Water was unable to make itself a household name when it was independent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1144.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Bradley", "preceding_text": "ose in the north-west, the problems of huge debt and inadequate investment. No comparative competition indicators, whether they are devised by the Director General of Water Services, the Audit Commission or whichever body the Government choose to set up, will ensure competition between companies. People will be tied to the problems, debts and investment problems of the water company in their area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ed, introducing a regime which will cut off people's water if they have difficulty paying bills without regard to the public health of the nation. If people's electricity is cut off, it is bad for them and their families. If their water is cut off, it is not just bad for them and their families—it is a public health hazard and it is bad for the whole community. The Government fail to realise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 104", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "le to predict accurately all the factors that would need to be assessed in an emergency. As the hon. Member for Brent, South (Mr. Boateng) so accurately stated, it is important that proper provision is made for an emergency, but it is rich indeed for the hon. Gentleman—a distinguished lawyer in his own right—to wish to define in greater detail the long-standing defence of \"reasonably practicable\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 136", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to come down to Dorset, with my five children whom the hon. Gentleman was kind enough to mention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 136", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Whips Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "ywhere near any car parks. Moreover, I am confident that we shall be able to regulate the children's behaviour in the ordinary way, which does not involve disciplining in car parks—it involves a hard stare, with the promise of discipline to come if they do not respond to the stare. That is how one deals with children. I am sure that that view strikes a chord with a number of Conservative Members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-22", "file": "debates1989-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a211cd155919c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 161", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "ws that the representation in county courts for the unassisted plaintiff provided by solicitors on a voluntary basis, is diminishing. The amount of remuneration available makes that representation uneconomical. Legal aid is being withdrawn in that area. In the county courts and before registrars, the unrepresented defendant, very often the plaintiff in person, appears without the necessary skills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-22a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-23", "file": "debates1989-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca7a92b0e8eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-23a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "for two tiers but only providing one. There are no complaints. Those of us who have had to go to Worksop on the Wednesday and have been given a file with a piece of pink string around it containing a piece of paper with a chap's name on it and a note saying, \"Please do the necessary,\" do not complain, because that is our bread and butter, our £50 in the bank to make the bank manager a bit happier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-23a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-23", "file": "debates1989-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca7a92b0e8eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-23a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "were raised by the hon. Gentleman and in view of his kind invitation I shall be only too happy to continue the conversation as he suggests. My difficulty—perhaps I can get this quickly on the record—is that despite what the hon. Gentleman says, Newham has the highest percentage of vacant dwellings in the whole of London. That must be looked at, and although he has tried to explain it to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-23a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-03-23", "file": "debates1989-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0b3ca7a92b0e8eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-23a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": " quickly on the record—is that despite what the hon. Gentleman says, Newham has the highest percentage of vacant dwellings in the whole of London. That must be looked at, and although he has tried to explain it to the House— [Interruption.] It is not a matter of conjecture; it is a statement of fact. I understand that there are special reasons relating to the empty TWA system blocks which push up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-03-23a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.3.2", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The whole purpose of a ballot is that parents have a choice; some say no and some say yes, and more are saying yes than no. I am sure the hon. Gentleman will find it reassuring that more schools in Labour authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.3.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.3.5", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I, too, have a list, Mr. Speaker—on this occasion supplied by the GMS trust—which shows that of the 49 schools balloted, as of 4 April, only 20 are in Labour-controlled areas and many more in Conservative-controlled areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.3.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.12.8", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "That is simply not true. It has been possible to establish a CTC in Bradford—a new one, to be built next year—only because the Conservatives now control Bradford city council. The hon. Gentleman will find that, once that school is established and has started to recruit, it will be one of the most popular in Bradford, to which the children of many of his constituents will want to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.12.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.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": "O to have bases in Namibia. SWAPO committed itself to the Geneva accord under which it is required to stay north of the 16th parallel in Angola. It is the breach by SWAPO which has led to the most regrettable fighting and loss of life. I emphasise that the South African units involved are acting with the authority of the United Nations. It is now important that the authority of the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the KGB defector Major Levchenko, revealed that the spying activities of the KGB reached their peak during the years of detente in the 1970s? Can she confirm that KGB espionage activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend confirm that KGB espionage activities are increasing now and have increased since President Gorbachev came to power and, indeed, since glasnost was introduced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.8", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "During the last football season there were 33 arrests associated with matches at Liverpool, 24 arrests at Everton and 38 at Manchester United. At Hampden Park, Glasgow, there were 152 arrests and at Ibrox Park, the home of Glasgow Rangers, there were 407 arrests. Yet it is the supporters of English clubs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.10", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "It is the supporters of English clubs who are to be penalised by the identity card system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.18.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "House of Fraser", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before calling upon the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) to ask a private notice question relating to the publication of the inspectors' report on the House of Fraser, I wish to make it clear that quotations from the text of the report would contravene our sub judice rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.19.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.93.5", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " half of the Labour party have painfully, unhappily, belatedly come to realise that we are right. I quote from the second leak of the Labour party's policy in The Times of yesterday: Under proposals which will be fought by left-wing unions and politicians only British Telecom, of all the utilities privatised by the Conservatives, would be taken back into public ownership under a Labour government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.93.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "g. For something that is as important as water, we should be asking how its price per head compares with the other amenities that the British consumer enjoys. Is 10p per head per day enough? Is that a reasonable price to pay for four or five gallons of water per head? Should it be 12p or 15p? In relation to the cost of other amenities that the consumer currently enjoys, water is excessively cheap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.122.10", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Who said he was great?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "tish council of the SDP—I believe it is known as a cottage meeting. He said that the Water Bill was encouraging French companies to buy British water companies. He seemed to ignore the fact that there is a golden share to prevent the plcs from being acquired as soon as privatisation takes place. I was somewhat surprised to see the great former Foreign Secretary, the man who was the great European—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.122.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State confirmed at the start of the debate when he kindly gave way to me. I have in my hand a press release from Mr. Roy Watts, of the Thames water authority, dated 24 November. He talks about the future and says: 'We shall also be able to move into new, non-regulated areas of activity at home and abroad, water related or not, for the benefit of future shareholders, and customers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State found himself in rather a bad temper earlier—not for the first time, I would say. I do not intend to follow his example. I was, indeed, intending to start on a note of congratulation: the Secretary of State was absent for some of our debate this evening, and this time it was for a very good reason. He was attending the christening of his grandson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "y realisation of the enormous damage that they would do. I thought that perhaps the then Prime Minister was too busy on grander matters to have concerned himself with these minutiae, and I was anxious to be fair to the Labour party, so I turned to the memoirs of Lord Barnet, who was Chief Secretary at the time. I looked in the index of his book for a reference to water; there was not a single one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I looked under sewerage services; there was not a single reference. But, to be fair to the right hon. Gentleman and the Labour party, there were some references which were relevant to this subject. There were three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "t be the junior Minister from the Department of Energy who will reply to this debate but that it will be a Minister of State, Scottish Office. The Ways and Means resolution covers the Electricity Council, but it also covers the two Scottish boards. The money resolution did not cover the Scottish successor companies. I hope that a Minister will be forthcoming in explaining exactly what is going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-04", "file": "debates1989-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "1da4b2fd64903110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ng has always been done in a particular way in this place is no substantial argument for saying that it should always be done in that way in the future. There are many virtues in many of our procedures, but there are also many defects., and this is one of them. Any opportunity to improve our methods should be taken. This is a radical Government. This is the Government who undertake new procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-04a.162.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.175.8", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "y and promote suitable Government office relocation in Caithness, which has shown itself to be suitable through the Atomic Energy Authority superannuation office? When does the Minister hope to announce special investment measures to offset the economic losses that have resulted from the Government's decision? Will he also recognise that that is needed to help the infrastructure and local efforts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.175.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.176.9", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ometimes find myself unable to be as enthusiastic as the hon. Gentleman clearly is about giving tenants extra rights to purchase their homes, which makes me slightly embarrassed about my position. In all seriousness, a concept of 100 per cent. rebates, which in practice means giving the houses away, has certain fundamental objections. Home ownership should be not only a right but a responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.176.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": " of elderly people to those nursing homes and is contrary to all the best policy put forward by the Health Service, Age Concern and other organisations which believe that old people should be cared for in institutions, sheltered housing and other such facilities near their own homes? The unplanned growth of nursing homes in Ayrshire means that many buildings which were previously hotels are being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "we have had discussions with the Scottish General Medical Services Committee. As the doctors are organised and negotiate on a United Kingdom basis, they are not able to discuss the particular position in Scotland, but the Scottish Office and Ministers have been addressing that problem. The hon. Gentleman is mistaken about the letters that I have received. There is widespread support among doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I had a very useful and helpful meeting with a number of doctors in the right hon. Gentleman's constituency, who welcomed the broad thrust of the proposals.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.186.4", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I thought that the Minister was going to say that it would be published in a special edition of The Observer. In view of the fact that Ministers feel so strongly about the unity of the United Kingdom, I shall draw the Minister's attention to the missing link on the main Al road which is supposed to link Edinburgh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend able to give the House any information about how many right hon. and hon. Members who sit on the Opposition Benches have made public declarations about their intention to flout the law —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is not a statement; the hon. Gentleman is raising a point of order with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "ade by the Secretary of State on Second Reading. The central point of his speech was that we would have masses of competition, new suppliers, enormous improvement and dramatic change. I told the Secretary of State then that I did not think that he had read his own Bill because clause 15 hedges everything about to the point that the right hon. Gentleman's sweeping and ebullient claims are somewhat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.207.5", "colnum": "207", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ar down the road and he lives not far away. He knows what a wonderful little place it is. A row of houses suffered an upsurge of power which affected a number of consumers. I took the matter up with the area board but, to start with, it did not want to know. Therefore, I went and banged on the door in the hope that I had the support of the Secretary of State for Energy. I sorted it out in the end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer that lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.210.5", "colnum": "210", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "rity, which must modify what is being done. At present there are no checks and balances for the consumer. That will be changed radically by this Bill. It is a fundamental point, and it is no bad thing that the hon. Members for Ashfield and for Wentworth have raised it in the context of consumers. It is well to establish firmly on the record again that this Bill changes the situation fundamentally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "e. If the hon. Gentleman wants to speak, he can speak later. Occasionally I have received a complaint from a person with a card that it has run out at the weekend and he cannot get a replacement from the local office. In my constituency the local office might be 10 miles away, at Mansfield or Doncaster. Even if he has the money, there may be no bus to take him there. There are other problems, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend's suspicions about the words, \"senior Scottish Office sources\". When one reads the words, \"senior Labour MP\" one knows that if someone is quoted in that way, one is about to be stabbed in the back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) know that Torness power station was not needed and that it provided capacity well in excess of demand. It will certainly not need Chapeldonan. What I do not understand from the new clause is who will take over the ownership of the Chapeldonan site if it is not sold before privatisation. Will it be the SSEB, the new privatised company, or will it be its subsidiary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "This debate is an interesting one, and the hon. Member for Bedfordshire, North (Sir T. Skeet) is to be congratulated on tabling his amendment, which is remarkably similar to one that I tabled at the same time—indicating that there is some common thinking even though, as I freely acknowledge, we approach the problem from totally different directions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "f coal and Mr. Scargill, the hon. Member for Sedgefield handed over to his hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) and made arrangements not to be in the Committee Room, so he was not there while the arguments about coal took place. I was there, and I witnessed the hon. Member for Sedgefield achieve the impossible—of being present, but not in the Committee Room, for most of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "Navy, that we have built and run over 20 of those reactors and that we have done so extremely effectively. If an organisation decides to go down a particular technology route—as the Royal Navy did—and to stick with it, it can be most effective. France adopted a technology and then refined it. By investing an amount equal to £20 billion, it is now able to provide the cheapest electricity in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "t. Bradwell, which did not want a shallow nuclear dump, has had a shed filled with nuclear waste for years. I have one in Winfrith; anyone who has a nuclear power station has one of these sheds, where we have stored safely for up to 30 years intermediate and low-level waste. Unfortunately, the Government have been pushed—possibly by people's fears, which have been whipped up by Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "ur years, dereliction and devastation, the dampening and destruction of hope, the slaughter of jobs, the depression of wage rates and the creation of an environment which, unless something is done very soon, will cause further dismay and destruction. For example, we still await decisions about derelict land grant. For the Government to embark on a further round of job destruction and annihilation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys MÔn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys MÔn)", "preceding_text": "This has been art extremely wide-ranging debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": " he said that the release of the Solicitor-General's letter was approved by Charles Powell, the relevant private secretary at No. 10, and by Mr. Bernard Ingham, the Prime Minister's press secretary and that there would have been no question of a release of that document without that express approval from No. 10. Yet in his evidence, reported in the fourth report of the Select Committee on Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-05", "file": "debates1989-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "1312e3ac973d61b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "ivate secretary at No. 10, and by Mr. Bernard Ingham, the Prime Minister's press secretary and that there would have been no question of a release of that document without that express approval from No. 10. Yet in his evidence, reported in the fourth report of the Select Committee on Defence— [Interruption.] I am sorry; Conservative Members must understand that we have rights in the House as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-05a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.321.6", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is a pathetic record. As I pointed out, total business investment is at a higher proportion of GDP than it has ever been since records were first collected. What was happening in manufacturing industry under the Labour Government was that there was so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.321.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.323.10", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I did not give the precise figure for which the hon. Gentleman asked because he is such a brilliant mathematician that I thought that he could work it out. When he gave his figure, he worked it out wrongly. As one of my hon. Friends said, it is over ½per cent. but under 1 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.323.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give an assurance that when the Prime Minister is discussing human rights with the Russians she will raise with Mr. Gorbachev the case of Mr. and Mrs. Zolotarevsky", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.333.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.333.10", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "If any apologies are required, they are from the hon. Gentleman for abusing points of order yesterday. That is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.333.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the widespread concern about the internationally and nationally important national fruit collections in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.335.5", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I am always delighted when my right hon. Friend asks me to reply to questions, particularly to those from the hon. Gentleman. However, my right hon. Friend told the Leader of the Opposition that she would not be able to be here this afternoon because she has made herself available to President Gorbachev—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.335.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Dock Labour Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "£15 per tonne charged by British companies, only 1½p can be attributed to the scheme? Why did the right hon. Gentleman not mention that all our main competitors, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, operate dock labour schemes similar to ours? If they all believe that a dock labour scheme is essential to the efficient control of manpower and for good standards of training, medical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Dock Labour Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": " the disgraceful baying that we have heard this afternoon by Conservative Members, who have never been near a dock in their lives, I now think that it is true. Their attitude will not go unnoticed by the people of this country, because they are lower than vermin. I say that without any qualification. Is it not clear that the scheme, which has been in existence all these years, has given stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Dock Labour Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Roberts", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister expect cheering similar to that which we heard from Conservative Back Benchers when the Government announce getting rid of security of employment in the legal profession?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Dock Labour Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Roberts", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister expect cheering similar to that which we heard from Conservative Back Benchers when the Government announce getting rid of security of employment in the legal profession? [Interruption.] Is the Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "nd the aggravation of the greenhouse effect will continue to escalate between now and the end of the century. I am led to believe that the Prime Minister is specifically concerned about the greenhouse effect and that that is her major environmental concern. Unlike many sceptics and cynics I welcome her conversion and believe it to be sincere. I believe that she has come to terms with the problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "ex was under threat because the Government were not willing to provide £11 million for it to continue. If that is the case, how serious are the Government about efficiency and about research and development to protect the environment? Mr. Edwards told the Select Committee that if that scheme failed, very little other research and development would take place on the technology for sulphurised beds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ebate in Committee on this matter and on that occasion we were not at all satisfied. That is why we have come back to the issue. We are looking for satisfaction in this debate. The Government brag that the Bill is in the interests of the consumer. If that is the case, why does not the Minister cough up? We are asking him straightforwardly for proper representation for the consumer on these bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "or will have a very large catchment area to choose from and I am sure that there will be many Conservatives on those committees. However, I assure the House that the appointments will be made by the independent director and not by the Government. That is a major new feature of the Bill and I am happy to give that assurance. We have placed the whole process more at arm's length from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "enerators, such as large telephone exchanges or hospitals. That is micro-CHP and we have already conceded that that is taking off. We know that that will produce a large saving on fossil fuel and that it will contribute to reduced energy costs and to a reduction in the greenhouse gas pollution load. But that is not the point. The point is that the Bill as presently structured is biased against CHP", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.449.4", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "e other privatisations, creates and enhances competition and produces what is called downward pressure on prices. The problem, of course, for the Secretary of State is that he must create the conditions in which he can successfully sell the industry to private investors and ensure certainty of supply. In the end what the Government have come up with is what is being called the big fix arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-06", "file": "debates1989-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d97b627b7f05db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.458.9", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. There has been a welshing on an agreement about today's business, and I am totally disgusted with Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-06a.458.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-07", "file": "debates1989-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f0fdf5f5309fc9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-07a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "rive. It is a much more pleasant journey, one can read the newspaper or work and one arrives in a reasonable frame of mind rather than being frazzled. The hon. Gentleman is right that travel by train is to be encouraged. Another problem in London is through traffic. We really want to keep it out of London altogether. That is what the M25 is for and what I believe the east river crossing will help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-07a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-07", "file": "debates1989-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f0fdf5f5309fc9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-07a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "transport and related matters. I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Maples) on his perspicacious new clauses. My new clause follows the theme set out by my hon. Friends The problems of parking in London are well known, but this is a national Bill that does not deal with London alone. It would be wrong to assume that what happens here does not happen elsewhere, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-07a.486.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-10", "file": "debates1989-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8930e81bb6964e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-10a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Schedule 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan W. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Back to 1926.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan W. Williams", "preceding_text": "shed all such opportunities to one side. We have seen clearly that their commitment to the environment and green issues is non-existent. The Bill shows clearly the double standards for coal and the nuclear industry. The Government are carrying out a clear vendetta against the coal industry, which dates from the 1970s or even earlier than that. The Government are the descendants of the coal owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-10a.682.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I have nothing further to add —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "y speech by reminding the House of why I am able, as Secretary of State, to spend record sums of money in our country's history on social security—the increases this month attest to that—and how miserably Socialism's record compares with our success. We were, and will continue to be, re-elected to office because of the absolute inability of Labour Members to understand the reasons for our success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "billion. That is not simply an increase of £2 billion over the previous year, for it conceals additional increases because of the happy reduction in unemployment. That adds about £.1·6 billion to the overall increase in my spending. That record is not just for this one year. It reflects a decade of achievement in which we have seen increases in social security spending go up by 33 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. I was trying desperately to be non-political and helpful to the Opposition. I remind the Opposition of what happened when they last attempted to make changes in the social security system; I think it was in 1976 when they were going through another process with the International Monetary Fund. Memories of those days are clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Gentleman thought I might say this —is their total income. That is why the Government's approach throughout this decade contains two vital elements, not one. The first is our pledge to increase pensions in line with prices to provide a secure foundation for income in retirement. The second is to pursue policies to keep inflation under control to safeguard the pensioner's income from other sources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "es to provide a secure foundation for income in retirement. The second is to pursue policies to keep inflation under control to safeguard the pensioner's income from other sources. [Interruption.] I shall illustrate the success in a moment. The comparisons should shock Opposition Members. The success of our policy versus the failure of Labour's promise is a fact of history that I shall illustrate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "o produce a total increase in net income of 23 per cent. versus a miserable 3 per cent. in total throughout the whole Labour period of office. Secondly, my hon. Friends the Members for Bournemouth, West (Mr. Butterfill) and Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) were very conscious of the role of savings. What an appalling record there was under Labour. Throughout their period of office savings lost their value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "him of the reality of sharing under Labour and what happened to the pensioner then. The hon. Gentleman talked on television yesterday about the pensioner needing to share in a successful growth of earnings and the economy. Let me tell him what happened. I shall give him exact comparisons. In comparison to the average earnings of all manual workers in 1974 the pensioner was receiving 63 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"For what years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "precisely the figures that I have obtained from my officials. There are two groups of figures. First, would the hon. Gentleman like me to repeat the figures for the average pensioner, which he seemed to accept, or does he just want me to give him the figures for the pensioner who has no income other than state benefits? I shall repeat the figures, which are the figures obtained from my Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "Of course that was not a point of order. I did not retract one iota of what I had said. The hon. Member for Livingston was talking about Library data. I have not seen those figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "the population. Happily today, only 24 per cent. of pensioners occupy that position. There has been a significant improvement in their relative position. I agree with my hon. Friends and with Opposition Members that that is not enough. I am not satisfied and that is why I have brought forward a poorer pensioner package which will increase considerably the position of many pensioners in the autumn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " of pretending that it is not happening. The Conservative case is that they are doing more than any previous Government. It is certainly true that the Conservatives have had the opportunity. No Government in history have had a windfall gain such as that of North sea oil—revenues secured for them by the Labour Government whom they succeeded, who did not believe in throwing away the nation's assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "preceding_text": "the pensioner equivalent of that well-known figure the person with 2·3 children. Such figures are an abstraction rather than a representation of the reality of what is happening. Now that the hon. Member for Livingston has listened to my explanation and has reconsidered the matter, I hope that he will share my preference for the figures quoted by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "£1,050, scarcely even pocket money for some major construction firms. How is the law being enforced stringently when no action was taken on more than half the sites where a death or major injury occurred? In their amendment the Government have found only two measures which they have taken to halt the rising toll of death and serious injury and those are enforcement blitzes and publicity campaigns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "tainly is; it is much more serious than that. In their amendment, the Government conveniently place all the blame on employers and others on site; Our central contention is that the Government have wilfully generated a commercial climate in which employers are forced to make a choice between getting business and safety, and workers are forced to make a choice between keeping their jobs and safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "o enforce the regulations—but the unions are becoming increasingly weak in certain areas because of the growth of lump labour and individualism. Workers are therefore unable to enforce safety regulations, as they can if there is a good trade union organisation. That is one of the problems in the construction industry. UCATT is conducting a safe site campaign and has produced an excellent document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Corporate Affairs (Mr. Francis Maude)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Corporate Affairs (Mr. Francis Maude)", "preceding_text": "se takes note of European Community Document No. 4102/89 on units of measurement; and welcomes the proposals as providing adequate transitional periods to enable businesses and consumers to adapt and become used to the new measurements. In 1965 the then Government announced their support to encourage the adoption of metric units as the primary system for weights and measures in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not be aware of the fact that it is possible for the trading standards authorities to prosecute people now who sell goods in quantities and units which are not authorised under the legislation. There is nothing novel about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.844.2", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Quin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman's intervention detracts from the point that I was making. I was simply saying that the consumer has the right to proper information and to have measurements presented to him in an understandable way. The hon. Gentleman seems to dislike the phrase \"user-friendly\", but it is common currency among consumer organisations, as I am sure that he appreciates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "tice within this country, again, the Minister is saying what his hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton) has just said is absolutely correct. The Minister has said, \"We will introduce this\" but in response to the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) and others he has said, \"Don't worry. We will be turning a blind eye to things. We will not be implementing it or following it up.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "That is right. We are way behind some European countries on pedestrian safety, but we are way ahead in the provision of non-commercial transport for groups with special interests or needs and with community interests such as students. When students go to another college to play water polo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " been copied by others. For example, the orange badge scheme which allows privileges to people with real mobility difficulties has now been copied. In London the air buses between Heathrow airport and the London railway stations each take two wheelchirs. That sort of integrated service is far better than a specialist service. That is the kind of transport spectrum which many people have developed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-11", "file": "debates1989-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "873e5a156504374f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": " appointed by Government and made up of placemen appointed by Government. That is why a proposal was made for a housing action trust, why we have the task force and why the urban development corporation came about—as part of a much larger agenda to subvert the city council and local democracy. It was a recognition by the Minister of his party's failure to attract votes in local elections in Leeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-11a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.920.6", "colnum": "920", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "the two sides of this House. My recollection is that the GLC had plenty of money to spend on subsidising fares, but never had any money for capital investment in the Underground. That is the reality of the situation. The money that was available was spent on reducing fares, but no money was spent on the long-term health of the Underground, and that is something for which the GLC will be condemned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.920.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman, because I have already given way about 15 times and think that I should press on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Thank you so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.928.3", "colnum": "928", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Styles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "neath the escalator had been ignited. Report after report recommended that the cladding should be replaced, and escalators cleared. The obvious question then is why the cladding was not replaced. Mr. Sykes believed that There was a feeling among London Underground managers that the financial climate would rule out proposals to increase spending in certain areas. That was the judgment of Mr. Sykes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett", "preceding_text": "tragedy the lessons contained in the report to ensure that as far as possible such a tragedy does not happen again. We must be constructive about the tragedy and the report. I deplore the sort of manufactured hysteria that we hear from Opposition Members such as the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks). Opposition Members have attempted to make party-political capital out of the tragedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "preceding_text": " frequently in the recent past the safety and the reliability of the service have been called into question. The major issues are crime, safety and investment. Robbery, assault and the other offences against the person which have regrettably increased in the past 10 or 15 years on the Underground have made many of my constituents and the travelling public afraid to travel on the tube late at night", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.934.4", "colnum": "934", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "preceding_text": " in a slightly different context, a few years ago the GLC operated a policy of using money to subsidise fares rather than for capital investment. That was a ludicrous policy—keeping fares down rather than considering the operation of the service. It was imperative to restore the right of management to manage without undue political interference, and that has been done since the removal of the GLC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.934.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.959.2", "colnum": "959", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Since the Conservative Government abolished the GLC, I have not had a chauffer-driven car at my disposal, as the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes) is well aware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": " rather than about the causes themselves. That amounts simply to raking over the past for cheap party-political gain. We should have been debating the importance of improving the future of our transport system and reassuring the travelling public. We should have been asking constructive questions such as whether the Fennell recommendations are the right recommendations to which we may wish to add—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful for that intervention. I would have thought that the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms. Abbott) could have seen my notes here. So far, we have heard nothing constructive from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may think that he is on to a good point, but he is not. The railway inspectorate has been back to consider the matter since it was pointed out to me that there was a single phase power failure. The inspectorate noted that not all the gates remain shut but that the majority of them fly open if there is a single phase failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-12", "file": "debates1989-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54d44d93e6e58f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.1003.6", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "National Health Service (Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": ", from whom the Department could most readily have sought advice. We included Leeds and Hull in our sample. There we found that the eye test was not free, nor indeed was the charge £9·75 or less. The optometrists that we sampled at random in Leeds and Hull were charging between £10·40 and £12·50. As the Secretary of State knows, I wrote to him giving the results of the survey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-12a.1003.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "If the car alarms have been properly fitted and conform to the excellent new British standards that we are trying to promote throughout Europe—thanks to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport—the problems, which, as the hon. Gentleman said can be a considerable nuisance to local residents, can be obviated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1053.8", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course one would be deeply concerned about any case such as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1053.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "roup to whom my hon. Friend is referring. From Monday, we have provided extra help to nearly nine out of 10 people who claim income support to meet residential care or nursing home fees. We are now helping 150,000 people in such homes compared with 12,000 when we took office, and expenditure has risen from £10 million to £890 million. That is because the economy is successful, and it demonstrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is not on precisely the same basis —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1054.8", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The rate of inflation in 1979, when the Labour Government left office, was a lot higher than it is now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1054.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "When, in her next Cabinet reshuffle, the Prime Minister is looking for somewhere to send her right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Walker), which is further away than Wales, will she consider Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "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 need worry—I should hardly be sending for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1055.6", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the decision of the Union of European Football Associations to allow English clubs back into Europe in the 1991 season, subject to Government approval?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1055.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "When the judges go on strike on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-13", "file": "debates1989-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "af4016b607ccfc17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Atomic Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "te gives the Minister an opportunity to tell us what the Government envisage will happen in the new framework. That issue also begs the question of some of the strong rumours that we have heard, that BNFL itself may be a candidate for privatisation in the years ahead. If the present ideology continues, perhaps the only thing that is likely to be saved from privatisation is the air that we breathe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-13a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rily to debate weights and measures and suddenly finds herself embroiled in a constitutional wrangle or crisis. Naturally she asks herself whether the same arguments apply to the Weights and Measures (Amendment) Bill. I can give my hon. Friend another piece of news. I have heard that the Government told the Conservative Member responsible for the Weights and Measures (Amendment) Bill to bobby off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1191.4", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: She has been cutting ever since.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the Prime Minister and the large white, but I know that when she used to serve in Alderman Roberts's shop in Grantham she was so keen on making a profit that she used to cut up the dolly mixtures to make sure that they were not over weight. Once someone gets down to that sort of thing we know that they are into making money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1191.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Heseltine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "order because we could not believe what we were hearing—that two \"verbal\" amendments were to be discussed on Third Reading. That is so unusual that I was wondering whether the Mace would have to be removed. I was not sure of the exact procedure, and wondered whether the Serjeant at Arms—or perhaps my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Brown)—would have to come and take the Mace away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1192.3", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about planning permission?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "No, we did not get any explanation and the Minister then made a brief appearance at the Dispatch Box. However, as she wants to safeguard her future, she was not prepared to put her foot in it. If somebody is to start making charges, the Minister does not want it on her doorstep. It would be better in Ridley's backyard rather than in hers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend mentioned the Minister and perhaps he will recall that I was in full flight in my comments on the amendments but because I thought that the Minister would make a statement to solve our problems, I stopped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.2", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "However, what is coming out now is something even worse because we know that some of our hon. Friends have prepared for the next debate but have now found that that Bill is to be withdrawn because yet again the Government have decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.6", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I was waiting to hear what the Minister would say in explanation and in answer to the many points that have been put forward. I knew that my hon. Friend had not dealt with everything because I remembered my hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield (Mr. Meale) asking him whether he had read the document on pollution control. It was a fairly weighty tomb—no, tome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-14", "file": "debates1989-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0a732cde6be823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.6", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF SMOKE POLLUTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "lders of the hon. Member for Basingstoke. He is carrying the can. We have been able to remove part of that weight from his shoulders. It is true that he is acting in good old party fashion, but why should he carry all the blame? I thought that my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore had cut short his speech so that the Minister could rise to explain what had happened. However, she played it craftily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-14a.1193.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the restricted welcome that the hon. Gentleman has given to our proposals. I have to say, however, that I am certain that the broad thrust of our policy on 16 and 17-year-olds is right. It is wrong to give people of that age a perverse incentive to leave home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.7.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that the crush in the Table Office is much eased after tea time? Will he consider allowing those research assistants who have Library passes to enter the Table Office after about half past four?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "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": "ical advice and support. I am asking that the inquiry should proceed with all possible speed. Lord Justice Taylor will visit Sheffield tomorrow to begin his investigation. I am grateful to him for agreeing to undertake this task. However, we need also to take a wider view. The Government believe that the future of football in this country lies in a national membership scheme in designated grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "is needed. There is no particular difficulty about part II of the Football Spectators Bill. As to part I, the national membership scheme is designed as a remedy against violence. Violence was not present at Hillsborough on Saturday, but it has been the curse of the game and might be again unless we find the right remedy. The remedy in the Bill flows from the Popplewell report on the last disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "pause for the sake of seemliness—as the House would wish—and also for consultations on the possible strengthening of the Bill. Both purposes are, I think, important from the point of view of my hon. Friend. I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that the events at Hillsborough ought to make us all step aside from preconceptions and look afresh at how we are to find a better way for British football.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The tragedy happened under the existing system, not under any future system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "That point will certainly come within the review. There seems to be a general opinion—Lord Justice Taylor will test this—that there was still room at the Liverpool end of the ground. The trouble was not that the total space was overcrowded but that particular area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the right hon. Gentleman and to others who have said this. The comments would be just if this tragedy had occurred under the new regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "etary as gently as I can, but I am afraid harshly, that the decision to continue with the Football Spectators Bill in all these circumstances is a profound mistake. It is appalling arrogance for the Government to think that they know better than anyone else. The Government never consult the Opposition on these matters. They never consult football generally about these matters. As far as I can see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Hillsborough Stadium Disaster", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "rateful to the right hon. Gentleman for getting in touch with me on Saturday night. He is correct in saying that the problems of control and communications, some of which he listed, are central to the inquiry. I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Howell) concluded the exchanges by using what happened at Hillsborough as a stick to beat the Football Spectators Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.42.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman had bothered to check with me as to whether such press reports were accurate, I could have told him—I have here a copy of the speech that I made on that day—that I made no such statement, or anything like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.53.7", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gentlemanly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "If the matter is so politically popular, why did not the Government include it in their manifesto in 1987? I use the words \"gratuitous industrial provocation\" because it is instructive to compare the ways in which the Government seek to bring about radical changes in three different areas. In the case of the legal profession, we had three Green Papers and a gentlemanly debate in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.53.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Does the Minister want a dock strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman propose to return to the point about industrial action, or is that all that he has to say about it? That is an important point for the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The whole of the dock labour scheme should be debated. The proposition is before the House, and the decision is for both Houses of Parliament. There will be a Committee stage, during which we can go through the Bill in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.55.7", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "t want a strike. We want a negotiated settlement. The right hon. Gentleman can deliver a negotiated settlement. All that he has to do is to say at the Dispatch Box today that he is prepared to enter into negotiations. The fact that he is not prepared to make that statement will make it absolutely clear to everyone in Britain that if there is a strike, he and his Government will be the cause of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.55.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Absolutely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) might like to listen to my answer instead of laughing like a hyena. It has always been the union's position that it would not discuss abolition independently of a discussion about the future of an integral ports policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "terruption.] The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) might like to listen to my answer instead of laughing like a hyena. It has always been the union's position that it would not discuss abolition independently of a discussion about the future of an integral ports policy. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman should understand that there are two genuinely different views between the employers and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " The employers simply want to bring about the end of the dock labour scheme. The union's position has always been that it will discuss changes, modifications and improvements in the scheme within the context of a total ports policy. There is nothing remarkable about what Mr. Connolly said. One might have expected that a Secretary of State in a constructive Government not hellbent on confrontation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ng the arrangements to blame the union for costly restrictive practices. The Government and employers have cited—the Secretary of State mentioned this when he announced the White Paper—welting or bobbing, which means being paid when one is not at work. The incidence of this is relatively rare, but where it occurs it can and should be dealt with under the dock labour scheme disciplinary procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " the conclusion of a paper prepared for port employers by an organisation called WEFA. The quality of work in the paper is laughable. The estimate of 4,200 new jobs for dockers is based on nothing more than an assertion by employers. Not surprisingly, the report has been described as an exposition of the prejudices of the port employers with a bit of maths thrown in to give it scientific validity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "tion called WEFA. The quality of work in the paper is laughable. The estimate of 4,200 new jobs for dockers is based on nothing more than an assertion by employers. Not surprisingly, the report has been described as an exposition of the prejudices of the port employers with a bit of maths thrown in to give it scientific validity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"] It is an excellent description, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": ". Not surprisingly, the report has been described as an exposition of the prejudices of the port employers with a bit of maths thrown in to give it scientific validity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"] It is an excellent description, is it not? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"] I describe it like that, and I am happy to do so because that is exactly what it is. It is not my description, but that of another body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "said: If it is necessary…for us to declare our solidarity for dock workers in their efforts to sustain operations and to maintain the continuity of dock working, then the Labour party won't be found wanting. Will the Secretary of State tell us whether the Labour party will be found wanting yes or no? Will the Labour party back such a strike, as the right hon. Gentleman said just a week ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " us to declare our solidarity for dock workers in their efforts to sustain operations and to maintain the continuity of dock working, then the Labour party won't be found wanting. Will the Secretary of State tell us whether the Labour party will be found wanting yes or no? Will the Labour party back such a strike, as the right hon. Gentleman said just a week ago? [Interruption.] I give way to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "orts and exports. By 1987, that figure had slipped to below 10 million tonnes, less than 2 per cent. The demise of the port of Manchester was, above all, due to two factors. The first was technological evolution —specifically, containerisation and the move to larger vessels. But secondly, there is no question but that restrictive practices and endless unofficial strikes and the dock labour scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Precisely—17 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": " rubbish my arguments. He says that I do not know what I am talking about. Before coming to this House, I started work at the bottom of a transport company. I worked my way up to the position of managing director, and had to deal with problems of this sort. Hon. Members can decide for themselves which they consider to be the more useful experience: that, or serving gin and tonic on a Cunard liner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.69.5", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And not a penny from the public purse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "50,000 but 100,000 jobs by 1993. This Bill gives registered dock workers the same rights as are enjoyed by the dock workers in Felixstowe, where there was a 21 per cent. increase in cargoes last year and therefore, an increase in recruitment, and where up to £700 a week was paid to dockers. In conjunction with Dover, that part has had more investment than the rest of the scheme ports put together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.69.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "d to privilege and class distinction upholding working practices which, if applied to the workforce of the whole country, would be unworkable, resulting in bankruptcy and mass unemployment.\"' I do not know whether I go along with that fully, but there is certainly a reason for abolishing the scheme. I am surprised it has lasted so long—and I am surprised that the Labour Government did not kill it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "greed with the employers' claim made at that lunch. Actually, I attended the lunch—free or not. The employers said then they wanted to get rid of the scheme, and subsequently he confirmed that view. That is what made the dockers extremely suspicious about what was going on. Shortly after that, the national dock strike took place. Why was that? In my area of Immingham there was a breach of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.97.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "irmed that view. That is what made the dockers extremely suspicious about what was going on. Shortly after that, the national dock strike took place. Why was that? In my area of Immingham there was a breach of the law— [Interruption.] I remember the hon. Member for Immingham when he was the Member for Scunthorpe—he ran away from the constituency to find safer ground rather than fight the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.97.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "er has fallen from 80,000 to 9,000. Certainly no jobs are guaranteed for life. The facts show that that is not the case. It is argued that the dockers support the scheme because it guarantees jobs for their sons. I had a considerable disagreement with my dockers in Hull because I thought it quite wrong that jobs should be guaranteed to sons in those circumstances. I think that jobs should be open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "is—and actually left university halfway through to take over the seat from his father, so I will take no lectures from the Secretary of State for Transport about sons taking fathers' jobs. In this debate there has been a lot of talk about bobbing, welting and ghosting. In the House of Commons it is called \"pairing\". If hon Members look at the record, they will see that I do not pair with any Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "that lie between us. I wish to say at the beginning of my remarks, however, that it is a pity that more hon. Members have not been able to contribute to the debate. The Front Bench replies could have started a little later. I am sorry that my hon. Friends the Members for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold) and for Medway (Dame P. Fenner) tried to participate in the debate and did not have the chance to do so.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. Paul Channon)", "preceding_text": "on. Members have not been able to contribute to the debate. The Front Bench replies could have started a little later. I am sorry that my hon. Friends the Members for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold) and for Medway (Dame P. Fenner) tried to participate in the debate and did not have the chance to do so.— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman says, \"Keep them out.\" That is perfectly clear. That is what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.109.4", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "mpete for some of the traffic that at present goes by sea through our ports. It is crucial for the future prosperity of those ports that they do not have to compete with one hand chained behind their back to the dock labour scheme. What is crucial for the ports is also important for the country as a whole. The more efficient and cost-effective are our transport links with our continental partners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Housing (Change of Landlord)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "If they wish to become local authority tenants, they can exercise that right by applying to the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Housing (Change of Landlord)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "Earlier today, on a regional visit to the east midlands, I met representatives of the East Midlands housing association, which, I understand, has made bids for former Coal Board properties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.129.5", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Housing (Change of Landlord)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "e will, but the situation would not arise. Having suggested, rather stupidly, that the purpose of the legislation was to \"strip out\" local authorities' assets, which is palpable nonsense, the hon. Member for Newham, North-West went on to dismiss what he thought would be the Government's response to his speech, which is pretty clear: we have to approve the landlords through the Housing Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Housing (Change of Landlord)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "ty the hon. Gentleman would have is persuading Newham—this is a darn sight easier problem—to improve the efficiency of the local authority and ensure that the empties are brought back on to the market and used to provide accommodation for those who are genuinely homeless. Conservative Members are sick to death of the Opposition trying to claim that they have a monopoly of concern for the homeless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Housing (Change of Landlord)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I was referring to the Minister's replies to questions, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If local authority tenants are to be given a choice of landlord, it is only proper that private tenants should be given the same choice. My hon. Friends referred to former tenants of British Coal, who are unaware who their present landlord is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Housing (Change of Landlord)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "ngs. If the regulations make it more difficult for local authorities to let dwellings, how can he criticise them when he is the Minister responsible for making the position worse? Everything that the Minister said showed that he should not be in charge of housing. Far from looking on him as a Minister responsible for housing, I see him as the anti-housing Minister. He is the worst junior Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "National Curriculum", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us some examples.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": "ould be able to read, write, count and order numbers, the blueprint says, for example, that they should know that if a set of eight pencils is counted the answer is always the same, regardless of how they are arranged. That may seem a simple example, but children have to start at that level. Other examples, relating to ages up to 16, deal with very complicated matters. The same applies to science.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "National Curriculum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"3,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " to tackle the hidden shortage, as it is sometimes called, and to provide support to upgrade the skills of teachers who were inadequately qualified in the shortage subjects. My third point of attack was advertising and publicity. The hon. Member for Blackburn chided me from time to time, and says that my advertising and publicity budget has increased by a modest factor of several hundred per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-17", "file": "debates1989-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "3615b70c18e36931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "National Curriculum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "After the war. I believe that there was a scheme rather similar to the Bevin boys in the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-17a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The most indicative thing about the hon. Gentleman is that he seeks to attack every training initiative that has been made over the past two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ng 1988 employment increased by 682,000, of which 60 per cent. was among full-time employees; self-employment grew by 160,000, continuing the upward trend of recent years and unemployment fell by more than ½ million and remained at a lower level than the monthly unemployment count. The survey confirmed the picture of rapidly falling unemployment recorded by the monthly unemployment count.—f", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.185.2", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Toyota Plant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor accept that we welcome his statement and an investment which will mean valuable jobs and new economic capacity in the east midlands? Does he recognise that warm congratulations are due to all those, and especially to my colleagues in Derbyshire county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Toyota Plant (Derbyshire)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that there are two aspects of particular significance about this announcement? First, as the glum faces of Opposition Members testify, it is a tribute to our economic policy and the economic recovery of this country which is the place to make cars in Europe. Secondly, in the circumstances of the deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If I interpret the rumours aright, when we have television—if we have television—the blinds will be permanently drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ions tomorrow. If consultation is to mean anything, surely the Government could have phrased it better and said: expresses the belief that this forms a reasonable basis on which to progress, in consultation with the medical profession\". We are already being told by the Minister of State that there are to be no Dr. Noes and no change in the proposals. We are told that they are to be pushed through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a two-tier system.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " compromise in which doctors work in both the public and private health service, and we have a mixed provision of health care. Ideally, I should like doctors to work full time in the National Health Service, as I did. Had I stayed, I should always have worked full time in the NHS. However, we have to live with the system under which doctors cherish the right to practise privately part of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might do the Government the courtesy of reading the White Paper, which says what the plans are. It is no use Opposition Members talking about what they would like it to say. They will have to read what it says. Conservative Members are not fools. Could anyone in his right mind imagine us doing anything to harm the National Health Service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.5", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "se load. Some doctors send 20 times more patients to hospital than others, again with the same case load. What is wrong with monitoring doctors and asking why a particular doctor sends so many more patients to hospital? I know of a young woman who was put on valium by her doctor and stayed on it for seven years without any medical examination at any time. She was simply given repeat prescriptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.5", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "s at the top of the leaflet. I thought it had something to do with pirates, but dear me no—it is a health warning. It says: The Government is about to force dangerous changes on the National Health Service. They are going to put strong financial pressure on family doctors to give you fewer medicines, give you cheaper medicines, cut down on your hospital tests, cut down on your hospital treatment\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.5", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "l take on a fair and honest political battle any day of the week. What I deplore about the BMA's misleading attitude and actions is that it knows perfectly well what the Government are driving at. It even acknowledges in some parts of the document that those objectives are absolutely right. The BMA forgets itself several times in the document and it says that the Government's objectives are right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "her reorganisation, it is something quite different. My hon. Friend the Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) said it has turned out to be a monster, and that is absolutely true. She has been to America and studied in detail the system there, so she knows what the effect of the White Paper will be on the future of the National Health Service. It is about ending the National Health Service as we know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.246.7", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "anese cars are entirely built by those countries. It is Britain chassis design and engine technology that so often lead the way in motor racing. It is worth pointing out that at Indianapolis, where one of the oldest motor races in the world takes place, the vast majority of cars that come to the start grid are British-designed and British-built. I do not think that we shout loud enough about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.246.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that the hon. Gentleman has chosen to quote the letter to me from Price Waterhouse. He forces me to refer to the correspondence in some detail. On 11 April I wrote to Price Waterhouse in these terms —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.271.5", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "There are now eight petitions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.271.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.273.8", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "By referring to it in a perjorative way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.273.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.274.6", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "In that case, it was not providing it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.274.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.276.19", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " or more. My hon. Friends have asked us all to be honest, so when they get the chance they will presumably stand up and say, \"We want to saddle Birmingham with debt charges of £135,000 per year for 20 years, and no income—that is what we want to do with our vote tonight.\" My hon. Friends, if they are honest, will say, \"We want the people of Birmingham to be saddled with this great debt.\" I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.276.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-18", "file": "debates1989-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb344aeadfc83f37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "he people who live in the area cannot bear the thought of a four-day event with all the attendant noise and inconvenience, and those people are entitled to have their views respected. Even the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Mr. Bevan), who spoke in favour of the Bill, recognised that his poll showed that a majority in the area is opposed to the race. That is a second and important criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-18a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.322.4", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tory party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend agree that part of the answer may lie not in increasing the powers of the serious fraud office or of his Department, but in companies and their boards considering more adequately activities which may not necessarily amount to fraud but are certainly not intended uses of shareholders' money? Whether it concerns loans or activities wholly unassociated with the activities of a company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "of The Sun is a picture of Superintendent Marshall. We should not look on him or anybody else as a scapegoat. However, the hon. Member for Hallam is now suggesting that Liverpool people did the most despicable things to their own people. All the television programmes showed evidence to the contrary. I do not want to become too angry and emotional about this, but I find it degrading and disgusting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " briefed on his subject closely. I do not want it to be believed that I and my party think that everything the Government have done has been wrong. That is not the case. In the past 10 years the Government have had some considerable achievements. The greatest achievement the Government will have to their name is the democratisation of the trade union movement. That will be their enduring memorial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "s Government came to power. If there is evidence of a reverse trend, I shall be interested to know it, but I will bet the hon. Gentleman any money that he cares to lay that over the 10-year period since 1979, Britain has lost massively more researchers and scientists abroad than have come to this country. I turn now to the skill gap as it affects industry. I refer to the National Computing Centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "preceding_text": "evelopment of speeds of transmission down fibre-optic cables increased by perhaps 20 times before the end of the century. The fibre-optic cable offers the possibility of a broad-band, interacting computer communications network for the whole of Britain, possibly reaching into every house. Conservative and Labour Members seem to think that this is not an important matter. It will be very important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayward", "preceding_text": "e mad. Even the Labour party is now proposing that we should do it. I am told that the Labour party will suggest that this should be the centrepiece of its new industrial strategy. I am delighted that the Labour party is at last joining me in the two-year campaign to invest in the new industrial infrastructure that our nation will need. The Government of course, have said that we should not do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": " Ashdown), the leader of our party. My right hon. Friend was absent for a short time during the speech of the hon. Member for Wokingham. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will have noticed that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was scarcely present for the debate after he finished his speech. We make no complaint about that because we accept that ministerial duties have taken him elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Dixon", "preceding_text": "I have sat here since half-past four this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-19", "file": "debates1989-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "49dfe4bfc137f785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Care in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I was simply pointing out that if it was as easy to transform the situation as is suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-19a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-20", "file": "debates1989-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ee246fb76325f212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.449.4", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman tables a question asking for the percentage increase in the regional rate, I shall give him that figure. If he wants the answer to a different question, he should table that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-20", "file": "debates1989-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ee246fb76325f212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I noted the way in which the right hon. Gentleman asked his questions. I would be grateful to him and the House if I could make one or two points— which are relevant to a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-20", "file": "debates1989-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ee246fb76325f212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ch to respond immediately to the lessons from Hillsborough—including all-seating stadiums—would be a very grave decision for the House. A Bill completed in this Session would still be able to take account of any interim recommendations by Lord Justice Taylor. Not to proceed with the Bill this Session would delay by 12 months any response to these grave problems. The World Cup is coming up in 1990—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-20", "file": "debates1989-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ee246fb76325f212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.455.8", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with the very important matter of the \"membership scheme\" part of the Bill. The Bill itself does not provide such a scheme; it sets up a procedure through which others may propose such a scheme for the Secretary of State's approval. It will then have to be laid before the House. The Bill will not pre-empt any decisions that may be made by Lord Justice Taylor. I do say most earnestly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.455.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-20", "file": "debates1989-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ee246fb76325f212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Private Bill Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "I thought that what the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) was saying was diametrically opposed. Even if that were true, does he agree that that is no reason why the House should not vote on the proposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-20a.515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.563.7", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "preceding_text": " excesses of Fleet street and Wapping. I am not saying that everything is perfect with the British press. I remind the House that this is not merely a debating Chamber. It is a legislative Chamber. The House must consider what would happen if the Bill became law. In my view, the Bill is a dangerous threat to press freedom. It would undermine editorial direction and stifle investigative journalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.563.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.563.7", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "preceding_text": "and stifle investigative journalism. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) is a barrister-at-law and I have to tell him that in my view a newspaper is more than a mere passive receptacle or conduit for news, comment and advertising. The choice of the material to go into a newspaper and decisions as to the limitations on size and content of the newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.563.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.563.8", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Derby, North (Mr. Knight) is trying to make a serious speech about new clause 4 in the face of barracking, noise and laughter. Press freedom is a serious matter. Press freedom is at stake. I want to hear what my hon. Friend is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.563.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.564.3", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "As usual, the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) can only be half awake at this hour in the morning. When I rose to my feet I made it clear that it is all very well for the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie to say that he accepts my new clause, but I know that there are serious reservations on the Conservative Benches about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.564.6", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I cannot imagine that anybody would ever pay the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) anything to turn up anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.564.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.564.10", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I hope that when he has heard my arguments, he will decide that if we have to have the Bill it will be better with the addition of new clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.564.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about our right of reply?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. It is time for Conservative Members to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.584.6", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.584.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "rly impracticable — The proposed legislation is also fundamentally flawed, however, in seeking for the first time to regulate the content of a newspaper by law. There is no point in the hon. Gentleman praying in aid the chairman of the Press Council as a supporter of the Bill. He is not. He regards the Bill as fundamentally flawed. Even the National Union of Journalists believes that it is flawed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Opinion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "e that the facts are all on our side. The other side believes that the facts are all on its side. There is no agreement about where the facts lie. As to the borderline between fact and opinion, if the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Grocott) went into a restaurant and said afterwards—and it was reported in the press—\"The food was not fresh and the service was awful\", would that be fact or opinion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has now achieved his 30 seconds on television tonight. Why is it that one is a lackey and a lickspittle if one writes for The Times but not if one appears on Sky television, which is also part of the Murdoch empire? Perhaps he can tell us where the precise line of definition lies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "levision, which is also part of the Murdoch empire? Perhaps he can tell us where the precise line of definition lies.— [Interruption.] I have appeared on Sky television with the hon. Member for Great Grimsby and it was great fun. I recommend it to the House. If, by any chance, the Bill does not receive its Third Reading, the editors and publishers of the national press in Britain are on probation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-21", "file": "debates1989-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "55dd07aac51b8ec5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.600.9", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right of Reply Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "e Lord Chancellor. It has been tabled for two reasons: first, to show my right hon. and hon. Friends' confidence in the Lord Chancellor—a confidence which, apparently, is not shared by all of Her Majesty's judges—and, secondly, to bring sense to the Bill. It is difficult to bring sense to the Bill. My hon. Friend the Minister, as diligent as ever in the performance of his duties, is still present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-21a.600.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-24", "file": "debates1989-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ed12526504106c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And railways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "shall have a roads review and a programme announcement in the next few months and when the hon. Lady has studied that, she will be in a position to decide whether she thinks it is adequate. I strongly agree with her that it is in the interests of all parts of the United Kingdom that we should have a decent roads programme so that people can get their goods from the United Kingdom to the continent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-24", "file": "debates1989-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ed12526504106c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "e obvious reason why Conservative Members should not feel that compunction on this issue. That reason is to be found in the manifesto on which all Conservative Members stood at the last general election. That manifesto contained a pledge that child benefit will continue to be paid as at present. There was no rider in that manifesto that it would continue to be paid as at present at a frozen level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-24", "file": "debates1989-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ed12526504106c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "quarter. We cannot debate different levels in that way. What is the official Opposition's position? If the hon. Member for Birkenhead is voicing the Labour party view or if that view is truly expressed by the hon. Member for Livingston, there will be an additional current expenditure cost of £9 billion to raise child benefit by tripling it and of £13·5 billion to raise it by quadrupling it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-24", "file": "debates1989-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ed12526504106c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "n regard to child tax allowances, family allowances and family credit. I remind the House that the real value of child benefit has been higher throughout this Government's period of office than it was at any time during the Labour Administration, except when they increased it in their last month in office. I will not go into too much detail, because it might be quite painful to Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-24a.725.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that some doctors have behaved in a most irresponsible and non-professional nammer in their treatment of elderly and vulnerable patients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.803.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This morning the Secretary of State for Education and Science published a consultation document proposing that university and college tuition fees should more than doubled. Under the guise of measures allegedly aimed at bringing market forces into higher education, the Secretary of State's announcement marks the beginning of the end of free tuition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.805.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.810.8", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. We live in a somewhat authoritarian political climate. You have the unique responsibility of defending the rights of Members. Sir, you and I have been friends for some years now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.810.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": ", lowered tax rates and made the tax system more coherent, more intelligible and a great deal simpler. The tax climate is undoubtedly a significant factor in attracting the stream of welcome inward investment recently and magnificently continued by Fujitsu, Bosch and Toyota. That inward investment, as a result of tax and other changes, should be welcomed by hon. Members in every part of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "at is already an impressive increase in pensioners' incomes. Between 1979 and 1986, the average net incomes of pensioners increased by 23 per cent. in real terms. By contrast, despite the concern I know exists among Opposition Members, pensioners had an increase of only 3 per cent. in the years of the Labour Government between 1974 and 1979. The Budget has been hailed as a Budget for the elderly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "pplaud the actions you have taken in your Budget to help pensioners. We are especially pleased at the abolition of the age related earnings rule and are grateful too for the changes you have made in VAT regulations in connection with charities. This will be of considerable assistance to us in our efforts to help elderly people, both in this country and overseas. That letter was from Mr. John Mayo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ot of Governments or of major industrialists but of those who command the vast flows of hot money circulating throughout the world. The Chancellor has brought us to that as a result of his policies. Perhaps the most astonishing criticism among the growing criticisms of the Chancellor was that made in a recent speech by the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, Mr. John Banham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "preceding_text": "d a comprehensive study of Britain's richest people. That may give us some idea who has been gaining as a result of this Government's finance policies. The next day one of the tabloids published an article under the banner headline It's still the posh that's got the dosh\". In view of the grammar, I hardly need say which tabloid it is. A sub-head says: Try Eton or the Guards if you want to get rich", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "nufacturing productivity is a key statistic because of the very statistic that the Opposition always quote. The fact that we have lost 2 million jobs in manufacturing industry is good news because the 5 million people now employed in manufacturing are producing more goods than the 7 million people who were producing under Labour. Manufacturing productivity has increased by 50 per cent. since 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "re revenue. After we cut the top rates last year, we expected the top 5 per cent. of income taxpayers to contribute some 28 per cent. of revenue. This year, we expect them to contribute 29 per cent., and next year almost 30 per cent. That compares with 24 per cent. from the top 5 per cent. in 1979. The truth is that top-rate tax cuts have become a new and more effective way of clobbering the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-25", "file": "debates1989-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ceaf7015b8d8293a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mines (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andy Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy Stewart", "preceding_text": "I have not had the privilege of working in the mining industry, unlike a number of Opposition Members, in particular the hon. Member for East Lothian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-25a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.935.3", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The two-tax system proposed by Labour would produce all the worst aspects of all the other systems. It would produce the worst side of the rating system and the worst side of local income tax. Last year a ward sister in my hon. Friend's constituency earning £13,000 per year and living in a flat in Bexhill would have faced a community charge of £196, compared with £425 under the Labour scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.935.4", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "Labour will never win Bexhill now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ax is so good, why have the Government refused to debate the six poll tax orders currently on the Table before 4 May? If the poll tax is so good, why do the Government keep ducking those issues? In view of the Minister's remark that everyone will pay something, will he explain why at the Tory party local government conference the Prime Minister wrongly and dishonestly said that under the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said, wrongly and misleadingly, that 5 million people will pay nothing under the poll tax proposals. How does the Minister explain that? The Minister says that the poll tax is fairer. Perhaps he will also explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is question 5.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knapman", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir—on the subject of under-used land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "man knows perfectly well that the electoral register is wholly different from the community charge register. The only reason why anybody should make the mistake that they are the same is because of Labour party propaganda using the phrase \"poll tax\". If anybody is off the register for that reason, it is the dishonesty of the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends that has led them in that direction.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.943.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "It is not a pitiful proportion. The amount of money that we are making available to the Housing Corporation for the need identified by the hon. Gentleman has quadrupled. The hon. Gentleman also chooses conveniently to forget that we can have private sector finance or even mixed funding going into developments in the rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Agriculture Council (Price Fixing)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "hat the agreement will increase prices in the shops? That matter concerns a great many people. The Minister referred quite rightly to fraud. As he and I both know, between 10 and 20 per cent. of the CAP budget is lost through fraud. The Minister has been strong on rhetoric but weak on support. Those are not my own words but the sentiments expressed by Lord Cockfield when speaking in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.966.10", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Agriculture Council (Price Fixing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Was the hon. Gentleman rising previously?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.966.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Agriculture Council (Price Fixing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right about the important step that has been taken in the Council for many south-west of England dairy farmers. For many of them in the less-favoured areas there will be no co-responsibility levy on milk from now on. That is an important step forward and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Agriculture Council (Price Fixing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "n taken in the Council for many south-west of England dairy farmers. For many of them in the less-favoured areas there will be no co-responsibility levy on milk from now on. That is an important step forward and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments— [Interruption.] I am sure that the whole of agriculture will have noticed the frivolity with which Opposition Members treat these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "For the benefit of Conservative Members, I have a constituency covering 1,000 square miles with a major agricultural—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentlemen has a very valid point. The Housing Act, when it is in full operation, will help to create a right to let, and will build up the rented accommodation market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Nicholas Scott)", "preceding_text": "We discussed the matter in Committee, and the hon. Gentleman must know that a lone parent with children under 16 is not required to be actively seeking work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ssistant because that was all that was readily available. Ministers claim that that will not happen, but that is not what the law says. What Conservative Back Benchers say is more interesting and truthful. They say, \"Why not?\" They want to know what is wrong with being a janitor or clerical assistant and why people should not be pushed into any job because any job is better than being on the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "not pursue that point. The Bill is a direct incentive to employers to pay disgracefully low wages. It helps those employers who could not care less about paying their employees adequately. Employers will in many cases take the view that the unemployed can be forced to take jobs with wages on which no one could support a family. This legislation is a direct incentive for the worst kind of employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "sty realities of the consequences of their policies, what do they do? They ensure that no one collects the relevant statistics and say that the problem does not exist. It is not surprising that homelessness and poverty have doubled under this Government. It is part of the Government's strategy to attack the weakest, most vulnerable and those suffering most as a result of the Government's policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "he way in which Conservative Members were not in the Chamber during the Report stage, how they did not listen and are not concerned is sickening. They are just waiting for the end of Third Reading so they can clear off. I will not facilitate them. It is evidence of the Tory Government's hypocrisy that they always claim that the rich need the incentive of more money to work, but the poor need less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Planning Consents (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "ken on planning permission. Secondly, I do not understand how the Welsh language has any relevance to planning decisions, whether in Wales or elsewhere. If people come to a particular area, the number of people there increases and so does the number of people who may wish to take up the language. We are not talking here about people leaving Wales and taking their language with them. I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-26", "file": "debates1989-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "5353c58d6d2e89c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Planning Consents (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "nning decisions, whether in Wales or elsewhere. If people come to a particular area, the number of people there increases and so does the number of people who may wish to take up the language. We are not talking here about people leaving Wales and taking their language with them. I have to say— [Interruption.] I would be pleased, Madam Deputy Speaker, if there were no such sedentary interventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-26a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-04-27", "file": "debates1989-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "4470eacf25d99a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1075.19", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the petition of the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Lewisham, Telegraph Hill Residents opposed to the Tunnel Link (THROTTL) Association and Brockley against the Tunnel Link (BATTL) be referred back to the Court of Referees.— [Ms. Ruddock.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1075.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-27", "file": "debates1989-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "4470eacf25d99a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "European Commission documents show conclusively that the British Government's response to the Chernobyl incident was prompter and more comprehensive than that of other Governments in western Europe. Furthermore, the excellent leaflets to which the hon. Gentleman refers have been widely welcomed not only by farmers' organisations but by all those people who live in the vicinity of a nuclear site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-27", "file": "debates1989-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "4470eacf25d99a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1087.8", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that many millions of people look askance at a scheme that pays farmers to watch trees and grass grow when their income has diminished, while the selfsame Government have frozen child benefit so that the poorest of the poor have to watch their children grow without additional help from the Government, led by the woman in blue on the Minister's left?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1087.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-27", "file": "debates1989-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "4470eacf25d99a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1090.7", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the indelible stain on her political reputation from the rejection of democratic fundamental demands for human rights by a small but nevertheless important group of people? I refer to the Chinese population of Hong Kong. Does she not accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1090.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-27", "file": "debates1989-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "4470eacf25d99a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1091.7", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that car exhausts make a significant and growing contribution to the greenhouse gases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1091.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-27", "file": "debates1989-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "4470eacf25d99a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1091.10", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Now look, the science—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1091.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-27", "file": "debates1989-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "4470eacf25d99a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1105.3", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House tell me what the Government are going to do as a result of the seminar and other discussions about the rain forests? Will the Leader of the House persuade the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-27a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-04-28", "file": "debates1989-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a21bf55d870b691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-28a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Morrison", "preceding_text": "I also strongly support the amendment. The vast majority of hearing aid dispensers are people of the highest integrity and of complete honesty. None the less, the Bill is not attempting to deal with the vast majority but with a minority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-04-28a.1221.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that when many millions in England and Wales go to the polls to vote on Thursday—the 10th anniversary of her election —they will hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.16.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, and we do not take any lectures on funding the Health Service from Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "s this is a short debate, I apologise that I cannot give way to all. Given my description of the aim of the reforms and my belief in their benefits, it is surprising that the present bitter controversy has arisen between the Government and, on the one hand, the Labour party—and, to some extent the centre parties as well—and, on the other, the British Medical opposition—British Medical Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "preceding_text": "o prescribe. Those arguments were shown to be ill-founded at the time of the limited list controversy in 1985. They are even more ill-founded today, in the light of that experience. I recall supporting my right hon. and learned Friend in his previous incarnation as Minister of State. He put up with all kinds of attacks when he introduced the limited list. What was the result when the dust settled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "egaphone diplomacy must stop and we must get round the table with those who care about the Health Service—the GPs, the consultants, the administrators and the nurses. There is much in the proposals for all of them, as they will appreciate soon. In the past—and I see my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Whip sitting here —I have been highly critical of Government policy on the Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Of course, many of us on the Select Committee raised that issue with the people who run the BMA, and they have said, \"This is what we feel is in the White Paper,\" or, \"This is what we think might be in the White Paper.\" However, when confronted with the facts and the reality, they are speechless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "e receiving a good standard of health care. If one speaks to a GP now and says, \"Hang on, a few years ago I saw a poster in your surgery about limited lists,\" that GP will probably say, \"Oh well, we agreed with it really.\" I suspect that when GPs hear the truth now, the same thing will happen. However, there are a few things that I should like my right hon. and learned Friend to take into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "It is clear from the debate this afternoon that the Government have lost the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "It is clear from the debate this afternoon that the Government have lost the argument— [Interruption.] Conservative Members who have just drifted into the Chamber may care to know that only one Government Back Bencher, the hon. Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman), unreservedly supported the Government's plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady claims that by reading letters from GPs we become aware of their views. That is so, but most of the letters I have received show that the GPs in question have not read the detailed working papers properly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "NHS White Paper (Doctors' Response)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": " river, estimates that this will mean it having to pay the Treasury about £40 million a year extra. Guy's, a mile or so down the river, will have to pay an extra £27 million a year. This is pressure for the greatest asset-strip of all time. London hospitals in particular, because land values are so high, will simply close down, sell up and move out, leaving the sites of our great London hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": " was low. The Minister of State has claimed that there is no crisis and that it is all a myth. Even the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth—with a great private school such as Rugby in his constituency—has not noticed that a crisis exists. Indeed, if an elephant walked through the Chamber and the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State told him not to see it, he would say there was no elephant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.109.4", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "e teachers themselves, as my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Walden) said. As Mrs. Fisher commented: If somebody goes on long enough about everything being doom and gloom, then that becomes the reality. Teachers have to project a much more positive image. I entirely agree. It will do all of us well to get the debate into perspective. Yes, there are difficulties with teacher recruitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "We have heard an important admission from the Secretary of State tonight. He made two comments that verified all our assertions that there are teacher shortages: he actually used that phrase, and he also said that there were serious problems in our schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "ould now rest in peace. Their troubles were non-existent—just a myth, according to the Minister of State. Of course, there were reactions to that statement. I do not know whether this is sanitised in the Department of Education and Science, but its press release at that conference from the Minister of State did not refer at all to the Minister's assertion that teacher shortages were simply a myth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-02", "file": "debates1989-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "40bdfd30a07219f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "State and the DES know that, in those specialised subjects, the Government has not been able to hit that target. Thus, the information given to the Select Committee was wrong, and will prove even more inaccurate as time goes on. We are facing an acute shortage of teachers and an acute shortage in certain subjects. The problem will grow and make it more difficult to deliver the national curriculum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-02a.114.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Many Scottish companies are ready to meet the challenge; others are not. Our objective must be to ensure that the challenge is fully realised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.175.6", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "One moment; I have waited a long time for this question. May I point out to the Minister that bids for that yard were submitted to British Shipbuilders over a month ago? Since then we have heard nothing. The uncertainty is creating anxiety. It is a disgraceful state of affairs. When will the Secretary of State for Scotland show some concern for the people of the lower Clyde?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.175.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.175.7", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "waited a long time for this question. May I point out to the Minister that bids for that yard were submitted to British Shipbuilders over a month ago? Since then we have heard nothing. The uncertainty is creating anxiety. It is a disgraceful state of affairs. When will the Secretary of State for Scotland show some concern for the people of the lower Clyde? [Interruption.] Be quiet, silly old fool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.175.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am glad to say that there is a remedy for all the tenants concerned. If the tenancy is regulated, the rent should be registered with the rent officer; if it is an assured tenancy, the tenant will have a written statement of the terms of the tenancy to identify any element for rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the burgh constituency of Glasgow, Central in the room of Robert McTaggart, Esquire, deceased. Mr. Speaker, may I —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "te, the hon. Member for Bolsover is reported as noting the number of political issues that can be raised, which is part of the drawing of parameters in a debate of this kind. It is worth having a look at \"Erskine May\". I hope that no one objects, but one must start at page 26, move on to page 27 and then go much further. Under \"New Writs\" on page 26 \"Erskine May\" states: Whenever vacancies occur\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "y that is relevant to the issue of the writ. About 35 per cent. of 'people in Glasgow, Central are owner-occupiers. The Daily Telegraph is a Tory newspaper and, although it does not sell much in that constituency, one of the things that I like about it is that it distinguishes between its news coverage and its editorial policy. It is one of those newspapers that most politicians use as a resource.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.216.8", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The press release?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "ule me out of order, but we all know that the term \"filibuster\" has a wide meaning outside the House. Everyone knows full well that in this place technical issues are resolved in a technical manner and that technical language is used of them. \"Filibuster\" is one. Technically, I have not filibustered for one minute, although the man outside probably thinks that I have. In broad colloquial language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.216.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Of course I take responsibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Do we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Of course I take responsibility for it. [Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] There is no way that I would shed responsibility on to someone else. We are in the process of debating the writ. If you, Mr. Speaker, cast your mind back to the Richmond, Yorks by-election writ, you will recall what the hon. Member for Bolsover said. We all know what the objective was during the moving of the writ that Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.217.8", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I have moved it, but whether it goes to a vote is a different matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.217.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "that difficult to follow in logic. If I have been in order, there can be no complaint about my performance in the House, irrespective of what is or is not said outside. I remind you, Mr. Speaker, that this is not my first visitation to this place. As I said earlier, I was brought up in the Bob Mellish Whips Office. I know what goes on behind the Chair. You are not talking to somebody who is naive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "lary workers—he will be asked time after time the important question whether Scotland will have separate legislation, since it affects people throughout the area. That is why it is important to have an early election so that the hon. Gentleman can subject himself and his ideas to the people in the constituency. I do not know whether you, Mr. Speaker, were in the Chair yesterday to hear the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Glasgow, Central By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "arate legislation, since it affects people throughout the area. That is why it is important to have an early election so that the hon. Gentleman can subject himself and his ideas to the people in the constituency. I do not know whether you, Mr. Speaker, were in the Chair yesterday to hear the debate— [Interruption.] No, the hon. Member for East Kilbride (Mr. Ingram) is wrong; I was here yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Self—governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has underestimated my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish), who has drawn my attention to one or two points that he thought that Conversative Members might mention. He drew my attention also to the fact that, as even the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) has admitted, the amendment was withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Self—governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "eman has underestimated my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish), who has drawn my attention to one or two points that he thought that Conversative Members might mention. He drew my attention also to the fact that, as even the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) has admitted, the amendment was withdrawn. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because it was not a sensible amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Self—governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "per cent. of the seats on the Committee. Conservative Members are over—represented by a factor of three. They have an overall majority of four in a Committee of 22. Obviously there are not enough Scottish Tories to man the Committee, so it has been packed with people who would be regarded anywhere in Scotland as complete aliens. These people are not just Tories; they are hard—line Thatcher freaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Self—governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, at Fettes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "wood (Mr. Howarth) is happy to accept that accolade. As well as the hon. Gentleman there are the hon. Members for Gainsborough and Horncastle (Mr. Leigh), for Brigg and Cleethorpes, for Ipswich (Mr. Irvine), for Hexham (Mr. Amos) and for Penrith and The Border—six English Tory Members. Do any of them have children at schools in Scotland? Do any of them have constituents at local authority schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Self—governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Amos", "preceding_text": " five weeks after the Committee had begun its deliberations. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, believe it or not, in a press release of 26 April referred to Conservative Members of the Committee as a very unpleasant collection of Right—wing, hard—line extremists. He then spoke about some of the most offensive members of the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Self—governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Amos", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Amos", "preceding_text": "onstantly tried to make the Bill conform more closely to the provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988, which covers England and Wales. Those are double standards. The Opposition have been too confused. They should have directed and focused their attack. They should not have wasted so much time on irrelevant technical amendments. On that basis, I am almost minded to oppose the guillotine motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Self—Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "chool, but the whole process will lead to people wanting their children to go to a school that is \"better\". In Scotland we have historically gone against that. Rightly or wrongly, people in England have been for it. They have had a tradition of grammar schools, but our tradition has been basically comprehensive. The Under—Secretary of State for Scotland, who went to school in Arbroath, knows that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Self—Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "asons, the Minister set out to pick a task force to ram the Bill through in the most offensive and abrasive manner he could possibly manage. The Government put together—I use the term again —an offensive collection of English Back Benchers, many of whom are connected with the No Turning Back group. That group would be the first to admit that it is an extreme Right-wing group within the Tory party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Self—Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "rom the Conservative Benches does nothing to destroy the weight of the point that I make. I pay a compliment to Conservative Members such as the hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown). That hon. Gentleman came to the Committee with a well-deserved reputation for being offensive, and he lived up to it. He is, if I may say so, the parliamentary equivalent of a walking breach of the peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Self—Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot avoid the fact that I played a considerably greater part than he did. He seeks, with synthetic fury, to suggest that the Opposition —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Self—Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman that it was embargoed until 1 o'clock on Thursday 4 May and it is now 10.45 pm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.284.4", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Self—Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I have not had the advantage of reading this embargoed statement as yet, but I did not notice in it any words that condemn the Opposition specifically. It was a comment on the Committee as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.284.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Self—Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The argument that the Government have an interest in prolonging debate on one of their own Bills —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Companies Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Companies Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your financial support?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Yesterday— [Interruption.] Yesterday, a question was asked of the Prime Minister and it was later shown by my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden) that the Conservative Member who asked the question had a direct interest in asking it because of the way in which he was associated with a company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.6", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Companies Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "view of the role of the limited liability company in a modern society. Let me begin with the strongest possible protest at the fact that a Second Reading debate on an important measure has begun at such a late hour. I do not believe that there is any precedent, at least in recent times, for a Second Reading debate to be entered upon so late. It makes proper debate of the Bill virtually impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.6", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Companies Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "mple, the amount that the company spends on research and development, on training and on health and safety? Why should they not reveal the forms and quantities of central and local government assistance that the company receives? Why should they not give some indication of performance in respect of equal opportunities, imports and exports, the environment, pollution control and energy consumption?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.296.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Companies Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "my union, although if I was I would make no apology, but over a period my union has made contributions to my election campaign. It pays £100 per year to the constituency party, and £50 for secretarial expenses, which is sent to me and which I pass on to the constituency party. I hope that that explains my position. I shall come in a moment to the way in which trade unions make political donations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-03", "file": "debates1989-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8ab8cbde6f86df5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Companies Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "iminish the long, boring intervention made earlier by the hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Sillars). I must point out that he is no longer in the Chamber. He spoke at length and pushed our proceedings into the early hours, but he has now disappeared. None of the SNP Members is interested in this legislation, which will affect Scotland and will have equally grave importance for Scottish Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-03a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No, that is not so. Indeed, manufacturing industry is in a far stronger position than it has been for a very long time. It is striking that manufacturing output today is well up on what it was when we first took office, whereas when the Labour Government were in office, manufacturing output fell; it did not rise at all. As for investments, the quality of investment is also important —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.346.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.356.10", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept that many of us who do not share her views, nevertheless acknowledge that it is a considerable achievement to be in No. 10 for 10 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.356.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.356.13", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that we must form a grandparents club in the House of Commons. I think that there would be rather a lot of people in it—and all of them would agree with my hon. Friend that the importance of the family is vital to the health of our society and that it is vital to uphold it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.356.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "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 remember the discord in the winter of discontent of 1979, when, under Socialism, there were strikes in the hospitals and one could not even get the dead buried. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will realise that there is now faith in Britain overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.357.4", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Bennett", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the last thing this country needs is a national dock strike, a strike which would lead to imports being held up and coming in after the strike was over, thereby damaging our export potential?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that in the 10 years of this Government, conditions and other aspects relating to hon. Members' activities have improved dramatically and out of all recognition. However, one problem still remains. Many of us are required to use the tube from Heathrow to Westminster and during the summer months we sometimes have to stand most of the way, often with heavy luggage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Risley Remand Centre", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "We shall do this by detaching staff to meet the new responsibilities and limiting those responsibilities in time as much as we can. But that will depend on the assessment of how quickly we can bring the cells at Risley back into operation and what space elsewhere may be available. That is a major prison management task in the north, thanks to the action taken by the inmates at Risley,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.383.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-04", "file": "debates1989-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "42a1b97cf911bf62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Public Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "nal nationalism, which is the obvious temptation. I have noticed that some of my hon. Friends, who are gung-ho free-market people in terms of domestic policies, always become massively interventionist if their own constituencies are affected by free market manifestations or by the closing of a business. They then become superb interventionists of the most ferocious blood-tooth kind when defending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-04a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-05", "file": "debates1989-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e2fbf8380766c1e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "s. The Government are intent on relaxing those rules, just as they have relaxed the rules on health and safety and the inspector appointed will be \"one of us\". He will obviously be a supporter of the Tory party, a member of the \"Thatcher 10-year clan\". As a result, the Bill will assist people who want to relax the rules and to remove authority from local authorities which are publicly accountable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-05", "file": "debates1989-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e2fbf8380766c1e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "le councils known as island councils. I was brought up in the islands, in Orkney. Weights and measures were always on our mind up there. There are problems in an island community, which has to be served by ships, so that there are questions about the weights of cargoes, and so on. Living there is quite different from living in the rest of Scotland. Will local authorities be involved in this case?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-05", "file": "debates1989-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e2fbf8380766c1e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Market, not just in defence of the ounce, the quart, the pint, and so on, but for all sorts of political and economic reasons. We were right to do so, when we consider the tons—another weight and measure—of goods flowing into the country and contributing to a reverse balance of trade amounting to a £14 billion deficit. We were nearly hounded out of office in 1964 because of a £100 million deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-05", "file": "debates1989-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e2fbf8380766c1e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "alking about trade, not about the balance of payments deficit. That includes the invisibles, which have also been falling since 1987. The inspectors will not be inspecting the invisibles, although this Government could try anything on. They might have invisible inspectors to inspect the invisibles. However, they will definitely have these inspectors who will be Tory inspectors, going to the ports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-05", "file": "debates1989-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e2fbf8380766c1e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "an prove that some of them are lining their pockets to that extent at the same time as drawing up clause 2 of the Bill. Perhaps he can prove that they are getting their snouts into that kind of trough—I will not call it pig swill; that kind of money cannot be called pig swill. The hon. Gentleman is closer to the heart of Government than any other hon. Member present today, apart from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.471.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-05", "file": "debates1989-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e2fbf8380766c1e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.528.11", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday 12 May.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.528.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-05", "file": "debates1989-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e2fbf8380766c1e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-05a.528.14", "colnum": "528", "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/1989-05-05a.528.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Rumour has it that the Vale of Glamorgan result was totally due to the enormous impact which the hon. Gentleman made on the campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.540.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Enormous diversification is taking place, for example the enormous growth in financial services in Swansea, Cardiff and elsewhere, and the great diversity in new manufacturing. The fall in unemployment in the past two years has been on a scale which will produce a Wales which enjoys full employment in a diversified, free enterprise economy for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Dock Work Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "There were certainly guillotines immediately after Second Readings of the Scotland Bill and the Wales Bill. They were introduced by the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Foot).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Dock Work Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows about mining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Dock Work Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is obviously at total odds with all the trade unions reforms that we have introduced. Perhaps that is why the Labour party does not intend to repeal a number of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Dock Work Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had better find out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.600.6", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Dock Work Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "egalise the secondary picket, now plans to go back to the mid-1970s for his dock work scheme. We believe that the case for abolition is overwhelming. Whatever may have been the position at the time of the second world war, the restrictions of the scheme are not relevant to the needs of the ports industry today. Even less do they match up to the challenges that British ports will face in the 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.600.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.611.5", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Smoking in Public Places", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "A unanimous decision is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "King's Cross Railways Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "alise that several of my hon. Friends have expressed a clear preference for King's Cross over Stratford. I hope that they will take time to read the report commissioned by Newham from Colin Buchanan and Partners, which puts the case for Stratford rather than King's Cross. It is described as the case the nation must hear. I shall ensure that the Minister gets a copy and I hope that he will study it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "King's Cross Railways Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "n this Bill does not include proper coverage of British Rail's proposals for King's Cross, let alone anywhere else. It is a preposterous approach. The background to British Rail's approach to King's Cross-St. Pancras—that vast complex—is that 125 acres of land are surplus to railway requirements. That land is owned by British Rail or its friends—associated, or previously associated, organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "King's Cross Railways Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " British Rail will demonstrate to the Committee that it will do what it claims it will do. In summary, as presently put forward, the measure will do substantial damage to the people whom I was elected to represent. It will do substantial damage to the education of many primary school children whose parents my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury and I were elected to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.669.5", "colnum": "669", "heading": "King's Cross Railways Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amos", "preceding_text": "more trains to take passengers. We will not solve the problem by opposing the Bill. We must get on to London Underground and make sure that it honours its obligations to the people of London. It has not done so in the past 10 years. It has been a disgrace. I hope that the Bill is given a Second Reading. I regret that no Opposition Member from the north-east has been present to support the measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.669.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Smoking in Public Places", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should visit his local hospital and see the many people in hospital because of conditions caused by smoking. I went around my local hospital and the doctors told me that 20 per cent. of the in-patients with heart disease, respiratory problems, circulation problems—some of them double amputees—low birth-weight babies and miscarriages were suffering as a result of smoking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Smoking in Public Places", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes his point, as usual, eloquently. I think that he will remember that he and I voted against this nonsense when it came through the House. He will also recognise that the balance of opinion within our great party is in favour not of a federal Europe at all but of a Europe of nation states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Smoking in Public Places", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) is entitled to her opinion, and I am not going to fall out with her. I have said the same about the hon. Member for Derbyshire, South, but I disagree with her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-08", "file": "debates1989-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "07daef116570d40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Smoking in Public Places", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) is entitled to her opinion, and I am not going to fall out with her. I have said the same about the hon. Member for Derbyshire, South, but I disagree with her. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I have even got support on the Conservative Benches. I think that you have heard enough from me, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have made my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-08a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that, however generous the compensation, none would be sufficient to compensate for the loss of life and freedom that would be engendered by this country adopting the foolish and ill-considered policies of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.710.4", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that over the years members of our armed forces have been prepared to give very loyal service and to suffer injury and death to protect their country. We have drawn attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Government have a clear duty to ensure that everyone knows what his or her main rights and duties are. We are reaching 21 million households at a cost of under £1 million, which is very good value for money. Very soon, on 22 May, most councils will start registering people for the community charge and it is vital, therefore, that people have accurate information for the registration process.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.720.6", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.720.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We do not like to keep interest rates high any longer than we have to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "eople rather than, as his dramatic delivery would have led us to believe, the ritual slaughter of the first born. It is curious that on all other occasions when assistance for the elderly has been suggested—and a lot of assistance for the elderly has been introduced under this Government—the Opposition tend to support it but on this occasion, for rather curious reasons, which I will come to later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " rather out of perspective, though the manner in which he presented his case will enable elderly people who enjoy tax relief and who may enjoy tax relief to put the Opposition very clearly in perspective. In the course of his remarks the hon. Gentleman made a number of errors of substance, to which I shall return. There were a number of minor errors, which I simply correct in a spirit of accuracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "There has never been in any tax relief of any sort the possibility of setting a cash limit. If the hon. Gentleman does not understand that, he ought not to be the Shadow Chief Secretary, for he understands very little. As it happens, Shadow Chief Secretary is likely to be the limit of where he gets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "man's point entirely, but we live in a society where there is a private medical sector as well as a National Health Service, whether he likes it or not. I suspect that that point is not alien to him. The private medical sector provides a good deal of care for people who would otherwise need to be treated within the NHS, which would add to the difficulties and delays that sometimes occur within it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.4", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is overlooking two factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.4", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is overlooking two factors. [Interruption.] I am just about to explain to the hon. Gentleman since he does not understand. That includes, first, the basic rate of tax relief. So only a proportion of that half to which he refers is higher rate tax relief, for they would be entitled to the basic relief in any event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.4", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ers or not taxpayers at all—I shall reiterate the point so that the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East does not get it wrong again—over a period of time the majority of the tax relief will go, not to the rich, whom the Opposition claim are receiving such disproportionate amounts, but to people who are basic-rate taxpayers or not taxpayers at all. I hope the hon. Gentleman now understands the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.742.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.743.7", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " circumstances. If he wishes to do that, I will let him admit it now; I assume that he does not. I am pleased that he is consistent and agrees with the principle. I must make it clear to him that we have no plans to extend the relief further down the age scale. Direct payments for private health care and most medical insurance premiums for those aged under 60 will not in future attract tax relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.743.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-09", "file": "debates1989-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f2830b83094da82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the policy review?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "o say that my hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) discharged an excellent service in that Committee's far smaller number of sittings, during which I fought a certain election. If that is the only reason that the Government can think of for not allowing a higher level of relief for small business, and the only reason that the Labour party can think of for not supporting it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-09a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.846.5", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to the work of my hon. Friend and the Government in supporting the refuseniks in the Soviet Union. May I raise with my hon. Friend the case of George Belitsky of Vilnius, who has been waiting for his visa since 1980? His wife and two sons, one of whom I met this afternoon, are now free, but he still waits in vain. Will my hon. Friend see what he can do to help in this case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.846.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. that question is somewhat wide of the topic, which is Pakistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "Unless the hon. Gentleman is arguing for the abolition of all immigration controls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend acknowledge that because it is politically difficult for Ministers to visit Bophuthatswana, it is even more important for their officials to do so to bear out what hon. Members have been reporting for years, which is that this is a rare example of an African multi-racial democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "tant for their officials to do so to bear out what hon. Members have been reporting for years, which is that this is a rare example of an African multi-racial democracy— [interruption.] — which is attempting to stand on its own two feet economically, which is more than can be said for the front-line states? It is, therefore, a model of what we would like to see the Republic of South Africa become.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask the Secretary of State for the Environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.9", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.11", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Pending the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.13", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Pending the hearing before the Divisional Court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.861.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "In my experience, the more offensive the hon. Gentleman is, the weaker is the case whose weakness he is trying to cover up. The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that with the hearing taking place on Monday it would be wholly inappropriate for me to enter into the merits of the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ruption.] I shall, however, be happy to give the hon. Gentleman any details that he would like about the timing, if he will kindly be quiet enough to listen. The court made its order at 2.45 yesterday afternoon, without hearing any representations from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. Counsel for Greenwich faxed a copy of the order to the Treasury Solicitor two hours later, at 4.45 pm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "sorry for the form in which he framed his question. Perhaps that is why he is trying not to listen to the answer. The order reached the Department 20 minutes later and the Secretary of State immediately considered its implications with his advisers. As a result of that consideration, he instructed lawyers to seek as early a hearing of the case as possible and at the same time instructed officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " of State immediately considered its implications with his advisers. As a result of that consideration, he instructed lawyers to seek as early a hearing of the case as possible and at the same time instructed officials—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]—I will tell exactly the moment. At the same time my right hon. Friend instructed officials to tell the Post Office to stop distribution until further notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence L. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence L. Higgins", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the London borough of Greenwich issued with its rate demand and at ratepayers' expense this year a leaflet which was pure propaganda against the community charge? Will he look carefully into the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that fact. I am also aware that the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham sent out at ratepayers' expense a document which said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.864.2", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "In view of the Labour party's quest for the truth, will my right hon. Friend challenge it to come clean with the public and explain how much the wealth tax, on top of the local income tax, on top of national income tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Community Charge (Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were you in court?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "To make it absolutely clear, the Government were not able to make their representations to the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "To make it absolutely clear, the Government were not able to make their representations to the court. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Were you in court?\"] The Government were not able to make their representations in the court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "rnment were not able to make their representations to the court. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Were you in court?\"] The Government were not able to make their representations in the court—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I will answer the question—simply because it was an ex-parte injunction. Therefore, the Government were not able—the Government had the advantage of the fact that an official was present in the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "e, is entirely without foundation. The situation is that, the moment that we had any inkling that Greenwich had obtained some kind of order, I sought immediately to get the details of that order. The moment I got them, I immediately took action upon them. If Greenwich had wanted us to deal with it earlier, it could have arranged its affairs in a way which would have meant that we would have known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.870.5", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have an extension of Question Time now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.870.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, it is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "day I was. I raise this with you, Mr. Speaker because I was told, \"Soon, Mr. Rooker, decisions will have to be taken about this,\" and clearly those decisions will have to be taken by you. I do not ask you to rule on this now, but point out the words \"poll tax\" appear twice on the front cover of the leaflet about which the previous exchanges occurred. Indeed, it is commonly known as the \"poll tax\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.870.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.871.7", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.871.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.871.10", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.871.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Control of Electronic Surveillance Devices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "rom a third party. My Bill will rectify that. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary recognised these weaknesses in his letter to me of 4 August 1988: Radio surveillance devices are unlikely to cause interference to other radio users simply because if they did their use would quickly be detected and their purpose defeated. We are entitled to wonder why, if he believes that, he does not act on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 44", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "preceding_text": " small businesses having a turnover of less than £500,000, and about assured tenancies—and I gave a general report on the scheme's progress. The hon. Member for Cardiff, West made an interesting speech in which he compared some people with sharks but then withdrew that remark because he rather likes sharks. I was then dismayed that he made a comparison with vultures because I rather like vultures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 138", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "per head in 1987–88. It is perfectly clear that growth in that area would be cost-effective for the Government, and for the British taxpayer. The other side of the coin is that it is also perfectly clear that failure to staff the Inland Revenue adequately is costing the country a great deal of money. In a parliamentary answer given to me last Monday, the Financial Secretary himself told me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "That may be right, but the hon. Gentleman's party's research department has been a little lackadaisical in not giving him the right figures. I thought that the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment announced a figure of 14 per cent. a few days ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "the House —is to use taxation policy as an instrument of environmental protection, which I strongly welcome. It is a significant change of Government policy which has a potential application in many other areas. As was clearly shown in the intervention made by some of my hon. Friends in the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham, we are short of facts and knowledge about lead-free petrol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Personal Equity Plans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "vision of rented accommodation in the private sector. Again, the tax system is apparently to be used to iron out anomalies and to try to revive the private rented sector. The tax system is now to be used to enable certain individuals to buy shares on the stock exchange and to get tax relief for doing so. Perhaps most Conservative Members were not Members of the House in those days, but some of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Personal Equity Plans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If one gets tax relief on dividends from the shares, one is paying no tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Personal Equity Plans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "tax incentives or tax breaks, as the Americans call them, were justified only because of the high rates of taxation under Labour Governments. The Conservative party said that they were justified then because they ameliorated the harsh tax rates. We can all remember that what used to be called \"unearned income\" was taxed at 95 or 97 per cent. when the investment income surcharge was applied to it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Personal Equity Plans", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "m and I should have thought that he would welcome them for that reason. The Opposition say that they believe in a share-owning democracy; if so, they should consider PEPs, and the changes to them, marvellous. Either they should make up their minds whether they favour share-owning, or they know what they really think about it and are not telling us, in which case they are lying through their teeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-10", "file": "debates1989-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "78d5b9797fdffb60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Personal Equity Plans", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "acy; if so, they should consider PEPs, and the changes to them, marvellous. Either they should make up their minds whether they favour share-owning, or they know what they really think about it and are not telling us, in which case they are lying through their teeth— [Interruption.] I said, \"Either, or.\" I must tell the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury, who is a nice bloke—I like him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-10a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I am sure that Lord Justice Taylor will take into account the point made by the hon. and learned Gentleman, who is a distinguished lawyer and has strongly held views on this issue. I think that most hon. Members would regard ticket touting as pretty obnoxious", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.991.2", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend agree that ticket touting is a form of brokerage between a willing seller and a willing buyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.992.5", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that we have adhered absolutely to the Widdicombe rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.992.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Would it not be wiser for the Prime Minister to welcome the decision of the Labour party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I believe that the public support us very strongly, and we now look to health authorities to implement that support in practice throughout the country. My second point about the progress that we have made is that many of the changes proposed for the rest of the service in the White Paper have already been accepted, and I find that they do not provoke controversy in discussions with the profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1020.4", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "all work on the applications, and the hospitals and units will acquire much more information about what is required. Everyone will be able to reach a more sensible conclusion once we know what is involved. In the case of self-governing hospitals, everyone in the locality affected will want to know what care services the district health authority will require the self-governing hospital to provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "s of interest in a proposal which is deemed to be a good idea by those who work in the Health Service. That process will be followed by a protracted period of discussion of all the details before any decisions are made. Whether we have a self-governing hospital anywhere in the National Health Service will depend on decisions made individually and case by case and probably at least a year from now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that, given the old-fashioned and myopic attitude of the Labour party, it is interesting that more and more staffs, patients and expert managers are keen on the idea of opting out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "It is not barracking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not interested\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " way with general practice budgets. I think that a large proportion of GPs with lists large enough to make them eligible for the first wave are very interested in the idea of controlling resources. (Interruption.] Of course; I am dealing with the pace at and methods by which we shall proceed. Of course no GP will tell anyone at the moment that he will have a practice budget. What he wants to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I can give my hon. Friend an absolute assurance that, in a practice budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "cretary of State is technically correct. Yes, those authorities can exceed their budget, but only if they meet the extra cost by cutting it out of other expenditure on patient care. That is freedom, but it is the freedom to freeze expenditure on prescriptions and to cut expenditure on other services. It is dishonest to pretend that that freedom is anything other than cash limits by any other name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "wice when at first I did not intend to intervene as all, but his speech is solely designed to raise fears among all the groups that he is talking about. If the hon. Gentleman is quoting the White Paper about the effect on GPs, will he quote from the relevant part, paragraph 7.19, which states: Where a GP practice exceeds its indicative budget, the FPC's first recourse will be to offer advice and\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ferers who had looked at the White Paper and felt anxiety. Is the Secretary of State willing to say now that he will withdraw the clear and explicit statement in paragraph 7.16 and say that there will not be firm budgets in the regional health authorities, that the regional health authorities will not be expected to work to such a budget, and that he will compensate them if they exceed that budget", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1032.7", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No, I am on my feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1032.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1032.15", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am mindful of your observations, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State was good enough to say that a large number of hospitals had expressed an interest in opting out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1032.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1032.15", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am mindful of your observations, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State was good enough to say that a large number of hospitals had expressed an interest in opting out— [Interruption.] Will my hon. Friends allow me to proceed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1032.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman repeated something which he has said before about the letter sent by five of the hospitals in the RMI that were never, particularly, candidates for self-governing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1036.2", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I must try again, perhaps a shade more slowly. There can be no removal of the problem of under-funding at the end of the financial year, because no more finance is proposed for the kitty. Even if the hon. Gentleman is correct that some hospitals will attract more money for the patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerard Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerard Vaughan", "preceding_text": "Because so many hon. Members wish to speak, I shall speak only briefly. There was a great deal of laughter, particularly from the Opposition Benches, during the speech of the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook). I found what he was saying distressing; and it was increasingly distressing as he went on. I worked for the whole of my life in the National Health Service until I came to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerard Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerard Vaughan", "preceding_text": "ate anxiety among people who do not understand what is happening and alarm in places where it should not exist. I would have expected from the spokesman for the Opposition a much more serious look at what the Secretary of State has recommended. May I remind hon. Members that the National Health Service was started on an all-party basis? Today the Opposition are attempting to undermine the service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerard Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerard Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to say. They would not be in the Register of Members' Interests if I was worried about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1039.6", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "No doubt my hon. Friend will consider the question of resources. Will he draw attention to the £2 billion to £3 billion more that is going into the Health Service in the current year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1039.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1039.6", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "No doubt my hon. Friend will consider the question of resources. Will he draw attention to the £2 billion to £3 billion more that is going into the Health Service in the current year? [Interruption.] The Labour party is wearing its heart on its sleeve about resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1039.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Indeed, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I am almost ready to finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": "ely approach on people who require that vital service? For the first time in decades, severely disabled people will have to fight to get artificial limbs or wheelchairs. There is nothing for which the Secretary of State or his sidekick, the Minister of State, should be proud. Those people should be properly assessed, fitted with limbs and provided with wheelchairs, rather than be deprived of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Michael Clark", "preceding_text": "introduction of the White Paper, I met doctors in my constituency in small groups of four or five. I managed to see between 25 and 30. I did a deal with them: I said that I would see them whenever they wanted, wherever they wanted and, within reason, for as long as they wanted. I would listen to and respect their views, and would put them to the Minister even if I did not entirely agree with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "No, I certainly do not agree that the funding problem we have talked about over and over again has been resolved. How can the hon. Gentleman say that the funding problem has been resolved when—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"You said it was.\"] No, we have complained constantly about the underfunding, which still causes long waiting lists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is this a speech?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "t allow anyone but you,. Mr. Deputy Speaker, to stop me. With the greatest respect, I shall finish my point. South Glamorgan health authority has contracted out all its open heart surgery to a private hospital in Southampton, which means that patients are moved to hospitals where their open heart surgery is dealt with quickly. It does not cost them a penny and the South Glamorgan health authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1086.12", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Southwark?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I did not think that is was a point of order; I could not tell what it was. On the point about quality, perhaps we need look no further than private nursing homes. We shall then see how the quality of care suffers when there is an attempt to keep profits up. The Government have already privatised nursing homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1086.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "ulted patients, doctors and nurses. Unlike the Government, we have emphasised the basic necessity of increasing resources. Unlike the Government, we have a programme for making a reality of community care. We want to see a localisation of services to make access easier. We want to see the integration of acute and community services so that services fit the patient, rather than the other way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is not possible to have less money every year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-11", "file": "debates1989-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f2a0bf0562b502dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "\"Working for Patients\"", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "Hospitals being paid for how much work they do is a reference in our document not to the internal market but to activity-based budgeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-11a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-12", "file": "debates1989-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "13e555c04969240d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1130.4", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Active Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see that my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West agrees with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-12", "file": "debates1989-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "13e555c04969240d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1132.6", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Active Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " House today play leading parts in the voluntary sector in their constituencies. I am the president or patron—mostly president because that is somehow a better title—of 58 voluntary organisations and there are two or three more in the pipeline. Among those is that fine organisation, the British Legion, in which people take enormous responsibility as volunteers for the community in which they live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-12", "file": "debates1989-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "13e555c04969240d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Active Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": " made a wise speech which fitted in with the direction in which we should be going. There was, however, in his and other Conservative speeches, a certain amount of goody-goody stuff, and I say that not in a disparaging way. Hon. Members have been addressing the whole question of the ethos of how individuals should operate in society. If Conservative Members want to see pupils cleaning the schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-12", "file": "debates1989-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "13e555c04969240d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Active Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "learly shows that there tends to be a higher rate of participation when a local authority is involved. From our experience in voluntary organisations, hon. Members know that a core of a few full-time people adds a terrific stimulus to an organisation and makes it more effective. I do not know where the hon. Member for Wimbledon got the subject of the debate. Perhaps it came from the Whips' Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-12a.1156.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.24.5", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Rose Theatre, Southwark", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that his first answer this afternoon was the best statement I have ever heard him make in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.24.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "It is especially appropriate that the hon. Member for Gedling (Mr. Mitchell) should have introduced a debate on transport today. My colleagues and I have a great interest in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.44.2", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": " to bus transport and claimed that local government has saved about £40 million in subsidies following the deregulation of bus services as a result of the Transport Act 1985. I do not dispute that figure but the way in which the saving has been achieved is unacceptable. Those employed in the industry have a worse package of pay and service conditions now than before privatisation and deregulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.44.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Taxation of Savings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "hon. Friends say. If there were to be a Division on the amendment, he would vote against it. I agree with the amendment, but it has not been selected. Had it been selected, the -Minister would have voted against it. The Minister is not always here when we discuss EEC matters. He is tucked up in bed, nice and warm. But some of us are here until the early hours of the morning discussing EEC matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Taxation of Savings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": " time that it stopped. The Minister tells us what to do about taxation, but we can deal with that problem ourselves without the EEC telling us what to do. What help does the EEC intend to give us to carry out that job? The ordinary working class folk of this nation pay their tax automatically; it is deducted at source. That applies to Members of Parliament, too. His pay is taxed before he gets it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Taxation of Savings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "an is a Labour Whip. I listened to his Front Bench spokesman say that the directive on sharing information is welcome and that the Labour party understands the motivation behind the other, although it has some reservations about it. That does not seem to add up to the view that the hon. Gentleman is presenting—that Europe should not be considering these issues arid that we can manage by ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Taxation of Savings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " be allowed to determine the destiny of its people and not be told what to do from across the water? Will the Minister get up and say so? He will not, because he agrees with many of the instructions that come from across the water. That is his problem. He will not get up and be honest like me and say, \"I do not accept those things which they tell us we should be doing. We determine it. We decide.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-15", "file": "debates1989-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e0c12a830cd38b94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Taxation of Savings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": ". I shall be here only another three years if the Prime Minister is prepared to go all the way. I shall enjoy those three years. I shall express my opinion forcefully. I think that hon. Members agree that I do just that. I shall continue to do so provided, of course, I catch the eye of the occupant of the Chair. I never speak without being called. I behave myself in the Chamber, as do many others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-15a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.162.6", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I agree with my hon. Friend. Our vision of Europe is a vision of sovereign states co-operating freely in those things that we can do better together than we can do ourselves. We shall certainly resist proposals which would deprive this House of its premier standing on taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.162.10", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The manifesto will be prepared as previously—on our stance in Europe. We are very good Europeans and we shall work within the Community. Any country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.162.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.165.8", "colnum": "165", "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. No hospital will be privatised. Hospitals will be given the choice, if they wish, to be self-governing, which means that they will have control over their own budgets so that decisions will be taken much nearer to the patient. which will in many cases mean far better value for money.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.165.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Winning elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "that there has ever been a closer relationship between party and Government than that, even in the Soviet Union. The appointment of Mr. Bruce may eventually fulfil the headline in The Times in August 1987: Propaganda role for Tory headquarters\". That rather startled some of us who wondered what else would happen while the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) was chairman of the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.188.7", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "It seemed to me at the time that any judge who, in advising a jury, came to the conclusion that the interests of the state coincided with the interests of those who, for the time being, were in government was getting on to rather dodgy ground. As my hon. Friend has pointed out, however, the common sense of the Old Bailey jury overrode the rather peculiar and absolutist advice of the judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.188.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "tion to abolish the GLC. The view at county hall went blatantly against the democratically expressed wishes of the voters. The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) mocked the privatisation of water. He talked about adverts for clouds. Some of us might have said that he had his head in the clouds. The whole point of the advertising campaign is to stress the purity of water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " about the main points of the new community charge system. It is hardly propaganda. It is giving people an overview to counter the propaganda of the Labour party, which has frightened in particular elderly people in my constituency. The Labour propaganda makes out that everyone will pay the same, whereas we know, of course, that with the community charge there will be protection for poorer people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister of the day would probably have been present and Hugh Gaitskell certainly would have been. If there are to be motions like this on the Order Paper, they should be regarded, in my opinion—which may be old fashioned—with the utmost gravity, because the charge is extremely serious and this is a weighty matter. If people do not mean them, they should not put them down in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": " I have a letter from a constituent, or from somebody whom I think is a constituent. It says: I enclose a copy of Workforce. Surely something can he done about this blatant abuse of ratepayers' money for Labour propaganda. This practice is rife. Note particularly the name on the back of this publication. I dare not reveal my name for fear of victimisation as I work for Derbyshire County Council.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "overnment came to power in February 1974 they promised that you, the British voter, should have the right to decide—for continued membership of the European Community…or against. That gave the impression that the referendum was to decide whether or not we stayed in the Community. That was nonsense; at the end of the day no referendum could tell Parliament what it was or was not going to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "heir much greater total and the way in which we spend ours. The Germans said, apologetically, \"Our R and D defence expenditure has been rising recently and we are worried about it. It is now as high as 20 per cent. of our total R and D expenditure.\" However, we spend 50 per cent. of our pitiful R and D expenditure on relatively unproductive defence spending. The Germans have a much clearer answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "oys our competitiveness; it does something perverse in respect of the Chancellor's stated objectives. It damages the competiveness of the corporate sector and it stimulates consumption because it means that every pound in the consumer's pocket will buy more imported goods than it should. That is why over-valuation not only stops us exporting, but sucks in the imports that are doing so much damage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "particular are suffering. The regions, which are so dependent on manufacturing, are where the burden will be felt most keenly. That is where the branch-plant economy that the Tories have allowed to develop during their period of office will come home with a vengeance because those branch plants will be closed first when the bite is felt. That is the problem with the Chancellor's current policies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "e prime causes of our inflated imports. It is worth noting that the cost of our imports of road vehicles in 1987 was greater than the cost of our total imports of food and live animals. The Minister did not refer to that comparison. Japanese firms such as Nissan and Toyota have moved into Britain. Why are they doing so? They want to move inside the ring fence of the Europe of 1992. On the surface—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "must remain to bring down unemployment by the production and creation of real jobs in the future. I have one constituency appeal to make to the Minister. The greatest single manufacturing setback in my constituency was the closure of the Invergordon aluminium smelter. I will not rehearse the history now, but it closed because of a world slump in the price of aluminium and the inability to achieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "and we suffer greatly from that situation. The economy is overheating in the south-east, with companies looking to relocate, but the Government's response is yet another local government Bill that will curtail the power of local authorities even further. They will not be allowed to help with infrastructure or assist industry to relocate. As to manufacturing, the market has failed people miserably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": " the not too distant future. What is new and remarkable about what has happened in the north-east is that self-employment has become an option that people take up. Historically, people in the north-east have left school, gone to work, taken their apprenticeships and worked for one company all their lives until they retired. Those days, however, are no longer with us; that type of industry is gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "10 per cent. a year since 1983. In the 1960s our share of world trade in aerospace products was about 10 per cent. It is now 17 per cent. More than 60 per cent. of the industry's output is exported. In 1987 the industry had a balance of trade surplus of £2 billion. This year, as with last year, will see record orders for civil aircraft. British industry will receive a large share of that business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. He should do his investigations. The industry is also investing in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "There has been much mention of vehicles. The vehicles industry is another barometer of change for the better. Since 1980, productivity has risen by 70 per cent. and all the United Kingdom's industries in that sector have been in profit since 1986. The production of cars has been rising strongly in recent years and the performance of the commercial vehicles sector has been particularly encouraging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "nt in the United Kingdom was running at about 183 companies a year. It is now up to 330 companies a year. More than 2,500 companies from abroad have invested in the United Kingdom, and in so doing they have protected or created about 300,000 jobs. I have recently returned from the United States where I conducted an inward investment tour on behalf of this country. Some of the companies that I saw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "at the Government have achieved in manufacturing industry over the past 10 years. There has been a depressing familiarity about the Opposition's contributions to this debate. We might have hoped for some constructive comments about areas in which manufacturing industry still has scope for improvement, as it always must have. Instead, we have been treated to selective statistics and misinformation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ds have anything to say to the electorate, they should open their eyes and realise the transformation in performance and morale that has taken place in manufacturing in recent years and understand the reasons for it. Until they realise what has been achieved, and until they speak with the authority that is needed on the subject, they will not: be taken seriously and will not, in any circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Procurement Procedures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "That allows other hon. Members to join in. They were in their places a little while ago, but as soon as the Paymaster General stood up, they left. The hon. Member for Luton, North (Mr. Carlisle) said that the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup should be put out to grass. The hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) said that what the right hon. Gentleman had said was beneath contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Procurement Procedures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "roposal to introduce tougher health warnings on cigarette packets. The Government allowed the proposal through because one Department did not know what another Department was doing. Lo and behold, the Secretary of State for Health disrupts the efficient working of the Commission—and there is no harm in any bureaucracy or administration that we set up and for which we pay taxes working efficiently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Procurement Procedures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " been agreed to by the United Kingdom when a sudden turnaround undid a great deal of effort and threw everything into chaos. One should not think that it will end there and that that turmoil will not be repeated with the present proposals for a Communitywide pass for pensioners which would give them an automatic right to concessions that would be offered to retired people throughout the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.277.10", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Procurement Procedures", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "In that case I shall go back. I said at the beginning of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.277.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-16", "file": "debates1989-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "39f3c467f589d61a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Procurement Procedures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ial for employment and for the future of technological progress and which have not been exposed to the sort of competition to which they should have been. As a result, three great costs to our economy have arisen. First, there is the financial cost of having to pay higher prices than we would if there were genuine competition in the procurement of this type of equipment or the associated services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-16a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.300.8", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "ment taking office due to their insane exchange rate policy? The true comparison is therefore not with 1979 as a whole, but with the first quarter of 1979, and it is that comparison which shows such a huge loss of competitiveness. The figures—if the Chancellor would really like to hear them—show that on actual labour costs the index figure for 1979 was 99, but for the first quarter it was only 90.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.300.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.300.8", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "n is therefore not with 1979 as a whole, but with the first quarter of 1979, and it is that comparison which shows such a huge loss of competitiveness. The figures—if the Chancellor would really like to hear them—show that on actual labour costs the index figure for 1979 was 99, but for the first quarter it was only 90. [Interruption.] I know that the Conservative Members do not want to hear this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.300.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.300.8", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "9, but for the first quarter it was only 90. [Interruption.] I know that the Conservative Members do not want to hear this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"] I am about to ask a question, but first we must get the facts clear. That comparison shows not only a huge loss of competitiveness on actual labour costs but an even greater loss on normalised unit labour costs. Will the Chancellor therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.300.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.305.8", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifty per cent.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the argument to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but obviously when it comes to figures about the exact number of jobs created there is scope for a certain amount of argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.305.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "Investment in the infrastructure is as high as investment in manufacturing industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Social Security Operations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " retire behind the formula, \"It is a matter of day-to-day administration of an agency\", and thereby escape their obligation to ensure prompt and reliable payment of the benefits approved by Parliament? The Secretary of State must appreciate that there will be great disappointment in the country that, in his statement, there is not a single commitment to a better quality of service to the claimant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "The Minister really cannot get away with that. The Government have a policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.350.4", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the debate has suddenly livened up. Naturally, I am disappointed that the Minister should rubbish the serious point that part-time workers actually work. The assumption by some members of the Government and some parts of society seems to be that a part-time worker is a dilettante who does nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.409.9", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": " party supporter. When asked by \"World in Action\" why he thought he had been blacklisted and listed as a Communist party supporter, he replied: During my performances I do have a go at Mrs. Thatcher and the Conservative Government. At this rate, millions of us can expect to be on the blacklist, and if not, ask ourselves why not. At the other end of the country, questions are being asked about TML.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.409.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-17", "file": "debates1989-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "33e18954e1e4fcec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Control of Concentrations", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Quin", "preceding_text": "Again, it was my understanding that various Commission officials had said that the threshold that the Government favour was much higher than that favoured by any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-17a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "rinciples are based on the Sullivan principles, which were devised in the United States to try to get American companies to use their influence to extend equal opportunities in South Africa? The alliance of people in the United States who back the MacBride principles includes the trades unions, the black community and the Irish community. It is a lie to suggest that it is some kind of Noraid fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for calling me twice. May I impress upon the Minister the need to make an urgent decision on the privatisation of Shorts? The Minister will be aware that only some two weeks ago the company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.465.7", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Following the Minister's previous answers, I must press him further. Does he realise that there is now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.465.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.465.7", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Following the Minister's previous answers, I must press him further. Does he realise that there is now— [Interruption.] I long ago learnt to ignore those hooligans masquerading as hon. Members on the Conservative side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.465.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.468.10", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take time today to consider the one-day strikes that are taking place, causing maximum hardship and disruption for the general public and with minimum cost to the union members involved? Is it not time that we moved towards continental practices where in Germany and Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.468.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.469.4", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman had read other polls he would have noticed that at least 25 per cent. of doctors have shown interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.469.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.469.9", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "t I have received in recent weeks several hundred letters from constituents who are anxious about the NHS, showing that their concern is as much about the Government's apparently dogmatic attempts to destabilise the service as about the inadequacy of resources? Does the right hon. Lady appreciate that many parts of these islands did not give much support to her party at the last general election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.469.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend has correctly identified what will be the two main issues at the Madrid summit—the Delors report and the social charter. From all the accounts that I have received about the social charter, it is more like a Socialist charter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend welcome recent developments in the Soviet Union, where candidates for the Soviet parliament are no longer imposed upon the electorate by the central party organisation in the Kremlin?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.471.9", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. The continuation of zero rating is a major vindication of the United Kingdom's firm stance on this matter—a stance to which we have always adhered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.471.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Nicholson", "preceding_text": "In her busy day, has my right hon. Friend had a chance to see that the Greenwich borough council has had to withdraw 85,000 copies of the Greenwich Times because it contained a misleading and factually incorrect statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Costs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "must protest at the Government's intention to rush and push a number of regulations on the poll tax in the ludicrously short time of an hour and a half on Tuesday. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman could pass on to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment a reminder that he has ended up in court in the past as a result of rushing through a considerable number of regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. A large number of Conservative Members have documents relating to this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand that all hon. Members with English constituencies have received, or are in the process of receiving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": " acceptance of the fact that the economic and social cost to the nation of chronic congestion is such that urgent action in the form of a doubling of present road expenditure is needed. Is it not a damning indictment of 10 years of the present Government's complacency and inactivity that such radical action is now needed? Does it not show that 10 years of Tory transport policy has been a failure?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ic congestion is such that urgent action in the form of a doubling of present road expenditure is needed. Is it not a damning indictment of 10 years of the present Government's complacency and inactivity that such radical action is now needed? Does it not show that 10 years of Tory transport policy has been a failure?— [Interruption.] I am used to the yobs on the Conservative Benches, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "way maintenance work reducing this year, it has increased. Will the Secretary of State confirm that, on average, the Government spend less in real terms each year on our national road network than Labour did when in office, despite a 40 per cent. increase in road traffic? The record shows that Government expenditure on roads is nowhere near as high as the Secretary of State would have us believe —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.484.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Answer that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " not be possible, even if it were desirable, to keep expanding the network to meet such demands? This White Paper has all the reflections of Tory policy. It has a good title, it is a glossy brochure, it promises jam tomorrow for the super-jams of today, and it commits no expenditure between now and 1992 to deal with the programme. It is a sham and will do nothing to relieve the congestion problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member and I are old acquaintances. He would be surprised if I had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Scottish roads, as he knows perfectly well that I am not responsible for them. I have done my best to be helpful to English Members. If that was wrong, I shall never do it again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": " to English Members. If that was wrong, I shall never do it again— [Interruption.] I have done my best to help them in the past. My answer to the hon. Gentleman's question about Scottish roads expenditure is that, as he knows, there is an automatic formula by which Scotland gets a proportion of the roads expenditure in England; I believe that 10 eighty-fifths is the normal proportion for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.491.4", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ll my right hon. Friend accept that anyone with an ounce of objectivity must congratulate him on winning this amount of money from the Treasury and providing such a forthright statement to the House? Anyone who does not think that should have been elected as the deputy Leader of the Opposition, but that is another matter. Will my right hon. Friend consider the position in the south-west, not just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.491.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.495.7", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Roads (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must contain himslf with patience, because, as I told the House—and it is said clearly in the White Paper—I shall publish the details and the timings later this year. The hon. Gentleman will look forward to receiving them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.495.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Developments in the European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "these debates, that I stood at this Dispatch Box to oppose the Single European Act on behalf of my party. My right hon. and hon. Friends and I warned the Prime Minister and her right hon. and hon. Friends about what they were letting us in for. We warned her about the likely consequences of the majority voting increase. I voted in the Lobbies against the Single European Act. That is on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Developments in the European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Plumb\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": " every few years to allow a tortoise wrapped in a Union Jack to lumber past. That is strong stuff, and I agree with it. The right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath), who is sadly not with us, said that the Prime Minister's views were absolute rubbish. That was not, perhaps, the most delicately intellectual comment he could have made, but it was pretty direct. Then, Sir Henry Plumb —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Developments in the European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "time we exercised that sovereign right to stay behind, it was only a matter of time before we reassessed the position and sought to catch up, but then we would join arrangements that they had moulded in their interests and not in ours. Once the House had signed the Single European Act in the pursuit of the single European market, we had accepted the reinstatement of the process of majority voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Developments in the European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend really must stop making that point about the veto. We shall not win the intellectual battles in the Community if we just wield the veto argument. The whole point is that we must persuade our Community partners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Developments in the European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "get off here and there and said that there was no timetable for the journey. But there was a destination, as there is in the matter that we are discussing, and in this case the destination was mapped out long ago. It is that destination that has always troubled me. While other parties have to some extent shifted their ground, the Ulster Unionist party has not shifted its position one iota on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-18", "file": "debates1989-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f63871ce474ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Developments in the European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "single market. I want him to be in the frame of mind of accepting other ideas as well. The Community is about give and take. We should not say that we refuse to accept the idea of country X, for whatever mysterious or self-evident reason. I do riot think that that will arise. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Sillars) used to be very anti-EEC when he was a Labour Member, but has now changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-18a.560.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-19", "file": "debates1989-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1c5b924ada958d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-19a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Domestic and Satellite Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "net, North had won this debate on broadcasting and we worked with great speed to prepare the details so that the question could be asked yesterday and answered this morning, and so that I could make this speech today. Just for once, the hon. Gentleman should get rid of some of his bile and be thankful to this co-operative Government for bringing forward these proposals for discussion in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-19a.633.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-19", "file": "debates1989-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1c5b924ada958d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-19a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1989-05-19a.651.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-19", "file": "debates1989-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1c5b924ada958d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-19a.651.9", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1989-05-19a.651.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-19", "file": "debates1989-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1c5b924ada958d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-19a.651.18", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1989-05-19a.651.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-19", "file": "debates1989-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1c5b924ada958d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-19a.651.22", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1989-05-19a.651.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and hon. Friends in the Department of Health have that matter at the top of their agenda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.664.6", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman seeks to embrace the absurd statistical illusions which suggest by definition that half of a nation, whatever its wealth, is in poverty. That kind of statistical absurdity, as I have tried to persuade people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.664.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ind. The average additional requirement payment to the sick and disabled—the hon. Gentleman mentioned the disabled—was £5·34 a week. Instead, 220,000 claimants are now receiving a disability premium of £13·20. That is a considerable improvement, which I would expect both sides of the House to welcome. Some 4,400 disabled people were receiving domestic assistance additions, averaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Mowlam", "preceding_text": "wed maternity benefit? I am sure that the Minister will want to hear about a most interesting comparison—I look forward to his comments—of the length of time that women receive maternity benefit. If I were pregnant in West Germany, I would get benefit for 32 weeks, In Italy for 21 weeks, in France for 16 weeks, in Spain for 14 weeks and in Ireland for 14 weeks, but here women get it for six weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Soviet Diplomats and Journalists (Expulsion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "oint. I cannot emphasise too strongly that, in our handling of this matter, we were concerned only to take the right decisions for the security and safety of the people of this country. We were not looking for any kind of propaganda advantage. With the success that has been acclaimed on both sides of the House, we continue to remain committed to the improvement of relations betweeen East and West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.693.8", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.693.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.693.8", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "ions. If political parties will not allow black people a place in Parliament, black people will find other ways in which to make their voices heard. They will organise separately in areas where they live in numbers and take votes away from those who neglect them. They will join other communities—for example the Moslems—in a broad coalition against racism. Once again, I quote Lord Scarman's report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.693.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Late doctor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest in this matter, since I live in the Vauxhall constituency. I am not the only hon. Member of this place who lives in that constituency. My right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary is in his place, and he too lives in the Vauxhall division. My hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Mr. Warren) is also a constituent of the late doctor", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Former?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": " interest in this matter, since I live in the Vauxhall constituency. I am not the only hon. Member of this place who lives in that constituency. My right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary is in his place, and he too lives in the Vauxhall division. My hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Mr. Warren) is also a constituent of the late doctor [HON. MEMBERS: \"Late doctor?\"] The former doctor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "f the meeting must be voters from that constituency. That is the key passage. In Vauxhall, the local comrades wanted to choose their own candidate. They chose a candidate who was black, who was a women and who was a unilaterialist. That choice was overthrown by the central hierarchy of the Labour party. Such an overthrow of local decision making would never have happened in the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.698.4", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ontent, but they are very funny. I thought that he made quite an interesting speech. Finally, I appeal to my hon. Friends to consider the local position. In the last analysis, it is vital that the candidate should be decided by members of a local party. Looking back at the history of the Labour party in my city of Liverpool, I do not think that we ever put up a Roman Catholic in a Protestant ward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.698.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.698.4", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Vauxhall By-election", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " Finally, I appeal to my hon. Friends to consider the local position. In the last analysis, it is vital that the candidate should be decided by members of a local party. Looking back at the history of the Labour party in my city of Liverpool, I do not think that we ever put up a Roman Catholic in a Protestant ward. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because it was felt that that might not be politically wise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.698.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Spring Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "to participate in South Africa in sports which, in many cases, are not represented in other countries—decide that because of that participation they do not wish to take part in the games themselves. It was a tragedy that at Edinburgh last year, for all sorts of reasons, including the treatment received by Miss Zola Budd, who is a British citizen and who was accepted legitimately into this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-22", "file": "debates1989-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "008da2c70e27cca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Atomic Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "Everything associated with the Electricity Bill relates to the environment. If one thinks through what the electricity industry does to the environment, it has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-22a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.784.4", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have not yet received many letters from nurses about the make-up of the policy board. As their general secretary has written to me, I shall no doubt be receiving some more, but they will be given the same explanation—that the policy board is not a representative committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. and learned Friend like to hazard a guess as to how many of the innocent patients who are writing to us as a result of being lobbied by rather unprofessional and unscrupulous doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Are not GPs in Kent up in arms over the Secretary of State's proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.794.6", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The steps that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken will deal with the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.794.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.794.12", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The policies are the policies of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.794.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Neville Chamberlain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ribed by the Prime Minister as \"Marxist\". I know that the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath) has impertinently asked the Prime Minister whether she has ever read any Marx. That is a question of staggering naivety. The Prime Minister never shows any evidence of ever having read anything, so why should we think that she has picked out Marx while she has neglected everybody else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " is recovering, but let us consider the statistics relating to the motor car industry—historically a source of great importance to the midlands. The decline in that industry set in during the period of the Labour Government—aggravated, admittedly, in the early 1980s by a world recession. The industry is now recovering. Last year, the production of motor vehicles in Britain exceeded the 1978 level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I remind the Minister that the debate is explicitly and specifically about inner cities. Whether his facts are right or wrong, to talk about the prosperity of a whole region is wholly irrelevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "servations were in response to the intervention of his hon. Friend the member for The Wrekin (Mr. Grocott). Does the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook really believe that the vehicle industry has nothing to do with the inner cities? Only a fortnight ago I was at what is now Leyland-DAF Vehicles, what used to be Freight Rover, in inner city Birmingham, one of the areas in which we have a task force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hicks", "preceding_text": "e employment training places—what are we to do?\" I had to explain to them that their local caring Labour authority was handing back the money for those places and then asking my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment, \"Why has the European Commission turned us down for money for training, and why won't our local Member of Parliament, Mrs. Hicks, fight for more money for training?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hicks", "preceding_text": "We said, \"Let us have video cameras in the town centre,\" and Wolverhampton was one of the first towns to do so. Local Labour councillors said, \"We do not want nasty video cameras because they are an invasion of privacy and a restriction on individuals\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "Opting out of the Health Service in the long term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bolsover.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "cognise your difficulty, in that, Mr. Speaker having ruled, you cannot set aside that ruling, whatever new points have been raised by my hon. Friends the Members for Belper and for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett). It is quite possible that, in reaching his conclusion not to select any of the amendments, Mr. Speaker did not have in mind the argument mounted by my hon. Friend the Member for Belper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "been identified as at risk from the Humber ports. Up to 10 pits will be displaced by 4 million to 5 million tonners, and at least 15 pits will be closed by the 10-million tonners. Even allowing for the wave of redundancies that was announced recently by British Coal, 24,000 miners' jobs are at risk. I advise those who are sponsoring the Bill that they are throwing skilled people on the scrap heap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "e special report. The right hon. Member for Salford, East said that this was a political Bill, probably sponsored or influenced by the Government or the Conservative party. I wish to state categorically that before sitting on the Committee I had no contact with my party Whips. No approach was made to me during that Committee, which sat from October to February, and there has been no contact since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.873.11", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " Coal therefore said, \"Protect us for those years and we will be content—we shall require no protection after 1996.\" The question then arose of how much coal was likely to come in through the dock if it were constructed, and the promoter said 2·5 million tonnes. The Committee in general—Labour Members in particular but Conservative Members, too—thought that that perhaps was a modest amount—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.873.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I have not received any assurances from the Government on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends should remember that British Coal already sells the equivalent of 25 million tonnes of coal to the CEGB at prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.883.4", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.883.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.889.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.890.4", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "I am sorry for the hon. Gentleman. He came in late—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.890.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.890.6", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on, Bellingham.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that he should, perhaps, give way to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North-West (Mr. Bellingham), who may have something to tell us? In October 1988, according the Register of Members' Interests, he paid a visit to South Africa financed by the South African Government. We should know what has been going on in the background.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.890.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.891.10", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "My support for the Bill has nothing whatever to do with a trip that I made to South Africa —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.891.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) because he attempted to move the Third Reading as soon as the Division on the previous business was completed. He was called at 7.29 pm. There were points of order for more than half an hour and all those points of order were ruled out of order by Madam Deputy Speaker. Indeed, it was quite clear that all those points of order were entirely bogus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.894.8", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "n will be much higher than the cost of administering the rates. Regulation 23(7) deals with joint and several liability. It contains a sentence which has more than 139 words with eight cross-references to other regulations, which contain another 30 cross-references. We are told that that is designed to make things simpler. It will not make them simpler; it will make them considerably more complex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.894.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.898.8", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.898.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.898.11", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "ntrude, as the phrase has it, on private grief, or to raise instances from last April, you will have heard the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) explain—I appreciate that it is not your responsibility, Mr. Speaker—that he was on a three-line Whip at 10 o'clock. From 7 until 10 o'clock we were engaged on private business. It is interesting to hear that the Tory party puts on a three-line Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.898.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.909.4", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "very person over 18 has one vote and has equal benefit from local government services. The nonsense of the rates was that they were fixed not on the ability of the person to pay or his ability to use the services, but merely on the size of his house. A ridiculous and unfair situation could occur when four or five adults in a house would pay exactly the same in rates as one person living next door—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " for an 80 per cent. or an 8 per cent. rebate, but for none at all? Will the Minister also confirm that a person earning up to £65 a week and not qualifying for any rebate could have arrested from his wages only £2 a week, which the courts deem to be an appropriate amount? In other words, if a person in receipt of such earnings does not pay, and the Government are creating an incentive not to pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are debating statutory instruments, and you will be aware of the complaints about the lack of time being given by the Government to hon. Members to debate them. Is it not out of order for the Minister to stray so widely that he is discussing the proposals of other political parties, rather than the instruments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-23", "file": "debates1989-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd19697717ad6515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.918.9", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Community Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "the misfortune of this country to suffer a Labour Government in which the hon. Gentleman formulated orders, they would be so complex that there would be a longing to return to so simple a series of regulation as those before the House now. The hon. Gentleman attacks the regulations without saying what he would put in their place. That is a very comfortable position for the hon. Gentleman to adopt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-23a.918.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about Labour ILEA?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "are that most of ILEA's playing fields are in the outer London boroughs, which are not controlled by Socialist authorities? Will he therefore stop this nonsense and join me today in saying that it is absolutely essential for the future of community sport and school sport, on which all British sport depends, to stop selling off sports fields in any local authority whatever its political complexion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "stop this nonsense and join me today in saying that it is absolutely essential for the future of community sport and school sport, on which all British sport depends, to stop selling off sports fields in any local authority whatever its political complexion? [HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about Labour ILEA?\"] Labour ILEA has playing fields in Conservative areas, where the authorities will not purchase them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Drugs (Inner Cities)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maureen Hicks", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that my worst fears have been realised. You, Mr. Speaker, may recall that, on 17 January this year I raised this matter with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and asked her to ensure that the Government were taking every possible step to deal with the problem of crack. I have been reassured by my right hon. Friend's actions. Crack is referred to as a drug of the under-class —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.951.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.954.5", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Holt", "preceding_text": "s before 3.30 pm that the hon. Gentleman intended to make that personal attack, which gave me no opportunity to refer to anything. Anyone who watched the programme, as I did—I do not think that the hon. Gentleman did—would have known from the tenor of the programme that there was an admission by Joe Mills that it was the Government and the Prime Minister who had improved matters in the north-east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.955.6", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "for Makerfield (Mr. McCartney) made his accusation. I found his accusation so outrageous and so far from the truth that I did not believe that anyone could take it seriously. I did not rise at that time to rebut it. It is true, however, that, after one hour of accusations from Opposition Members that I had behaved improperly in Committee, I left the Chamber after I had spoken. I went out that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.955.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The Minister appears to be having a great deal of fun. He is both frivolous and rather silly in his criticisms of the new clause. We are not drafting legislation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cope", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right and I find myself in some difficulty. The hon. Member for Oldham, West has given up his new clause before I have finished opposing it. I have more to say, but I do not know whether to proceed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.971.6", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "It is quite extraordinary for the hon. Gentleman now to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.971.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "First, they have a combination of skills. Secondly, I do not profess to be an expert upon it but I understand that most of the equipment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "nstituencies. There is the somewhat endearing myth, that the Labour party still likes to peddle, that no Conservative Member has any experience, direct or indirect, in any of those matters over which Labour Members claim to exercise great moral concern. I do not make a great deal of it, but it is relevant to mention that my wife's grandfather was a docker in one of the scheme ports in South Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "We have never made any secret of the fact that we have been looking at barriers to employment. If the hon. Gentleman wants to swap stories about what is or is not in an election manifesto, I must point out that he will find that the 1976 legislation, which was introduced by the last Labour Government, was not set out in their election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wriggle, wriggle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, we would not do that. I remember clearly the occasion that the hon. Gentleman refers to. One of my hon. Friends asked me a question. It was on a statement on another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "ong the Humber, the Ouse and the Trent. Today those private wharves work more tonnage than the once great port of Hull. It is a tragedy that from the pier in Hull the ships can be seen sailing past on their way to the private wharves. All that capital investment has gone to waste, and all those expensive facilities are unused. Why has the scheme had such a devastating effect on ports such as Hull?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Janman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Janman", "preceding_text": "the effort to learn them, because, irrespective of whether they volunteer or co-operate with management to learn new tricks, under the auspices of the scheme they have jobs for life. Hence, particularly among some of the more elderly employees in Tilbury, there is a resistance to retraining and, therefore, a resistance to enabling management to move with the times in terms of technology and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "not vote to endorse strike action. Even if the courts decide, or have decided—I am somewhat out of date on the recent legal decision—that the wording of the ballot paper gave a legal endorsement for a strike, for those individual ports without a majority vote for strike action within those ports, or within the employer organisations across them, there would be no legal criterion for strike action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "s who, come what may, will try to initiate politically motivated strike action which is destined to harm the interests of the ports, the economy and the dockers they are supposed to represent. Why does the Labour party support strike action to keep a scheme that they would not bring back if, God forbid, it forms the next Government? Why does it support strike action that would impede job creation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Primarolo", "preceding_text": "d by other speakers. In an industry in which all the economic pressures are towards casualisation, the dock labour scheme is, quite properly, a guarantee of job security. It is portrayed as an anachronism from the 1940s, but it is a necessary defence for dock workers. Dock workers are highly skilled. Part of their job involves taking care not to get in the way of cargo as it is being moved around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I will not give way because the Government have guillotined the Bill. Nothing that the hon. Gentleman says could frighten or intimidate me, as he knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1052.7", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "If that was a point or order, it can be dealt with by my hon. Friend when he speaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1052.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": " and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) who basically welcomed the statement. What I am saying is that things were happening, none of which by themselves could explain why the Government changed their mind and moved so quickly, although it is possible that the fact that those things accumulated was the determining factor. The problem is that the differential between scheme and non-scheme ports has definitely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dock Work Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not trying to give the impression that the problems in Aberdeen fish market in recent weeks have anything whatsoever to do with the dock work scheme. The problems arose because the fish landing company went bankrupt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1076.5", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Roads and Traffic (Mr. Peter Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House takes note of European Community Document No. 6529/89 on vehicle emissions; and supports the Government in its efforts to secure an agreement on emissions from small cars, taking into account environmental effects, fuel economy and the needs of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "—and to reject the 1991 interim stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "—and to reject the 1991 interim stage— [Interruption.] If my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment announces what the Government's intention is and if my hon. Friend the Member for Surrey, South-West (Mrs. Bottomley) announces in a written answer this afternoon what the Government's intention is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1078.13", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "the Member for Thanet, South, if this debate demonstrates that the House wants the 1991 stage—the interim stage—against the interests of the manufacturers and against the natural manufacturing and development cycle of engines, which is what we are discussing, the Government would obviously want to consider such a view. It is highly unlikely that any hon. Member will support the interim 1991 stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1078.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "ay. The Government's commitment to major new road building will ensure that the problem is continually exacerbated. Sadly the effects of that growth are already demonstrated by the parallel case of vehicle-caused lead pollution. Last year the level of lead in the air rose in the United Kingdom by 5 per cent. as the result of the growth of traffic volume which exceeded the uptake of lead-free fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: The hon. Lady cannot be serious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Ruddock", "preceding_text": "tic converters under road conditions are more, not less—I stress this because I think that the Minister is mistaken—fuel efficient than non-catalytic cars. Substantial research shows that lean-burn engines, which are said to be 20 per cent. more efficient, are comparable to catalytic converters which can be shown to be 18 per cent. more fuel efficient. We are talking about a 2 per cent difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "We are enjoying the teach in. Modern engines are much more fuel efficient than old ones. When a modern engine has a three-way catalytic converter attached to its exhaust system, I think that it reduces its fuel efficiency. That is the point, and we must not confuse the development of newer engines with what is put in them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-24", "file": "debates1989-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "77d5b66e077cb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Vehicle Emissions", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "It is a narrow path to tread between the Euro-fanatics on the one hand and the slashing attack made by the Labour party on the midlands and on industry generally, ignoring completely the interests of workers, whether they be employed in the coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-24a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "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 any further than my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose handling of the economy has given everyone the highest standard of living and the highest standard of social services that they have ever known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Conference (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "When we are having a statement in the House, Mr. Speaker, I must put the background to my question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Conference (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "When we are having a statement in the House, Mr. Speaker, I must put the background to my question— [Interruption.] If I do not have the freedom to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Conference (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "When we are having a statement in the House, Mr. Speaker, I must put the background to my question— [Interruption.] If I do not have the freedom to do that— [Interruption.] In your hearing, Mr. Speaker, I have already pressed that this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Conference (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ed, and there are a few who are honest enough to admit that perhaps it could just have some benefit. If there is one hon. Member in the House who should recognise that, it is the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea), who must have recognised the benefits that could flow to Northern Ireland from a fall in the Sinn Fein vote and from an increase in support for constitutional nationalism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Conference (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "efit. If there is one hon. Member in the House who should recognise that, it is the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Rev. William McCrea), who must have recognised the benefits that could flow to Northern Ireland from a fall in the Sinn Fein vote and from an increase in support for constitutional nationalism— [Interruption.] —and that a reduction in seats and numbers of councillors, which has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Conference (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "mmitted to continuing their examination of these matters with a view to ensuring that appropriate arrangements are in place, both for extradition and for extra-territorial jurisdiction. In other words, we have concerns in this area and the work is continuing, and my hon. Friend will be aware that extraditions have recently been completed and that extra-territorial prosecutions have been conducted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "favour of fair employment. To me and my colleagues, fair employment means that a person gains employment on merit—that that person is the best for the job. By inserting the provision that, over a specific period, the work force must be of a certain composition means that the criterion for employment is no longer merit, but the religious or political views of those who come to the personnel office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "As the Minister knows, we discussed these matters in Committee. We put similar arguments and the Minister has given virtually the same replies as he gave in Committee. Perhaps we are at a stand-off. Before gracefully withdrawing the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1174.2", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "I should like to make two points in response to what the hon. Gentleman has just said. I must emphasise to the reverend gentleman that there is no agreement in terms of timetabling the remaining stages of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1174.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1174.5", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "we were heavily defeated. That brings me to my second point, which is a political point. If we were to seek to press the amendment to a Division now and if we were to suffer a heavy defeat of around 170 votes to 15 or 20, it would hardly enhance our ability to ensure that a change was achieved in the Bill in the other place. For that and other reasons. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ent that the hon. Member for Londonderry, East (Mr. Ross) adduced. Some hon. Members think that all jobs in Northern Ireland are open to all classes of the community. The roofing industry in Belfast has been in the hands of Roman Catholics for years. Is the House saying that in future those engaged in roofing must sack a certain number of Roman Catholics and employ a certain number of Protestants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": ", their grandfathers and their children. Some of those people have names which make them look as if they should be Irish Roman Catholics but they turn out to be Anglican Catholics. They have names which might well indicate, since they are English, Scottish or Welsh names, that they should belong to one of the many Protestant denominations. But they do not because their forefathers come to Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1202.13", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "ns the centrality of the merit principle at the point of selection, it ensures the freedom of employers to choose the best man or women for the job, it prohibits reverse discrimination and the operation of quotas in employment. At the same time, the reality is that employment opportunities in the Province must be made available more equitably between the two communities. That is fully justifiable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1202.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-25", "file": "debates1989-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "2459d6b8781f24ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "When I was interrupted, I did not imagine that I would have such a long rest to think more carefully about my remarks. I was pointing out that, during the Bill's passage, no concession whatsoever was made to the Unionist point of view. During one period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-25a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-26", "file": "debates1989-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "2934320d6e103f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-26a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Road Safety and Tyres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": "o objection if they manage to do so. They are both experts and I shall be interested to hear the initiatives that they propose. If more hon. Members had been present, I would have adopted a novel approach and asked how many had checked their tyres. I might even have embarrassed them further by asking whether they knew the make or size of their tyres and when they last checked their tyre pressures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-26a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-05-26", "file": "debates1989-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "2934320d6e103f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-26a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Road Safety and Tyres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": "ocal tyre dealers, vying with each other to offer discounts. To say that changing the law will greatly increase the cost to the motorist is not a strong argument, because he is benefiting already from the longer life of the tyre. It is almost like young voters who did not experience the winter of discontent and therefore wonder whether they should vote Conversative, which I recommend that they do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-05-26a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.3.3", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that there is a great deal more to education than links with business? Education is for life, and must be broad and tolerant. There is a grave danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.3.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.5.9", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that I welcome the fact that there are 266 more students in higher education than there were 10 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.5.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "We now have certain proposals from the Labour party which purport to be an education policy. The Opposition want the end of grant-maintained schools. There is no question about that. They do not recognise how popular those schools are with parents and children —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.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": " not necessarily a question of identifying the owner of the dog but of trying to persuade people to be very responsible about their ownership. There are already powers to control dangerous dogs. The Dogs Act 1871 provides that any member of the public can tell the police if he or she believes that any dog is dangerous. A magistrate can then issue an order for any dog to be controlled or destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": " States. Once agreement has been reached on conventional force reductions and implementation of that agreement is under way, then and only then, the United States is authorised to enter into negotiations to achieve a partial reduction in short-range missiles. But no reductions will be made in NATO's SNF missiles until after the agreement on conventional force reductions has been fully implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.19.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.20.2", "colnum": "20", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is not telling the truth.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Moreover, it is specifically recognised that removal of the imbalance in conventional forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.20.7", "colnum": "20", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "the Warsaw pact countries. However, arising from her statement, can the Prime Minister confirm that, when she said that no reductions will be made in NATO's SNF missiles until after the agreement on conventional force reductions has been fully implemented, she did not mean that there would be no negotiations on reductions in missiles until after the conventional force agreement had been completed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.20.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is quite a lot to come yet. The comprehensive concept says: Once implementation of such an agreement is under way, the United States, in consultation with the Allies concerned, is prepared to enter into negotiations to achieve a partial reduction\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "proposals by the United States at the May 1989 Summit, the Allies concerned proceed on the understanding\"— this is the bit that the right hon. Gentleman forgot to observe— that negotiated reductions leading to a level below the existing level of their SNF missiles will not be carried out until the results of these negotiations have been implemented. Negotiations do not start—precisely what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of the integrated military structure, although it would not obviate the need for such forces. The hon. Gentleman will find an expansion of that in the comprehensive concept. Short-range nuclear weapons must be available to commanders in the field at all stages so that at any time a potential aggressor could not be certain whether they would be used. That is an essential part of flexible response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uggested that Tornado be included. He has made general proposals and is aware of our view on dual-capable aircraft. Our advice is that they need not be included in the 15 per cent., and that is our understanding. Of course the details are to be worked out—it is vital how they are spread—in a NATO group before they are put on the table at Vienna. Detailed proposals will need to be put on the table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "China", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "xplain to the people and representatives of Hong Kong what he means in his statement today by talking about flexibility regarding the right of abode in this country. I also suggest that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should consider travelling as soon as practicable to Beijing to obtain from the Chinese Government the firmest possible assurances that the joint declaration will be adhered to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "China", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I will come on to that. It is also equally clear that in the light of recent events, opinion in Hong Kong has been evolving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "China", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I will come on to that. It is also equally clear that in the light of recent events, opinion in Hong Kong has been evolving— [Interruption.] Wait for it. Even before the events of last weekend, the Executive and Legislative Councils called unanimously for full democracy by 2003—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "China", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why half?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "to the application of the British Nationality Act. Does he realise that many will be watching closely to see how that develops? I ask the Foreign Secretary to consider three further steps. First, will he set as the target that he has identified for the development of democracy in Hong Kong the establishment by 1991 of a Legislative Council at least half of whose members have been directly elected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend wrote to the Foreign Secretary. The Government knew that the allegations were a tissue of lies and it is surprising that absolutely no statement and no denial was made before my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition wrote to the Foreign Secretary who, I agree, responded immediately. I understand that it is not a matter for you, Mr. Speaker: I want to make that quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Redbridge London Borough Council Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "t they would have other and better reasons, were they to take an opposite line. I am sure that they would not allow narrow party political bias to override their natural desire to look after the public interest. My hon. Friend the Member for Ilford, South referred in his opening remarks to the applications that he has had. He told the House that he has had 240 applications for stalls at Redbridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "amber. I used to enjoy some of his contributions, and I followed some of them because they had upset me. He has upset me this evening as well, because he has not spoken correctly and truly to the new clause. If a person owes money to the Inland Revenue he will be charged interest on it, but if it is the other way around —if the Inland Revenue owes the person money—there is no question of interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "mself without the employee's contribution. The new clause asks for fairness to the employee. If it is to take a long time for the case to reach the tribunal, interest should be paid: there is no doubt about that. I hope that the Minister will get up and say, \"I agree with the new clause.\" He has not said that yet. Why does he not speak one way or the other, so that we know exactly where he stands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ew clause. The Minister may talk about Mr. Justice Popplewell, but we are talking about the facts of life. There is no need to point to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland; he has made his case. I am talking about the Minister. He sits on the Government Front Bench, and he speaks tonight on behalf of the Secretary of State, who sits there laughing his head off as though it were all a big joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " Popplewell, but we are talking about the facts of life. There is no need to point to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland; he has made his case. I am talking about the Minister. He sits on the Government Front Bench, and he speaks tonight on behalf of the Secretary of State, who sits there laughing his head off as though it were all a big joke. [Interruption.] Does someone want me to give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Richardson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a chartered accountant. The majority of my constituents do not have chartered accountants to do their accounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "not going to rely on the so-called recognition agreements, because in many instances they will not be agreed between employers and trade unionists, but will set down specifically the right of workers to have their trade union recognised and specify that minimum standards must be provided for the trade union to operate on behalf of its members. That brings me to an issue on bargaining and training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.172.7", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Southend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "You have jumped the gun, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I understand why. The hon. Gentleman has an argument and he is using it and he is trying to use me as well, but I am not going down the EEC road tonight. I do not think it would be fair. But I understand why the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.172.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.172.7", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "rnment were doing is wrong and that we do not accept that that payment should be made. It is not fair, it is completely immoral, and I believe that we should vote for the amendment. I hope that some of the Conservative Members will change their minds and see the unfairness involved. I am living in hope, I know. If they are honest with themselves, they will vote with us tonight on these amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.172.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has woken up. He has been asleep since the debate began. He normally is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-06", "file": "debates1989-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "52737019655b37db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has woken up. He has been asleep since the debate began. He normally is. [Interruption.] I never interrupt the hon. Gentleman when he speaks, yet he is interrupting me. The hon. Gentleman is helping to close pits in the Nottingham area by voting for the Government's economy policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-06a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.219.6", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, except in one respect. Labour Members are not offering simply wrecking tactics; they are offering in exchange for the community charge a property tax and a local income tax. They seem to believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.222.7", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "Is it not a little difficult to know how warmly to welcome this concession until we know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.224.4", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Is he aware that at meetings I had with individual GPs and with representatives of GPs in Tayside it became clear that the GPs had not understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.224.5", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "There is no justification whatever for patients being frightened or misled about the White Paper proposals. We have had a positive response from GPs in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "May I inform the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker), as a psychologist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Political Honours (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "rded to those who do not qualify by rank for a higher medal\". We know that, whatever aspect of our society is being recognised, the honour depends on a person's rank. If an honour goes to the Civil Service, the permanent secretaries get the knighthoods; the clerical officers, if they get anything at all, get the lowest rank of honour. A knighthood comes as automatic rank for a permanent secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.241.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Political Honours (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "tive Members of Parliament. When I returned to this place after an absence of eight years I recognised many familiar faces on the Conservative Benches, but I could not get used to the fact that almost all of them had knighthoods. I have done a little checking and discovered that 100 of them have knighthoods and that only four Conservative Members with continuous service since 1964 do not have one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Political Honours (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "As one who qualifies under the criteria laid down by the hon. Member for the Wrekin (Mr. Grocott) of neither having been a beneficiary, nor likely to be one, of the honours system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Political Honours (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "o said that dangerous human proclivities could be canalised into relatively harmless courses by the making of money. We do it far mor effectively and cheaply by the maintenance of an honours system. The worst corruption that we have witnessed in this country in recent years has been the corruption that comes from Socialism, whereby the Government of the day bribe the electors with their own money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.247.9", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "in The Independent as having opened his speech to the Tory women by saying as follows about the timing of the interest rates: I had two conflicting thoughts. I thought it was a rather tactless time in the middle of the women's conference. Then I thought—where else could I look for such mature, intelligent, responsible support? They heckled him. I think the Chancellor has a problem with Tory women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.247.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not agree that the only weapon that we should use should be interest rates. As we have made clear on numerous occasions, there are other methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "our disagreement about their excessive reliance on interest rates as the only weapon. Can we get that clear? I should like all Conservative Members to deal with the policy. I should like them to start explaining why we invest less than West Germany. I should like them to tell us why they do not speak up for small businesses, which complain so vociferously about the effect of higher interest rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "est rate policy which makes it almost impossible for people to invest in manufacturing industry. If the hon. Gentleman takes the trouble to read our policies with the care that I am sure most of his researchers are busy doing so at the moment, he will find the answers to the questions that he raises. What we are debating here today is the confusion and disarray in the Government's economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "s rising or falling, whether he professes to be concerned about the threat of recession or the dangers of overheating, up the right hon. and learned Gentleman pops with the same solution—more public spending on training, research and development and investment. Now let me try to find some common ground. I cannot accept the right hon. and learned Gentleman's assumption that these things have merit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that that is right, but it is wrong. It is wrong in every particular. Since January 1985 British business and industry have had four of the best years that they have ever known. Since January 1985—I am taking about the particular things to which the right hon. Gentleman referred in 1985—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " speeches about industrial decline, he should have reminded the House of the state of British industry in 1979 after five years of Labour Government. That was indeed an example of how not to run an economy. Industry was unproductive, unprofitable and strike-ridden—crippled by Government controls and interference, and often only propped up by state handouts, all financed by penal rates of taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.260.5", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " Member for Monklands, East seemed not to know—inflation is now at its highest level for almost five years. Indeed, over the past six months the rise in recorded inflation in the United Kingdom has been only marginally greater than the rise in inflation in the G7 as a whole. That is only because, unlike most of the rest of the world, we include mortgage interest payments in our retail price index—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "our monetary stance to be undermined by a depreciation of the exchange rate. These are the policies that have successfully brought inflation down in the past, and will do so again. That is where we stand, but where does the Labour party stand on these vital issues? Where does it stand? I have given a full statement of our position and our policy, and we heard nothing at all about the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.265.7", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way enough. We have learnt a little bit more, as was clearly revealed in the Naughtiegate tapes, which we now have available and from which I will read only a brief extract: Kinnock: I'm not going to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.265.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.265.7", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " alternatives. He's the Chancellor of the Exchequer … I'm not going to be bloody kebabed talking about what the alternatives are. We're not in control of it. Naughtie: Why don't you say that in as strong terms as you want to? Kinnock: But wait a minute. Opposition leader asked what he would do. Opposition leader says, 'to cut a long story short, we don't know.\"' Of course, there we have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.265.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruptions", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I cannot do that because the hon. and learned Gentleman is not correct. During the first two years of the decade of Conservative Government my constituency lost 2,000 jobs, which was precisely the number created by the Labour Government during the preceding four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "e amalgamation of companies such as British Leyland failed. Labour's industrial policy had failed. The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and other Labour policies on planning the economy and industrial markets had failed. Now, in 1989, it is likely that a major improvement in the balance of trade in manufacturing is on its way. We have new car plants. Nissan is producing record levels of cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "s has been to reduce employment in manufacturing industry by some 2 million people, leaving manufacturing industry in a much more efficient state than it was under Labour. Hon. Members must accept that 5 million people in Britain are now producing more than were 7 million in manufacturing industry under Labour. That is success. British industry has higher productivity now than it did under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "abour party now promises us low interest rates. It believes that we can isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. It believes that if the rest of the world has high interest rates we can somehow have low interest rates. Many years ago King Canute tried to hold back the waters but he failed, just as those who try to hold back the waters of high interest rates in the rest of the world will fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-07", "file": "debates1989-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "f221edd39b445b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": " a wide-ranging, if in some respects rather predictable, debate. It has certainly been predictable, not least the last thirty seconds or so of the speech made by the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould), but it has certainly not been wide-ranging enough to give us one second's insight into the policies of Her Majesty's Opposition. That has been the most striking single fact about the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-07a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-08", "file": "debates1989-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1b6412f391f2d39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ther in the years that lie ahead, to the great benefit of the economy as a whole and also giving individuals a wider choice of how they spend the money that they earn. As for the Labour party and their spending plans, they have yet so far still failed to answer the question put to them by the right hon. Member who was formerly running the GLC—I cannot remember his constituency at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-08", "file": "debates1989-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1b6412f391f2d39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.360.6", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The best guide to the underlying rate of inflation is provided by the RPI excluding mortgage interest payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.360.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-08", "file": "debates1989-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1b6412f391f2d39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.364.10", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed that the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown) is missing from the Chamber this afternoon as he has buzzed off to Hong Kong? He is not, therefore, here to ask his usual silly questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.364.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-08", "file": "debates1989-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1b6412f391f2d39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.365.11", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Why does not the Prime Minister stop wriggling and simply say whether she thinks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.365.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-08", "file": "debates1989-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1b6412f391f2d39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.366.7", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course I confirm that, unlike the Labour party, all our candidates in the Euro-elections believe that Britain's future lies in the European Community. A Conservative Government led by my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath) had the vision to take Britain into the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.366.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-08", "file": "debates1989-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1b6412f391f2d39e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.369.9", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a free vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " British people are entitled to see and hear what their elected representatives are doing. In view of the Prime Minister's statement at Question Time today, can the Leader of the House confirm that there will not be any late effort by the Government to sabotage the televising of the House and that the payroll vote will be expected to support the report when he recommends it to the House on Monday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-08a.369.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Although I have had many talks with my hon. Friend, I have yet to convince him that, whatever the height of the hurdle, British Rail always manages to climb it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.539.6", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with anything that the hon. Gentleman said. Investment in London Underground is increasing continually and is running at historically high levels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.539.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) for not wishing to follow his speech because, quite frankly, I did not understand it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I hope that I heard the hon. Gentleman say from a sedentary portion, \"Quite right, too.\" I agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "said that privatisation had failed to protect the consumer, especially in terms of price. If one considers the prices charged for electricity and gas, they are lower in real terms than those charged previously—certainly those charged under the Labour Government. Those who pay electricity and gas bills know that prices are lower than they were, and that they have not gone up in line with inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Consumer Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall give way when I have answered this point. That under-investment is still causing problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "rom the goats without too much difficulty. On the Conservative side of the Committee there was, for some time, a heavy lobby on behalf of a large, independent private company. It was to the credit of Conservative Members that they did not simply lie down in front of the blandishments of the heavy lobby from that source. There was a spirit of compromise and consensus on both sides of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "preceding_text": " work. It is right and proper that coverage by the media and television should cover them as well. The amendments which have been chosen by you, Mr. Speaker, the amendment of the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst (Mr. Sims), should not commend themselves to the House. The first is essentially a wrecking amendment and the latter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-12", "file": "debates1989-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3c73b1f3e432a45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Televising of Proceedings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Workington seems to me highly risky, to say the least. If the House passes the hon. Gentleman's amendment, it will in effect throw the whole experiment back into the melting pot of uncertainty and, possibly, of protracted delay. I therefore recommend that the House votes against amendment (c), although it is for individual right hon. and hon. Members to make up their own minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-12a.650.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The word was intended to refer to the Government's policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Botulism Outbreak", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "That must be taken up with the responsible Ministers. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will have to deal with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Commercial Television", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I welcome generally the Home Secretary's statement. It emphasises that, first, there will be greater transparency in the way in which licences are allocated to firms, and, secondly, that there will be greater competition. Will the Secretary of State consider the system that applies in the Republic of Ireland whereby those who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "In cowboy films it is said \"White man speak with forked tongue.\" I will not say that of the hon. Member for Hammersmith, North (Mr. Soley) but he must surely accept that a councillor has far more power and could be a party to influencing decisions. There is no comparison between the interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " European Assembly elections people who work in local government and who wish to be politically active will have to join the former leader of the Liberal party in campaigning in Italy, France or West Germany where they will presumably be free to engage in political activity. But they will not be able to promote their views and campaign on behalf of members of the same party in the United Kingdom —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "r of political advisers who have been appointed in many Government Departments. In fact, the Government have more political advisers in the different Departments than any previous Government. I feel strongly that it is wrong to erode people's rights to stand for local authorities and to remove their political freedom. We see the Government continuously eroding civil liberties, freedom and rights.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.753.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.755.7", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.755.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) has made more speeches from a sedentary position today than anyone else. I have not yet seen him get up to say anything positive; he merely continues his abuse from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your protection— [Interruption.] Now our Member of the European Parliament, the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer), is joining in. The Daily Mail article stated that a quarter of Glasgow's city councillors were employed by their regional council, Strathclyde. The hon. Member for Brightside and myself had the honour to be members of South Yorkshire county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patnick", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for that wonderful intervention. If he had allowed me to finish the point that I had started to make, I would have answered that. His crystal ball is not as good as it appears to be. Of those 4,000 people, about 58 per cent. are teachers or lecturers, to whom the twin-tracking provision does not apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for that reassurance and much relieved by it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ers the type of commitments with a view to the future stages of the Bill that we seek. On behalf of the local authorities and my parliamentary colleagues who have brought the matter to the attention of the Minister and his Department's officials, may I take this opportunity to thank him for his extremely welcome speech and for the positive way in which the Government have responded to our request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-13", "file": "debates1989-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "472c4777db007f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The Minister is trying to face both ways. She is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-13a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's welcome for my visitation to his constituency, where I was delighted to find a growing fund of wisdom determined to return to the European Parliament the excellent Conservative representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Food Research (Bristol)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "ar epidemic proportions. This matter is specific because of the type of research which is conducted at the food laboratories in Bristol. It is important because of the public concern felt by consumers on matters of public health and dietary considerations. It is urgent because the closure was announced this morning at 11 am in Bristol. At the research laboratories in Bristol there are 80 projects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I should like to draw attention to the comments of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce on this part of the Bill. The association has expressed grave anxiety, not about the Government's intention to close what they describe as loopholes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.926.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "will have to come out of the housing revenue account. As my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) said, the Government seem to want the poor to pay for the totally impoverished, which seems to fly in the face of decency. There is very little which is decent left in this Government of second-hand car salesmen, Arthur Daleys and low life generally, which is why we tabled the new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "g on housing revenue accounts today are therefore less, in real terms, than they were in the early 1970s. Authorities have enjoyed recently some windfall benefits because of the success of our right-to-buy policy. It is interesting that the hon. Member for Hammersmith suggests that the Government are discriminating against council tenants, but the present system does not discriminate against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ity kitty to pay for local services. Nobody denies that, but we are opposed to the way in which it is collected. We have to have local taxation. It cannot be abolished, because it has to provide for our community. We cannot all have a swimming pool in our back garden, our own fire brigade and a library in our house. We have to pay for them from the community. I will argue until the cows come home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State has brought a new dimension to the term \"brass neck\". Only after considerable pressure from all sections of society in Scotland have we been given in the Bill a proposal on the business rate. Unusually, I congratulate the CBI and the chambers of commerce as well as COSLA, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, all sections of society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "It is not even very late but arithmetically the Minister's intervention defeats me. He is saying that he takes into account that income is based on the assumption of a multiplier of two, but if there is a multiplier of one the income will be lower. He must explain this further when he replies to the debate. On any rational view there would be net losers. That element of discretion does not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that under the Labour proposals one would pay the tax even on a tenanted property that one did not own?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "tly right in what she says. The tenant would pay on the freehold value of his house, even though he would not gain any benefit from it. 11 pm Whereas the regulations under the community charge are tightly drawn and present no threat to civil liberty, I could not say the same about the two-tax system that the Labour party is putting forward and which the hon. Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) supports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "address that problem, he fails to recognise that his solution, although it may help in some areas, will not help in all the places about which we are concerned. The Secretary of State took the trouble to come to my constituency to open a small housing scheme, where he discovered how high rents can he in such areas. In doing so, he exposed himself to a barrage of advice about rural housing matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "I am on my hon. Friend's side of the House. The problem in my constituency, High Peak, and in many others is not a shortage of rented accommodation due to the Rent Acts or to council house sales. The problem is that there is a shortage of housing of all kinds in villages. Houses that are put up for sale are bought as second homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1047.4", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I am making a point of order to the Chair. I misjudged the right hon. Gentleman's character and what I thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1047.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1048.2", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "gs listed. There would be a permanent identification of the dog, which would not simply be by a tag on a collar which could be removed or not put on at all. There are several possibilities, for example, tattooing. Another interesting possibility is a tiny microchip implant under the dog's skin, which could be read off like a bar code at the outlet to a supermarket. It can be done quite painlessly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1048.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Some of us are extremely concerned to hear the hon. Member for Plymouth, Drake (Dame J. Fookes) put forward her arguments. It is obvious from the attendance in the Chamber that many hon. Members are interested. Could we have a little order so we can understand what the hon. Member says?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "although my hon. Friends and I have tabled a specific amendment. The hon. Member for Plymouth, Drake (Dame J. Fookes) deserves considerable credit for the effort that she has put into campaigning on this subject over many years. Many hon. Members are here to listen and to take part in the debate, and that is a tribute to the public and private concern that the hon. Lady and many others have shown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I will not give way because I am in the middle of a sentence. People who breach the law on dogs wearing collars are liable to a fine of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "public places. In any case, they could be exempt because guide dogs are already subject to a registration scheme. The right hon. Gentleman chose a great many nit-picking arguments and rolled them into an argument about cost and bureaucracy to support his claim that the scheme would not work. The right hon. Gentleman also mentioned the cost of the scheme for pensioners. They, too, could be exempt —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I will support my hon. Friend in the Lobby tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When does the press tell the truth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Drake and myself as officers of the all-party group for animal welfare when we have raised the matter with her. It is a sadness to me that after the last occasion on which my hon. Friend and I took a delegation from the RSPCA to meet the Minister, it found it necessary to put out a press release saying that she had been intransigent. She was not. It was neither true nor just.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "g about it. The Secretary of State announced a whole package of measures, which I believe are too little and already too late for the seriousness of the situation. None of those so-called proper laws on dogs would have saved my young constituent's life when she was attacked by that rottweiler, or prevented a rottweiler dog from dragging a young boy off his bike in a park and severely savaging him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "That is most interesting and goes a long way towards confirming what I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that they would be exempt from registration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1069.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "I will willingly check that in the morning and I will willingly apologise if necessary, but I heard what I heard. I wish to pose a few questions. How will registration deal with the irresponsible, lazy, ignorant or unaware dog owner, or with the deliberate law breaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vivian Bendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vivian Bendall", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Secretary of State but I want to go into the reasons why there are so many vicious dogs. The public need to be educated about the types of dog that they purchase. Many people do not realise that they may be purchasing a potentially dangerous dog. There should also be a proper licensing of breeders. For far too long there has been too much interbreeding, especially of vicious dogs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vivian Bendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vivian Bendall", "preceding_text": "so many vicious dogs. The public need to be educated about the types of dog that they purchase. Many people do not realise that they may be purchasing a potentially dangerous dog. There should also be a proper licensing of breeders. For far too long there has been too much interbreeding, especially of vicious dogs. [Interruption.] When I talk about interbreeding I am referring to mothers and sons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Nothing that the Minister has said convinces me that he has any intention even of protecting councillors against inflation. He did not answer my point that that rewards sloth. It is therefore difficult to convince me, even at this late hour, that I should withdraw the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-14", "file": "debates1989-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "0f07c70d401e587f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Morrison", "preceding_text": "rated areas. My amendments Nos. 3 to 6 aim to avoid those anomalies by reference to a reduction based on a common area of about 500 sq m. That is roughly equal to the area required for two mares and their young stock. I have a suspicion that initially the Government were thinking along the same lines as I was, but they for some unknown reason veered away to the more anomalous proposals. To sum up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-14a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-15", "file": "debates1989-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8c1e6077ec11977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1107.5", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many pensioners are caught up in this problem? The Government should be ashamed of themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-15", "file": "debates1989-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8c1e6077ec11977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister to take more seriously the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) about the reasons for child crime? Surely the suggestion that parents are responsible for all the criminal activity of their children is not a serious one, although it is a populist demand on the part of some Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-15", "file": "debates1989-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8c1e6077ec11977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1115.4", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that this is yet another example of seeing what was happening in the United States five years ago and projecting it on here? I asked a parliamentary question about crack some four years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-15", "file": "debates1989-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8c1e6077ec11977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Arts and Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "advance the enormous vote of confidence that the electorate are giving us. The difference in enthusiasm in getting out and facing the electorate is hardly surprising. It is interesting that Tory Members are here rather than doing that. It is not good enough to have the debate on this day. I do not blame the Minister for this. It is the usual channels, or the Chief Whip, or the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-15", "file": "debates1989-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e8c1e6077ec11977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Arts and Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "I refuse to be obsessed by the Rose theatre. My hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich (Mr. Bowden) has made strong and effective representations about it, as no doubt has the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes). A satisfactory scheme was announced this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-15a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-16", "file": "debates1989-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a0bfc199a60e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Coal Mining Subsidence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "eir lives. I shall quote two more cases. Constituent J complained about the board sending a cheque for a settlement when none had been agreed. My constituent is paying for an independent survey showing 6¼ in when the agent was informed by the board that it would recognise only a 4 in tilt. Finally, one constituent has been involved in putting pressure on the coal board by writing regularly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1239.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-16", "file": "debates1989-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a0bfc199a60e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.6", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING SUBSIDENCE (DAMAGE, ARBITRATION, PREVENTION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-16", "file": "debates1989-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a0bfc199a60e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.10", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RACING COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-16", "file": "debates1989-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a0bfc199a60e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.14", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL SPECTATORS (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-16", "file": "debates1989-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "4a0bfc199a60e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.19", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIDERS OF EQUINE ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "On behalf of the promoter, I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-16a.1275.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I never predict investments which may or may not come to an area, and no decisions have been made —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Student Top-up Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " the hustings still survives. I advise the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) not to be too cocky about last Thursday's results. We shall expose the fact that the Labour party, despite its new proposals in its new manifesto, is still Socialist in tooth and claw, and that its proposals on education are totally negative, in that the hon. Gentleman wants to abolish schools and reverse our reforms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Student Top-up Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "n its new manifesto, is still Socialist in tooth and claw, and that its proposals on education are totally negative, in that the hon. Gentleman wants to abolish schools and reverse our reforms. [Interruption.] I do not know whether this is the first skirmish in the opening campaign for the general election in two or three years' time, but I am quite confident that if it is we shall eventually win.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Student Top-up Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I was provoked shockingly, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Gentleman said that next year students will be worse off, but that will not be the case. We estimate the disentitlement to benefit next year to be about £65 million and the increased additional resources available through top-up loan schemes will be £167 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Student Top-up Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " million and £14 million. That gives the £8 to £12 per student account in 1995. As for what that represents as a percentage of the money outstanding, by 1995 we estimate that there will be an outstanding amount of £1·2 billion and administrative costs of £10 million to £14 million, which is a very small proportion—about 1 per cent. That is all set out in the original White Paper in annex E—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Student Top-up Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " which suggests that the course for a bachelor of education degree should no longer be a four-year course, but a three-year course with one term in school. I do not think that I misinterpret the proposals. In that case they stand equal with other students. The hon. Gentleman asked if I would publish a revised version of annex E. I am quite happy to consider that and if it is helpful I shall do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.52.9", "colnum": "52", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "If it is necessary, my declaration of interest has been in the Register of Members' Interests since I was elected to the House. I do not think that it is necessary for me to say when I am at the Dispatch Box that I am a member of the National Union of Railwaymen. At this Box I speak not for the National Union of Railwaymen but for the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.52.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.80.5", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Civil Liberties and Bill of Rights", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ses of solitary confinement and segregation; corporal punishment in Scottish schools; ineffective judicial protection for detained mental patients and would-be immigrants; and the dismissal of workers because of the oppressive operation of the closed shop, the case to which I have referred. They also include the nationalisation of aircraft and shipbuilding companies without adequate compensation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.80.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.84.4", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Civil Liberties and Bill of Rights", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " principles under which this place works. Ministers are accountable to Parliament for their performance in that respect. I will cite a few of the many ways in which the Government have made more official information available in the past 10 years. There has been a considerable increase in public consultation, very much more briefing for the media, and publication of research and evaluation papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.84.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-19", "file": "debates1989-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "555eb6a0ba5c1a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Civil Liberties and Bill of Rights", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Patten", "preceding_text": "lennan) or the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East did we have any elucidation of exactly what the Bill would contain. They are barking up the wrong tree. Bills of Rights and written constitutions are not the all-healing prescriptions that they are made out to be. We can see that from around the world. No hon. Member has dealt with any authority at all with what such a Bill would contain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-19a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.136.4", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carrington", "preceding_text": "I am greatly relieved at my hon. Friend's answer. Does he agree that sequestration is frequently the only sanction that the courts have to ensure that trade unions obey the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.136.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Despite the carping by the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), does my right hon. Friend agree that VAT returns prove conclusively that in every week of the year something like 900 new businesses are started in the United Kingdom? Does that not show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right. The rate of unemployment has fallen faster in the west midlands than in any other part of the country. There are more people now in work in Britain than ever before in our history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.141.2", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that despite the £770 million subsidy, the scheme ports already charge 40 per cent. more than the non-scheme ports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.141.2", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that despite the £770 million subsidy, the scheme ports already charge 40 per cent. more than the non-scheme ports—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—and that in order to become competitive with the non-scheme ports and with Rotterdam there has to be agreement between the local employers and the dockers on the way forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.142.6", "colnum": "142", "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/1989-06-20a.142.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.142.9", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The basic state pension has always been a basic state pension—never anticipated to create for all the needs of life. That is why we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.142.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.142.11", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If pensioners have no further income than the basic pension, they will be entitled, as are 2 million, to income support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.142.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the policy which Labour Governments have had to follow as well, in spite of all their rhetoric. I can remember, as the right hon. Gentleman was Minister of State for Prices and Consumer Protection,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the policy which Labour Governments have had to follow as well, in spite of all their rhetoric. I can remember, as the right hon. Gentleman was Minister of State for Prices and Consumer Protection,— [Interruption] —for five years, that in his time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the policy which Labour Governments have had to follow as well, in spite of all their rhetoric. I can remember, as the right hon. Gentleman was Minister of State for Prices and Consumer Protection,— [Interruption] —for five years, that in his time— [Interruption.] —inflation averaged 12 per cent. a year over five years. I can also remember of that Government, in which he was a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "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 can also remember, when the right hon. Gentleman was the Minister for High Prices —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.5", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I wholly and utterly condemn this strike. It is contrary to the public—is against fellow members of the public who rely, and who are entitled to rely, on transport to get to work. It is a typically selfish policy to put themselves first, before those who have to use —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.9", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are very much together as a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.143.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.144.9", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "When, on Friday, the Prime Minister meets Dame Lydia Dunn, the most respected and most senior of Hong Kong's politicians, will she pay special attention to the comments that Dame Lydia made yesterday when she said that failure to face up to the nationality problem in Hong Kong could undermine the administration of the colony in the years up to 1997? If the Prime Minister will not herself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.144.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "imes make the most wild assertions about Scottish educational traditions should bear in mind the fact that the tradition of that school has continued in Dundee for three quarters of a millenium. The third point made by the hon. Member for Falkirk, West related to the assisted places scheme. However, that scheme is about choice, just as the provisions to which the amendment refers are about choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ake any necessary changes to allow for that. I say to the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan, as I said when I intervened, that it is quite extraordinary for him to take the view that we should not listen to the views expressed in Committee and seek to respond to them. A clearly expressed wish in Committee was that special schools should be eligible in the same way as other schools for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "st take into account the views of parents and can be subject to the effect of a placing request. It remains the authority's duty to provide for the special educational needs of recorded children and that duty inescapably determines the majority of school placement decisions for such children. That meets the point raised by the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Mr. Douglas). It has been necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "ow that this legislation relates only to the minority and that the vast majority will be left with a denuded education system. My hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk, West tabled his amendment in an attempt to prevent the Minister favouring schools that opt out, at the expense of local authority schools. As most of my colleagues know, I shall not return to the House after the next general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.173.4", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "The events of the past two or three days may have confirmed in the minds of civil servants and the Government that we are now on course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.173.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making a great deal of the lady from Bearsden. Does he recall that the amendment that he tabled in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.182.8", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ents are asked to vote is not whether the school shall become self-governing; neither they nor the school board will have the power to decide that. They are asked simply whether they are content that proposals for self-governing status should be put forward. If they are not content, that is the end of the matter. If, however, they return a majority in favour, the school board first Las to draw up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.182.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) says that that is very old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Member for Cathcart was entitled to teach in the independent sector, if that was his wish. It is a free society. It is only on the other side of the House that, as we heard from the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) the doctrine applies that if it is good enough for Henry McLeish's children it is good enough for everyone else's children. It is only the Opposition who seek to deny choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) the doctrine applies that if it is good enough for Henry McLeish's children it is good enough for everyone else's children. It is only the Opposition who seek to deny choice. [Interruption.] I see that the hon. Member for Fife, Central is mouthing, \"Privilege.\" He has made several attacks on the assisted places scheme. He has denounced it as privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I have not checked my hon. Friend's figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "o) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Kincardine and Deeside (Mr. Buchanan-Smith). I appreciate how strongly they feel about the issue, but I cannot understand how they can be seen to be supporting, and be supported by, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), because what he said this evening will be quoted back at him every time he speaks about any sort of assembly in Edinburgh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is there nothing you can do to stop this deliberate filibuster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.193.8", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does any hon. Member wish to vote against any of those amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.193.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " have said, those areas must feel that their needs are being satisfied. I understand why the hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) is not present. She has made it clear how she feels about rural schools. That is why my hon. Friend the Minister would be wrong to accept the new clause. Its effect would not be the kind of effect that the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) for the Democrats —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "rying to argue—they have done so tonight—that parents in Scotland will make no such demands. All the amendments and the new clauses—especially new clause 2—make it clear that the Opposition are terrified that there will be considerable demand for these provisions. I shall dwell first on the way in which I read the Bill and then, as on many previous occasions during the Bill's passage—I shall deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rred. The Bill itself introduces two hurdles for self-governing schools and their admissions policy, which do not exist under local education authorities in England, Wales and Scotland at the moment. It is possible for selection to be introduced in local authority schools on the vote of the local education authority committee. I should know because I live about eight miles from the border between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.234.8", "colnum": "234", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ease, even before the first sitting, saying what a disgrace it was that there were English Members serving on the Standing Committee. After the first sitting of the Standing Committee, all they did was sit there mute doing their constituency correspondence. From day one they got their comeuppance, because we have considered the proceedings on the Bill responsibly and seriously and we have read up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.234.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "the Minister has been under considerable pressure to resist the idea that self-governing schools ought to be able to introduce an element of selectivity. I accept what was said by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kincardine and Deeside about the problems in rural areas, but in densely populated urban areas containing a number of schools, diversity of educational provision could be an advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.242.5", "colnum": "242", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "to artistic and creative abilities. The new clause therefore strikes me as unnecessary. I believe that, in some instances, academic selection could certainly be entertained by the Secretary of State. If Opposition Members fear that, they should bear it in mind that my right hon. and learned Friend has put it on the record categorically that he is against selection on the basis of academic ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "mand for this change, that this is simply a piece of enabling legislation and that it will not be required much. Have we spent months listening to rubbish from Conservative Members, wasting the time of Parliament, for a piece of legislation that is irrelevant and that, in the view of the Minister, will hardly ever be used? It beggars belief to hear that sort of rubbish from the Government Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made a valuable point. What concerns me is that, although there has not been the same level of disruption in Scottish universities—there have been problems at Aberdeen and Stirling—a number of issues have arisen in the past year that could lead to trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.261.4", "colnum": "261", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "preceding_text": "y my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit), were very unsubtle: they shouted down psychologists, historians and—as we have heard—even the monarch. That was a very overt form of suppression of freedom of speech. The techniques described by my hon. Friend however, are much subtler and more difficult to detect. The Scottish Office seems to have enfeebled my hon. Friend the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.261.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.264.8", "colnum": "264", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. For about 45 minutes, including interruptions, we have listened to the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett), who moved this new clause, yet he has no intention of pushing it to a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.264.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.266.4", "colnum": "266", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "As we have the unusual spectacle of the Minister at bay—a boy standing on a burning deck—I would inform him that my hon. Friends and I feel that he is right in his initial reaction that what is proposed is unnecessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.266.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.268.6", "colnum": "268", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it your pleasure that the new clause be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.268.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.269.6", "colnum": "269", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "e face and need and teeth of Scottish public opinion. I think we'll also have a very much stronger assembly\". And so on. So on 18 May the hon. Member for Fife, Central was saying that anyone who made such promises was foolish and on 19 May the hon. Member for Garscadden was making exactly such foolish promises. The point about self-governing schools is that they break the local authority monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.269.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "artment of education, sent a letter to the Under-Secretary of State—I know that he does not like this, but I hope that he will listen—which ran: Accordingly in the name of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland I must request the Government to delete Part 1 of the above Bill and to depart from the matters it contains. That is not an extreme group; it speaks on behalf of Scottish interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ng about the Church of Scotland, but it captured in a single sentence the feelings of Scots towards the Bill. The Under-Secretary spent two or three sessions in Committee attacking the Church of Scotland because it had the temerity to involve itself in political debate. The hon. Gentleman felt that it should concern itself with religious education and religious observance and keep out of politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "in the Bill is that it is about academic selection: it is about taking Scottish education back 100 years, and putting it in a Victorian political time warp in which the minority will be satisfied and the majority rejected. The Bill will destroy public education. Some say that it will Anglicise education in Scotland. That is nonsense. It only gives succour to the Scottish National party and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": " decision had been taken about the funding of a centrally organised DNA scheme, the document also makes it clear that the Government have made a decision about how they intend to fund a centrally organised DNA scheme. They will do so by a flat-rate increase across all the entry clearance applications. The document also makes it clear that the Government do not intend to allow the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. What has this to do with the Chair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The policy review document refers to the 10,000 people, in Hong Kong, in particular, who have no nationality whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janman", "preceding_text": "one in three children born in London today is of ethnic origin. Its definition of ethnic origin does not include the Arabs and the Turks: it relates only to Indian, Pakistani, Caribbean and African people. That is a frightening concept for the country to come to terms with. We have already seen the problems of massive Moslem immigration, with the recent events in Parliament square and in Bradford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.294.6", "colnum": "294", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I find it grossly offensive that Opposition Members should seek to make such a point, given that my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Mr. Janman) was speaking from his heart and in the interests of his constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.294.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ate Government—directed practice. Let me give two examples of detention without trial. The first involves the use of the notice of intention to deport. Suppose that an immigrant—usually a student—is working part-time. The Government seem to want all the other students to work part-time but not immigrant students. An immigrant student who is found working part-time—a perfectly honourable tradition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "es the use of the notice of intention to deport. Suppose that an immigrant—usually a student—is working part-time. The Government seem to want all the other students to work part-time but not immigrant students. An immigrant student who is found working part-time—a perfectly honourable tradition— [Interruption.] Can the hon. Member who has been making a noise return to the bar, Mr. Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ke sense of it, and seem to lack the courage to expose its absurdity. However, when Mr. Justice Henry recently eroded the harshness of the primary purpose rule, the Home Office immediately sought to undermine his judgment by writing to the president of the immigration appeal tribunal. It is clear from the cases now before the courts and the tribunal that incontestably genuine love-match marriages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "pect of them. It is worth looking at them in some detail. Underlying the thought that seems to have gone into this measure, particularly this aspect of it, is a common misconception by the Government and the Home Office, which is that the whole world is just dying to converge on the United Kingdom and that every black, brown and yellow person wants nothing so much as to live in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " particularly this aspect of it, is a common misconception by the Government and the Home Office, which is that the whole world is just dying to converge on the United Kingdom and that every black, brown and yellow person wants nothing so much as to live in the United Kingdom. [Interruption.] One can see from the instant recognition by Conservative Members that that is seriously what they believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Minister is speaking, as I understand it, by leave of the House for a second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-20", "file": "debates1989-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "78f462ce4556c6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.306.8", "colnum": "306", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "It would seem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-20a.306.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that neither the British people nor British industry are fooled by glossy television advertising?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that neither the British people nor British industry are fooled by glossy television advertising? [Interruption.] It may have escaped the attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "l recall that the Government's initial response to the salmonella crisis six months ago was to curtail research into salmonella at the Institute of Food Research in Bristol. The Governments folly on that occasion was astounding, but that is not the whole story. The Government were also caught unaware by botulism. They should not have been because the eminent microbiologist Professor Richard Lacey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ed Barnes review. The effect of the review is to cut by £30 million the money spent on research and development in agriculture and food. The latest example of that was the closure of the institute at Bristol. That was absolutely incomprehensible. Not only will many excellent projects disappear, but more than 100 scientists will lose their jobs. With those jobs will go the experience and expertise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.354.5", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ompanies flouting the law. I have therefore checked whether we knew about them. We did not. I have made clear publicly that I would be happy to look at any evidence that the hon. Gentleman can give us. In the same programme the hon. Gentleman said that he would pass this information on to me. That was 11 days ago. So far I have not received anything from him, but I hope that I shall do so shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I did not pass it on to the Minister previously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "I did not pass it on to the Minister previously— [Interruption.] If hon. Members will be patient for a little longer I shall explain why. Three years ago we passed information to the Minister's predecessor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "ry to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the hon. Member for Calder Valley (Mr. Thompson). The local paper said: MP backs green top milk ban. Plans to ban the sale of green top milk, which will affect the livelihoods of up to 40 Calderdale farmers, have the backing of junior minister Mr. Donald Thompson. He said the ban was necessary in the interest of public safety. Green top milk\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "13;79—at £26 million. We have an excellent record on food research. The difference between the Government and the hon. Gentleman is that we do not share his prejudice towards the near market research that is conducted by the private sector. Secondly, food poisoning and the increase, which I concede, in the last two years in food poisoning is not unique to the United Kingdom. It is a common factor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Hence a sadness which could have been overcome in Committee. If the Labour party takes the view that we are told it takes, why did not Opposition Members condemn the appointment of Mr. Race—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker. They come under Widdicombe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "ified in some way. Shelter estimates that 150,000 single young people are homeless in this country. In central London, where this Parliament is situated, over 40,000 young people sleep rough. That is a topic to which I intend to return on an Adjournment debate when I shall refer also to the Vagrancy Act 1824. Like the Housing Act 1988, this Bill does not mention homelessness, but it will cause it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "t are only too prepared to take away. It is obvious that anyone who seeks to take away the democratic rights of more than 130,000 people—the rights to speak or to canvas on behalf of a political party—cannot believe in democracy. The Government cannot take away existing rights and replace them with restrictions and at the same time claim that they believe in democracy. That is simply not possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-21", "file": "debates1989-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "febffb5b326221fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.431.5", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " should be tried for one year. Many of us would consider it inappropriate for a chief executive to hold a high-profile political position in a political party, but we would not seek to legislate to remove the rights of 130,000 people in order to prevent that happening. We do not believe in dealing with the worries about the few by removing the rights of the many. That is what we are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-21a.431.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "mentally handicapped, we mean providing care away from the large, isolated and inhumane Victorian institutions that for so long have been the hallmark of institutional care. That policy has existed for 20 years, shared with differential rates of fervour by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House. We want to move away from a regime that involves long-stay facilities, hostels, houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.761.7", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "The contract arrangements of which I spoke involved the contracts between the generators and the distributors which, as the hon. Gentleman said, lead on to the coal contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.761.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has pointed out to the House that the capacity has been mothballed and can be opened up if it becomes economic. The plain fact is that the Scottish pits are far and away our most uneconomic. We are seeking to ensure that there continues to be a market for high-sulphur British coal. I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": " using coal from China, South Africa or Colombia. As my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Cummings) said, that coal comes from child labour. The Government would sooner have that than British coal. The Government who whinge about Parliament's sovereignty support the idea of placing our energy requirements in the hands of foreign importers. The Government are on their way out, are they not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 14 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "ington (Mr. Cummings) said, that coal comes from child labour. The Government would sooner have that than British coal. The Government who whinge about Parliament's sovereignty support the idea of placing our energy requirements in the hands of foreign importers. The Government are on their way out, are they not? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Are they behind 12 per cent. or 14 per cent. this week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "vities, it virtually destroyed itself and many pits that might otherwise have survived —it is still opposing such forward-looking policies as flexible working and the six-day week, upon which the profitability of some pits and the opening of new pits depend. There has been a fossil party in the form of the Opposition, who have danced to the tune piped by Arthur Scargill and, it seems, still do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Coal Industry", "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": "our is committed unequivocally to phasing out nuclear power, why it chooses motions such as that before the House tonight to debate in the Opposition's own time, and why the hon. Member for Sedgefield leaves coal matters to his hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley whenever he can, hoping himself to be moved to other pastures as soon as the Electricity Bill has passed safely through Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.798.2", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": " compulsion and the test should be carried out regularly. Many drivers would welcome that. Those who failed the test would welcome finding out that they were unfit to drive because they would realise that they were a risk to themselves. Nobody should have anything to fear from having a proper eyesight test to see whether he is fit to drive. In addition to being compulsory, the test should be free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-26", "file": "debates1989-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a1aca25cf93f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Your friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Does my friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-26a.799.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.815.10", "colnum": "815", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the petitions of Eileen Tegg and Nicholas Holliman be referred hack to the Court of Referees.— [Mr. Chris Smith.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.815.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House remind the SLD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House is responsible, Mr. Speaker, in his capacity as Leader of the House, if the Short money is being paid to parties that have a specific name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.831.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.832.5", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.832.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Wang Laboratories (Plant Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "iated the deal in 1982, three years after his Government came to power, under the terms and conditions that prevailed at that time. The Tones had three years to change the system if they were worried about it, but they did not lift a finger. I deeply resent what Wang has done to my former constituents over the last few days and the disgraceful way in which the people of Stirling have been treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Wang Laboratories (Plant Closure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Gentleman was going to conclude his question by saying that the Tories are as culpable as the last Labour Government. When my right hon. Friend made that announcement in 1982, the hon. Gentleman was the first to welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.837.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.851.6", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ompulsory identity card will not prevent the incidents which are all too common in Britain today, whether or not football is the focus. Indeed, it could make the situation worse by requiring people to leave home or work earlier to ensure entry on time. It could lead to more people spending more time in town and city centres before games, thus increasing the potential for disputes and disturbances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ring people to leave home or work earlier to ensure entry on time. It could lead to more people spending more time in town and city centres before games, thus increasing the potential for disputes and disturbances—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—because people do not want to queue up and miss the beginning of a game. They want to ensure that they get into the ground, and therefore they will travel earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman appears to be reaching the conclusion that all is well and that there is no need to do anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "made. That is, 2,000 arrests from 36,000 people in towns and cities around the country. That is as many as the arrests from 18 million football supporters in a whole season, and Conservative Members say that they are dealing with the right problem. They are not even aiming at the right target. There were 1,700 arrests at race meetings alone in this country last year—600 at Royal Ascot in one week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have never supported the proposal that drinks should not be sold inside grounds —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": " because Luton town did not allow enough police for the ground and it let too many supporters into the ground. I can tell the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton), because I was there, that it did not let them into the ground—they burst through the gate a la Hillsborough style. His attitude is the same as that of other Opposition Members—it is always someone else's fault, but never the fault of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Broadgreen (Mr. Field) that it would be presumptuous of anybody to state what happened at Hillsborough. He will know, however, that the facts suggest that those gates were left open or, as I said about Luton, they were burst open. I did not say that they were burst open at Hillsborough. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "n the game. The remarkable thing about the opposition to the Bill from both sides of the House is that it fails to recognise that that is the intention of the legislation. It is unique for legislation to be passed for one specific sport. The Bill is an attempt—at this stage it may be nothing more than that —to take the problem away from football. Where that problem goes is, of course, the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Talk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "-party basis. However, the Government have made no attempt to do so. While they wait for Lord Justice Taylor's report, the Government should call together the football clubs, supporters, the police, local authorities and the Opposition and suggest that they all examine a way of dealing with the problem. We should analyse the problem without sweeping anything under the carpet and, at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "far too short a period is a demonstration of insensitivity that many of these people will find difficult to understand. The Government may win the vote this evening, although, as we have heard, many have reservations about the Bill. I wonder what prospects the Government would have of winning that vote if they were to take off the Whip and allow hon. Members to vote according to their consciences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": "sary. Furthermore, the federation believes that a good opportunity now exists to exclude convicted child molesters and pickpockets from any membership scheme that may be approved. My constituents who have written to me about the Bill have expressed their concern about the introduction of identity cards for attendance at football matches. They will be relieved to know that this is an enabling Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "ns of profit per supporter over five years were ridiculously low, at about £2 per member. It made no projection for the increased support that I believe the membership scheme will bring in the long term. It is very significant that, of the 90 companies that originally showed an interest, at least five or six are now prepared to proceed with such a scheme on a totally free basis for football clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Carrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Carrington", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Howell) wishes to start his speech fairly soon, so I shall be brief. He and I have one thing in common in this debate: we are the two hon. Members who have two league football grounds in our constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ryedale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " monumental abuse of government and of civil liberty. We all know that the problems stem from a small number of fixtures that produce a large proportion of arrests. If the Government concentrated on them we would support that sort of policing. It would be sensible to deal with the criminals where they are active—and as I said, it is criminality rather than hooliganism. As the hon. Member for York—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.921.7", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " in part II of the Bill but we are concerned about its application. As I said earlier, unless the Minister can tell the House tonight that arrangements are being made with other European Ministers not only to apprehend troublemakers but to bring them to justice in the European courts, which has not happened so far, he will have no names to feed into his computer when he comes to implement part II.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.921.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the Minister, but he will now tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Ban of Useless Animal Experiments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "e I am going to justify it. The Minister will now tell the House why, in these circumstances, not one of the 300 people arrested in West Germany has ever been dealt with in courts in this country. Perhaps he will also tell the House why he has not done anything about the members of the National Front who went with the England team to Albania and to Iceland and behaved disgracefully. I am informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-27", "file": "debates1989-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "a9ee8624d029b6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Colin Wallace (Manslaughter Conviction)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "nd papers and speeches for Airey Neave which dealt with the growing strength of the British Left and its alleged links with the IRA and the Soviet Union. Those were taken up in a series of speeches which were widely reported. Proof of Neave's involvement with Wallace lies in the fact that Wallace has retained the correspondence in Airey Neave's handwriting and that is in our possession to produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-27a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.957.6", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the hon. Lady continues to knock the United Kingdom in the face of the figures that I have just given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.957.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Gentleman in all humility —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "rates and how much from local income tax? Does the hon. Gentleman plan resource equalisation and is there any system of rebates? Will he answer any of the questions about the Labour party's system? I shall not desist from exposing the figures implied by his system until he gives the proper data to change the figures, and when he does so I will change the figures, and he will not like them either.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman wants to create chaos out of a system that is working rather well. Labour authorities are saying how well it is working, in the sense that they are getting the forms back. I was in Ipswich—a Labour-controlled authority—only last week. The council there compliments itself on the degree to which it is obtaining results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " that the hon. Gentleman wants to create chaos out of a system that is working rather well. Labour authorities are saying how well it is working, in the sense that they are getting the forms back. I was in Ipswich—a Labour-controlled authority—only last week. The council there compliments itself on the degree to which it is obtaining results— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman can take it from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "uld the tenants of Barking and Dagenham pay for the inefficency of the Labour council in Southwark? Why should the tenants of Hillingdon pay for the inefficiency of the Labour party in Brent? We must have an efficient system, and if Brent collected its rents the paying tenants would not have to suffer. Because of the Opposition's rottweiler tendency, they are determined not to listen to the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": ". The key point is whether it was an insult to the late Airey Neave to say what my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) said about him during the Adjournment debate last night. Adjournment debates are the responsibility of the individual Member who is allocated half an hour at the end of the day's proceedings. It had nothing whatever to do with any political party in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": ". [Interruption.] It is all right for Conservative Members to snigger and laugh. The hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) is standing there sniggering. However, I say to them, particularly to the Father of the House and the hon. Member for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro), that if they intend to turn this into the kind of political issue that they are in danger of turning it into they are just as guilty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.985.3", "colnum": "985", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "se is the Ulster Unionist party because of the name change and the disintegration of the alliance parties after the election. Just as in the previous Parliament it was the prerogative of the alliance to allocate the second party Opposition day, that is now the prerogative of the Ulster Unionist party. I must disappoint the hon. Gentleman. There is nothing more sinister in the Supply day than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.985.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.988.9", "colnum": "988", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members will allow me to develop a few points, I might be generous enough to give way later. During the European election, the SNP published substantive legal opinion from Professor Victor McKinnon and the French advocate Maitre De Roux pointing out that the conventions of state succession and the treaty of Rome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.988.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.988.9", "colnum": "988", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "party legal opinion threatened to be commissioned by Mr. James Proven, who had promised to make it the centrepiece of his re-election campaign in the north-east of Scotland. The Scotsman revealed that senior Tory sources said that the Conservative party had decided not to publish that opinion because it was \"ambiguous\" and could be \"misinterpreted\". The greatest living authority on EEC procedures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.988.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": " at Wang executives: I suspect that lecturing them will be as effective as lecturing Caterpillar executives has been in the past. Clearly the relationship between a country and multinational companies has little to do with size. The strength of a bargaining position depends not on the size of the economy—otherwise Wang would not be on its way to Limerick—but on the strength of the overall economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Let us explore that, because the hon. Gentleman makes an interesting observation. I have been reading the document he published entitled \"No Turning Back\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, of all people, given his minority position inside the British Cabinet, would understand the clear difference between this place and Strasbourg. This place exercises legislative control over Scotland. Strasbourg does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, of all people, given his minority position inside the British Cabinet, would understand the clear difference between this place and Strasbourg. This place exercises legislative control over Scotland. Strasbourg does not. [Interruption.] Strasbourg exercises no legislative control over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course on the margins. The hon. Gentleman has not read the document, either. Why he interjects without having read it is beyond me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.6", "colnum": "996", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "It would be a means of increasing the powers of the European Parliament. Even if that were accepted, because it is not party policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.996.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ut a backward glance. She would have to decamp and she would be told so. He also made it clear that he would not sit with the Socialists. He said that he would not sit with the British Labour group and that he would not sit with the French Socialists because they were soft on terrorism and were not worthy of his support or friendship. He then said: Our executive are actually going to discuss this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1004.7", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I am not going to discuss defence policy today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1004.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1006.6", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "e given way to my hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire, West (Mr. Hind). At the end of the proceedings the vote was in favour of the position of the Scottish National party—although the party was not there. At that point, Mr. McCreadie stormed off the platform, abusing Canon Kenyon Wright, the chairman of the meeting. Indeed, Mr. McCreadie almost went as far as demanding that the canon be fired —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1006.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1008.4", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to hear the chit-chat between the nationalists and the Conservatives, bearing, in mind that it is almost like when auld freens fa' oot—as they say in Scotland. We should remember that in 1979 the nationalists were supporting the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1008.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1014.5", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " at least Labour Members told the people of Scotland what their policy was—in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Wick, Thurso and the Western Isles. Their policy is the same everywhere. The nationalists want to be all things to all people. I am not depressed by the recent European election results, which we have carefully analysed in my constituency. They show that I would be returned with a comfortable majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-28", "file": "debates1989-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "69a883e28fe678d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-28a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-29", "file": "debates1989-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "549799cc9b927783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister noticed that last week President Gorbachev established for the Soviet Parliament just that system of scrutiny over the KGB which she refused this Parliament in relation to our secret services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-29", "file": "debates1989-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "549799cc9b927783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's first question, no—closures are inevitably a matter for commercial judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-29", "file": "debates1989-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "549799cc9b927783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "European Council (Madrid)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister against any system of European central banks, especially a system that has the same anti-inflationary pressures as witnessed by the Bundesbank? Does she rule out even parallel currencies? If she is as anxious as many hon. Members about a creeping movement towards a federal Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-29", "file": "debates1989-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "549799cc9b927783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Treason.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "allantry on four occasions, and had served his country with honour in war and peace; and calls on the honourable Member for Brent, East to apologise to the House and to withdraw his disgraceful remarks.] That early-day motion concerns the Adjournment debate on 27 June and the remarks of the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone), who said that the late Airey Neave was involved in terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-29", "file": "debates1989-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "549799cc9b927783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " for them. The Bill does that. It applies to parliamentary elections throughout the United Kingdom. As I said earlier, proposals for some easing of the regulations covering consular attestation of overseas electors' declarations will be brought before the House in due course. At the same time, we will try to meet another point and seek the consent of the House to lighten the burden of attestation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-29", "file": "debates1989-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "549799cc9b927783", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Railways (Penalty Fares) Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "been inconsistent in its operation and has shown itself—even before the present dispute—to be arrogant and prepared to impose its views, whatever their merits, on the rank and file staff—the train drivers, cleaners and station operators. The management's attitude has resulted in the present confrontation and strike action and I lay the responsibility for that entirely at the door of BR management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-29a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-30", "file": "debates1989-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1f4e2173d921fba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1228.6", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": " support the desire for change at the head of the Met. It is also interesting to note that researchers who visited police stations recently in London and New York—we should remember that New York has a vastly different crime problem from that in London—reported that the atmosphere in New York police stations was far more relaxed and friendly with less emphasis on security than stations in the Met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-30", "file": "debates1989-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1f4e2173d921fba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "rking party will report. I have been tabling parliamentary questions for the past year or so trying to obtain some information about what will be done. I understand that primary legislation is needed if local authorities are to be able to employ traffic wardens and use the income from fines to finance more off-street parking. The need for that in outer London areas such as Beckenham and Uxbridge—p", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-06-30", "file": "debates1989-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1f4e2173d921fba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "to improve that relationship. I thank the Home Secretary for his meetings with us. At least he meets us, and, although there is no great meetings of minds, we have useful exchanges. A number of hon. Members have complained about the absence of their colleagues. I shall certainly be sending a note to my Members in the London group pointing out that I should have expected to see rather more of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1258.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-06-30", "file": "debates1989-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1f4e2173d921fba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1276.9", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Involved in a riot.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Further to my earlier point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In replying, the Minister has impugned the honour of Members of the House concerning events that happened during the lifetime of the last Labour Government. He has clearly claimed that Labour Cabinet Ministers were on a picket line and were arrested. Unless he can substantiate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-06-30a.1276.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is always extremely articulate from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.13.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.15.6", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " and learned Friend for that reply. Is he satisfied that, in practice, all those appointed to be judges, including Judge Pickles, satisfy those criteria? Is there any prospect within the reforms envisaged for the legal profession of the appointment of lay judges—properly advised, perhaps, in view of the judges' role in advising on the law? Would it be possible to appoint people such as ex-bishops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.15.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "but the threat is there. I hope that the House will agree to the amendment. I shall invite the House to disagree with Lords amendments Nos. 62 to 64 at the appropriate time because they are seriously flawed in a number of respects. They are the result of the famous ambush one night in another place, when Opposition peers turned up late and in large numbers, although I make no complaint about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman served on the Committee, although he probably did not make as many interventions in that time as he has made here. I do not think that he was taking the Bill very seriously then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.94.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.96.2", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Faction\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "They are not facts. They are unfacts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I will keep my remarks brief as other hon. Members wish to take part in the debate. From a practical point of view, the more I listen to the debate the more I am convinced about the lack of wisdom in enshrining Community directives in our legislation. We have heard about the riser Po—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "st on quality standards, or clause 20, where we insist on enforcement. Undertakers will have to go to the Secretary of State and say how they intend to comply with the EEC directive. All those matters are contained in the Bill. Lord Hesketh made it clear in the other place that we intend to hold water undertakers to account. So much of what we have heard does not relate to what is contained in the", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "matters are contained in the Bill. Lord Hesketh made it clear in the other place that we intend to hold water undertakers to account. So much of what we have heard does not relate to what is contained in the [Interruption.] Of course, it is good politics. The Labour party is trying to convince the British people that we will privatise the water authorities so that profit will be put before people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.112.7", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that I will not give way again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.112.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.112.7", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raffan", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that I will not give way again— [Interruption.] I was generous in giving way earlier —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.112.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "Mr. Jones was later somewhat pressurised by Ministers, but that letter expressed the unanimous view of the board of Welsh Water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-03", "file": "debates1989-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "69ed76265e215510", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Hospitals (Walsall)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ose two hospitals remain within the existing NHS management structure. I hope that there will be similar campaigns throughout the country in defence of the NHS hospitals. I said that I thought of the plans as a halfway house to privatisation. The Government have no real commitment to the NHS. We all know that if, electorally, they could have got away with it, even more damage would have been done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-03a.127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is deliberately confusing his Back-Bench Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.142.7", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that qualified teachers are leaving the profession in droves; that former colleagues who are devoted teachers repeatedly tell me that they feel that they are used as scapegoats and are under intolerable pressures; that in Tower Hamlets, where my constituency is located, 30 per cent. of the teaching staff —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.142.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.142.7", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "ast 300 children without school places that we know of, and many more that we do not know of; that the birth rate is increasing by 20 per cent.; that there are about 1,000 children who will not have school teachers when the next term comes; and that parents who are lucky enough to know that their children will have teachers are receiving letters from headteachers saying that they cannot guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.142.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that that is enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for those encouraging figures. Does he agree that they contrast favourably with the situation when Labour was last in power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I note that the right hon. Gentleman has no thought whatsoever for the travelling public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "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, there is a 1956 agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "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, there is a 1956 agreement— [Interruption.] Yes. Clearly, Labour does not believe in keeping its agreements. There is a 1956 agreement under which, before there is any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.7", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister will not act responsibly and do her duty as she should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.149.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.166.6", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "With respect, this is a parliamentary democracy. If it were the policy of the hon. Gentleman's party to change the electoral system, that might be an opportunity for a different debate on a different day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.166.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "out it. If the hon. Member for Bootle looks at the political position of those who oppose the measure, he will see that there was support across the spectrum of the broad church of the Tory party. My hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch is traditionally put on the Left of the Tory party whereas I am traditionally put on its Right. There are others in between. There was a broad church of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 25", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "ds of river quality. Will the Minister give an assurance that, when determining the 1,070 or more applications, he will in every case discharge the United Kingdom's obligation to prevent pollution by dangerous substances and to achieve compliance with the relevant environmental quality objectives that the directives specify? Here we are, in the final throes of the debate about water privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "Lab pact, their record on investment and the control of pollution had been so good that they could lecture us all about what they had achieved. In fact, an enormous burden of guilt rests on Labour Members, and that has coloured the way in which they approach the amendments that we are discussing, but I will come to that shortly. I accept what has been said about basic natural justice in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "ons at the beginning of our debate about the Labour Government's record. I asked whether they had implemented part II of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and the bathing beaches directive. Once again the hon. Member for Dewsbury is looking down at her notes. I shall be happy to give way to her. I referred to the secrecy at that time and to the prohibition of prosecutions by members of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has made several jumps from one complex issue to another. I repeat the assurance that I have already given—this Bill does not permit mining; it permits only prospecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "e Bill for the stated reasons, but I should make it abundantly clear that the Opposition in no way imply any criticism of the excellent work undertaken by United Kingdom officials in negotiations to achieve the convention to which that Bill relates. We pay tribute to the diligence, patience and sincerity of them all. I hope that I will be excused if I pick out Dr. John Heap, an Edinburgh graduate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.218.4", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "rime Minister, and she really has adopted the green mantle and suddenly discovered the importance of the environment and its protection. Even as early as Second Reading in another place, on a number of occasions my right hon. and noble Friend expressed his unease about the Bill and said that he would prefer all countries to agree to leave Antarctica alone and not to prospect and mine for minerals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.218.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ed some scare tactics on us today and said that the moratorium on mineral prospecting would lapse if we did not go ahead with the minerals convention. It is inconceivable that the moratorium would not continue while a new convention was under negotiation. Of course, there would be a continued moratorium. As the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace), one of the Democratic Members, said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "y it will ensure the genuine environmental protection that all of us, I believe, passionately desire should be provided for the area. I know that there is a school of thought that believes that there should be a total ban on mineral resource activities, or a turning of the Antarctic into a world park. In reality, neither proposition would be workable, even if the latter proposition were desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend tells me that the first half was better. I support the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ply to purposes connected with the identification of suitable areas for the further exploration or the exploitation of mineral resources in this Act referred to as 'prospecting activities'\". It is clear that in that incremental process prospecting is considered to be but the start of it. We see that slippage easily, albeit with a possibility of a further debate if another convention is worked out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.251.6", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "I said, \"Before the hon. Member for Leyton withdraws his proposal.\" I certainly do not wish to detain the House, but I wish to record a matter of great importance. Although the hon. Gentleman speaks at enormous length, he speaks persuasively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.251.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-04", "file": "debates1989-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ef8ade4bdf1d3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) said that our relationship with the Association of Metropolitan Authorities is not as good as it should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-04a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Government have been sensitive to the needs of the Scottish film industry. I recall the hon. Gentleman telling me privately how pleased he was at the Government's announcement following our review. I am sorry that he is not prepared to say publicly in the House what he was prepared to say privately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman has a word with some of the GPs in Angus district. One GP who has come forward as a volunteer to run a pilot scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. He is right to point out that health expenditure is 25 per cent. higher in Scotland than it is in England. He is also right to point out that health in Scotland is no better as a result. He should address his remarks to his own party, which seems to believe that the problems of the Health Service are entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend take time today to congratulate the director of the national galleries on resuming and restoring the galleries for such a small sum? Will he remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend taken the trouble to make clear to people in Scotland the extent to which grants from the United Kingdom Treasury are made available, for instance in the development of tourism in Scotland, where, with a similar rate of unemployment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.298.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.298.6", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understand that this may not be welcome to the Labour party, but I will repeat the question as it was interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is to be congratulated on the attraction to Scotland of major inward investment projects, such as JVC, Digital, Compaq and Crusader Insurance. Is he aware that inward investment organisations in the north and south of England are complaining that everywhere they go in the world they are faced with Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Development Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Is he aware that since the interest was shown in Forfar, further interest has been shown in Blairgowrie and elsewhere in my constituency? Is he also aware that a number of local GPs are interested in setting up their own contracts and they have been in touch with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "We welcome back the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary—Typhoon Geoffrey—after his eventful visit to Hong Kong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.310.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.324.5", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I certainly did not hear anything of that kind. We should move on. European Community documents. Not moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is either knowingly deceiving the House or deceiving himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " as I have no intention of intruding on the private grief of the Opposition on this matter. The necessary background to this debate is the employment situation. It is important to consider the current situation and how it will develop in the 1990s to draw lessons for training. In the past two years, the employment situation radically improved. Unemployment has now fallen for 34 consecutive months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "employment training. The Secretary of State may deny that, but those are the Government's own figures. Those are the figures in an \"in confidence\" Department of Employment document that I am holding now. Indeed, those figures were given in confidence because the Secretary of State does not want them known by the public. Employment training is failing six out of 10 people and they are not prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.368.5", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "d have answered my letter and justified the policy on DNA testing. Although I wrote to her three months ago, I have not yet received a reply. It is for such reasons that the Opposition took the proper decision, and this entirely legitimate chance, to debate this matter in our time. If the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin) would like me to expand on that theme, I would be happy to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.368.5", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "as immigrants who want to settle here when all they want to do is to spend a few weeks with their family and friends. The Government's policy towards those visitors and to immigrants is based on the simple principle of keeping the numbers down to an absolute minimum—at least, keeping numbers down to an absolute minium when those visitors come from Africa, the Caribbean or the Indian sub-continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I gather that the Foreign Office is considering the procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I regard it as reasonable where the mischief has arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "se of the right that I have to grant exceptional leave to remain in this country. I should like to make the point—it would be interesting to have the Opposition's view on this—that if everyone who asked for asylum were to be admitted, as some press criticism comes very close to urging, the loophole in immigration control would be so wide as to amount to a drastic weakening of our immigration laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " interesting to have the Opposition's view on this—that if everyone who asked for asylum were to be admitted, as some press criticism comes very close to urging, the loophole in immigration control would be so wide as to amount to a drastic weakening of our immigration laws. [Interruption.] I have read a good deal of comment in the last few weeks which comes very close to advocating such a policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "There is a raft of press cuttings suggesting that in the context of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Immigration and DNA Testing", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Stokes", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on making this change to the rules which will be of benefit to everyone in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-05", "file": "debates1989-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "49e4ff9347770d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "lso support industrial democracy. Of course, I would be straying and trying your patience, Mr. Walker, if I went in that direction. The hon. Gentleman could have tabled his own amendments to the Bill. I notice that the Social and Liberal Democrats—if that is still his party's name—has not tabled any amendments, so I fail to see why its members are taking a holier than thou attitude in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-05a.414.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-06", "file": "debates1989-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "82edc9caf9117c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-06a.466.5", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "There was not a single word of truth in the Prime Minister's answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-06a.466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-06", "file": "debates1989-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "82edc9caf9117c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-06a.466.8", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know how the right hon. Gentleman can believe that people or freight can travel on railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-06a.466.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-06", "file": "debates1989-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "82edc9caf9117c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-06a.523.5", "colnum": "523", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warren", "preceding_text": "are surreptitiously encouraging it. Companies are being encouraged to discuss their bids with the DTI and the CCTA, which in turn will give information to help them win contracts. That is a change of policy. I am not saying that that is wrong, but the Government's policy on intervention should be publicly stated. I know that many other hon. Members wish to speak in the debate, Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-06a.523.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that if there is one thing worse than the mindless arrogance of unions which bully the public before they negotiate with management, it is the supine indifference of Opposition Members to the damage done by strikes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Anthrax (Clwyd)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " is, claims the local authority, the responsibility of the owner, Mr. Priestley. Places where the slurry may be disposed of are still being investigated, and it is hoped to begin disposal in the very near future. There is no compensation mechanism in respect of anthrax, because, while it is a notifiable disease, its nature is such that it is not highly infectious or transmittable animal to animal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Scottish New Towns", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Bill Hughes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "off of public assets in the new towns? Will the Minister tell the House today exactly what those assets are worth, what they consist of and what, if anything, the new companies that he is establishing will have to pay for them? Can they possibly do the job that the new town corporations, often together with the SDA, have done in the past? What business men will come forward to run those companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.813.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "eement. It is vital that we should also encourage the renewed flow of private capital from developed countries to underdeveloped countries—not least equity capital. Since we abolished exchange controls, the flow of private capital from this country to developing countries has exceeded that of all the other member states of the European Community put together and amounts to many billions of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ty capital. Since we abolished exchange controls, the flow of private capital from this country to developing countries has exceeded that of all the other member states of the European Community put together and amounts to many billions of pounds. [Interruption.] When equity capital is invested by developed countries in developing countries, it increases considerably the wealth of those countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The second way in which this country can help developing countries is by opening up the prospects for free trade. The hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) said that we give aid with one hand and take it back via trade. Nothing could be further from the truth. By opening the markets of developed countries to the products of developing countries we are benefiting them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "p developing countries is by opening up the prospects for free trade. The hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) said that we give aid with one hand and take it back via trade. Nothing could be further from the truth. By opening the markets of developed countries to the products of developing countries we are benefiting them. [Interruption.] The whole House must surely welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "e that. [Interruption.] Unless the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington has anything novel to say on the subject, I shall not give way to her. We also want to encourage, by means of aid provision and any technical assistance that we can give to developing countries, the development of their own economies so that they will be able to prosper on their own without having to rely on aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Berwick-upon-Tweed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I, too, shall be brief, because I realise that there is a lot of interest in this subject. I think that the Government have taken the right line. All sorts of complications will arise if we adopt the proposals of the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) or the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "owman) said, in some areas outstanding community provision is made for children aged from three to five years and from nought to three years. We could have the situation in which, on the one hand, children are in beautifully run, expensive community nurseries, surrounded by green fields, and, on the other, children are in workplace nurseries, perhaps in factories, begrimed, with vile surroundings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.884.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No, because time is short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.923.5", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The other point is that the Government's tax policies and overall economic policies have resulted in a considerable increase in the living standards of earners with and without children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.923.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "ns, or write to me with the information if that proves inconvenient? Why have only four out of all the authorities received penalties? Why has not Annandale and Eskdale been penalised? It has clearly been overspending, and it would be interesting to know why, and by how much. Has my hon. Friend the Minister brought it home to that authority that that is no way to proceed with prudent housekeeping?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Minister. As hon. Members will remember, I mentioned in my maiden speech that I represented thousands of coal miners, as I did at the time. Now the pits have closed, or are about to, and relatively few miners are left. The fact that that transition has taken place with relatively little pain or disruption to the constituency is due entirely to the redundant mineworkers payment scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-11", "file": "debates1989-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b9e88112bc4870af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.937.5", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "My second is for the changes contained in the order. I am sure that my hon. Friend realises that miners were indeed encouraged to see themselves as retired rather than redundant, whatever may have been written in the paperwork at the time. They felt that they had completed their service down the pits with honour and dignity, and that the reduction in numbers had been made in the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-11a.937.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.953.7", "colnum": "953", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words 'under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)' were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.953.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is a poor joke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "aken to produce our response. I cannot win on timing. For anything of which he disapproves, he accuses me of being too fast and a bull at a gate; for anything of which he approves—despite his attempts to find disagreement—he accuses me of taking too long. It is easy for him; he has only to see the words \"local government\" in a White Paper to ring NALGO—when it is not on strike—and ask what to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e said, my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Health will be making a further statement in the form of a written answer tomorrow, setting out more details of our NHS policy towards such patients. Lest anyone should speculate further along the lines of press reports, let me add that that will not include a moratorium on the discharge of patients from hospitals, or anything of that nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It may not be forthcoming.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's first point, decisions on resources can only be made in the public expenditure round next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "of Parliament representing Manchester regard everything there as a political decision, but we are satisfied to approach them as health care decisions. I am quite satisfied that South Manchester district health authority is responsible for arranging its own services. If there is a contested closure, we shall consider it in the usual way. Local authorities have had an enormous increase in resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "al authorities should play. There should not be any prejudgment that a local authority should provide it all. It is for a local authority to decide how best it can make suitable provision for individual people. I do not think that there is much difference in policy. I always find it difficult when the hon. Gentleman insists on seeing everything in terms of free-market this or local authority that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.988.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I have not been able to call—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "on. I hope that the Minister will deal with that. His hon. Friends' case is that the measure will relieve the NHS of its burden so effectively that the effects will be seen most clearly where the burden is lighter. If the Minister accepts that argument, he will have to explain what further plans the Government have to extend tax relief throughout the system rather than confining it to the elderly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1043.4", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ts of the Bill. I am under no illusion that the Economic Secretary will jump up and say, \"I am persuaded by the hon. Gentleman's arguments and I accept his amendments.\" However, I wonder whether he agrees that there should be some flexibility in the interpretation of a single or multiple unit. Amendment No. 3 would provide another option where a building is totally demolished, save for one facade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1043.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " that they will not result in further infraction proceedings in the European Court? I should have thought that some element of inflation would have to be added to the historic costs, and then the self-supply would be charged on the historic costs plus a little more. There is a danger that the Commission may say that this is not good enough, and other countries may start proceedings. I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": " to be added to the historic costs, and then the self-supply would be charged on the historic costs plus a little more. There is a danger that the Commission may say that this is not good enough, and other countries may start proceedings. I do not know— [Interruption.] I will not tempt them. Time is getting on. I should like the assurance of the Economic Secretary that my fears have no foundation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Irradiation of Food", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "load is only reduced, the bacteria remaining after irradiation can, unless the food is kept under appropriate conditions, multiply. It is our belief, and that of many food scientists, that many people will regard irradiation as an alternative to proper food hygiene. The public will be lulled into a sense of false security, and therein lies the danger. Irradiation produces chemical changes in food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Irradiation of Food", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I apologise. The Minister knows the case as well as I do. Youngs Sea Foods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Irradiation of Food", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " need to be irradiated, but its use might give the impression that these health measures had not been successful. If, as the Minister told the House on 21 June, and repeated tonight, his reason for introducing irradiation is not to extend the shelf life, why do it? Far from making food safer, we believe that the Government's objective is simply to allow, on occasions, bad food to be sold as good —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Irradiation of Food", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "The irradiation of food, Mr. Deputy Speaker, is an emotive subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1095.2", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Irradiation of Food", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "does not lead to any significant loss of vitamins in food and, as my right hon. Friend the Minister said, it does not make that food radioactive. The Opposition also talk about contaminated food being sold as clean food. If food is of an unacceptable microbiological standard before the process, those same factors will give it away after the process. That is a fact. The Opposition then speak about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1095.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-12", "file": "debates1989-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1ebc8ff70f9b00b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Irradiation of Food", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ds. People will not say that, because food is irradiated, they need not bother to cook it properly. That is another bad argument against irradiation. Irradiation kills the bacteria and bugs that cause food poisoning, and it also prolongs shelf-life. It must be stressed time and again that irradiation cannot make bad food good. In a few years, irradiation will be as acceptable as cook-chill is now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-12a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1114.10", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words 'under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)' were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1114.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is entitled to say that, particularly when a large part of the public's recent misery has been brought about by the Civil and Public Servants Association and the action that it took in Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. This is an example of a public service that has fallen below the level that the public should expect. There is a long history to it, which we can debate on another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "I remind the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Briefly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "s on occasions. The Health Service in Wales is a matter of urgency. It is no good sending the matter back to the usual channels because we are getting no response there. Will the Leader of the House make an exception and get the Secretary of State for Wales to come to the House next week or the week after so that we can debate the National Health Service in Wales? May we also have an early debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1141.3", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, please.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Loyden", "preceding_text": "As the House will be rising for the long summer recess in 15 days' time, and in view of the strikes in two major industries that have been directly caused by the policies pursued by the Government since 1979, which force trade unions to go to the courts rather than to the negotiating table, will the Leader of the House provide time next week for a debate on those two important disputes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1141.8", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In view of the pressure of time, I shall allow questions to continue for a further five minutes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1141.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "North East Shipbuilders Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Antony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Antony Newton)", "preceding_text": "idently expected to produce well over 3,000 jobs over the next five years, with perhaps another 1,000 to come from other elements in the remedial package. Everyone to whom I spoke emphasised their wish to press ahead with realising this opportunity and the need to remove any doubt or delay. Thirdly, we have had to take account of the position under the sixth directive on state-aid to shipbuilding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Honda (Investment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "It really is extraordinary that, when I come to the House and make a statement that is wonderful good news for the motor industry and for Swindon in particular, all that the hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Garrett) can do is make snide remarks about colonisation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Honda (Investment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": " can do is complain about that. He calls that \"modest\". I do not call it modest; I call it a substantial contribution to our economy and deservedly so. The hon. Gentleman asked a number of questions, first about the 80 per cent. content. The 80 per cent. content will be British content obviously, as that is what we committed ourselves to in the past. We anticipate that that will be the case again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Honda (Investment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": " cent. content. The 80 per cent. content will be British content obviously, as that is what we committed ourselves to in the past. We anticipate that that will be the case again. [Interruption.] Built within the EEC. That 80 per cent. is deemed to be British, built within the EEC. The hon. Gentleman knows full well that that was the case with Nissan—80 per cent. was made in Britain within the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Honda (Investment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": " Nissan—80 per cent. was made in Britain within the EEC. [Interruption.] It is quite straightforward. There is no question or argument about it. The hon. Gentleman asked about cross-shareholding. The details of the agreement are not yet available, as they are commercially confidential, but we anticipate that the hon. Gentleman's figure will probably be about right. It will be a cross-shareholding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "in the Chair today when a number of us were trying to catch your eye during questions to the Leader of the House. Is it not time that the Government recognised that if you, in your wisdom, feel that you must curtail our rights as Back Benchers to ask the Leader of the House about matters relating to next week's business the Government should curtail their practice of making statements on Thursday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-13", "file": "debates1989-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9cdb45ccd867249b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "China and Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " of us have been damned for it ever since. With Hong Kong, we face a major practical difficulty. What worries me particularly is the fact that, if we accept an obligation in 1997 because of circumstances that may exist then, we shall place on our successors a burden that we ourselves need not shoulder. There will be a different Government—perhaps of the same party, but with different people in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-13a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1239.7", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mrs. Lynda Chalker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mrs. Lynda Chalker)", "preceding_text": "olution which we, together with 34 other national leaders, celebrate with the French today, was far-reaching in its significance. At least the storming of the Bastille is unlikely to be re-enacted as a result of today's debate. The fireworks in Paris last night will today give way to political and economic co-operation in the summit 7 discussion this weekend. I want to pay a tribute to the French.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1239.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "as also covered much ground. The Community is stronger and more dynamic than ever and increasingly it is becoming a magnet for the rest of Europe. It is also a focal point for trade and development in the world as a whole. Much of the European Community's present success is due to the efforts of this Government to give the Community real direction. There will always be those whose ideas are fixed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "nd dry at the 40th anniversary Brussels summit. Suddenly the Germans and their vision of a safer, more trusting Europe had America's ear. It was the German blueprint that won the day and the British policy of resistance to negotiations and short-range nuclear forces and a desire for new nuclear systems was firmly squashed. Last month, the respected German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "e western European leaders, least of all, I fear, by our own Prime Minister. The central question that bulked so large in the recent NATO meeting was how, in the new situation, to meet the special needs and fears of that newly-created state, the Federal Republic of Germany, which is already feeling the pull of the concept of mittel Europa that to many Germans is another word for Gross Deutschland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "m where they are. The Minister should get the message and have a word with the Prime Minister so that, next time she sees this Denktash fellow, she can ask him where those people from the north are. We have a real problem with Cyprus. Many hon. Members are showing their concern about what should happen. My responsibility is to stand here and tell the Government what the Opposition feel about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "get from the Conservative party conference? Not a word about Cyprus. What do we get in the House of Commons? Not a word about Cyprus. The Government could not care less. All they are bothered about are pounds and pence. That is all that is behind their policies. That is why the people denied them all those seats in Europe. My hon. Friend was correct. The people of this nation have had a bellyful].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Gentleman has come into the Chamber to be educated about foreign affairs, particularly about Cyprus. I want to know what the Government intend to do about that island. After the next election I shall not be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-14", "file": "debates1989-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "b55b40b45fed2ac1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": " about the British Aerospace contract. The Government could veto it. We shall regard the British Government's response to the Hawk contract as a litmus test of their policies. Will business considerations prevail? Will the British Government view sympathetically human rights for the Kurds or will they view sympathetically the use of chemical weapons in Iraq? My hon. Friend the Member for Cambodia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-14a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "o maintain the confidence of Hong Kong's people, which has been badly shaken by recent events. We issued a strong denunciation of terrorism, referring in particular to the Lockerbie disaster, and reaffirmed the policy of making no concessions to terrorists. We called on those holding hostages to release them immediately and unconditionally. This was an exceptionally friendly and worthwhile summit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Briefly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "t my hon. Friend agree that the principal imbalance in the economies of eastern Europe is between the excesses of Socialism and a lack of capitalism? Will she therefore take the greatest care before offering any further credit to Socialist countries, which inevitably dissipate it, until they reform their ways and follow the capitalist path, as Mr. Gorbachev is now tentatively suggesting? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": " greatest care before offering any further credit to Socialist countries, which inevitably dissipate it, until they reform their ways and follow the capitalist path, as Mr. Gorbachev is now tentatively suggesting? Secondly—[Hon. Members: \"Briefly.\"]—I shall be perfectly brief when I can be heard above the noise opposite. Will my right hon. Friend say whether any progress was made on determination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Briefly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On my right hon. Friend's next point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Hefter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Hefter", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Lady explain why she consistently comes here to talk such utter nonsense about the free market, as if all countries with a free market have political democracy? She must be aware of the fact, but we know that her history is not very good, so I shall try to explain to the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is going back on arguments that we used to have many years ago in the House. They can be summed up in this way. Every free country is a capitalist country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Declaration of the Rights of Man\" lists freedom of speech, opinion and expression? May I also remind him that President Mitterrand agreed with me at the end of the summit that there were other accounts of human rights which started long before the French revolution? May I remind him that is a matter of history that that is so? There were very few people on the streets of Paris who were against me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Economic Summit (Paris)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentle that he is incorrect about many people in the streets of Paris. I am very happy that he and his fellow Members are reduced to such pathetic, small-minded comments. That is just what the Opposition are like. They cannot criticise the results of the summit countries so they show their true small-mindedness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "wo sittings were largely repeats of the Second reading debate. I have already explained about the future opportunities to consider the Taylor recommendations, although it is difficult to understand why the Opposition are so keen to Implement a report that they have not seen, but not to push ahead with measures in line with the Popplewell report, which we have all had a chance to read and consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "reading debate. I have already explained about the future opportunities to consider the Taylor recommendations, although it is difficult to understand why the Opposition are so keen to Implement a report that they have not seen, but not to push ahead with measures in line with the Popplewell report, which we have all had a chance to read and consider—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The measures are in line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "We shall consider it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "e Government's embarrassment about losing all the arguments. They have lost the argument with the public, in the House of Lords and on Second Reading when my right hon. and hon. Friends, and, to be fair, some Conservative Members, ripped the Bill to shreds in a cracking series of speeches. The same has been happening in Committee. The Government have only one answer to the weight of the arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will look into the future, he will see that that is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "incensed to such an extent that they started fighting among themselves. I found the comments of Colonel Stephenson, the secretary of the Marylebone cricket club, somewhat interesting when he said—I paraphrase—\"We do not usually have trouble, other than at the Benson and Hedges game, because that is the only major game that is played outside the football season.\" His comments were particularly apt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend remember the occasion when he tried to take the Committee through the night to ensure that the Bill was properly debated but the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Mr. Wareing) said that there were several elderly people among Opposition Members, so they could not go through the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is detail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "The plain fact is that the exemptions for disabled persons and for children accompanied by adults were written into the Bill in the other place. The attempt there to get exemptions for women and pensioners was voted down at the instigation of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "t,\" Opposition Members said that they might get sick and had elderly Members to consider. I appreciate the point, but it is the quintessence of everything that we have known about the Opposition for the past 10 years—when push comes to shove, they have no bottle. There are Opposition Members who have a vision of the game of football, which we have heard in colourful detail. I will not repeat them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.71.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "thers at Hillsborough. He has had the most harrowing experience of listening to that terrible evidence, and he now has to decide on the matters and make recommendations. Any intelligent parliamentarian would wish to take account of his findings and what he had to say. Let us consider the list of issues to be considered. I told the Committee that I had identified 16 issues that Lord Justice Taylor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Colin Moynihan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Colin Moynihan)", "preceding_text": " to get their business through. But, of course, they oppose them when in opposition. As my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House said, the Labour party never hesitated to introduce timetable motions during those far-off days when it was in office. There is no case for all the anger which we have witnessed about this motion. It is essential that we see the Bill on the statute book this Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Football Spectators Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman surprises me. When we were just discussing the national membership scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "tedly with Greenpeace. I deeply regret that the Government must stand high on the list of the culpable. The Government have reacted far too late to past despoliation and they should be a great deal more careful before they run the risk of seeing an important part of our planet destroyed. I know that the Minister made some relevant comments in Committee, but I hope that he will spell out on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "The Cabinet's record of complete subservience to the Prime Minister and its lack of any sign of independent thought makes it even more important that amendment No. 36 should be carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ish becomes part of a natural cycle, but humans eat a variety of foods. Pollution levels in rivers and seas around this country show that there is a serious problem. Some of that sewage is partly treated; some of it does not degrade or decompose; some of it lies around in still water for a long time. A small number of humans and all the rubbish that they produce can cause a great deal more damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.111.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "ly rapidly not many years ago and are now a matter of serious concern for European conservationists, a threat does exist, not merely because of disturbances to the environment, but because of the other problem in the Antarctic, which is the proper control of the resources of the marine heritage—the krill and the fish. If there is overfishing greedy eyes are certainly fixed on that marine resource—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "that now face us? Yet we are contemplating moving in to one of the last great unspoiled areas of the world without knowing the consequences that will flow from such a decision. We oppose the Bill because we want to preserve the planet. The green party is to be found on the Opposition Benches. The only thing that is green about the Government are the empty Benches on their side of the House. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Antarctic Minerals Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "e that all information about prospecting activity which would be of environmental significance and without commercial value will be put in the public domain. We shall bring forward regulations to that effect. I can also assure the House that we shall work within the commission for measures to avoid the duplication of prospecting activity, thus cutting the risk of further impact on the environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-17", "file": "debates1989-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "01985539d801b26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clergy (Ordination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison (Second Church Estates Commissioner, Representing Church Commissioners)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison (Second Church Estates Commissioner, Representing Church Commissioners)", "preceding_text": "st to millions of families and individuals, including many non-Anglicans. In 1986, the latest year for which there are statistics, of the 348,000 registered marriages in England and Wales, well over half were solemnised in religious ceremonies, and one third of them were in Church of England ceremonies. A majority of the public thus still regard marriage as having important religious implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-17a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "No one is attacking anyone at this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "It should be obvious from everything that I have said that the Government are totally committed to having a training programme which is of a proper quality. If the hon. Gentleman has a particular case where he believes that those high standards of training have fallen down, there is no reason why he cannot bring it to my, or my right hon. Friend's attention, and we will look at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.211.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps because we have a bigger proportion of teachers to pupils than was ever the case under the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find time to make it clear that in the view of the Government, it can never be right to use industrial action against the old, sick and young—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "atives the economy is successful and can afford it. As to the situation at the Withington hospital, about which the hon. Gentleman asked me, a 24-bed ward containing 21 patients has been temporarily closed, but the patients will continue to be cared for. Between 15 and 17 of them will be moved to other places within that unit. The remainder may be discharged, but only if the doctors are satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "h the hon. Gentleman asked me, a 24-bed ward containing 21 patients has been temporarily closed, but the patients will continue to be cared for. Between 15 and 17 of them will be moved to other places within that unit. The remainder may be discharged, but only if the doctors are satisfied— [Interruption.] I have been asked the question. Opposition Members may not like them, but I have the answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.218.8", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the hon. Gentleman is backing the National Union of Railwaymen in continuing its strikes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.218.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "As of yesterday afternoon we, too, became a grandmother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Waterloo to City Line (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "ion of British Rail by the National Union of Railwaymen which may overshadow the specific matter which this Bill addresses. I shall not attempt to comment further on the strike. Later, I shall make critical comments about the management of British Rail. I am not now trying to raise the issue of long-term restructuring of British Rail. The intention of my Bill is to draw the attention of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Waterloo to City Line (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ourneyed to Waterloo from all over the south-east to reach their places of work in the City. As this country's financial district has assumed ever-growing importance, so too has the Drain. Since the big bang, the number of passengers arriving at Bank station daily has risen by nearly 5,000. Yet the decline in service over the same period gives little credibility to British Rail's forward planners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Waterloo to City Line (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ia which permits the proposed application to proceed. It might help British Rail's analysis if tickets were checked and collected. At Bank station yesterday, the two automatic ticket machines demanded \"exact money only\" for the single-fare 60p ticket. I purchased mine, but several others around me gave up. My ticket was never collected, and I retain it as a souvenir of British Rail's inefficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Waterloo to City Line (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "be extended to link up with the separate underground line between Moorgate station and Finsbury Park? How can the line cope effectively with Channel tunnel passengers arriving at Waterloo in increasing numbers from 1993? How will the line's use contribute to helping the east London transport study, whose conclusions are awaited? The problems of privatisation of this line cannot be under-estimated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Waterloo to City Line (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": ", the docklands developers who are worried about access from various points in the docklands and the City of London corporation, which is interested in acting as a sponsor and has told me that it might consider acting also as a financial investor. I challenge these groups to put to British Rail a proposal that it cannot refuse, even if it means British Rail handing over the line for a nominal sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.230.7", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you for listening to me, Mr. Speaker, because I insist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.230.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it right for the hon. Gentleman to give us the stuff we are hearing this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it right for the hon. Gentleman to give us the stuff we are hearing this afternoon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"]—when we have heard it all on the radio this morning? He did not have the courtesy to come to the House in the first place, but delivered his speech first on radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has answered my hon. friend the Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellet-Bowman) about Lancashire, where he and I both represent constituencies. This is an Oposition debate on teacher shortages. Conservative Members want to know what the hon. Member proposes to deal with the shortages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.235.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.235.4", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "n has answered my hon. friend the Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellet-Bowman) about Lancashire, where he and I both represent constituencies. This is an Oposition debate on teacher shortages. Conservative Members want to know what the hon. Member proposes to deal with the shortages. [Laughter.] Opposition Members laugh. They tell the public that they can do a better job than my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman is looking at the wrong piece. He has been quoting from the news report; he should read the editorial that appeared the week we produced our document, which compared and contrasted our policies and those of the Government. One difference is that Labour Members' children attend state schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ng not about the labourers but about the men and women in the Cabinet, all but one of whom have sent their children to private schools and who care little and know less about the condition of state schools. In addition to the mocking of the education system by the Secretary of State, we have what the education editor of The Independent described yesterday as \"system overload\". There is one budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.236.6", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "There is one budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.236.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I should like to get a little further into my speech, but I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.242.9", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should criticise ILEA for its complacency in inner London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.242.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Member for Blackburn has, at last, accepted the idea of licensed teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State gave way many times, and on two occasions to the same person. The hon. Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman) has fled the Chamber now that she has intervened twice. There is only a short time available and many hon. Members wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "s/Union of Women Teachers, but by organisations that support them, such as the Secondary Heads Association, the National Union of Head Teachers and even the HMIs. Virtually every local education authority is facing teacher shortages. The problem is getting worse. Why is that so? More pupils are entering schools but the number of graduates who are leaving universities and polytechnics is declining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am glad to know that the hon. Gentleman expects there to be a Labour Government following the defeat of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "preceding_text": "Friends and I congratulate them on making some sensible suggestions. I was saddened by the remarks of the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery), whose very tone served only to exacerbate the problem by reinforcing the views repeatedly expressed by the media and by Opposition Members about low teacher morale. One almost has the feeling that Opposition Members want that to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "their cars, yet British Rail turns that argument on its head in respect of King's Cross. As more and more offices and centres of work are moved from their formerly convenient positions in central London, commuters want to drive their cars to the station. The prospect of thousands of commuters driving their cars to King's Cross, and then finding that there is no car park for them there, is bizarre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-18", "file": "debates1989-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5320283a5903bf46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "n of flow control in Europe. Only time will tell whether the changes will result in any movement in the existing system. I warmly welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Shersby) and my hon Friend the Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. McCrindle), who is also in his place. A more far-sighted approach to the problem of congestion would be to switch traffic from the south-east airports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-18a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "It would be particularly futile and not a good way to spend any of our time for me to bandy figures with the hon. Member for Motherwell, South (Dr. Bray). If he would care to write to me, I am perfectly prepared to indicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.335.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.337.11", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend never ceases to sing the praises of the motor industry, about which he speaks with such considerable authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.337.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to raise a point of order of some substance. We have before us a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As far as I am aware, the document is available in the Vote Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. Mr. Speaker. The statement of the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) was not accurate. A number of Conservative Members went to the Vote Office to get copies. The Vote Office will not give hon. Members more than one copy each and it has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Legal Profession", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "triumph in throwing back the Picts and Scots and free market hordes from north of Hadrian's wall. Is it not a humiliating climb-down for the Government? Does it not sanctify the system of government by barristers, for barristers, of barristers? Is it not true that he has done nothing about the restrictive practices of the Bar—for example, barristers' clerks, QCs, double fees and so on? He has not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Legal Profession", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "h of Hadrian's wall. Is it not a humiliating climb-down for the Government? Does it not sanctify the system of government by barristers, for barristers, of barristers? Is it not true that he has done nothing about the restrictive practices of the Bar—for example, barristers' clerks, QCs, double fees and so on? He has not— [Interruption.] He has not allowed the Crown prosecution service to compete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Legal Profession", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "wn for the Government? Does it not sanctify the system of government by barristers, for barristers, of barristers? Is it not true that he has done nothing about the restrictive practices of the Bar—for example, barristers' clerks, QCs, double fees and so on? He has not— [Interruption.] He has not allowed the Crown prosecution service to compete— [Interruption.] It is competition under the control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Legal Profession", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I should be very interested to be present in any court over which the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) presided in a judicial capacity. Considerable fees would have to be demanded before anybody was prepared to appear before him, and very well earned they would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.365.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.380.6", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand why Opposition Members keep returning to this subject. It would be far wiser to try to forget it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.380.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.381.6", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "On behalf of non-domestic ratepayers in the metropolitan borough of Bury, I welcome the anticipated 20 per cent. drop in their rate bills. Will my right hon. Friend reassure domestic ratepayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.381.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Poll Tax (Popular Consultation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "preceding_text": "amentary changes failed to foresee or anticipate political usurpation, intentionally or unintentionally, of the people's rights. That would require a Bill of Rights. Until that is on the statute book, I do not suggest that we should revert to the executioner's axe and, although I have heard people say that the Prime Minister behaves like a dictator, I do not suggest that we should remove her head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Water", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ver the years that it has been controlled by a nationalised industry. Quite simply, there has been no access; there has been no recreation. One of the advantages of bringing this sort of legislation before Parliament is that the scrutiny will ensure that access to reservoirs and land owned by water authorities will be better for recreational and conservation interests than it has ever been before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "s point. Leaving aside what individual judgment he may reach next year, and leaving aside the individual judgment that he reached last year, does he or does he not accept that, perhaps not annually, but from time to time, it would be appropriate and correct to uprate child benefit? I shall give way to the Secretary of State again if he wishes to answer that question, which he has now ducked twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "–86 figures, and I am rather surprised that the Secretary of State should think that the forecast of 470,000 was for 1985–86. The figure appeared in the White Paper for 1987–88, for which the right hon. Gentleman was responsible. It was the figure that he himself chose. I entirely agree with him that it turned out to be completely wrong, but it was his figure and his forecast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " and I agree with him, in the light of history, that it was a risible figure. The take-up for family credit has since settled down at around the 250,000 mark. The Secretary of State taxed me with using figures in error in my press release. I have to confess that he may be right that the figures are erroneous; after all, they are entirely drawn from figures supplied by him in parliamentary answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " we are left with barely a quarter of a million claimants and a refusal rate that has increased. In my press release I cited a refusal rate of 44 per cent. The Secretary of State corrected that by saying that the success rate is 55 per cent. If he reflects for a moment, he will notice that the two figures add up to 100 per cent. and are entirely reconcilable. The chief result of all the publicity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Very briefly, I have some sympathy with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State because he is trapped within the system of Government expenditure. I am talking to my right hon. Frind so I am sure that he is listening even though he is offering me the back of his head. Not for the first—no, I will not say that. I put it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "e in other areas. If child benefit is not being increased in line with inflation, the reality is—as the hon. Gentleman and the whole House know—that it is being reduced. So to reduce taxes, which we want, money is to be taken from families with children and given to those without children. That is manifest nonsense. However hard-line a Tory one may be, and I am looked on as being a hard-line Tory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "ng process—in practice, independent adjudicating authorities—make decisions about the eligibility of individuals which would not necessarily be recorded as flowing from a particular case that had been decided. It is clear that each of those aspects has had a not insignificant impact on decision making. The House may say, \"We have made all those improvements, so why not accept the Lords amendment?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-19", "file": "debates1989-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ee575034424dfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "It matters in terms of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-19a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "on for the way that he has done his job over the years? Does the Minister agree that there is widespread anxiety in Northern Ireland, and in Ireland as a whole, that closer integration following 1992 may cause problems for the Irish economies, as they are positioned on the peripheries of the European Community? That may be exacerbated by the Channel tunnel if there is no infrastructure to back it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "ver the years? Does the Minister agree that there is widespread anxiety in Northern Ireland, and in Ireland as a whole, that closer integration following 1992 may cause problems for the Irish economies, as they are positioned on the peripheries of the European Community? That may be exacerbated by the Channel tunnel if there is no infrastructure to back it—[ Interruption.] Would it be worth while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "The new company will indeed respect the application of fair employment in Northern Ireland. I can update the hon. Gentleman's information by telling him that the latest available figures for 1988 show that 19 per cent. of Short's recruits were Catholics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.511.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.516.6", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the characteristic generosity that she showed yesterday by staying away from the poll tax statement so that her Secretary of State for the Environment——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.516.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.516.8", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "—sothat her Secretary of State could gain all the glory and the credit for himself? How does the Prime Minister think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.516.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "just finding out that that is a serious possibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas McAvoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas McAvoy", "preceding_text": "e new regulatory regime of which the committees will he part. That is the radical new step which I think that hon. Gentlemen will understand if they reflect on it later outside the rhetoric of party confrontation. If they do not, they should have a word with the area councils in their constituencies. The councils are over the moon about the new teeth that we are giving to consumer representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I shall respond to the debate. The hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron), who has now come back from the gods, said that we would have a short research and development debate. In fact, we have had a short coal research and development debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "ave had a short coal research and development debate— [Interruption.] Yes, it is fine, but that is what we have had. The two main contributors to the debate, the hon. Member for Rother Valley and his hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, Central (Mr. Illsley), made two main points. The first was about Grimethorpe and the research and development expenditure which would be made there. The answer is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "—for the operation either to continue or to be closed down, if that were the decision. I have already told the House that the topping cycle is an extremely interesting piece of research and development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "ut the number of welders working in teams on a 24-hour shift rotation from 20 to five. That means that four welders will work the day shift, with one working all the anti-social hours. What will happen if something goes wrong? The present publicly owned responsible industry has welders available to deal with any leakage. Very often large power stations are a long way from the homes of its workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "m the homes of its workers— [Interruption.] I hope that the Minister is listening because he must tell us what will happen if there is a problem. Some of the workers may live 40 or 50 miles away from the power stations. My hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield (Mr. Haynes) represents people who work in power stations that are far away from their homes. If 15 of the 20 welders are to lose their jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.630.4", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ervative party's analysis is flawed for one obvious reason. The lack of principle manifests itself in the evidence that it is a greater Government priority to spend public money on supporting a few—in a system in which it is hoped they will become privileged—than it is to spend more on the public sector, in which lack of funding results in many children's education not moving from the bottom rung.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.631.7", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rs has been successful—by their argument, the standards have gone up and good reforms have been made. If the county system is so much better now than it was 10 years ago, so much less is there a case for paying people to leave it to go into the independent sector. Even less so for the reason that this year, as a result of the Education Reform Act 1988, we will see the national curriculum in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.631.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.631.7", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ntal inequality that exists. One is not changing that inequality if some people can buy their way into the private sector and if the private sector is supported by a few others who have their places provided out of public funds when that is not an option for the majority of people in this country. I am not in favour of a monopoly of county or state education; I am in favour of independent schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.631.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-20", "file": "debates1989-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "eeb0e05770b3d5c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mr. Jens Soering", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise an important constitutional issue and, as is the case with so many important constitutional issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-20a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. and learned Gentleman finally meets the Director of Public Prosecutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Nuclear Power)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "First, I may express my hope that if the news we are likely to hear today is true, this is the last occasion on which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will have to rest on the energy bed of Procrustes. My right hon. Friend's statement is as welcome as it was inevitable. I wish to put to my right hon. Friend four related questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.749.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Nuclear Power)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He should live so long.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "f State on having moved along these lines? Does he realise that it is likely to be a loss-making enterprise, unless he is prepared to add to it a mix of profitable assets, which should include the AGRs and PWRs that are being built? If it has a mix of assets, the enterprise will be able to compete with National Power and PowerGen in the future. Will he still have time to consider that possibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Nuclear Power)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "ith which we are dealing. The hon. Gentleman asked about the successor vehicle for holding the Magnoxes. We are having discussions with the nuclear installations inspectorate because it is important that the inspectorate is prepared to license that vehicle. We shall come to the House with full details of our proposals, and we shall be happy to debate them then. Our proposals are forcing costs out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Nuclear Power)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "happy to debate them then. Our proposals are forcing costs out—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Up.\"] No. They are forcing costs out. They will force people to recognise what the prices are and to realise that the costs can no longer be lost in the bulk supply tariff. I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would welcome that transparency. The result of privatisation is that prices will be what they will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.762.7", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Electricity Bill (Consideration)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "But has the Minister made a statement converting the Bill into a hybrid Bill, Mr. Speaker, in which case it is a matter for you? That is the point. The Minister has dropped the Bill today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.762.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.769.9", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The point is that the passage of the Lords amendments today could lead to an attempt to get Royal Assent for the Bill immediately. Clearly, when the House has dealt with the Lords amendments, the Bill will have completed its passage through both Houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.769.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.779.4", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "terwards and suggested that my right hon. Friend could have gone a bit further. It is a wise man who recognises that, taking all the factors into account., a change is necessary. It shows the effectiveness of the Committee system when a Secretary of State listens to the arguments of Back Benchers, listens to the arguments put on Report, and eventually makes a modification. I find this one helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-24", "file": "debates1989-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "66d004146bdda5ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": " in urban areas, too. There will be a general downward pressure. I must answer the hon. Member for Wentworth (Mr. Hardy) about the policy of common tariffs. I assure him that the period will be five years. Thereafter, the policy of allowing the area boards to charge prices which relate to costs and allow them to compete will apply. That will be to everyone's benefit, because prices will come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-24a.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a specialty of picking out details of the White Paper that he blows up into misrepresentations. He knows perfectly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.848.10", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady intending to reshuffle her as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.848.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.848.12", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Now that the Prime Minister has guillotined half the Cabinet and frightened the other half to death, can I assume that that is an admission that all the fundamental policies of the Conservatives have been wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.848.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.848.12", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Now that the Prime Minister has guillotined half the Cabinet and frightened the other half to death, can I assume that that is an admission that all the fundamental policies of the Conservatives have been wrong? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Is it not a fact that they have been wrong in, for instance, education, the economy, the poll tax, water and pollution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.848.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "quity, social justice and the principles of progressive taxation—why someone such as Lord King, the chairman of British Airways, with a reported salary of £386,000 per annum, should pay more than an engineering apprentice in his company with a take-home pay of between £65 and £85 per week. We know instinctively that it is grotesquely unfair to make them pay the same contribution in local taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman comes to the Opposition Dispatch Box, I shall always have my work cut out. Between the two of us—wild eyed fanatics that we both are—I am sure that we shall keep our debates within the bounds of sobriety and public decorum. A combination of typical ministerial humility and concern for all right hon. and hon. Members who wish to participate in the debate persuades me to be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.865.5", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "That intervention suggests that we should not give way in debates such as this as often as we would like. Let me point out to the hon. Gentleman—I know perhaps even more than he does about these matters—that we began to advocate the abolition of domestic rates in 1974, and included that view in our election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.865.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.874.5", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ctivities on the green side, but on the local government side, all I want is for the safety net to be removed. If, by the time we next debate the safety net in the House, it has not been announced that it will be financed from Treasury money, I shall certainly vote against it. I am not putting the Secretary of State on probation. I have total faith in him and I know that he will solve the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.874.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "preceding_text": "e services provided. I will give way to the hon. Member for Brightside if he can confirm to me and to all my Mid-Staffordshire constituents, who do not own their own homes, but who are tenants of local authorities, that what they would pay, if a Labour Government were subsequently returned, would be a capital tax based on the value of the property which they occupy, even though they do not own it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way once to the hon. Gentleman already. I turn now to the safety net and to the position of my constituents in Mid-Staffordshire and to those of the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.882.9", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "It is inevitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.882.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "m the poll tax. What about youngsters who stay on at school to do A-levels? They are exempt while they are 18 and their mothers are still getting child benefit for them, but on the day of their 19th birthday, they will lose all exemptions. There are 76,000 families with youngsters who stay on past their 19th birthday to re-take their A-levels. What about the dead? There are no exemptions for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "er authorities will take the opportunity to hike up the level of the water charges. They will bring in a mirror image of the poll tax, with a water poll tax based on the number of people who live in a house. What will the effect be on civil liberties? There are dozens of local authorities, such as Solihull, where personal privacy has been invaded by over-detailed registration forms being sent out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "abour councillors. The Labour party objects to the fact that, in April of next year, voters in London will ask, \"Why is the community charge £290 in Barnet when, in the neighbouring borough of Brent, it is £597, and, in the Labour-controlled borough of Haringey, it is £642?\" Opposition Members know full well that Labour councils combine poor quality service with a very high price to the ratepayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. David Hunt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What tributes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government (Mr. David Hunt)", "preceding_text": " which I was committed at the last election and to which I remain committed as a much fairer and better system. I much appreciate the generous words of welcome from hon. Members to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and me. I much welcome the warm tributes that were paid to my right hon. Friends the Members for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) and for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " spoken to their motion, nor have they proved a word of it. It says that the community charge is unfair, bureaucratic and difficult to collect. Those allegations would be serious had Labour Members substantiated them, but they have not. Labour Members have been unable to prove their case. Thanks to some clever speeches from Conservative Members, Labour Members have been forced on to the defensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman has totally missed the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.902.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Health Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1922.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "open negotiations on his proposal to increase capitation-based payments which will give doctors an incentive to seek longer patient lists. Tonight's debate is prompted by two important developments in the health debate last week. Half the motion is inspired by the Prime Minister, who last week addressed the 1992 Committee in visionary terms about the Government's intentions for the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Health Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": " for the quotation. Not for the first time, my hon. Friends do not entirely agree. My hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Mr. Hayes) has helpfully given us his account of what was said at the meeting but the recollection of my hon. Friend the Member for Derby, North (Mr. Knight) is that the Prime Minister said, \"The National Health Service will be so good that no one will want to go private again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Health Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "d say what we should do in response to that ballot. Undoubtedly, the Labour party will say that we should accept it and start all over again. That, indeed, is the position of the GMSC, which I met yesterday. I met exactly the same negotiators with whom I reached agreement on 4 May. At that time they left with what they regarded as a satisfactory package of arrangements which they commended to GPs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Health Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "o GPs. [Interruption.] I was at the meeting. The negotiators do not require the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) to speak on their behalf. They had agreed a satisfactory package which they commended to their members. Faced with a vote which did not endorse their commendation, they came back to me yesterday wishing to reopen negotiations on every item on which we had reached agreement on 4 May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Health Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Hang on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Health Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "It was evident from the Secretary of State's speech that he did not welcome the debate this afternoon, but he rose to the occasion with his usual combination of trying to distract attention from the real issues and a dose of abuse for the doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-25", "file": "debates1989-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "83dabcb251f937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the British Government can do if a directive is brought before the Council which they think is in excess of the powers of the Community under the terms of the treaties that we have approved. First, they can seek to get the Council unanimously to say no, if it is a question of majority voting. However, it is very rare for that to happen and I am not aware of any decision in which that has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-25a.963.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speller", "preceding_text": "Fifthly, may I ask my hon. and learned Friend whether, in answer to my question, which he has not answered, he will seek to revoke the permission whereby Welsh Water, Wessex Water and South West Water may each pollute the Bristol channel over the next 12 months? Will my hon. and learned Friend stop that happening?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1012.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "I do not recall any hon. Member doing this so far, but let me welcome my right hon. Friend wholeheartedly to his new position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks. I should quite like to be in California at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1015.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At least.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is no use the hon. Gentleman shaking his head. Mr. MacIver, the general secretary of COSLA, said that it required at least 7 per cent. to meet its needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did he say that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is no use the hon. Gentleman shaking his head. Mr. MacIver, the general secretary of COSLA, said that it required at least 7 per cent. to meet its needs—[HON. MEMBERS: \"At least.\"]—and that is exactly what it has been provided with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "tribution of grant available. Industrial derating will continue until the gap between rating levels in Scotland and England is eliminated. The original purpose of industrial derating was to assist with that difficulty. I welcome the hon. Gentleman's friendly comments on what the Government propose to do about the standard charge. I have to emphasis that what we are proposing is not a property tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's final point, questions of surcharge only arise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State not realise that the statement is bitter news to thousands of carers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "On Alzheimer's disease, may I gently remind the hon. Gentleman that those suffering from that disease were liable for the payment of domestic rates for many years without the hon. Gentleman feeling obliged to argue that that was iniquitous or undesirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Scottish Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman is entitled to say that the proposals have not caught the imagination of the people in the new towns, because as far as I am aware they have been welcomed there as well. With regard to the precise implications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Scottish Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "In that case, the hon. Gentleman has even less excuse for the questions that he has asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1046.9", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Scottish Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "me and legislative development role is not undermined or diluted as a result of the greater range of activity that it will have to undertake? Secondly, I stress to the Secretary of State that at the weekend my hon. Friend the Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston), in anticipation of this week's statement, met representatives of the CBI in the highlands and islands of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1046.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Industrial Disputes (Compulsory Arbitration Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "flation rate. It is no good dismissing those people as troublemakers and anarchists who want only to cause the public the maximum inconvenience. It is nothing of the kind. As I said earlier, no group of working people takes industrial action lightly, and certainly those employed on the railways have not done that. Strikes are part of the price that a society pays for remaining free and democratic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "Oh, so it is not arduous. The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) does not seem to understand that supermarket checkout operators have to lift the produce. Has the hon. Gentleman ever tried to lift—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He does it all the time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "Oh, so it is not arduous. The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) does not seem to understand that supermarket checkout operators have to lift the produce. Has the hon. Gentleman ever tried to lift— [Interruption.] Yes, it has to be lifted. I have the impression that the hon. Gentleman never goes shopping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "That is more likely. My union has calculated that such workers may be handling a ton of goods every few hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.13", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1074.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that he would answer my constituents' question about why there was both a labour and a skills shortage in Chelmsford. Unfortunately, he has not done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "gave up her job. She had hoped to extend her hours once her child started school—but she has now lost that opportunity. That woman was working for 50p an hour. Can anyone come nearer to saying, \"My God, I want to work. I want to do my part for the nation\"? Would the hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding (Mr. Davies)—the merchant banker—work for 50p an hour? Come on, would you work for 50p an hour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Extradition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ies and clause 32(3) says: Any Order in Council under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. Clearly, we are talking about affirmative resolutions. What I am asking the Minister is whether, in deciding on the affirmative procedure, the Consolidation Committee considered ensuring that Ministers who are being given power under the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-26", "file": "debates1989-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "1de87bacd6e18425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Extradition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman for misnaming the newspaper in which he regularly writes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-26a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1165.8", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "ive to religious slaughter. The hon. Gentleman will be familiar with the Government's stance on that. Once the consultation period is over, we shall lay regulations quickly. The hon. Gentleman will also be aware that the Department would like to introduce an animal welfare Bill. That, of course, depends on parliamentary time. If we were to win such time, we would be requiring local authorities to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1165.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1165.8", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "elfare Bill. That, of course, depends on parliamentary time. If we were to win such time, we would be requiring local authorities to— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman asked a specific question and he is getting a specific answer. We shall require local authorities to appoint a person specifically responsible for animal welfare. We intend to make the rules of practice mandatory and not voluntary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1165.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1167.7", "colnum": "1167", "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/1989-07-27a.1167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1167.10", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That combination of qualities succeeded in getting into an excellent Cabinet men of great experience in a wide range of Departments and a terrific team of younger Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1167.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1168.7", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's concern. That also shows cynical disrespect for the rule of law passed by this House which, if democracy means anything, must be obeyed. The community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Westminster city council responsible for its own affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1173.6", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "May I thank the deputy Prime Minister for his statement and welcome him to his new job? I fear that it bears an uncanny resemblance to a Government training scheme, with him dogsbodying around for an ungrateful boss but with no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1173.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1173.8", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ment time on the Government's response to the Griffiths proposals on care in the community and for the debate on the proposals to replace student grants with student loans? We would, of course, have preferred both those debates to be on substantive motions, and we especially object to the student loans debate being held on a Friday. May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman during the recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1173.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Food Safety", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "food is good and wholesome. We need irradiation only when food is not good and wholesome. The Minister's statement and the White Paper are the result of five years' consultation. I doubt whether in the history of government such a long consultation has produced so little. The very first line in the first chapter of the White Paper states: The variety and quality of our food have never been better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1226.0", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": " one. It is no good the Secretary of State for Wales hiding behind all sorts of excuses, as he has been doing for weeks now. I renew my request, which is supported by all my hon. Friends, that the documents should be published—as promised on 1 March—explaining how the Secretary of State for Wales intends to apply the White Paper in Wales and that we may have an early opportunity for a full debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Latin America", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "nts concerned, including the Chilean Government, which we do frequently, as we do to the Colombian Government about the different problems in that country. We and our European Community partners have frequently made it plain that we are concerned about continuing abuses, not only in Chile, but wherever they occur, and we are not afraid to take a clear public stand, including in the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Green Field Sites (Development)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": " local authorities and other developers. The point that I have been making tirelessly and tiresomely for many years is that nearly 49,000 acres of land were in local authority ownership on 31 May 1989. Also, 7,900 sites are on the land register, and we are being pressed to use more green field sites in preference to public vacant land in unused or underutilised areas. That is: my first contention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-07-27", "file": "debates1989-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca435a5046e950c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A27 (Bypass)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence L. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence L. Higgins", "preceding_text": "l, are the major issues confronting my constituents at present. I hope that my hon. Friend will understand if I do not elaborate on my congratulations because I stress that the time available to us is very short and I shall understand if he is not able to give a full reply. I thank my hon. Friend for sitting through the long watches of the night, as we have together, while waiting for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-07-27a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-17", "file": "debates1989-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "e4ffa0a05b9c1ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has made plain that interest rates will have to remain at the level that is necessary for so long as is necessary to achieve success against inflation. I emphasise and repeat that that is of far greater importance than the immediate short-term hardship and consequence of paying high interest rates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-17", "file": "debates1989-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "e4ffa0a05b9c1ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Digital Clocks", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "the Chair calls on an hon. Member to make a speech on which there is a specific time limit, for example applications under Standing Order No. 20 and on days when a 10-minute speech limit has been imposed by the Chair, the Clerks at the Table will operate the clock. Half a minute before the conclusion of the time limit allowed, the digital clocks on each side of the Chair will flash intermittently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-17", "file": "debates1989-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "e4ffa0a05b9c1ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "With great respect to my hon. Friend, I really must get on. I am between the devil and the deep blue sea. No doubt the flashing lights will exterminate me at the end of my speech if I go on for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-17", "file": "debates1989-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "e4ffa0a05b9c1ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-17", "file": "debates1989-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "e4ffa0a05b9c1ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Community Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "or Gedling—the hon. Gentleman may feel that I tend to flatter—than for the view of other hon. Members, but it would represent a setback in terms of enabling as well as providing. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Stirling is not present. The Opposition do not ignore the role of the Adam Smith Institute in giving advice to the Government. A few days ago, it published a document on community care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-17a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Friend's view and it is not only my view. It is the view of many within the Scottish business community. The hon. Gentleman should recall the conclusion of the report in the Scottish Business Insider , which was that Opposition parties have to convince indigenous companies of their financial reasoning and find an effective method of conveying the same message to potential inward investors. So far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is under a considerable misapprehension. The legislation approved by the House, both for Scotland and England, will be implemented. The changes announced recently were purely transitional arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Registered Homes (Rights to Residence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "iven a specific period of notice. In addition to the resident being supplied with a copy of the contract, the Bill requires a copy to be supplied to the resident's nearest relative or representative and the local registration authority. They will also have to be notified formally if the home asks the resident to leave. The Bill would place a clear duty on the registration authority to ensure that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ared to tolerate the misery and repression of totalitarian rule. Everywhere one may go—I certainly found this when I visited Hungary—there is a wide recognition, even among the most committed Communists, that Communism does not work and that Socialism has failed their countries. There is a desperate desire to move towards a free market economy, which might at last give their people an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "At a time of great hope, which I hope we all share, for the people of eastern Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ime of great political uncertainty and economic danger we do not want to add to the uncertainty and the fear that could stop those encouraging processes. Given those uncertainties, any suggestion of the denuclearisation of Europe is profoundly irresponsible. The Warsaw pact countries do not expect it at present. We have to stand on the defence and maintain the credibility of our flexible response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "We should make a proper contribution to the defence of the West. I am proud not only of the cost but of the quality of the contribution that we make to NATO. I am concerned about the financial commitment of some of our allies. It is no secret that we should like some to make a greater contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "duce expenditure by £7,000 million.\" This year they have tried to dress it up and say, \"Reduce it to the average of the western European level of NATO countries,\" and it is just under £5,000 million. However, Opposition Members keep coming back to that point, and their party conference keeps overwhelmingly voting for it. If that is what his party wants, what does the Leader of the Opposition want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "r Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs have had to eat their words. Their grudging support for the NATO summit communiqué and the Comprehensive Concept was not enough to prevent them from being isolated from the rest of our NATO partners. It merely served to confirm to the British electorate that in a changing Europe only our Prime Minister and her colleagues still want to live in the cold war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Sillars", "preceding_text": " be no Trident, no warheads, none of the rest of i t. However, the hon. Member for Clackmannan told us nothing about this. There was also nothing from Labour as an element of the Socialist movement, despite what we expected. There should have been some understanding of the window of opportunity now opening because of events in eastern Europe. I am not naive. I know the Communist system very well —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "preceding_text": " was never given the answer. The hon. Gentleman's other comment was that I was using information provided by the Whips and that I had quoted only from that part of the article provided by them. Unlike some members of the Whips Office, I was not on holiday on 14 September. I read the article and gave interviews at that time. I have the article in full, and I shall quote the two relevant paragraphs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hayward", "preceding_text": ") does not like that because he knows what is in the article. The article states: Declining to set targets for the level of defence expenditure, Mr. O'Neill said that there was no doubt that production lines would disappear, others would be cut and planning and production teams would be broken up. The Times quoted the hon. Gentleman as saying: What is clear is that the incoming Labour Government\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "een overstamped with a different number? Is it not true that all weapons in the armoury were subject to frequent and detailed inspections, during which the serial numbers were checked? The Minister's letter dated 16 September confirms that there was an official \"dirty tricks\" unit at Army headquarters in Northern Ireland during the 1970s. I believe that we may be dealing with a very nasty scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-18", "file": "debates1989-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "43f24b72ce2d7364", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for giving me the opportunity once again to explain this to him. It seems that I must do so to each Minister individually. The motions passed at the Labour party conference are of differing significance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-18a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.260.8", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "It is for householders and citizens to make up their own minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.260.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "No answer was the stern reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.261.4", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I am not required to answer for every nuance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.261.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Public House Bombings (Guildford and Woolwich)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has ranged very widely and this case has nothing to do with the Diplock courts. I have covered the point about Mr. Hill and his future is not a matter for the criminal justice system in this part of the United Kingdom. The hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady) seems to be the first hon. Gentleman to raise the Birmingham case and I will not deal with it at length now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "It is better to withdraw from projects at an early stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "not affect the key element of the project, which is the development of the systems. The weapons systems will have to be mounted on hulls and there is no question but that the amount of hulls and the number of vessels will change. It is better that the hulls on which the systems are to be mounted should be built in Britain according to the staff requirements of the Royal Navy and to meet precisely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "At the moment we are discussing the Government's estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not come.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "e Labour party. I do not want to descend to the gutter politics of the Secretary of State, but let me ask a question which, perhaps, his friends will pass on to him. Did the Secretary of State, along with his friends from the Conservative party—I cannot believe that he did—attend the meeting with the neo-Nazi Mr. Blot of the French National Front, who was invited to address the party at Blackpool?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "e party—I cannot believe that he did—attend the meeting with the neo-Nazi Mr. Blot of the French National Front, who was invited to address the party at Blackpool? [HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not come.\"] Did the Secretary of State visit sMr. Derby-Lewis, of the Fascist South African Conservative party, in Blackpool? Again, I cannot believe that he did. If he did not meet them —whether they came or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a lot of crap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "ough we have discontinued an offensive capacity and the United States has not produced chemical weapons for some years, it absolutely failed to have any effect on the Soviet Union, which continued and, as far as I can judge from the document, still continues to produce chemical weapons. If ever there was an argument against unilateral disarma-ment, I think that this provides the final cornerstone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the Chairman of the Defence Select Committee, the hon. Member for Hampshire, East (Mr. Mates).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. Archibald Hamilton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr. Archibald Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery) was present, as he was able to put the record straight. The hon. Members for Rhondda and for Hillhead referred to the contribution made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State at the Conservative party conference at Blackpool. It might help if I read an excerpt from a newspaper about this matter: We have regrettably too many who adopt\"— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "No Conservative Member has invited a neo-Fascist to a Tory party conference and that man never came to the Tory party conference. Even if he had come, he is not a murderer. The fact remains that Gerry Adams is responsible for a murderous organisation and was asked by an Opposition Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-19", "file": "debates1989-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "47bbe8595645f10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " Tory party conference and that man never came to the Tory party conference. Even if he had come, he is not a murderer. The fact remains that Gerry Adams is responsible for a murderous organisation and was asked by an Opposition Member— [Interruption.] I did not accuse the Labour party but certain Opposition Members, and the fact is that it was an Opposition Member and that fact cannot be avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-19a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": "ent by students of tuition fees or student loans. My constituents and the petitioners urge the Secretary of State for Education and Science, whom I am pleased to see in his place, to understand that young people, especially those from working class backgrounds, will be discouraged from going into higher education because they will fear that they will be unable to get a decent job enabling them to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.376.10", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "ill also reduce the significant proportion of future doctors taking the optional sixth year bachelor of science degree in medical technology. The consequential effects on the quality, variety and coherence of medical education in the University of London will inevitably undermine its status and reputation in, and contribution to, worldwide medicine. Thirdly, since loans may be more quickly repaid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.376.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State will deal with that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State will deal with that point—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] This is not Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State will deal with that point—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] This is not Question Time— [interruption.] We will deal with the point, but I do not wish to make a long intervention now. I stood up only to ask the hon. Gentleman a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No, my hon. Friend will answer it when he replies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: -Answer, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall abandon my speech if the Secretary of State is prepared to answer that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall abandon my speech if the Secretary of State is prepared to answer that question—[HON. MEMBERS: -Answer, answer.\"] What is the answer? How can the right hon. Gentleman leave the answer until the end of the debate? That cannot possibly be right. I see that he is being passed a piece of paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "helpful in the making of a good society. Other countries have a grant or loans system. The White Paper is not suggesting something that is unknown in other countries. So far as I know the Republic of Ireland is the only western country which does not have some form of loans system. We also hear much paternalistic talk about the percentage of the working or labouring classes going up to university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "e costs; the other tends to reduce them. Obviously, it is impossible to construct infallible predictions and that applies as much to the Opposition as to the Government. However, the difference between the Government and the Opposition is that our proposals will produce savings for potential redeployment, whereas the Opposition's proposals will simply continue to increase expenditure indefinitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-20", "file": "debates1989-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4130e27f845b7ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "int—it is current savings that matter; the savings that arise when the scheme goes from red to black. That point will almost certainly be reached near the turn of the century, in time to provide additional resources for the expansion of higher education and for the promotion of access which we anticipate as the number of 18-year-olds starts to rise again after the demographic dip of the mid 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-20a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-23", "file": "debates1989-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "32d5441aca9bd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.474.6", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Other Commonwealth Prime Ministers have echoed what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.474.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-23", "file": "debates1989-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "32d5441aca9bd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.474.8", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "The position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.474.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-23", "file": "debates1989-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "32d5441aca9bd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.474.10", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I have said that I believe that the Prime Minister has been deceitful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.474.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-23", "file": "debates1989-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "32d5441aca9bd8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been here long enough to know that we in this House do not attribute dishonourable motives to each other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-23a.477.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a point, and we recognise it. There is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a point, and we recognise it. There is— [Interruption.] If hon. Members will be good enough to wait for the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Consistency is not a word with which one should ever charge the Opposition. Although they have proposals for massive reductions in defence expenditure, they never lose opportunities to complain about the potential job losses that they suspect lie somewhere within our proposals, which are for considerably greater defence expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.663.6", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should understand that export performance, as recorded in the figures reported today, continues to be encouraging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.663.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "London Ambulance Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) about such an industrial management decision? Was it taken by the London ambulance adminstration after consulting the Secretary of State or the NHS administrator, and, if not, why not? Why has he allowed that administration to take such a major step of principle in its reactions without his being consulted, or was he not consulted? On the matter of ACAS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.680.4", "colnum": "680", "heading": "London Ambulance Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will find that the unions have modified the silly attitude that they were taking yesterday and that discussions have taken place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "at we take account of some of his difficulties in an understanding way—the present Foreign Secretary is already learning all about how the Prime Minister treats colleagues. The Chancellor could have given him a crash course before he left for Malaysia. The Chancellor was hardly back from Blackpool, where he was portrayed with others as part of the right team of people working together for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "h to anything is ever possible under the present Prime Minister. Isolated in Europe, isolated in the Commonwealth, at home she is increasingly isolated by the deference and lack of courage of a Cabinet who dare not challenge her overwhelming pretensions. These Ministers know the lessons of the reshuffle: \"If you lose your job. you get another house, but if you keep your job, you lose your house.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Among Conservative Members, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman raises laughter among his right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will that point be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows them well. They are conditions relating to proper swap arrangements between the central banks, a policy for growth rather than deflation, and consideration of the right point at which entry to the ERM should be effected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.691.5", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.691.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.691.7", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I refer the House to an interesting passage in the speech in Blackpool by the right hon. Member for Henley. It is highly relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.691.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "of the distorting effect of mortgage interest payments. Without them—and to make a fair comparison, one has to look without them because of all the other Community countries, only the Republic of Ireland includes them in its index—without them, therefore, to have a more truly comparable basis, the gap would be around 1 per cent. Compare that with the last Labour Government, when British inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith), who spoke from the Opposition Front Bench, was heard in comparative quiet. I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.698.5", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "d Gentleman has sought to portray. The right analogy is not with a company running at a loss. It is more like a company that, though profitable, cannot finance its investment programme entirely from its own resources and has to raise external finance to fill the 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.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.701.4", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " major European country, and business investment is a higher proportion of GDP than at any time since records began. Profitability is higher than it has been for the past 20 years, partly reflecting the much improved quality of today's investment. The quality of British management, too, has been transformed. Expenditure on training is rising fast and is now running at well over £20 billion a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.701.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "hort speeches. Prosperity and the availability of credit have greatly increased personal indebtedness. At the same time, however, my right hon. Friend has been paying off public debt and has a substantial negative borrowing requirement—again a change from 10 to 12 years ago. What is more, despite some claims to the contrary, I believe that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor is still a monetarist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "that happens everyone will become a mini Chancellor of the Exchequer. Everyone will have his own ideas about how the next Budget should be formed. The hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) offered two suggestions: to negotiate to join the EMS immediately and to increase taxation. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have made it perfectly clear about our joining the EMS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Guilty as charged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "rrecting and do not matter. Even if that were true—it is not—the Chancellor's statement poses the question: at what level of output and employment would the balance of payments deficit be self-correcting? The answer must be that it would be self-correcting only at a level that involved a considerable recession. I do not ask anyone to take my word for this. I am prepared to plead my own mediocrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "preceding_text": "roductivity, must walk a tightrope. They must achieve disinflation without creating deflation. It is an extremely sensitive tight rope because it involves the psychology of the consumer. To cite a hypothetical example, say that a family with a joint income of £20,000 keeps £12,000 of that net of tax. Say that they have a house valued at £50,000, which is increasing in value by 20 per cent. a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on—smile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ngdom. The Chancellor may also be pleased to notice his description of the man who brought about immense changes in monetary and fiscal policy. That was not the Chancellor, but Sir Alan himself. Not that he is ungenerous in his articles. Although much of the credit goes to himself, the rest goes to what Sir Alan describes as the real architect of Britain's economic renaissance—the Prime Minister.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.801.2", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "n to the House—that I am not a parent. During exchanges in the frivolous time that we spent in Committee the hon. Lady the Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) made me an offer that I could refuse. Shortly afterwards she was dispatched to Beijing to prevent our relationship flourishing. I support the new clause that has been moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Durham, North-West (Ms. Armstrong)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.801.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is important that I put on record and reaffirm the view of the official Opposition on this Bill. The Opposition have attempted to co-operate with the progress of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is worth recording the fact that not one member of the miners parliamentary group has attempted to speak in the debate on the Children Bill tonight. One, or perhaps two at most, hon. Members who are members of that group have been present throughout the debate. We did not force a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "y are there now. However, on previous occasions, some right hon. and hon. Members have been tucked up in bed. I listened to the right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) earlier on. He will be tucked up in bed now. He was not pleased about today's debate and if he were here now he probably would not be pleased about what was happening. Conservative Members are not really interested in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-24", "file": "debates1989-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "1fd6b2e299dc5afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": " Members for Batley and Spen (Mrs. Peacock) and for Mid-Kent (Mr. Rowe), were as concerned as my hon. Friends lest the amount of time allocated would not be sufficient. It has been said time and again that the Bill is of crucial importance in that it has taken 100 years to reach the position when we can radically reform the law of child care. We are prepared to go on debating it through the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-24a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.830.3", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his appointment and wish him a happy and constructive spell at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office? I assure him that he can rely on security of job tenure at the Foreign Office, unless, of couse, he hears Mr. Charles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.830.5", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "t I hope that his job tenure will be acceptable to him and to Mr. Charles Powell. Since the right hon. Gentleman has responded to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) by drawing attention to the question of harmonisation, why is it that the Prime Minister traipses from international conference to international conference seeking to wreck harmonisation? She did so at the EC summit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.830.9", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "My question follows directly on the subject of harmonisation. The Prime Minister repudiated an agreement that the right hon. Gentleman had negotiated to fulfil her role as the enthusiastic accomplice of apartheid in South Africa. Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.830.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.831.9", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "First, on a point of information, the hon. Gentleman may care to know that no communiqué was repudiated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.831.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.832.4", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should ask hon. Members to speak up. I had some difficulty in hearing the last question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.832.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "hat. I understand my hon. Friend's concerns; I wish there were an easy alternative, but neither he nor anyone else has yet found one. The whole international community made it perfectly clear at Geneva and elsewhere that it was not prepared to take non-refugees. It is therefore not reasonable to accept that they will have to stay in Hong Kong for ever and I cannot, will not and do not accept that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Children Bill (Proceedings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Unlike anyone else, you, Sir, have the privilege of reading what happened. The way in which Hansard is published means that anyone who hears this exchange will not have read what happened. It is important that we are allowed to put the record straight. It is not good enough for part-time Tory Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Children Bill (Proceedings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. These are not matters of order, although they may be matters of disagreement across the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Children Bill (Proceedings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "You know, Mr. Speaker, they are a mardy lot over there—and they are being really deceitful this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Children Bill (Proceedings)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. One feature is, I think, central to the whole discussion. The Children Bill commands widespread support throughout the House. It is a good Bill, widely commended, and last night—I was here and the shadow Leader of the House was not—the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman left us in no doubt about his anxiety to see it passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I support new clause I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From Lonrho.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman tell the House whether he has arrived at that conclusion because of the experience of his former party—the SDP—which I understand received approximately £9,975 in the year up to 1987? It may be that that £10,000 now goes to the Liberal Democrats. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is embarrassed by that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the very man—the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "y, but if the hon. Gentleman studies the legal and constitutional terms of the merger between the Social Democractic party with the British Liberal party, he will find that that party is still within the merged party and therefore those people, to whom I shall refer as provisionals in all this, must speak for themselves. I do not take responsibility for them. I shall return to my basic contention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Just wait.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "I confess to finding the Minister's first speech on the Bill disappointing in two respects. First, I assume that what I heard was the much-trailed, ferocious and blood-curdling attack that was to be made on me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.945.6", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "These amendments concern the Dearing report on the making of accounting standards. The House might like to know that, earlier today, in answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett) I announced that Sir Ronald Dearing has accepted an invitation to become chairman designate of the Financial Reporting Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.945.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.945.6", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "s announcement. Sir Ronald's initial task will be to negotiate with interested parties so that the new arrangements for making and enforcing accounting standards are in place by next summer. Once the body is established, it is the intention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, acting jointly with the Governor of the Bank of England, to appoint Sir Ronald formally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.945.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ed at annual general meetings. I should like a ministerial assurance that these matters will be dealt with by Sir Ronald Dearing when he takes over his new role. The article refers to a settlement for Mr. George and Mrs. Liz Davies, the husband-and-wife team ousted last December from their positions of chairman and product director at Next\", which I understand is a retail group that sells clothes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "hese matters will be dealt with by Sir Ronald Dearing when he takes over his new role. The article refers to a settlement for Mr. George and Mrs. Liz Davies, the husband-and-wife team ousted last December from their positions of chairman and product director at Next\", which I understand is a retail group that sells clothes— [Interruption.] Some of us do not spend our time shopping in the west end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "icle refers to a settlement for Mr. George and Mrs. Liz Davies, the husband-and-wife team ousted last December from their positions of chairman and product director at Next\", which I understand is a retail group that sells clothes— [Interruption.] Some of us do not spend our time shopping in the west end— [Interruption.] Next has not made my patch yet, although I am sure that it will come in time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.968.6", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " not been around a great deal and that he has a lot of trouble with the Prime Minister. He should explain, however, where in \"Erskine May\" this practice is allowed. I note that the Clerk is having a word with Madam Deputy Speaker and I suppose that he is trying to square it for the Leader of the House. This is an indication of the way in which the Government have got their business into a shambles", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.968.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "At the next election.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Here we have a Government with a 150 majority——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "rn up for major debates, why should they turn up and vote for them in the Lobbies? That shows that the Government are now at the tether end. I hope that we shall have the opportunity to vote against the guillotine tomorrow, to show that we are going to fight the Government to the bitter end. I hope, too, that the Government will have the sense to pull off the Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ching them, when that is patently not true. I must say that I feel very critical of—and angry with—Conservative Members who make such imputations about the Chair. As the House knows, any occupant of the Chair would draw the House's attention to any breach of Standing Orders immediately: he would not need to wait for 24 hours for guidance from some Back Bencher seeking a quarrel where none existed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.979.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ing to adjourn this debate and by producing two guillotine motions later today, but I hesitate to contemplate the idea of their moving the closure on a debate to adjourn consideration of the Companies Bill. That would be outrageous. It is the sort of thing that happened in pre-war Germany. I cannot believe that even this Government would stoop to the gutter of anti-democratic practice and do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should be grateful if you could tell us whether you were notified of the intention of the new Leader of the House to make a business statement after midnight. Certainly the Opposition were not so notified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "rateful to know whether you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, were notified in advance. It is only right that hon. Members should know such things in advance so that they can be in their places if they so wish. Let me take this opportunity to make it clear that, from 9 o'clock this evening, the official Opposition received no approaches whatever from the Government about any of the matters under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.993.5", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is not a point of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.993.6", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "If the lager louts opposite would belt up for a second I might be able to state my point of order. I suspect that 95 per cent. of hon. Members currently in the Chamber were not here at 12 o'clock, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.993.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot hear you, Frank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I sympathise with the Leader of the House. He has been flying around the world for the past five years and he is a bit out of touch with the procedures of the House. He has had to consult the Tory Chief Whip to find out what to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "rs and he is a bit out of touch with the procedures of the House. He has had to consult the Tory Chief Whip to find out what to do—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot hear you, Frank.\"] You can hear them, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but you are not doing anything about it. I have been in the Chamber all night. The Leader of the House stood at the Dispatch Box and said that he was going to make a business statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I should point out the difference between the Commission and the European Court, which is what we are discussing tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.999.6", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "In any event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "No, not for the moment. The Minister said that this interim injunction does not affect the requirement that such persons must be resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom. Will the Minister explain those words? Does it mean that if I were Jose Romero, a Spanish fisherman, I would simply have to announce my intention to live here?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way because of the time constraints. Other hon. Members wish to speak. No one could take any pleasure or satisfaction from this order. It has been described as \"wretched\", and it is. The Government have no alternative but to bring it forward if they are to obey the law. If—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way because of the time constraints. Other hon. Members wish to speak. No one could take any pleasure or satisfaction from this order. It has been described as \"wretched\", and it is. The Government have no alternative but to bring it forward if they are to obey the law. If— [Interruption.] If people think that we should not obey the law, let them say so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ber for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor) is that he is so wrapped up in his opposition to the European Community that he cannot see the Government's incompetence. At present it is not the European Community which is depriving fishermen of access to decommissioning funds or lay-off funds which would help in the current crisis; it is the total, drift and incompetence of the Government's fisheries policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-25", "file": "debates1989-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "db5b401d838965b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You have lost what you knew.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Nicholas Lyell)", "preceding_text": "If I have to go into legalities at some stage, I hope that the House will forgive me, but I should first like to take a few moments to explain the interim judgment—I emphasise that it is only an interim judgment or order of the European Court—and to put it into context. I know a great deal about this case. I have appeared at every level in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-25a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "id, shall be read the first and second time (and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and shall be ordered to be read the third time; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session. That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [Mr. Harold Walker.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ng Order 127 relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [Mr. Harold Walker.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1030.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [Mr. Harold Walker.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1030.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will have heard of the tragic events in Stockport last Thursday, when a temporary member of the Stockport shooting centre tried to leave with a pistol. He shot dead another member and then shot dead someone nearby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1041.7", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "No. I totally disagree with the hon. Gentleman. There is constant and increasing pressure due to the number of people who want to enter the United Kingdom. In 1978, 27 million people came into this country and in 1988 the figure was 45 million. Every time we try to improve the procedures, the Opposition vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1041.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1046.8", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, with a few exceptions, the British people pay themselves far too much money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1046.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Commonwealth Conference", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": " global environment, southern Africa, the future of the Commonwealth, drugs, and the choice of a new Commonwealth Secretary-General to succeed Mr. Ramphal in July next year. I am sure that the whole House will join me in paying tribute to the enormous contribution which Sonny Ramphal has made to the Commonwealth during his 14 years as secretary-general. I will deal with the main subjects in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1049.5", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Commonwealth Conference", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Hong Kong's people. The second was the reaffirmation of the need for speedy action to deal with the problem of Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong, including as a matter of priority the return to Vietnam of all those who do not qualify as genuine refugees. The third was a recognition of the need to increase aviation security world wide, particularly important in the wake of the Lockerbie disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1049.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Commonwealth Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "r action a short time later when she put out a statement, apparently without reference to her Foreign Secretary, which was hostile to all sanctions and which stated that the effect of such sanctions would be to \"increase resistance to change\"? Is that not a gross inconsistency? Would it not be more honest if in future the Prime Minister were to sign all international agreements with invisible ink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Commonwealth Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ut a statement, apparently without reference to her Foreign Secretary, which was hostile to all sanctions and which stated that the effect of such sanctions would be to \"increase resistance to change\"? Is that not a gross inconsistency? Would it not be more honest if in future the Prime Minister were to sign all international agreements with invisible ink—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] No, it is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Commonwealth Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In the wake of the Commonwealth meeting, is it not clear that it is difficult for anyone to trust a Prime Minister who signs a document at 5 and repudiates it at 6 o'clock? Does the Prime Minister understand that nobody doubts her right to free speech, but what disgusts people is the way in which she exercises that right with a forked tongue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1052.4", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Commonwealth Conference", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "conference. We are committed to reduce substantially the amount of CFCs and to move to a 100 per cent. reduction, provided that the relevant research has produced proper alternative substitutes. It was our proposal to have a global convention on CO 2 and the greenhouse effect—a proposal which was taken up by other nations. On the environment, the Labour party cannot touch this Government's record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1052.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Commonwealth Conference", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " were. The four main parts of the document were disagreed, and it states, \"with the exception of Britain\" or \"Britain disagrees\". It is on those parts that we issued an especially clear statement. Our view on apartheid is clear and our practical help for South Africa is clear, as is our hatred of economic sanctions. The hon. Gentleman is one of those who wish to impose punitive economic sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the Tory Benches\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Sometimes this place is in a hubbub and I know that you cannot hear everything, Mr. Speaker. I know that you turn a deaf ear to some of the words and expletives that are used as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1071.6", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "eek. During the discussions I have learnt quite a lot about this interesting piece of legislation and I have no doubt I shall learn more next Wednesday, possibly even from the hon. Gentleman. He has not enlightened me greatly in his discussion of last night's proceedings because despite his lurid expectations, my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Whip had a well-manned majority in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1071.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1072.6", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1078.3", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " than in any Session in this century. The Government preach efficiency and improved output to everyone else, but, this year, their productivity has been even worse. This Session is likely to last for about 175 days, yet the number of Government Bills is likely to total just 37 and that will be the lowest number of Bills passed in an ordinary Session in an ordinary year since the second world war.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1083.6", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "We had a serious debate yesterday on business contributions to the Conservative party. The Conservative Members all stood up blocking our new clause and wasting time, but our case was first class and we were doing our job as an Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1083.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "not our fault that people are having to go on council house waiting lists because they cannot meet mortgage repayments. All these factors have a direct bearing on children. There are families in my constituency who will become homeless because their houses are being repossessed because they cannot afford the huge repayments which are the result of increased interest rates. If Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "hem for a statement. The implications of the Chancellor—even this Chancellor—resigning will be profound upon the stock market and on international confidence in the pound. I assure you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that many of my constituents will be worried about their gold stocks, their shares and all the other assets that they have managed to accumulate during the past 10 years. In those circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1094.3", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not opportune to remind the Leader of the House that less than three hours ago the Leader of the Opposition asked a specific question about the Chancellor and about part-time advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1094.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1098.5", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are very grateful for the intervention: it was helpful. The question remains, however, not only of the statement but of who makes the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1098.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the support that I have had from hon. Members during—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1100.4", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": " Those jobs directly affect the lives of children for whom we are legislating in the Children Bill. We differ in our views on child welfare in that Opposition Members believe that child abuse is not just about nasty people. It is about marital stress, marital problems, isolation, deprivation, poverty and, above all, unemployment. Research after research shows a clear connection between job losses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Companies Bill [Lords]and Children Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. David Mellor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "ested that there was some doubt about whether it would have been possible for us to complete our progress on the Children Bill. There was also some doubt about whether the Government could move as they did. Any doubt that might have existed about whether progress was possible must surely have been washed away by what happened in the House last night when some of the following exchanges took place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1114.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1121.6", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Resignation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruptionl", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1121.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1121.13", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Resignation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "to appoint my right hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major) as Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Hurd) as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Waddington) as Secretary of State for the Home Department. There is no change in the successful economic policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1121.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Resignation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ent of making his statement, he had the great advantage of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) coming to his aid—in the same way as the Leader of the Opposition normally comes to the aid of the Prime Minister? Will he take it from the House, from all of us I believe, that we wish my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) well in whatever activities he engages in ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Resignation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "This is the place in which to test the continuing confidence of the country in the Government, and we may have no doubts about the competence of my right hon. and hon. Friends in this Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Chancellor of the Exchequer (Resignation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "lear to all of us—I am sure that Conservative Members agree, whether they say this or not—that the Government are economically and politically in a deep mess from which they do not know how to extricate themselves? At a time like this, surely we have the right to expect a Prime Minister to have the courage to come here and speak to us herself instead of being such a coward about it and not coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1124.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Companies Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to respond to the points made by the hon. Members for Norwich, South (Mr. Garrett) and for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Mr. Cousins). The new clauses do different things. New clause 9 gives employers the duty to make an annual report to their employees. I agree that it is good practice to do so. Indeed, all companies have to publish a report of some sort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-26", "file": "debates1989-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ee0e4baaeda9124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mr. Ronald Cannon", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-26a.1258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly true. It is ludicrous that any Government should proceed before the Lord Justice of Appeal whom they appointed has pronounced upon their schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that he will say that it should be withdrawn. That is not a far-fetched hypothesis but one that is based on reality. The Government's decision to allow the licensing authority to be set up and to impose fees on football in circumstances that mean that we might not have a scheme at all is crass stupidity of an order that very few of us have seen before. That is an additional reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1275.2", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "nd journalists from other newspapers what the Minister wished to convey. The statement that has been issued is wholly unacceptable to us in any case because the experiment that we are told is to take place while powers of licensing and taxation are being granted will take place over a short period. If the Minister proposes to have an experiment, it should he over a longer period—at least a season.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "t of their profits. My hon. Friend the Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Mr. Pendry) has followed the same line. We have indeed made concrete proposals, and 99 per cent. of the problems inside the grounds have been solved through the use of better policing and technology. I do not want to widen the debate; I merely wish to answer some of the nonsense poured out by the hon. Member for Epping Forest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1291.6", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I was going to ask the hon. Gentleman why we are pressing forward with the measure at this stage. This question has been raised by my hon. Friends and we need an answer. Why has the motion been tabled at this stage, without our having discussed Lord Justice Taylor's interim report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1291.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1312.3", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-27", "file": "debates1989-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d4359d488622117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1348.0", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "orders which were debated, albeit briefly, this morning and the important issue of termination of voluntary care. It is appropriate that I should ask the Minister to give a commitment—if not this afternoon, then fairly soon—about the implementation dates that the Government have in mind. We understood earlier that they were thinking of April 1991, but more recently we have heard about autumn 1991.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-27a.1348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "ord Justice Taylor's conclusions so far on Hillsborough have been somewhat less than fortunate, in that they almost fully blame the police for the Hillsborough disaster? I refer to the conclusions that are set out in his interim report. That being so, this admirable and sensible amendment may be prejudiced. The Opposition take a different position from ours when it comes to support for the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "vious way to do that is to have a sight check of membership cards of people entering that gate. Of course the cards will not be machine-read in detail, but at least such a check would show the almost certain probability that the people entering the ground were members in good standing. It would be perfectly proper for the club to do that and it would be something of which the police would approve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "by). I agree that clarity is necessary. I hope that clarity will exist in the licences, because there will need to be consultation with the police before licences are finally issued. The police input will be real and extensive before licences are in effect. The police will work under arrangements that they have helped to make. The hon. Member for Newham, North-West made some sensible observations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who would the hon. Gentleman suggest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Wareing) accused me of wanting to have no supporters on the FMA. That is a total misrepresentation, although that has not been unusual for the hon. Gentleman in our deliberations on the Bill. I agree with him that the supporters should have a voice. But regrettably, the Opposition in their ineptitude have not been able to suggest anyone who would be truly representative or able to nominate anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I had thought that the Minister would have learned from his experiences in Hartlepool. I invited him there and he will remember that the buildings at the club are wooden structures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "sinesses must find the costs to ensure that their facilities are safe. There is no difference between a licence condition imposed on a cinema and that imposed on a football club. That must be right. If a football club, cinema or any other place of entertainment or business involved in the leisure industry cannot afford to make its premises safe, it should not be open to the public for any purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "o, I do not intend to give way. We have had enough talk of Luton Town today. The hon. Gentleman will have to be quiet. Luton Town, I am sorry to say, is relegated to the second division for the purposes of this debate. For old-age pensioners, £10 is a lot of money. An old-age pensioner may only go to a football match at Christmas. Pensioners can least afford £10, even though it is for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": " have already done. We want to encourage membership, not seek exemptions to the scheme. It is not a case of identifying groups who will not cause trouble at matches and then exempting them from the requirement to join the scheme. Taken to its logical conclusion, if we began to remove groups who caused no problems, perhaps we would identify that all men with beards were not involved in hooliganism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.95.2", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "se to double up on all the turnstiles? If he is suggesting that, he has answered the point for me. It would be utterly impractical to attempt to do that at football grounds. Not only would it be impractical, but I would argue that a national membership scheme that required such checking would not satisfy the criteria that we require for speed of entry. That is an essential point on safety grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.95.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Newham, North-West will raise that point in his discussions with the Chelsea pensioners. I should prefer to concentrate on the benefits of membership that I have outlined in detail to the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.97.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "eaks down. The automatic ticket barriers on the Underground serve to prepare ordinary people for all-in wrestling, or soldiers for assault courses. It will then take one constable or two constables per man to ensure that everyone behaves, which will make the situation even more like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan than I previously imagined. However, I must not make too many rash statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes it will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": " why keen football supporters and the Professional Footballers Association have adopted the same approach. However, now comes the point of change. Once the Bill becomes an Act, we shall all have a vested interest in ensuring that as many people as possible join the national membership scheme. If we do not do that, it will not be my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister or the Government who suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.124.5", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The hon. Gentleman will just distort what I have said. he has not been listening carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.124.5", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "rk. The hooligans laughed at it, the police said that they could not impose it and the Dutch Government had to drop it. The Dutch Government are a laughing stock. Never let it be said—but it has been said—that the Opposition support the hooligans. We do not, because we go to the matches. There is no way that I can support the hooligans when I have been involved—innocently—in punch-ups in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "done to eradicate the hooligans. The Football Trust, which the Opposition have supported, is putting £9 million into football every year. For example, I refer to video cameras. It has been proved possible to arrest a hooligan within 30 seconds. If Conservative Members went to football matches they would see video cameras around the grounds. Hon. Members have seen the video cameras in the Chamber —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": " living expert on football. Many Conservative Members share his sentiments and experiences as youngsters or even as adults. I remember that, as a small boy, I went to Kenilworth road at a time when small boys could go and watch the great games at Luton. Many of us understand the problems that the hon. Member for Bassetlaw has put before the House. He is right to say that there are several experts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Member?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " it, but that was her logic. As I said, we are discussing the nature of society, and we must not forget that a football team is a focus for the public pride of the community of which it is part. That is why millions of people who have left these shores have continued to wonder how their teams are doing. I was very taken with what the right hon. Member for Brent, North (Sir R. Boyson) said earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-30", "file": "debates1989-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "72b4e99426c7a6e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football Spectators Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "n Committee, that means that there will be at least one policeman on every turnstile. That will not reduce police costs. Of course there must be a policeman on every turnstile because nobody else can do the arresting. The principle of civil liberties was put extremely well by the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell). He is the most distinguished athlete present in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-30a.139.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.155.16", "colnum": "155", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " Order 127 relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House. [Miss Betty Boothroyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.155.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order 127 relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [Miss Betty Boothroyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.155.19"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "esented under Standing Order 171A(1); That any Petitions presented under the foregoing Order shall stand referred to the Committee on the Bill in the next Session; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House. — [Miss Betty Boothroyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.156.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "orded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [Miss Betty Boothroyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "orded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [Miss Betty Boothroyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.157.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Bill save those who complain of any amendment as proposed in the filled up Bill or of any matter which arises during the progress of the Bill before the committee; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House. — [Miss Betty Boothroyd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.168.9", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the headlines in today's newspapers which say that Britain is isolated over the social charter? Does he agree that that is hardly surprising given that we are so far ahead of our European partners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.168.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " reservations about the social charter. There is no question but that unemployment has fallen faster in Britain than in any other European country. It currently stands below the European average, and below that in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Greece and Italy. We believe that the social dimension should be about jobs and that the social charter simply does not live up to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The regulations set out in the charter will not achieve what all hon. Members want. The House deceives itself if it believes that the social charter will be good for employment or will reduce unemployment in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I must point out that only a couple of years ago the hon. Gentleman was running for office by supporting a proposal for Britain to come out of the Common Market altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I must point out that only a couple of years ago the hon. Gentleman was running for office by supporting a proposal for Britain to come out of the Common Market altogether. [Interruption.] Yes, he was. If the hon. Gentleman disagrees with that, I shall give him the reference. In the Labour Herald of 24 September 1982, the hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " of years ago the hon. Gentleman was running for office by supporting a proposal for Britain to come out of the Common Market altogether. [Interruption.] Yes, he was. If the hon. Gentleman disagrees with that, I shall give him the reference. In the Labour Herald of 24 September 1982, the hon. Gentleman said— [Interruption.] Does the hon. Gentleman change his principles every five years? The fact —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.172.9", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is being less than frank with the House and the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.172.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.172.10", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor's position is unassailable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.172.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nonsense. The position is precisely as I have set it out many times. Advisers are free to advise honestly. Ministers decide —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The conditions under which we shall join the exchange rate mechanism—we already belong to the European monetary system, of course—were laid down and agreed at Madrid. They are specified in stage I of the Delors report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The conditions under which we shall join the exchange rate mechanism—we already belong to the European monetary system, of course—were laid down and agreed at Madrid. They are specified in stage I of the Delors report— [Interruption.] Of course the Opposition do not want the truth. It gets in their way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.176.6", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the valuable contribution that is made to environmental protection by recycling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.176.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Jaguar PLC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "us people. I believe that that is therefore in the interests of the company. No one has asked me to make this statement. I have made it because I want to make it quite clear what the ground rules are as the board begins to discuss the options before it. It would not be either right or possible for me to use the golden share to negotiate assurances of the sort that the hon. Gentleman has suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.186.6", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Jaguar PLC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Further to what you accepted as three points of order running from the Opposition Benches, Mr. Speaker. Since it was claimed that the Secretary of State's statement had nothing to do with the debate coming today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.186.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Fuel and Energy Provision", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hughes", "preceding_text": "or or his deputy. Such a service would need publicity, and I am certain that the local media would be only too willing to help. Publicity would have a dual purpose. It would serve people in their homes by involving politicians and local council officials, and it would offer them advice. The advice could be of a general nature, such as stating the principles which govern the help that is available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.191.6", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "tantial progress—no more than that—on the single market. That was not enough for the Prime Minister. On she went, throughout almost the entire second section of her interview, expanding conditions and extending time scales with gay abandon. Not only are exchange controls to be removed, but investment requirements on pension funds and insurance funds in all member states have to go. What is called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.191.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows well that we have repeatedly set out the conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows well that we have repeatedly set out the conditions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] He knows perfectly well that time and again we have proposed that Britain should join the ERM on certain prudent conditions which the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " Gentleman knows well that we have repeatedly set out the conditions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] He knows perfectly well that time and again we have proposed that Britain should join the ERM on certain prudent conditions which the Labour party—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The difference between the two sides of the House is that we are clear about what those conditions are, whereas the Government side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I can understand why the Conservative party wants to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.9", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The fundamental problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.194.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.195.2", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I assure you that I rise on a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I will continue when you can hear me, Mr. Speaker. We are all aware that if an hon. Member is speaking and gives way and is asked a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.195.10", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "It is a great pity that the House is not currently being televised, so that the whole nation could observe the organised wrecking tactics used by the Conservative party against the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.195.10"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "Labour would devalue the currency as each and every previous Labour Government have done —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.9", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "cifically to that point. Indeed, I have already begun to do so. In my judgment, we are absolutely right to use all the practical levers at our disposal to bear down on inflation. One of these—an important one, of course—is fiscal policy. One of the great achievements of my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby has been the transformation of the Government's financial position. Public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.9", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "to its target range. I understand very well that present levels of interest rates make things very difficult for some home owners, particularly young people who have large mortgages in relation to their incomes, but there are others who should also concern us. We also have to be concerned about those young people who could not afford to buy in the first place, because of the pace of rising prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.9", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " in relation to their incomes, but there are others who should also concern us. We also have to be concerned about those young people who could not afford to buy in the first place, because of the pace of rising prices— [Interruption.] If only for their sakes, there had to be a correction to rising house prices to prevent them being priced right out of the market. That correction is now happening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.202.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that under this Government this country has seen its greatest ever growth in home ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that under this Government this country has seen its greatest ever growth in home ownership— [Interruption.] —and that will continue. Not surprisingly, exchange markets were unsettled last Thursday, but less so than many imagined and far less than the Leader of the Opposition predicted. On Friday he said, \"today when the pound plummets\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.203.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, my right hon. Friend has not seen the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "e inflation rate of a banana republic under the Labour Government. The Labour party is well aware of that. That is why it has invented Mr. Mandelson and his public relations gloss and disinvented Socialism. Socialism is rarely mentioned from the Opposition Front Bench except to deny that it exists. The Labour party knows what poison it is for most of the people in this country. Occasionally, even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "policies, however it tries to hide them, seep out one by one. The Labour party is in favour of credit controls—just as everyone else is abandoning them. It would renationalise wherever it could. It would increase taxes on companies and individuals. It would abolish the trade union legislation. The Leader of the Opposition would reinvent sector working parties. A Labour Government would spend more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "rnment who care not only about national but about regional policies. I am afraid that, judging by what we have heard from Conservative Members, we will not have that type of Government from the Conservatives. We need a new Government who will have faith in the country, our people and the future. I know that we will not get that from the Conservatives. Only a Labour Government can bring that about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.234.2", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "y made by my hon. Friends. Although Lawson and Walters can walk away from the problem, millions of ordinary decent people in society will be stuck with nowhere to go. In that will be the seeds of destruction not only of the Government but of the system that they represent. As Socialists, we give fair warning that workers are turning towards democratic Socialism because they see the ineffectuality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "It is not Alka-Seltzer that the Government are administering to the population of Britain and especially to its workers, it is arsenic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ter the European monetary system. I have returned to the House, having spoken to firm after firm in my constituency, believing that the sooner we enter the European monetary system to improve exchange rate stability the better it will be for our exports and our interests generally. I have no doubt that that is the right course.\"—[ Official Report , 4 November 1981; Vol. 12, c. 68.] What was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "working together, and not even a mention of the chairman of the Conservative party. On \"Panorama\" last night, the Foreign Secretary came nearest to giving us the answer to how to deal with the Prime Minister. How does he deal with the Prime Minister? He answered: to argue, but courteously. Then you will find yourself being contradicted, and sometimes told you don't know what you are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "house, which was not fair. A pub's off-licence business is ancillary to its usual business. I have done as much as I can to assist the competitive position of pubs in Northern Ireland, not least by allowing them to open on Sundays and to have gaming machines that offer small prizes. It is important to promote the pub in Northern Ireland, which I am doing, but competition must be fair and balanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-10-31", "file": "debates1989-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "43e67a0ce5410255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Energy (Mr. Peter Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Energy (Mr. Peter Morrison)", "preceding_text": "work for up to 2,000 people. The development will increase employment at the plant by 10 per cent.—all of whom are being recruited in Scotland—and also lead to a 10 per cent. rise in the number of long-term contractors on the site. It is clear that the increased capacity planned for the Mossmorran plant, which has led indirectly to Shell's need for a new pipeline, will bring more jobs to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-10-31a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my right hon. Friend has any counterpart in the European Community —he is unique.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "must look more carefully at the state of the British economy to see the many good things that are going on. Why, for example, does he make no reference to the fact that we have the highest stock of overseas assets relative to our GNP of any country? Why does he not refer to the largest invisible surplus of any country? Why does he not refer to the fact that export volume is now up 11 per cent. on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will have heard today the utterly outrageous statement by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry that 12-year-olds should be able to use credit cards. I wonder whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The role of FPCs will be greatly enhanced. For example, on the 26 hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.338.4", "colnum": "338", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "an important concession as, especially with vaccinations, a high proportion of practices will hit the lower target payment. On 4 May, I proceeded on the basis of the concessions made. The negotiators then recommended the resulting agreement to their members, but, because of the internal politics of the BMA, unfortunately, all that went wrong and there was subsequent controversy about the contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "hundreds of hon. Members on both sides of the House are gathered round the television screens hanging on to every word of those contributing. I saw for the first time today an example of \"doughnutting\", whereby the few Opposition Members present congregated around their Front-Bench spokesman. We also had a little bit of that around the Secretary of State, but there was a bigger hole in the middle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "a prescription; you will be all right then.\" The third listened. He made an appointment with a consultant, and my wife obtained the necessary operation—from which, thankfully, she has now recovered. But what would have happened if all three doctors had been under pressure, and had not listened? A doctor who sits signing a prescription while the patient is still talking does not inspire confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do, every four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "eagues, included regular medical assessments, practice leaflets, and production of annual reports. I listened to my colleagues with some incredulity. I wonder how many of them have read the statutory instrument issued by the Department of Health which sets down the required content of annual reports. They are to be long. Perhaps some of us should write a similar annual report for our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " learned Friend the Secretary of State on his positive and rather more agreeable presentation of the Government's case on the GP contract. I only wish that what he said had carried a majority of not only general practitioners but the people of the country. As yet, my right hon. and learned Friend does not carry a majority of either doctors or the people in what he is seeking to do in the contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "ds, the Secretary of State for Energy, the Leader of the House and myself in July, an approach was made to Associated British Ports. They then made an approach to Parliament, and I understand that that approach may have gone, directly or indirectly, to the Chairman of Ways and Means. That suggests to me and to many others than a Government Department has interfered directly with this private Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.375.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "It is very important that the House supports the carry-over motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, the carry-over is required because the Third Reading of the Bill now stands adjourned. In those circumstances, it is absolutely necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Coming to this House after 20 years local authority service, I am absolutely astounded to find that half of the Members on the Conservative Benches have interests in South Africa, interests in coal and shares in coal, yet here we are debating with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "yet here we are debating with them— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) can grin as much as he likes, but I am astounded at the contempt that this House has for our people, especially those in the mining areas. Conservative Members should be ashamed of that, and so should you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You should not allow this debate to continue. You should suspend it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.384.9", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bradford, North was towards the end of his speech during our debate before the recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.384.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.384.12", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no they are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the House once more that I have listened to many points of order. Those that are now being raised are merely a repetition of the points with which I have dealt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.384.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Those points can be raised during the debate; they are not points of order for the Chair. I am gaining the impression that the House is trying to involve the Chair in political controversy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.385.5", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "The Bill was first presented to the House in November 1987. For some two years, therefore, the House has been able to consider the Bill on Second Reading, and then to instruct the Opposed Private Bill Committee to consider it at the Committee stage. The Committee considered the Bill, and reported it to the House without amendment. I remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am trying to remind the hon. Members that the House has had an opportunity to consider the Bill on Second Reading, in Committee and in the first part of the Third Reading debate. The carry-over motion will enable the House to reach a conclusion in the next Session of Parliament. In those circumstances, I believe that it is crucial for the motion to be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about our constituents?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "We owe it to the House to declare the greatest interest of all—the welfare of our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I know that you have to deal with some tricky situations in the House but we are coming to a sorry pass. The sponsors of the Bill are sitting under the Gallery and there is a South African pin-striped fellow who has not yet opened his eyes. Despite all the talk, he is using the Chamber as a doss house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We should suspend the House for 10 minutes. I an extremely concerned about our honourable visitor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "We should suspend the sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Transport (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": "s really very kind of him to be so generous with his time. Will he accept from me that we are debating a procedural motion designed to carry the Bill over so that further discussion can take place? It is certainly the Government's view that there is nothing unusual about having a motion in the name of the Chairman of Ways and Means. As the Government are always neutral in respect of private Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not long enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "I do not know how long I have been speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "no personal criticism of anyone in the Chair of anyone associated with the business procedures. To say that Conservative Members will have a chance to vote without being subject to whipping by the Government is untrue. Hon. Members are concerned about the private procedure. It is untrue to suggest that hon. Members will be voting freely in the Lobby, because Conservative Members have been whipped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "I had a friendly meeting with the Leader of the House, who received us with the utmost courtesy. I told him about a member of the Government going through the Lobby, but that Mr. Speaker, in his wisdom, decided that the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Nitrate Pollution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "more recently, on 19 October, I issued an updating memorandum on proposed changes to the text, to which I shall refer later. Lead responsibility for this proposal rests with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment in consultation with my right hon. Friend the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. In view of the potential implications of the proposal for agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Nitrate Pollution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-01", "file": "debates1989-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "8870980867e49e85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Nitrate Pollution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Frit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "No. I said that I had given way for the last time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-01a.429.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.465.7", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Conway", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend consider sending 500 copies of today's edition of the Daily Mail to the Prime Minister of Ireland with the message that this kind of slaughter of innocent victims—especially of children—only stiffens the resolve of the British people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.465.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.466.9", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.466.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister now answer the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.469.9", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I asked the hon. Gentleman to resume his seat. I now order him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.469.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It concerns efforts by South Africa to influence unduly the elections taking place in Namibia. I wonder whether it would be possible to arrange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.484.5", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "There is a British involvement, Mr. Speaker, in that the signals that South Africa is claiming to intercept are British signals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.484.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ecame evident that the conditions now attached to United Kingdom entry require the whole of Europe to embrace Thatcherism, but despite all the hype about Thatcherism being exported, it has not happened over the past 10 years; nor will it happen in the decade ahead. Let us take, for example, the Government's isolated position on the social charter, which the Prime Minister has described as Marxist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ill follow stage 1 of the Delors report remains to be seen. The agenda for the proposed intergovernmental conference has yet to be agreed. The proposals set out by the Delors committee for stages 2 and 3 of economic and monetary union are very far reaching, and represent only one among a number of possible proposals to achieve greater monetary co-operation and economic convergence. There has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-02", "file": "debates1989-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "719ecbd26a12c3c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "we have considerable sympathy for the 22 ranged against her in the Cabinet day by day. The debacle in the last seven days which has so appalled the British people has highlighted the real tragedy of the Government in this important area. The whole continent of Europe is changing faster and more fundamentally now than for at least two generations. Communism is collapsing in the eastern bloc states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-02a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-03", "file": "debates1989-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ab89e58554f8c2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-03a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your first car?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summerson", "preceding_text": "ld use the inside lane and overtake if necessary. That may mean that people have to use their right finger from time to time to operate the indicator, but the benefits would be great and we should have far better use of the existing motorways. Where is the courtesy in driving today? It has gone out of the window. Twenty years or so ago, the first car I bought was a mark VI Bentley of 1948 vintage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-03a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-03", "file": "debates1989-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ab89e58554f8c2ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-03a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": " in particular, excessive speed of heavy goods vehicles on motorways. Some hon. Members will be aware that all new coaches in this country, as they are brought into use, must be fitted with speed limiters—and a jolly good job too, say I. However, hon. Members may not recall that that step was decided upon only after a spectacularly ghastly accident on the M6 in 1985 in which 13 people were killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-03a.626.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.655.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.668.8", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I would be reluctant to sack the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.668.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "preceding_text": " bill which each chargepayer will receive and will help chargepayers to assess the policies and performances of their authorities. In this way, councils will be made accountable to those who must pay for their activities. The existing system of grant-related expenditure assessments had become over-complex and difficult to explain. We have therefore introduced a simpler, more understandable method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.695.3", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway (Shewsbury and Atcham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Conway (Shewsbury and Atcham)", "preceding_text": "bill for my constituency is anticipated at £255 per head whereas the long-run community charge will be £247. Although that is clearly good news for my constituents, can my right hon. Friend tell me what advice I could give them on whether that charge would go up or down if the alternative proposals for a capital value and local income tax system, as advocated by the Opposition, were to be adopted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I believe that I am right in saying that the figure for the hon. Gentleman's constituents would be more than £600—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Does the Minister have the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.737.8", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Miss Betty Boothroyd)", "preceding_text": "With this it will be convenient to consider Lords amendment No. 11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.737.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "Let me help the Secretary of State get out of his misery. He knows that the Labour party's alternative has not only been warmly welcomed by all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I believe that the community charge is incomparably fairer than the domestic rating system. If any Secretary of State stood at this Dispatch Box and tried to argue, with a straight face, that we should base the way in which local revenue is raised on notional rental values 16 years out of date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I note that there is one on the Opposition Benches. We are exposing one or two fractures in the carapace of the Opposition's position. I shall move on in this spirit of convivial agreement. At least most of us are agreed—with one exception, and I am prepared to listen to more views—that none of us believes that we should continue with the domestic rating system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "we shall have to agree to disagree. I am aware that it is pretty late in the day to be introducing a new system of relief. It will cause difficulties for the local authorities implementing it. However, sensible local authorities welcome this extra protection for their community charge payers. I also understand that computer houses believe that these changes do not present insuperable difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "tary of State for Scotland, with whom we are always happy to have discussions. I repeat that I think that the hon. Member for Cathcart and others would take it amiss were I to try to speak for the Scottish Office or my right hon. and learned Friend, who is well capable of speaking for himself. Therefore, I shall leave discussion of the administrative problems in Scotland to my Scottish colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "Almost two months were given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " been reduced by the relief scheme and the administrative costs to the authorities of administering and setting up the scheme. We have met with COSLA, and discussions are continuing to ensure that a fair and workable scheme is developed as quickly as possible. I hold the strong conviction that there is the will to make the scheme work and to get the funds to those concerned as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "heme will ensure that nobody is called upon to pay an unreasonable amount. That letter was sent in October 1988. Why is it that a full year later we need a whole poll tax package of further concessions? Are the Government saying that the Minister was lying to me a year ago when he said that the rebate scheme then available would ensure that nobody would be called on to pay an unreasonable amount?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.778.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I said no such thing, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-06", "file": "debates1989-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "a5c41c82917bec19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 132", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "t everything was fine and that the rebate scheme was marvellous. Suddenly after the Tory party conference in Blackpool everything changed. All bets are off. Everything must change in Scotland and Scotland must be brought into line with England and Wales. Have the Government suddenly come to their senses? No; Conservative Back Benchers representing marginal seats have suddenly come to their senses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-06a.780.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.815.7", "colnum": "815", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "een presented and, when so laid, shall be read the first, second and third time and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders he Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "atly increasing its patient care and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman's district health authority is treating more patients this year than it ever has in the history of the National Health Service. It is a weakness of the management of the Health Service that even when more money is poured into it it has mid-year crises because the management cannot match the expansion of services with the money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Sir James Ackers is one of my oldest personal friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Scotland has a fully devolved system of Government and that is a responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "May I offer my right hon. and learned Friend my thanks for two things?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.829.9", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend had wanted to resign on a point of policy, I could have understood that. Policy is a matter for Ministers. I find it totally incomprehensible that someone who has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for six years should want to resign over personality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.829.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.832.10", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "As many people are wondering whether the Government team in office this week will be the Government team in office next week, I wish to ask the Prime Minister an easy question. Does she feel entirely happy when her Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.832.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Ambulance Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "That is not disgraceful. The men know perfectly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Ambulance Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We had all this out last week. The men knew—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Heffer", "preceding_text": "at I can raise my point of order only now, one and a half hours after the issue should have been raised. I ask you to reconsider carefully your ruling. You accepted a point of order from my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery). I do not disagree with that, because it was on a vital matter. My point of order is that the Prime Minister equated people in CND with Pol Pot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.918.5", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Clause 71", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "services need renewing. Nine complete tower blocks in south Canning Town in the constituency represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South are currently vacant. Others are being decanted and Ronan Point has been demolished. How on earth can we deal with those problems with the extra restrictions which this Bill will introduce? We just want to deal with the problems. We are not trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.918.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Clause 71", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The Government take seriously the plight of the young and the homeless in our major cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Clause 71", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is because the rents were increased.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the report, so I cannot be expected to comment on it. The hon. Gentleman has raised the issue for the first time this evening. Under this Government, total payments of housing benefit have doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Clause 71", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "ity properties is 2·5 per cent. of the housing stock. For housing associations it is 3·2 per cent.—slightly higher but both are good. For the private sector, it is 4·5 per cent. The worst offenders of all are the Government. Nearly 6 per cent. of their properties are empty. I do not refer only to Ministry of Defence properties. One in five Metropolitan police houses are empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Clause 71", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": ". His own local authority has built a good housing development which he tried to prevent. That is why he walks by on the other side of the road when he sees the \"homeless and hungry\" signs. When he was a head teacher, I took my children away from his school because I did not want them to have his morality. The Minister forgets that 6 per cent. of Department of the Environment properties are empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.934.6", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Clause 77", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "On a new point of order, Mr. Speaker. Tonight, on both the 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock news, the Secretary of State for Health said that a letter would be delivered to the ambulance negotiators in respect of the emergency services, which the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.934.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Clause 77", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that his statement is totally unacceptable to the Opposition? I do not believe that the Leader of the House, who left his previous high office in a shambles after the Government reorganisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Clause 77", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": " over the Scottish education legislation next Monday. We are entitled to ask whether the Government are prepared to allow any discussion of Scottish business in this Chamber. Has not the Leader of the House something of a brass neck to come to the House and announce the curtailment of the discussion of Scottish business when there is not one Scottish Conservative Member in the Chamber to hear him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-07", "file": "debates1989-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "809ad8b2a0f4582f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Clause 77", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that if there are to be restrictions on debate when there is no question of filibustering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-07a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require police forces to submit standardised information to a national missing persons' register within a prescribed time; and for other purposes. Anxiety is growing over the way in which we handle the problem of missing persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "accommodation because over the past 10 years, local authorities in the main have not been able to build. Are these matters that can be considered minor or trivial? Are they not matters that should concern not only the Opposition but the House as a whole? What I find surprising is a factor that came up again in Question Time today—the lack of seriousness with which Tory Members regard the homeless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that vague assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Fraud?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "uncils, but in Conservative and Liberal ones. One could cite examples—as Labour Members often do —of individuals who will be caught by the legislation. In recent times no one has challenged the fact that civil servants are required by their contracts of employment not to take part in party political activities. I am trying to set the record straight. Real problems occurred which caused real fraud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " by significantly lowering the tone of the debate. However, perhaps I could delicately remind the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill (Mrs. Fyfe) that the reason for the abolition of the Training Commission was because one of the main limbs of that tripartite structure—the TUC—came out against employment training. Bearing in mind that that was the Training Commission's biggest programme at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The case is not quite as the hon. Lady states it. We certainly need to catch up with countries such as Germany, France, Japan and the United States. The position to which the hon. Lady refers has not suddenly emerged but has been a characteristic of this country all this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "o will give the Secretary of State a good going over. He has got it coming, as the Secretary of State for Transport, when he was responsible for Energy, got it when my hon. Friend was responsible for energy. I hope that the Secretary of State will put down his notes and take the message on board. When I was a lad, and into my youth, the industry in which I worked had a first-class training system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-08", "file": "debates1989-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6141708346d700b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1129.5", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "d that is the way to go about it. At the same time, however, we were also responsible for the chaps who worked on either side of us. The Secretary of State, the junior Minister and the Minister of State do not know about training and work. I have an idea that the Minister of State, who has just joined the Department from the Foreign Office, is in the same league as his right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-08a.1129.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relating to Private Business shall have effect as if the words \"under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against Bill)\" were omitted; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1143.23"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1144.4", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1144.8", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ghthouse Bill [Lords] , the Great Yarmouth Port Authority Bill [Lords] , the Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords] , the Heathrow Express Railway Bill [Lords] , the London Local Authorities (No. 2) Bill [Lords] , and the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Bill [Lords] be now considered. That this House doth concur with the Lords in their Resolution.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1144.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1149.8", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, there is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "When the Minister next meets the president of the National Farmers Union to discuss the dairy sector, will he take into account the fact that there is a large butter surplus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1149.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being less than kind. We sought to help his constituent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "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/1989-11-09a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1165.3", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do something.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I take this fresh opportunity to emphasise the extent to which all hon. Members have deepest sympathy for war widows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I emphasise again our understanding of the extent to which sympathy for war widows is widely shared throughout the House, and it is entirely natural that that should be so. If I have the figures correctly in mind, a change such as that suggested by the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. McWilliam) would cost about £600 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "preceding_text": "etermined to complete electricity privatisation, with all the benefits it will bring, in the lifetime of this Parliament. The preparations for the new system have brought issues into the open. In particular, attention has been focused on the costs of nuclear power. The Government have for some time recognised that our nuclear power is more costly than power from fossil-fuelled generating stations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "preceding_text": "ing new nuclear power stations. The Government told the House on a number of occasions during the passage of the Bill that the arrangements for nuclear power would strike the appropriate balance between the interests of the taxpayer, the electricity consumer and the shareholder. In the event, unprecedented guarantees were being sought. I am not willing to underwrite the private sector in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "preceding_text": "tandards will be maintained at their present high level. I am happy to announce that Mr. John Collier, chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, has agreed to become chairman of the new nuclear company. He brings to this vital task a wealth of experience in the nuclear industry and well-recognised leadership qualities. The company will be a substantial one, with a positive cash flow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Wakeham)", "preceding_text": "lifetime of at least some of the Magnox stations to be extended. The Government will make available funds for any justifiable investment for this purpose. In view of the factors which I have mentioned bearing on diversity, some of which relate to fossil fuels, the non-fossil obligation will be set at a level which can be satisfied without the construction of new nuclear stations beyond Sizewell B.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "The showrooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " of the other parts of the industry. We shall be discussing the detailed implementation of these proposals with the management and the trade unions. The Scottish nuclear company can look forward to a successful and productive future working in close co-operation with the other electricity companies in Scotland. I believe that a proper and carefully balanced mixture of private and public ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rilkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rilkind", "preceding_text": "mation that is now available, they have said that they believe that the Government are right to go ahead in the way in which we are now proposing. Finally, the hon. Gentleman asked me about the way in which pricing would be determined. I said in my statement that today's announcement would have no adverse consequences for tariffs. The Government are committed to the principle of tariff continuity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, it is precisely because that figure could not be identified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Electricity Privatisation (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "You should open up the entire industry, which is environmentally friendly in comparison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Ambulance Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State will allow me, I cannot respond to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1191.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1191.10", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Ambulance Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "It is explicit. All cancer-related patients are exempted. The Secretary of State has 10 minutes before he gets up to respond to the debate. He has all his officials in the Box. I challenge him when he gets up to name one ambulance station in London that has refused to move patients needing radiotherapy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1191.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1196.8", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Ambulance Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " about £20 a week for London staff. Back pay is accruing because the offer dates back to April 1989. Therefore, the ambulance men in London have at least £600 back pay waiting for them and the men outside have at least £400. Labour Members say that that is not enough and that we should give them the money. However, they have not specified how much. They have not commented on the size of the claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1196.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1196.8", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Ambulance Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "iting for them and the men outside have at least £400. Labour Members say that that is not enough and that we should give them the money. However, they have not specified how much. They have not commented on the size of the claim— [Interruption.] We know why all these Opposition Members are in the Chamber now. Even the Leader of the Opposition is here. They are lured by the scent of a good strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1196.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1197.4", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Ambulance Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "If any Government tried to run the National Health Service on the basis that a group which took industrial action against the patients would receive arbitration, they would reproduce the chaos that was produced in 1979 in the Health Service by giving way to every member of staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1197.4", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Ambulance Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "the basis that a group which took industrial action against the patients would receive arbitration, they would reproduce the chaos that was produced in 1979 in the Health Service by giving way to every member of staff— [Interruption.] This is a noisy display by Labour Members because they have been drawn here by a strike. I have not seen the Labour Benches so crowded for a health debate for years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-09", "file": "debates1989-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "262b8259cce171c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1201.5", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Ambulance Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It was an inadequate service. It proved inadequate on 23 October and the unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-09a.1201.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " those who complain of any amendment as proposed in the filled up Bill or of any matter which arises during the progress of the Bill before the committee; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.5.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.6.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.6.8", "colnum": "6", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.6.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.7.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the Journal of the House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.8.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The phrase that I used was \"widespread allegiance\". The best evidence to give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I will give no answer—any more than my right hon. Friends did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Blaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": " they naturally are. I lived in that country with great pleasure for two years. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to intervene, he should first take care to have listened to the earlier part of the speech in which he wishes to intervene. I suspect that one reason why the Opposition have chosen this debate is that we have recently seen on television another example of what I describe as \"Pilgerisation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.56.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "There seems to be some impression that I am defending the Pol Pot regime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.88.2", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, it is a point of order. I have been working. I have been a Teller at the door of the Lobby. I do not know what has been going on in there, but I do know what has been happening for the past few moments. I am a bit surprised that you did not challenge the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark). We are wasting time and we should get on with the business.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.88.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.88.4", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Indirectly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger King", "preceding_text": "I am somewhat flattered by the accusations concerning my ability to influence the operations of the House. I only wish that that were true, but those who know will know that I have not been party to any negotiations directly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.88.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.90.6", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark) heard what I said. Perhaps he has not read Friday's edition of the Birmingham Post. It is clear from that article that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. King) is claiming full knowledge of the negotiations to bring the time for the Bill forward so that he could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.90.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": " in Northfield. He can say as much as he likes about the purposes behind the Bill, but I know better and meet more frequently the people who live there. They do not see it as he does. The hon. Gentleman can make his own speech, but I can tell him, the House and the Government that, if there is any chance of moving the road race to Northfield, the people of Ladywood will vote for it overwhelmingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.101.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "Obviously, the hon. Gentleman was not listening. I do not know what goes on in this Chamber. I have read out some of the propaganda which the city council issued for the first road race in which it gives an assurance that it will not have to choose between the road race and leaking roofs because the race will bring money into the city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Gilroy Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Gilroy Bevan", "preceding_text": "ng. We listened to 55 minutes of innuendo, accusations and distortions of quotations. That did little honour to Birmingham, to the level of the debate and to the great majority of the people of Birmingham, who want the debate and want the car race. That being so, they want the carry-over motion to be agreed to. There has been talk in the Chamber of 6:1 being in favour of the Bill and the car race—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.116.15", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"That is true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "riends agree that this is the case, they will agree that it is desirable—is that we must bring jobs into Birmingham. All the inner-city constituencies which I and my hon. Friends represent have an unemployment level of about 30 per cent. I hope that hon. Members supporting the Bill will not mind my saying that our unemployment problems in Birmingham will not be solved by the Government, but by us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.116.15"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory)", "preceding_text": "d 8882/89 on environment and natural resource information collection.] I welcome the opportunity to discuss three important aspects of community legislation: first, the proposal to establish a European environment agency; secondly, the fourth environmental action programme; thirdly, public access to information on the environment. I shall address each of the issues in turn. I start by setting out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-13", "file": "debates1989-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "1934b667ad037f96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " do so. We asked the Secretary of State to bring forward a comprehensive dog registration scheme; he refuses to do so. We have asked him to support the speedy implementation of the three-way catalytic converter into all types of British vehicle, accepting the 1991 date for small vehicles that was proposed by Europe, but he refuses to do so. We asked the Secretary of State to abandon Nick Ridley's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-13a.136.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Journal of this House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.165.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the Journal of the House as having been so read) and, having been amended by the Committee in the present Session, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.168.5", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It is to be hoped that the Government will build in a better fashion than they have so far. When the previous Secretary of State announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.168.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.168.5", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It is to be hoped that the Government will build in a better fashion than they have so far. When the previous Secretary of State announced—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—the city technology colleges, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he said that all or most of the money would come from private funds? Yet of the £19·3 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.168.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.168.8", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Raised?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would have concluded that the more than £40 million already raised from sponsors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.168.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I, too, am concerned about the expansion of city technology colleges, although perhaps not in the same way as the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner)? My concern is that there are not enough of them and that they are not coming on stream quickly enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Everyone was keen to get on with the national curriculum, but that inevitably means that everything must be done in an ordered programme. The standard assessment tasks will not take effect until the 1991 trial. I fully recognise teachers' desire to know what those tasks will be, which is why I am keen to get the training packs out early in the new year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Prime Minister for that answer. Is the right hon. Lady aware that she was also correct to remind everyone last night that Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Leipzig and Dresden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that she was also absolutely right last night to remind everyone that Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Dresden and Leipzig are great European cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.179.5", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This takes a great deal of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.180.8", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to the substantive part of the hon. Gentleman's question, he knows that I would not interfere with the duties of Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.180.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Secretary of State may well be in London on Thursday, but the House will not be sitting on Thursday. That is the point at issue. I am entirely willing, if the Secretary of State is going to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.188.5", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I certainly hope that that kind of disruption would not happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Self-governing Schools Etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "That is a disgraceful remark, typical of the old-fashioned Labour party that those of us fighting it have grown to know, love and beat in three successive general elections—and in a fourth one as well, no doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "ty in general. That is why there has been such an outcry in Scotland against the provisions, and that is why we do not see the Bill as a liberating or enabling measure—that is just a kid-on from Conservative Members—because if anything, it is a centralising Bill. Ultimately, the Secretary of State has all the aces. In this capacity he is nothing more than a Stalinist, because he is taking exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "It is only because of that that I have to rise to put that question to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "ensive school that is exactly the same as another. The comprehensive system provides the opportunity to develop the characteristics of an area and to give choices that are appropriate to the community. For example, in the Western Isles a school might add in Gaelic and in an area with heavy industry it might add in appropriate skills. The comprehensive system provides the potential for that choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "nuous ill-informed and ignorant interventions, their endless disturbances, their schoolboyish raising of points of order and their nonsensical manoeuvres. As the debate draws to a close, thereby offering no further opportunity to debate Scottish education, only two Scottish Tory Back Benchers are present, and only one of the English Tory stormtroopers of the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": " one of them would accept that challenge. Conservative Members displayed their ignorance of Scottish education in many other ways, but it did not prevent them from wasting hours of our time with their nonsense. They are pushing this legislation through regardless of the wishes of the Scottish people, but they will pay in the end through the loss of seats in Scotland. Tory Members are sure to lose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "My main reasons for supporting the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill fall under two headings—jobs and the environment. I want to say a little about each. By convention, I must be extremely brief, but I should be happy to answer points if given leave of the House to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that the Bill has not gone unnoticed in Bradford. A constituent of mine who is a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has urged me to examine the Bill. She is also concerned about the environmental impact of the Bill upon birdlife in her area. Perhaps my hon. Friend will comment on that because she has expressed great anxiety in cogent terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.262.4", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nder the European Community Directive on the Convervation of Wild Birds and the Ramsar Convention on the Conservation of Wetlands. Therefore, we are talking about a site of special scientific interest. This is the first occasion since the Wildlife and Countryside Act was passed that we have had a Government-sponsored scheme that will destroy, in its entirety, a site of special scientific interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.263.11", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend has not received replies from the RSPB, he must take it up with the society. I draw my hon. Friend's attention to the view of the Nature Conservancy Council. It is independent and objective. It petitioned against the Bill when it was presented to the House in 1987, and it is now further resolved in its objections to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.263.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical and Pharmaceutical Services (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "cessfully with the rural practice fund, to consider the implementation of this matter. I hope that I have answered as well as I could all the points made by the hon. Member for Garscadden. My hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) asked me the average number of hours worked by GPs in Scotland. The figure from the 1985–86 work load survey showed that 38 hours per week were worked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical and Pharmaceutical Services (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "That does not add to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical and Pharmaceutical Services (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "he new arrangements, there will be many advantages for patients. Doctors will be available at times which suit them and it will be easier to change doctors if necessary, although I hope that that will not often be so. Elderly patients will be entitled to regular checks from 75 years of age, there will be more immunisation and preventive medicine and local facilities will be much better advertised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-14", "file": "debates1989-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "ead388f44087c3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical and Pharmaceutical Services (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "land. The Government's proposals will do much to raise the standard of health care in Scotland and will provide more chiropodists, physiotherapists and other specialists. All in all, this will prove to be a good contract for doctors and patients. Doctors should be better off if they provide a better service. We should encourage them to accept the contract with more enthusiasm than they have shown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-14a.299.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.339.11", "colnum": "339", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "een presented and, when so laid, shall be read the first, second and third time and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.339.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The irony is that we should receive advice from the Labour party on the National Health Service. The Labour party in government cut spending on the Health Service and cut nurses' pay. As a result of competitive tendering, about £53 million has become available to the Health Service in Scotland. The Opposition opposed that, but it is equivalent to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend confirm that those figures show that far fewer Scots are emigrating under this Conservative Government than under previous Labour Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is aware that his account of what my hon. Friend said is not an accurate reflection of what he actually said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.356.7", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have a short statement to make about the operation of the 4 o'clock shuffle, which determines the order of oral questions due for answer two weeks ahead. With effect from the start of next Session the shuffle will be done by computer, instead of manually as at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.356.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.361.12", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ease of less than 1 per cent.—lower than in 1985, 1986 and 1987. No amount of guileful presentation can hide that fact. General Government expenditure has efectively been at a standstill in real terms during the last five years. No wonder that our public services, right across the range, are hardly being sustained, let alone achieving improved standards. No wonder that there is massive skepticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.361.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.361.12", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "d 1987. No amount of guileful presentation can hide that fact. General Government expenditure has efectively been at a standstill in real terms during the last five years. No wonder that our public services, right across the range, are hardly being sustained, let alone achieving improved standards. No wonder that there is massive skepticism— [Interruption.] I shall deal with hospitals in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.361.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.386.6", "colnum": "386", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, because he has been giving way a great deal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.386.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-15", "file": "debates1989-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a627021a948c5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I will refer to that point when I discuss the Single European Act and the role of majority and unanimous voting", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-15a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "held opinions, a letter that I received —three weeks ago—I believe that a copy was sent to each of us and possibly even to you, Mr. Speaker—made the following preposterous assertion: The impression you make on television depends mainly on your image (55 per cent.) with your voice and body language accounting for 38 per cent. of your impact. Only 7 per cent. depends on what you are actually saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "es are not the only weapon to defeat inflation, but they are an essential weapon. I hope that the abatement of inflation until we secure our declared aim of stable prices will characterise the stewardship of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Yesterday the President of Romania made a speech in Bucharest which lasted for six hours and which was punctuated by 67 standing ovations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Sumberg", "preceding_text": " occasion was when the producer of the programme mistakenly thought that I was Ronnie Corbett. The second was when it was revealed that there were six hon. Members, including myself, who were freemasons. Following that programme, Sir Clement Freud, who is now an occasional television critic for The Times —hon. Members may recall that before 1987, Sir Clement was an occasional Member of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.9.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sumberg", "preceding_text": "at there is political life after political death. Our political lives are being lived at the most exciting and dramatic of times. Recent events in Germany and eastern Europe have shown that history is a constantly moving pattern and that nothing is set in concrete—either literally or metaphorically. Over the past few days' events at the Berlin wall we have all remembered the words of John Kennedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heller", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member for Bury, South (Mr. Sumberg) referred to Sir Clement Freud. I remember Sir Clement Freud when he was a Member of this House. I never agreed with him politically and I had many arguments with him. However, knowing that our proceedings are now televised, was it right for the hon. Member for Bury, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.12.3", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": " for Soviet Jewry, and we have had mutually productive encounters in the course of securing precisely that liberty which, in many ways, is rightly celebrated in today's Queen's Speech. The hon. Member for Bury, South is also star-touched. Not only is he the consultant for the Northern Independent Bookmakers Association—an office of some distinction and considerable advantage, I should imagine—but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.12.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": ", as we are being dragged along behind the European monetary system. We are in it, but not of it. The result is that we bear all the pressures of having a currency measured against the deutschmark, without having any of the benefits of stability and credibility for the currency that could be secured by participation in the exchange rate mechanism. I do not counsel that we go in without conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.16.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "tantial part of its current account surplus from our economy and those of many other EC partners. The Germans have a close vested interest in a Community machinery which will recycle their surplus. That machinery will work to our advantage, it is true, but it will most certainly provide them with the means of sustained and balanced growth and that is in the interests of every person within the EC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " should just like to make a bit of my speech. Not only have we had extensive growth and created extra wealth but we have shared the success. Economic success has brought unprecedented prosperity to this country. Under the Conservative Government a family with two children, and the husband on average earnings, now gets an extra £55 a week in take-home pay, after allowing for the increase in prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.26.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minsiter has talked a great deal about unique prosperity, generosity to the family and so on. Would she care to make the moral case for what the Government have done to 16 and 17-year-olds, tens of thousands of whom are without jobs or YTS places and who have been thrown out without a penny and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman reads the report very carefully, he will find that that is not what my right hon. Friend said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A doctor summarised our health reforms best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.31.5", "colnum": "31", "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, if there are accidents or disasters, all of us must use the National Health Service. As he knows, that has been shown full well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.31.7", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hope that the new Bill will address those issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.31.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.33.6", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have dealt with the economy, for the success of which we have a great deal to thank my right hon. Friend the former Chancellor of the Exchequer. If I might now get on with my own speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.33.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.34.8", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any hon. Member has given way more than I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.34.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.36.11", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "uncil supported him in his splendid work with Lord Tordoff in getting the Bill through the House. The hon. Member for Bury, South spoilt his speech by a gratuitous, unnecessary attack on Sir Clement Freud. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heller) for putting the record straight. The hon. Member for Bury, South commented on the \"part-time\" attendance of Sir Clement Freud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.36.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.39.4", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "t the Government will seek to interfere in matters which are internal to the Soviet Union, and leaving aside the question of how that matches up to the Prime Minister's rhetoric about seeking to assist Mr. Gorbachev, one wonders at the brass neck of a Government who say that they will encourage reform in the Soviet Union when they have stood against every kind of democratic reform in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.39.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "at we face has been omitted. Our economic position will underpin all our discussions this Session. High interest rates have an impact on young couples who struggle to pay their mortgage, on small businesses which try desperately to survive and, in my area, on the hard-hit fishing industry where the situation is so critical that many of our youngest and best skippers will be forced out of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-21", "file": "debates1989-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "48e7982c3ef15814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "s to be brought in, the service cannot be sustained and, as it appears that the present system is not working, perhaps it can be made to work through privatisation. That is a classic Tory party solution. My hon. Friend the Member for Pontefract and Castleford (Mr. Lofthouse) spoke about the mining industry. I doubt whether anyone working in the mining industry worked in it under private ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-21a.80.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.120.5", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend spell out with more clarity some of his ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.3", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend spell out with more clarity some of his ideas— [Laughter.] —for the industries of the future such as the space business in Britain? Does he regard the European Space Agency as an expensive club or as a worthwhile sponsor for important industrial enterprises?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.5", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " believe that it is to the advantage of British industry and science. He will agree that we should be selective. We believe in the effective enforcement of high environmental standards. Conservative Governments always have. It was a Conservative Government who produced the first green Bill—the Clean Air Act 1956. It was a Conservative Government who introduced in 1972 the first measure to control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.5", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ience. He will agree that we should be selective. We believe in the effective enforcement of high environmental standards. Conservative Governments always have. It was a Conservative Government who produced the first green Bill—the Clean Air Act 1956. It was a Conservative Government who introduced in 1972 the first measure to control— [Interruption.] —the movement and dumping of hazardous wastes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The principle of both Acts was the Government setting standards for freely competing companies. They have worked. The Environmental Protection Bill is not the first of its kind, but it is a major measure designed to tackle specific environmental problems. There is an alternative doctrine. It is the doctrine of public ownership with a vague aspiration to behave in the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.125.5", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must give the NRA time to get on top of these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rateful to you, Mr. Speaker. Another of the Secretary of State's responsibilities is regional policy. Regional aid for Scotland is being cut from £200 million in the mid-1980s to £120 million next year, and to £100 million by 1992. Regional aid for Wales is being cut from £145 million to £110 million, and then to £90 million. Regional aid for the midlands and for the north of England is being cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "200. It must monitor the atmosphere and it must even monitor 5,000 waste disposal sites, many of which are highly contaminated. When my Committee was conducting its inquiry into toxic waste, only five inspectors were responsible for all that. Since the inquiry—I like to think it is as a result of the inquiry—the establishment number has doubled and trebled, but only one new one has been appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " reduction of unemployment. We can consider economic policy only in the light of the substantial increase in interest rates during the past two or three years. We must also consider the Government's commitment to what is, in effect, an increase of less than 1 per cent. in growth. Another issue is the Government's commitment to what is clearly now a long-term policy of balance of payments deficits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "preceding_text": "on nights like this—and the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) wound up. This year the order of subject matter has been reversed, and the hon. Gentleman still finds himself bringing up the rear. Order of appearance is a more serious matter these days. While the ubiquitous television eye never sleeps, viewers are elsewhere. If they have any sense they will be watching Michael Palin at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Chris Patten)", "preceding_text": "Labour candidate for Hartlepool in the arrangements made today, but into the limelight steps the Labour party's coming man—the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown). The hon. Member for Dagenham was once the coming man. He seems to have come and gone, but I am sure that his day will come again as he is clever, keen as mustard and is even a member of the Wine Society, so all should be well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-22", "file": "debates1989-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a199ca0a7a02c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "where there has been no separation between those who do the regulating and those who are regulated. One way in which we shall, I hope, promote recycling and waste minimisation through our legislation is by establishing the true cost of landfill disposal, which is absolutely crucial if we want to encourage greater recycling and greater waste minimisation. I note a deathly hush among Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-22a.215.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.226.10", "colnum": "226", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " Bill [Lords], the Great Yarmouth Port Authority Bill [Lords], the Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords], the Heathrow Express Railway Bill [Lords], the London Local Authorities (No. 2) Bill [Lords] and the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Bill [Lords] be now considered. That this House doth concur with the Lords in their Resolution.— [The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.226.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ean a greater variety of programmes, and therefore do not necessarily mean more choice. The evidence from countries where there are many channels but little regulation is that channel after channel provides similar inferior programmes: second-rate old films, quiz games, soap operas and cartoons. Diversity requires regulation, but regulation is to be abandoned. Without diversity there is no choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "re elected on a promise of law and order and who continue to posture as the party of law and order. Under this Government violent crime continues to increase. It rose by 12 per cent. last year. Families feel less safe in their homes than at any time in recent history, and every right hon. and hon. Member now meets men and women who are afraid to walk in the street or to travel on public transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "d where they would have no exercise except for a minimum of one hour a day. It is a rebuke to our civilised society that we continue to keep such prisons in operation. They will remain in operation for as long as we send too many people to prison and keep them there too long. I want to compare the number in prison in 1979 with the prison population today. In 1979, the prison population was 42,220—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "wish to deal with the legislation which should never be placed on the statute book. Nevertheless, that will probably happen. Yet Conservative Members can stop it. The National Health Service legislation is an odious piece of legislation that is wrong in principle and in practice. Few matters unite the whole medical profession. Aneurin Bevan was never able to unite the whole profession against him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "tters unite the whole medical profession. Aneurin Bevan was never able to unite the whole profession against him— [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit), who stands outside the Chamber but no doubt would like to repeat his comment in the Chamber, mentioned self-interest. I must declare an interest in this matter. I ceased to practise medicine in 1968, but I am still able—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "hing not always liked by the medical profession. I have long argued in this place for its extension to family practice as well as to the hospital service. There is much to be said for more real choice, for enabling patients to go outside their district health authority where there may be a long waiting list, to another district health authority with no waiting. The money should follow the patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ling patients to go outside their district health authority where there may be a long waiting list, to another district health authority with no waiting. The money should follow the patient. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Conservative Members cheer because they seem to believe the publicity of the Secretary of State for Health which says that somehow this choice is available to patients. It is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "y economic parameter which will determine the future of this Government and their chances at the next election is inflation. There is no doubt that interest rates will come down and inflation will probably come down as well, but the extent to which and the manner in which it comes down are crucial. We now hear from the chairman of the Conservative party—who is paid by all of us to be the chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ir own lot, but they ignore the workers. The Government had better take note that there is much concern about the suggestion that there should be an extension of opencast mining. As I have said, it takes place in my constituency and on the borders of it. My constituents are suffering because of the noise and the dust that is associated with it. I shall refer briefly to the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-23", "file": "debates1989-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1015cae059edaf72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "arty plans for the constitution. They were dismissed in two or three sentences by the right hon. Gentleman. Those plans have been largely hidden in the debate. I suspect that I am one of the few Members to have looked at the Labour party's policy review and read the chapter on the constitution. I bet that there are not many Labour Members who can hold up their hands and say that they have read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-23a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " moment. I have been sketching what has been agreed within the Community and the background that has created the position in which Britain is actually among the leaders in carrying out what has been agreed. That is a crucial point. We are working to complete the single market. There is always a temptation for Community enthusiasts to flit from one flower to another in the rich meadows of Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Most of our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath)—a past which he has lived down adequately—the Foreign Secretary has taken a clear, firm position on the Community. It is unacceptable for the Prime Minister—if the words were permitted in the House I would say hypocritical—first to force through a measure on a guillotine and then to make a speech at Bruges repudiating what she forced through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " about short-range nuclear weapons. Earlier this year, on the issue of modernisation, the Prime Minister said in an interview on TV-am that she would put the argument to him\"— Chancellor Kohl—again and again in favour of modernisation of short-range nuclear missiles. Will the Foreign Secretary go on putting the argument to the West Germans in favour of modernisation of short-range nuclear weapons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": " those who had not, and when the strong were prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who had difficulty standing up for themselves. That is the sort of Socialism for which my right hon. and hon. Friends and I stand, and that is the sort of Socialism that the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness should bear in mind when he tries to slag off an honourable principle. But enough of that trash—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "nch. He said, \"We are exercising great democratic rights in our Parliament. We have rejected six Ministers proposed by our Prime Minister.\" Speaking as a former Minister, I am glad that that does not happen here. That is the contrast. The Soviets are still unwilling and unable to answer questions freely, and unhappy about doing so, but they are rejecting Ministers proposed by their Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "aith that somewhere among those will be the measures that I want. They have not materalised yet, but they must be somewhere, waiting to come out. I shall watch week by week, in the hope that they will arrive. First, we need a more controlled planning law which is on the side of the residents and not the developers. That is a non-party point, so I appeal for a little assistance from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ill arrive. First, we need a more controlled planning law which is on the side of the residents and not the developers. That is a non-party point, so I appeal for a little assistance from the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The developer can appeal if he does not get his way, but the residents whose lives are about to be destroyed have no right of appeal. That is against natural justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "BERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The developer can appeal if he does not get his way, but the residents whose lives are about to be destroyed have no right of appeal. That is against natural justice— [Interruption.] In my constituency good houses are being knocked down and replaced by tiny flats—the dolls' house society. There are no gardens—it is also a window box society. Is that progress in this green age?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": " hearts, but not so dear to many others. The Government have not gone far enough on the question of low-rated houses and I regret that there was no mention of that in the Gracious Speech. The safety net should be lifted next April, not the following year. If it is not, it will be like having a cyanide pill. That is painful, as anybody who has tried it will know, because he would not be here today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": " the following year. If it is not, it will be like having a cyanide pill. That is painful, as anybody who has tried it will know, because he would not be here today—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad that hon. Members are still with me. With my third point, I may win if not universal approval—I would never desire that—at least some support. Something must be done about the London Underground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialise it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "capital city deserves a first-class Underground service. The £1 billion being spent on the Jubilee line is petty cash by comparison with the total investment that is required if trains are to run punctually and if the travelling public are to arrive for work on time. That investment must come either from the Underground system being privatised or from it being socialised. It cannot go on as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "estigate fully. He also raised the issue of the use of dependants as security guards at military bases. I am not aware of any such use and there are no such plans at present. However, the way in which the hon. Gentleman presented his case might give some offence to many families and dependants in West Germany who are with the Army and the services. Anybody who goes to Germany is struck at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-24", "file": "debates1989-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d8462551c650a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "ecific point that he raised. I thank the hon. Member for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill) for what he said about security issues. Although we are talking about big global matters and the developments in eastern Europe, at the same time we and the services face evil and vicious security attacks. The past week has seen the tragedies to which he referred. The whole House stands together in the etermination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-24a.406.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.419.7", "colnum": "419", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "se Bill [Lords], the Great Yarmouth Port Authority Bill Lords], the Southampton Rapid Transit Bill [Lords], the Heathrow Express Railway Bill [Lords], the London Local Authorities (No. 2) Bill [Lords] and the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Bill [Lords] be now considered. That this House doth concur with the Lords in their Resolution.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.419.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.419.10", "colnum": "419", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " and, when so laid, shall be read the first, second and third time and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the present Session; That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.419.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.427.13", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "is morning. I can reassure her that the error rate cited in The Guardian was vastly overstated—the actual rate was about 34 per cent. when the scheme began in August. However, not all the errors concern payments. As cases are converted from clerical to computer records, points such as whether the correct postal codes or national insurance numbers are held will be picked up. If I may return to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.427.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.429.7", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "First, the hon. Gentleman has misrepresented what was in the Conservative manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.429.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question No. 11. Mr. Terry Fields—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.439.5", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Ethiopia (Famine)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Allow me to deal with one point of order at a time. I think that the whole House listened with concern when this matter was mentioned on the news at lunchtime today, but it is not for me to call a Minister to make a statement about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.439.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "esperate to intervene before 5 pm. I propose, therefore, to make a public service announcement, which I hope will cure that fever: I shall happily give way to any Tory Member who can confirm that in his or her election address he or she warned the electorate that the Government whom they would support would encourage local hospitals to opt out, would limit general practitioners' spending on drugs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "om today's Glasgow Evening Times, reporting that not one of 24 state registered nurses who have just graduated with a BA in nursing studies is able to find a vacancy in today's Health Service. Our advice to any young person watching this debate and thinking of looking for an opening in the NHS is that they should forget about studying medicine or nursing and instead obtain a degree in accountancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that that is untrue, but he is not familiar with what is happening in his own hospitals. Wolverhampton is spending more money and treating more patients than last year. I shall turn to short-term promises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "s own hospitals. Wolverhampton is spending more money and treating more patients than last year. I shall turn to short-term promises— [Interruption.] I have just explained that we have increased spending now by 45 per cent. in real terms over and above the level of spending that we inherited from the Labour Government who, in 1979. were spending £8 billion in total on the National Health Service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ime goes on, and as we debate these proposals more seriously, that type of attack will be exposed as fraudulent, and indeed scandalous, from a party which purports to support the NHS. I contrast the complaining and the speech made by the hon. Member for Livingston with today's announcement of the formation of the Health Reform Group. I commend to Opposition Members the article that appeared today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "sals more seriously, that type of attack will be exposed as fraudulent, and indeed scandalous, from a party which purports to support the NHS. I contrast the complaining and the speech made by the hon. Member for Livingston with today's announcement of the formation of the Health Reform Group. I commend to Opposition Members the article that appeared today— [Interruption.] It is by Dr. Colin Leon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e exposed as fraudulent, and indeed scandalous, from a party which purports to support the NHS. I contrast the complaining and the speech made by the hon. Member for Livingston with today's announcement of the formation of the Health Reform Group. I commend to Opposition Members the article that appeared today— [Interruption.] It is by Dr. Colin Leon— [Interruption.] —and appears in the Daily Mail", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I know when the Labour party has had enough of the Health Service—it gets back to the shop stewards hit, the strikes and the pay claims. That is when the Labour party comes to life when we are debating our great public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "use find that the current demographic changes are reflected in their constituency work. As a larger proportion of the population are now aged 75 or more, the demands on the Health Service must of course increase. It costs £3,500 to look after the average 85-year-old, while only one tenth of that is needed to look after the average Member of Parliament who is—as I am—rapidly approaching middle age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.475.6", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Lady wants to finish her speech because other hon. Members want to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.475.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "ny thousands of people who work in it. I hope that the Labour party will step off the fence and start walking on terra firma. I know that is hard, in the light of the changes of style which are being recommended by Mr. Mandelson, but if we had some honesty, some beef on which to chew, all of us would be happy. Finally, the high-speed rail link is a topic to which I intend to return time and again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "counted for, costed and allocated to the patient. Then the bill will be sent to the health authority. The debate started in the first place because of the lack of funding for the Health Service, yet the White Paper never mentions funding. Tremendous additional administration will be required to carry out the system that it describes. The key proposal in the legislation is opting out for hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": " That, however, was not enough. It seemed that the Government wanted the opinion of all doctors throughout the country. A referendum shows that 82 per cent. of all doctors have rejected the Government's White Papers. Unfortunately, I have only one minute left to me. I would have needed an hour and a half to explain the damage that that gang of crooks on the Government Benches have done to the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "There are a number of levels on which one can respond to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ings during the period of the Labour Government fell by 16 per cent. The inflation that had been generated by the Labour Government had the effect of cutting pensioners' incomes from other sources. Our first priority has been to protect the value of the state pension. That we have fully and faithfully done, and we shall continue to do it by means of the uprating that I announced a month or so ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "without a shadow of contradiction that opinion in south Wales is implacably opposed to the rise in the toll charge. County councils, district councils and small businesses in south Wales, and major and heavy industries and small businesses throughout Wales, are against the toll increase. Commuters who drive to England by car each day will have to pay up to £5 per week extra if the order is passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.536.11", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Sit down$ I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.536.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.539.11", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "e gave way. You may recall, Madam Deputy Speaker, that he spoke without once looking at this side of the House. He concentrated his attention on other things, not a million miles away from the television camera. I intend to answer the debate in the way that it should be answered by dealing with the facts. Nobody disputes the importance of the bridge to south Wales. It is so important that in 1956—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.539.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ion. It is clear to any reasonable person that, without a tolls increase, the deficit would have grown indefinitely. The Department's statement also explained that the increase proposed was intended to provide for an estimated £50 million spread over the years 1988–89 to 1990–91 for the balance of the costs of strengthening and repair work to the bridge which still remain to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "ely. The Department's statement also explained that the increase proposed was intended to provide for an estimated £50 million spread over the years 1988–89 to 1990–91 for the balance of the costs of strengthening and repair work to the bridge which still remain to be done. [Interruption.] I should—if hon. Members want to hear the reason for the tolls increase as opposed to speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "Well, the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside, who I see has vanished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.543.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.544.9", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.544.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.544.12", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Would you care to rule on whether \"Taffia\" is a parliamentary expression?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.544.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.544.13", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.544.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-27", "file": "debates1989-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8d9b3859853a6167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Severn Bridge (Tolls)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "The order is crucial to the future economic well-being of Wales. It is intended to authorise the doubling of toll charges on the Severn bridge, which is the principal access point to Wales on what is merely a short stretch of the M4. This morning when I passed over the bridge it was noticeable that the new prices were already in place before they had been discussed here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-27a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Brown", "preceding_text": "Do not the Government always say that we must remember that individuals are important? An individual called Paddy Meehan wrote a book, which I have here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The House should consider its contents, or at the very least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Gentleman sit down, please?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.576.8", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carttiss", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend acknowledge that, although I was listed as one of the Tory rebels by the Radio 4 programme and have the honour to represent he constituency once represented by the distinguished Member who was the father of my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd, North-West (Sir A. Meyer), I, my constituents and the British people demand that she remains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.576.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.577.6", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "In view of the dramatic events unfolding in eastern Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.577.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is aware that if young people are in difficulty they can claim income support and housing benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.583.4", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Sit down, please. There is an important debate following this. Please let me deal with this matter. When I call an hon. Gentleman to ask a question, I expect him to ask a question on his own account. The hon. Member was trying to draw attention to somebody else's comments in a book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.583.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not spurious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that this is not a continuation of this spurious point of order, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.589.9", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " economic policy is still characterised by complacency and confusion. Despite resignations and reshuffles, the Government's economic policy remains obscure and muddled. In ringing tones in the public expenditure debate on 9 February, the present Chancellor said: the first economic duty of government is to safeguard the value of the currency\".—[ Official Report, 9 February 1989; Vol. 146, c. 1154.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.589.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "economic activity in the overcrowded and congested south-east, to the prejudice and harm of the rest of the nation, as well as of the south-east itself. Therefore, a vigorous and determined regional policy is required, not only in the interests of fairness, but to deploy the under-used resources and the unemployed people who have potentially so much to contribute to the process of wealth creation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.602.7", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " countries. But has it been successful? Has it made a real contribution to the welfare and success of these economies? The lesson is—the Labour party should learn it—that inefficient investment for its own sake gets one nowhere; that is why the quality of our investment is so important to our success. Business today is in far better shape than it was ten years ago. It is far better able to tackle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.602.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "pm, the baying hordes on the Labour Benches will succeed in doing so. Labour Members are trying to shout loud enough to ensure that the Liberal Democrats are not heard at all. No doubt they will continue to do so, just as I shall continue to try to ensure that all points of view can reasonably be heard in the House. I am sure that you, Madam Deputy Speaker, feel that it is your job to do likewise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "uence in the City. People say that that is no longer possible because of the abolition of exchange control, but that is a simplification of the situation. There are many foreign banks in London now, but if the Governor wishes to exert his influence they have to accept it. They know perfectly well that they are licensed, and if they do not do as the Governor insists their licence will be in danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " The usual answer is to pluck someone who knows nothing about the job and put him in, saying that he is now a manager. In the hospital service, the more efficient one becomes—in my constituency, Queen Mary's hospital is immensely efficient and acknowledged to be so—the more money one requires, as more patients are seen and they spend a shorter time in hospital. The result is a need for more money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t him in, saying that he is now a manager. In the hospital service, the more efficient one becomes—in my constituency, Queen Mary's hospital is immensely efficient and acknowledged to be so—the more money one requires, as more patients are seen and they spend a shorter time in hospital. The result is a need for more money— [Interruption.] I am sorry if my hon. Friends are not interested in Bexley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "No. For the past 10 years I have urged that this country should become a full member of the European monetary system. I still urge that course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.613.6", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have already said that I shall not give way. Had we been in the European monetary system, the pressure on inflation would have been far greater. When the Prime Minister lists so many conditions that have to be met, she is saying that we are worse than the lowest of the 11 who have accepted the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.613.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "preceding_text": "ed. Today's inflation could do much more damage than the damage that was done by interest rates. The damage is painful but it is not terminal. However, inflation is terminal for the independent business. There is no doubt that business will support the Government's efforts to bring inflation under control. I am delighted that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has come back to hear my last words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "g output fell under the last Labour Government. Under the Conservatives, manufacturing output has risen sharply, particularly in the past few years, and last year it rose by 4 per cent. Much of the industry in the 1970s was grossly uncompetitive and almost dead on its feet. Not only do we have more manufacturing industry now than we had under Labour, but it is more competitive and in better shape—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "here are other, more positive, though little noticed, signs which bode well for our prospects in the coming few years. For example, our share of world exports, which fell sharply in the 1970s, has stabilised in the last decade. Exports were up sharply in the last year and, in volume terms, they rose by 10 per cent. over the last quarter. Our exports are now growing far faster than are our imports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been blaming the Government for the lack of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs. Let me make it clear that I refused to serve on that Select Committee because I did not want to serve on a Select Committee that tried to rig reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "that Select Committee because I did not want to serve on a Select Committee that tried to rig reports. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, it is true and it is all on the record for any to see. The Scottish National party refused to serve on the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs, describing it in the past two Parliaments as a piffling little Committee. We will not accept any of that humbug and nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " of the chairman of the Tory party in Blackpool, when he said: He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart. He was referring not to the general election but to the leadership election. It is rumoured that even now the so-far-silent right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley)—a political Don Quixote—is riding to the rescue of the Prime Minister bringing with him a copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "eech. The House may recall that the right hon. Gentleman said that he had read so many obituaries of himself in the past few weeks that even he thought that he was already dead. Rather disconcertingly, the right hon. Gentleman makes increasingly benevolent remarks about me. If I may respond in kind to one of his more memorable phrases, 1 feel rather as though I am being cherished by a dead savage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "000 to 12,000 people, all of whose jobs were in jeopardy because the industry at that time was losing between £500,000 and £1 billion a year. About 18 months ago I took to that works in my home town the then Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, who was presented with a film showing the rebirth of British steel. Although there are now only half as many people employed in those works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " Gentleman will join us in applauding the fact that i he recorded crime figures for the last 12 months are down, and that he will help us to sustain that downward trend. My personal conviction is that the policies that we have been following for the last 10 years have set a new direction for political debate in this country, have set a remarkable change of direction for Socialism, here and abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "direction for Socialism, here and abroad— [Interruption.] taking as its fundamental starting point the rejection of everything that Socialism has previously stood for. All that goes a long way to explain the dismal, negative, wholly unconstructive performance of speakers from the Opposition Front Bench throughout the debate. There has been an absence of any kind of positive suggestions for reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " the Warsaw pact Governments put together. No wonder the right hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Hafer) complains. Yet Labour Members have still not come up with what any thinking man or woman would consider voting for. The Labour Front Bench, under the leadership of the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock), are living proof' of the maxim that only the mediocre are always at their best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The House has heard this week no fewer than 11 speeches from the Opposition Front Bench —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The House has heard this week no fewer than 11 speeches from the Opposition Front Bench — [Interruption.] —but despite that, every question about Labour party policy remains unanswered. We come to see that Labour's much-vaunted policy review has a gaping black hole at its heart. In this era of designer Socialism —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " up on every front. The parliamentary Labour party now has in this House alone no fewer than 80 Front Bench spokespersons, of whom only 13 ever served in Government. Indeed, Labour has eight more departmental spokespersons in the Commons than we have Departmental Ministers in the Government as a whole. It is hardly surprising that Labour sounds less and less like a credible alternative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " eight more departmental spokespersons in the Commons than we have Departmental Ministers in the Government as a whole. It is hardly surprising that Labour sounds less and less like a credible alternative Government— [Interruption.] —and more and more like a political tower of Babel. The Leader of the Opposition has added a new dimension to his concept of collective irresponsibility. The truth is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-28", "file": "debates1989-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb812886767d90f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The truth is that meeting the cost of Socialism is the reason why any Labour Government should be, and indeed would be, unthinkable. Every Labour Government in British history has ended in economic disaster, and every one of those Governments were headed by so-called moderates. After every such failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-28a.676.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ire County Council Bill [Lords] 2. London Local Authorities Bill [Lords] 3. South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Bill [Lords] 4. United Medical and Dental Schools Bill [Lords] 5. Nottingham Park Estate Bill [Lords] 6. Medway Tunnel Bill [Lords] 7. Vale of Glamorgan (Barry Harbour) Bill [Lords] 8. Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (No. 3) Bill [Lords] — [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.699.10", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "As all sides have agreed that the elections in Nicaragua should not only be fair, but be seen to be fair, will the Government agree to give technical assistance in the registration and voting procedure, as my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) reasonably and moderately asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.699.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly pass on my hon. Friend's message to Mr. Lech Walesa. She is right in her earlier point. Food supplies are crucial, and we contribute to the European Community's supply of free food to Poland. She is also right that this is one of the many occasions when those who give quickly, give twice. This is what we are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.711.4", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "We take rather seriously a proposition espoused by other member states and by the president of the European Commission. I refer to the principle of subsidiarity, which says that member states should do what they can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.711.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Standing Order No. 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady must not seek to raise her application in this way. I know the seriousness of the position in Ethiopia and am sure that it was as serious last Friday and that it will be as serious on Monday. I hope that she will have then an opportunity to raise it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.716.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.717.4", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Standing Order No. 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I am not hearing any further points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.717.10", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Standing Order No. 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. These suggestions have been made —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.717.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.718.10", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Ballot for Notices of Motions for Friday 15 December", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). As the House knows, the Chairman of Ways and Means has sought to revive the Bills that did not succeed in the last Session.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.718.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "If it has that meaning, it also has the meaning that one has a right to be a member of a trade union. How the Government would justify their position on GCHQ, I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.730.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": " will go down in history as the face that launched a thousand British bankruptcies—if we get away with a thousand we will be lucky. What will the directives mean to a small British business? Let us take the least controversial item on Mrs. Papandreou's shopping list, that relating to health and safety at work. It sounds admirable and we are all in favour of good health and safety at work measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "s shall be protected against inclement weather conditions Tell that to the shepherds of the north of Scotland or the trawlermen on the North sea as the Euro-inspectors are called in to see that all outdoor workers are protected satisfactorily against all inclement weather conditions. Paragraph 2:14:3 states: Appropriate measures for the protection of non smokers shall be taken in staff rest rooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "on of employment opportunities. The Government seem to have considerable reservations about the right of workers to information, consultation and participation in industry. It will be no surprise to the House to know that we consider such rights to be important. They have been at the core of Liberal policy since the yellow book of 1928 and are at the heart of the policies of the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "preceding_text": " them the more the ordinary people like the prospects held out by the social charter. I used to think that there was not very much in the EC for the British people, and I remember some of the high costs that were incurred in agriculture and other matters. On those occasions there were no protests from the Government or from big business, because they thought that there were big profits to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "s of working conditions for British workers. We now have the lowest paid worker groups in Europe—far worse than Germany, France or Italy. These are some of the reasons why we believe that the social charter is a useful vehicle. It is not perfect, but at least it is a beginning. Regardless of the attitudes of a reactionary Government, we know that if the social charter is placed before the workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "llenge him again tonight to say where in the charter or in the action programme his claims are substantiated, once again he will refuse. We heard earlier, and those who listened to the \"Today\" programme this morning will have heard, the Secretary of State claiming that managers in Britain show no support for the social charter. I quote from a press release from the British Institute of Management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Social Charter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "pposition want a minimum wage, we decide. We decide working conditions and so on. There is no role for Brussels in that activity. The Opposition made a number of observations about training. The Government have made it clear that we are committed to improve training during the 1990s. We have also made it clear that we shall achieve that aim flexibly, through local training and enterprise councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "European Community-Japan (Trade)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "I listened to the hon. Lady's speech, which throughout was an effort to be all things to all people. There was nothing definite about it and no clear policy came through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "EC Shipping Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Field", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Field", "preceding_text": "ere originally categorised by the EEC as vermin, but as they are increasingly popular as food and as snail farming has expanded, they had to be categorised as fish or meat. The reason for choosing the fish category is that, as a mollusc, a snail is more akin to shellfish than to a vertebrate animal such as a cow or sheep. Hon. Members may wonder what on earth that has to do with a shipping debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-29", "file": "debates1989-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2377e85268346616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "EC Shipping Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": ". Member for Kingston-upon-Hull, East was that of strategic importance. I have always believed that that argument has long since been lost. I have said that to the General Council of British Shipping and I peddled it around before I came to this House. I was a member of the Territorial Army and one of my last jobs was in the US-UK lock. I have run the shipping plans for the reinforcement of Europe", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-29a.799.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.826.11", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, as usual, is correct in most of his assumptions. I concede that high interest rates are causing a great deal of concern among small business men and mortgage payers. I am interested in my hon. Friend's question because a Gallup poll on Tuesday showed that the vast majority of people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.826.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.832.6", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "e economy from the Conservative Government and that private industry was collapsing on a massive scale? The Tory Government had to take over Rolls-Royce and we had to take over British Leyland and British Steel because they had collapsed. In addition, we had to take over the shipbuilding industry because it had collapsed. There would have been no industry had it not been for the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.832.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Truly me thinks that the Lady doth protest too much. Did she or did she not know on Tuesday that the sale had been sweetened with £38 million worth of handouts from taxpayers' money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "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": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry will make a full statement later this afternoon. The Leader of the Opposition should be perturbed that the car industry could not succeed without enormous cash injections from the British taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry will make a full statement later this afternoon. The Leader of the Opposition should be perturbed that the car industry could not succeed without enormous cash injections from the British taxpayer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] That company constantly put its hands into the taxpayers' pocket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.4", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We had the irony that among companies producing cars in Britain some, such as Ford, paid money into the British Treasury while others, such as British Leyland, took rather larger sums out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I cannot promise to respond promptly to the requirements of every saint's day in the House, especially as I think that I am right in saying that today is All Saints Day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Rover Group plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "r many times in the House but it was impossible to resolve it because of the political temperature. Rover informed everyone involved that the position was extremely damaging to its business and at the time it lost market share. My right hon. and noble Friend had no alternative but to conduct exclusive negotiations with an acceptable British company and only one had expressed interest at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Rover Group plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did the right hon. Gentleman do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I wish to disagree with my hon. Friend in one respect: many hon. Gentlemen, even with the advantage of hindsight, would succeed in losing millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.863.7", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Rover Group plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are all concerned about that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State realise that only one Conservative Member, the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Mr. Warren), seems concerned about taxpayers having a fair deal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.863.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Rover Group plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "In the light of the Secretary of State's answers this afternoon, the only thing for which the House can be grateful is that it was not he who negotiated the deal. If he had, it would have been an even bigger rip-off than it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Rover Group plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "wers this afternoon, the only thing for which the House can be grateful is that it was not he who negotiated the deal. If he had, it would have been an even bigger rip-off than it was. [Interruption.] We have yet to receive a successful answer to two shocking revelations, first, that not one penny has yet been paid by BAe and, secondly, that the British Government surreptitiously paid £38 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Rover Group plc", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "only thing for which the House can be grateful is that it was not he who negotiated the deal. If he had, it would have been an even bigger rip-off than it was. [Interruption.] We have yet to receive a successful answer to two shocking revelations, first, that not one penny has yet been paid by BAe and, secondly, that the British Government surreptitiously paid £38 million. [Interruption.] Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Straw and Stubble Burning", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement. Hon. Members will be well aware of the considerable problems this year on straw and stubble burning, and will recall a similar situation in 1983 when there were many complaints from the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-11-30", "file": "debates1989-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b9c02c3732aeaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": "there are such long waits between trial and committal. The report also covered the prison building programme, a matter to which I attach considerable importance. I am sure that I speak for most hon. Members when I say that none of us is proud of our prisons. I pay tribute to my right hon. and noble Friend Viscount Whitelaw who as Home Secretary took urgent steps to put that terrible problem right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-11-30a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-01", "file": "debates1989-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "49eb5ca6eccfbe0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-01a.989.2", "colnum": "989", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fields", "preceding_text": "k from; believes that these mighty working class struggles deserve the full support of the British and international labour and trade union movement and considers that the only way forward for the peoples of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is on the basis of a return to the principles of genuine workers' democracy and socialism which formed the basis and inspiration for the October revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-01a.989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.7.8", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to disappoint the hon. Gentleman again. He is incredibly ill-informed. We have had no shortage of candidates. In fact, I am surprised at the number of people who have written to me commending themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.7.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And on and on and on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ters in the House merely because a long time has passed since the issue arose. We all remember the case of the Guildford Four and the 15 years which followed, during which hon. Members asked questions about the case. Tory Members could have said that that should stop. It is a good thing that it did not stop. Another example is the Rover sweetner. The questions about that will run on and on and on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "nergy efficiency and conservation? Will its effects on the environment be good or bad? What future does it offer the coal industry? Will it make mining safer or more dangerous? How will it affect communities living near mines and opencast workings? What has the Bill to do with the proposed privatisation of the coal industry and how is it tied up with the privatisation of the electricity industry?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a little more first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.47.3", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is acute to ask three or four questions which I have no intention of answering now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.47.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Trevor Skeet", "preceding_text": " United Kingdom, which is why we import it. If the hon. Gentleman had an opportunity to go back to university, he might learn something about economics and understand some of these problems. I do not think for a moment that we have seen the end of nuclear power in the United Kingdom. If all Europe, except Spain and the Netherlands, and particularly France can run nuclear power stations profitably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that what I have said was pure Conservative philosophy: charity begins at home. Certainly it should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.51.7", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "es —why should we not? Nevertheless, I do not hesitate to add that a future Labour Government would introduce selective import controls if the economy ever returned to its present state. I have no scruples about recommending such action. As for subsidies, they should be provided according to need, not want, and Labour will take account of that. Now let me return to the important subject of safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.51.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "party but by the Cabinet. It got into the hands of our Front Bench team and I commend them for having obtained it. It suggests that the Bill will lead to 30,000 job losses. Conservative Members have said how wonderful it is that the Government have tied up a contract for all this coal, but nothing has changed. The document also states that a three-year agreement is part and parcel of the contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "em on to the universities to get degrees. The NCB provided this country not only its fuel and with expertise in many subjects, but with its wherewithal. That is where the expense came in. I should like to talk about concessionary fuel and cash in lieu. Historically, the coal belongs to the miners. I used to get 13 tonnes of concessionary coal per year. It was part and parcel of our wage agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George J. Buckley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George J. Buckley", "preceding_text": "ulation of capital debt incurred in the restructuring of the mining industry over a number of years which has made it a highly productive industry comparable to any deep-mining industry in the world. That debt has been paid for mainly by the reduction in manpower in the industry, yet the Government have the audacity to suggest that the Bill provides the opportunity to write off £5 billion of debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George J. Buckley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George J. Buckley", "preceding_text": "ssary coal to make up for the shortfall that would result from forcing down still further the supplies that it receives from British Coal. The CEGB has a monopoly on demand and therefore can blackmail British Coal, as it has done recently in terms of the prices negotiated. My hon. Friends have already stated why we will oppose the Bill. Clause 4 is a recipe for disaster and a danger to our miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. With the exception of 45 minutes, I have attended this debate since it started. Is it not an abuse of the procedures of the House that an hon. Member should be called who has scarcely been in the Chamber at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "when the hon. Gentleman was speaking. He does not understand what he is talking about. I have a friend in the other place who was 94 in September. He was victimised for 11 years by the private coal owners. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) knows all about that. His family also know about it because they suffered under private ownership of the mining industry all those years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way—sit down. While I was working underground at the coal face the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton) was pushing a pen in Hobart house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "erground, we used to talk about the pen pushers in Hobart house not giving an ounce towards the production in the mining industry. The hon. Member for Tatton made a contribution about opencast coal, but he did not declare an interest as an adviser to the body involved with opencast mining. He declared his interest in the Register of Members' Interest but not in his speech. He is two-faced as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.98.7", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.98.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Selly Oak would listen to what is being said from the Chair and keep his mouth shut, we might hear what is going on. I have lost my time. The hon. Gentleman wanted to squeeze me out of the debate by raising stupid points of order. He is a stupid man with a stupid point of order. He should buy a plane ticket and fly away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-04", "file": "debates1989-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "d3b1c1c6eddc8cc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are making it important for me to do so, as I have a good deal of interesting stuff to get on the record. During the debate, understandably, hon. Members have asked whether the deficiency grant payments are commitments will be open-ended—understandably, because this so-called uncaring, coal-neglecting Government: have already put £10 billion of my money and yours into the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-04a.106.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend accepts the importance of good communications in ensuring that more tourists from the continent and elsewhere visit Norfolk and Suffolk, but does he also accept the need for a greater emphasis on rail links? Will he do all that he can to persuade his right hon. and hon. Friends that the terminal link should be at Stratford rather than King's Cross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "It would be a great pity if the hon. Gentleman sought to give the impression that part-time work somehow does not count. It may not count for him, but every survey conducted by the labour force survey has shown that nine out of 10 people in part-time employment want part-time jobs. That fact should be recognised by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "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/1989-12-05a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.153.6", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Despite the Prime Minister's words, is it not the case that she will end up totally isolated at the forthcoming summit at Strasbourg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.153.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "Since this might be the last time that the Prime Minister answers questions at the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knowles", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Atomic Weapons Establishment", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker. I should like to make a statement on the future organisation of the Atomic Weapons Establishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Atomic Weapons Establishment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's comments. He made a valid point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.175.5", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "bustly to defend our approach. I shall spend some time on this matter, because many hon. Members have raised it. Our approach is right for three good reasons. First, it follows precedent. The nearest analogy is the Education Act 1962, which introduced the maintenance grant system for which these loans will now be a top-up. This Bill follows pretty well precisely the shape and approach of that Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "ar primary legislation? No one argues that for grants. I want to mention specifically a very important point. We shall, of course, monitor closely the effects of the introduction of the scheme. We have already carried out, in 1987 and 1989, three surveys of students' income and expenditure. We shall continue to commission periodic surveys in this matter and others if that is shown to be desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I did not slide over it. It has been clear all the way through and I have made it absolutely clear here that we are intending that the level of the maintenance grant and parental contribution will be reduced in real terms, of course, because I have talked about a fairer distribution of the burden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "In fairness to the many hon. Members who wish to speak, I should now get on with my speech. I am sure that that is the mood of the House and that that is what people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way. It is perfectly fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.179.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.184.3", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again. This shows two things: first, the point at which loan outgoings are overtaken by repayments; secondly, the point at which the totality of repayments is greater than the totality of outgoings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ntervene in his speech. He refused to do so earlier when I gave the figures, not that we had produced, but that he had produced in answer to questions from the Opposition, to show that there would be no cumulative savings on loans until 2013. The Labour party's position is made absolutely clear in the policy review. We shall continue the grant system and increase its real value as resources allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "experience of the last Labour Government when they failed to earn and thereby totally failed to meet their expenditure commitments. No wonder the hon. Gentleman uttered the weasel words \"as resources allow\". Our position is more honest and is more likely fairly to finance higher education expansion. That is why the hon. Member for Blackburn has been careful not to commit himself to anything today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "d Hailsham, described the Government earlier this year. The Bill gives more power to the Executive, with less parliamentary check on their discretion, than legislation such as emergency powers and defence of the realm measures designed for wartime emergencies, and it is so arbitrary in scope that it would today be thrown out by the Parliaments of East Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union and Hungary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "said much the same when he announced the student loans review in June 1986. Is it any wonder that people become so cynical about this Government when what has characterised this consultation has been the Government ignoring everyone they have consulted? No institution of any standing and no individual of any standing now supports the measure. Even the Government's best friends have deserted them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we are doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " has characterised this consultation has been the Government ignoring everyone they have consulted? No institution of any standing and no individual of any standing now supports the measure. Even the Government's best friends have deserted them — [Interruption.] This proposal was not in the manifesto. The manifesto contained a promise to bring in legislation to supplement the student grant system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "t it will catch new teachers. Those with careers with low initial earnings but with high pay prospects will be able to defer loan repayments, but those who go into careers in which the starting salary may be broadly acceptable but which have poor career prospects will not. That will lead to an absurd situation in which young barristers will be able to escape repayment, but young teachers will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "preceding_text": "o the Minister about the loans White Paper, and 95 per cent. of those organisations said that they were opposed to the scheme. One Tory county council wholeheartedly supported it. Who wants the scheme, apart from a few people in the Government? I am convinced that many Conservative Members do not want it. Who has opposed the scheme? The National Union of Students violently and bitterly opposes it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is aware of the Bill's serious implications for the unique Scottish education system and the broad four-year degree courses that we have north of the border. Did my hon. Friend note that, during the long speech of the Secretary of State, the right hon. Gentleman never once mentioned Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.211.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "Before I come to my remarks on the Bill, I hope that the House will allow me to say one sentence on another matter. May I, on behalf of my hon. Friends, congratulate my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on the massive and overwhelming vote of confidence that she has received as leader of the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "ember. The scheme is really a cut. It is a cut made in a foundering economy. Indeed, the Government are having to make such cuts—they have no choice. The economy has foundered so badly that one Chancellor of the Exchequer has resigned and his place has now been taken by another. Furthermore, an election has now taken place that nobody ever thought would take place. I have not yet heard the result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "I should not have given way because I do not have time to go into detail about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr Robert Rhodes James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Robert Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "ded. I discovered much that was bad and lamentable. However, I discovered a wonderful spirit among students. I attended many public meetings, but did not experience any outcries. I recall that Durham university at the time was developing a cricket ball for the blind. It was successful; a superb example of applied technology for a social purpose. In that connection, I sometimes think of Mr. Dexter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "for Lewisham, West calculated that by the beginning of the next century it stacked up into a difference of hundreds of millions of pounds in the costs of the schemes. The burden of repayment will not be all that heavy. For the average course, it will be about £400 per year. which compares with the cost of a ski-ing holiday—and about 1 million people from Britain went on ski-ing holidays last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Education (Student Loans) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "I thought that, by popular request, I would make a few comments on the money resolution, which is important for several reasons. It is not so much the amount of money involved—compared with what we discussed last night, it is relatively modest—as the fact that there are some peculiar arrangements regarding the Secretary of State's ability to administer it. That is why I want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.259.5", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Education (Student Loans) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "d. That is a wide power, to which attention should be drawn. Schedule 2 sets out the financial parameters of where the £109 million will be spent in the first year, doubling by 1992, and so forth. When the Under-Secretary of State replied to the previous debate, he made no reference to the arrangement which may provide for the loans to be made and recovered. Arrangements have no statutory meaning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The ILO is well aware that we intend to establish a permanent new pay machinery, and it is content with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "The ILO is well aware that we intend to establish a permanent new pay machinery, and it is content with that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] I have just been talking about that, and I will talk about it again right now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.265.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He used to be a teacher.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Gordon", "preceding_text": "They do not do nothing in those 12 weeks. They take children on trips, they prepare their work for the coming year, and they need a restorative period because teaching is a profession of great physical and mental stress. If the hon. Gentleman has never taught, he should come and try it for a day or two in one of our local schools—he will see why teachers need a restorative period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "No, I do not have time to give way to the hon. Gentleman, although I would if he had spoken more briefly. All the members of the Cabinet—with perhaps one exception—went to public and preparatory schools. Conservative Members criticise a Health Service that they do not use and an education service into which they do not send their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"1974?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Antrim, East (Mr. Beggs) is absolutely right that things have gone downhill since 1974—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Teachers' Pay and Conditions", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Everywhere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mrs. Angela Rumbold)", "preceding_text": " Of course, many teachers throughout the country will note those hon. Members who did not wish to give them the rewards to which we believe they are entitled. Several hon. Members have spoken about teacher morale and have made their points in various ways. Some have said that teacher morale is low because of the circumstances in which they find themselves, especially in inner cities and in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-05", "file": "debates1989-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e64ea34081fac91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Homelessness (West Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": " This year, the new capital control system will enable my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to distribute resources more accurately in accordance with housing needs, to take account of the authorities' ability to generate resources through receipts as well. I emphasise that it is for each authority, within the guidelines and controls laid down by Government, to determine its own priorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-05a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "That goes rather wide of the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.304.12", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I do not see why the hon. Gentleman feels that the question calls for insults. They are completely misplaced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.304.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I cannot respond to both parts of the hon. Lady's supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.305.9", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Can the Secretary of State tell the House whether he will dispose of any of those golden shares in the same way as he is to dispose of the golden share in Jaguar, thereby giving the company away to Ford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.305.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I think that everything in that supplementary question was out of order and unacceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.310.8", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I do believe that the regime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.310.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Microwave Ovens", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I am glad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Microwave Ovens", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am glad that, at last, we have managed to drag the Minister to the Dispatch Box to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.316.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is a speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ntly Alyth school in my constituency has been forced to consider the possibility of becoming self-governing? Also, general practitioners in Scotland may find that they will not benefit from the additional funds because their representatives on the Scottish BMA are not prepared to have special discussions on the needs, aspirations and wishes of Scottish GPs because they do not want a separate deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": ". I know from having met the PSA trade unions that there is some uncertainty and concern. I can well understand that, but I assure the staff that their fears are unnecessary: the aim of the privatisations will be to create viable, vigorous competitive organisations in the private sector, with better prospects than they would have if they remained in their present position within the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "aluations have been carried out so much more effectively by the PSA than by the private sector? It is not good enough for the Secretary of State to say that he will come back to that at some stage. In 1987, a report by David Hencke appeared in The Guardian which implied that the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury—the present Chancellor of the Exchequer—wanted to halt moves towards privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.359.5", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "That underlines the very point I am making", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hargreaves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hargreaves", "preceding_text": "It is in an effort to improve that efficiency that we are embarking upon this legislation. We are discussing, especially in the case of the Crown Suppliers, the provision of such items as light bulbs and fuel. We might as well be talking about the provision of cabbages. Surely the Opposition are not suggesting that only the PSA can provide this House or other Government institutions with cabbages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Mr. Hargreaves) made an interesting speech, which takes me to the heart of my case. I always try to be extremely objective about commercial matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonesense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ed States, which I was fortunate enough to attend. Turning to his opponent, the President said, \"Watch my lips.\" I hope that the Minister will watch mine very carefully, as I should like him to address many of my remarks specifically in his reply. In my interventions this evening, I have persistently argued that in this instance the public sector provides a cheaper service than the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "tance or refusal of gifts, hospitality and so on and is advised by the director-general of organisation and establishments. The handbook says: The correct course to be followed in the case of proffered gifts or hospitality will be determined by the context in which the offer is made. I want to make it clear that I do not myself make any allegation of impropriety against the civil servant involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.387.5", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "that if the public were aware of them, the reasons for those gifts might be questioned. The public might believe that such gifts are wrong, and that is why we do not accept them. The same is true of public procurement. There must be no question of impropriety even if we understand the context in which these matters arise. Impropriety must not happen and that is why I have raised the issue tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "preceding_text": "Why does the hon. Gentleman refer to the elected representatives of the workers as union bosses? Why does he call them bosses when they have been elected? Does he refer to the Prime Minister as his boss?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Talk about security.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "The private sector is now active in the House of Commons. Is the Minister aware that the House of Commons is filthy compared to what it used to be when it was cleaned by ladies who came in regularly and who were employed as a public service to look after the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I am not going to be drawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "ew companies take over those activities. It was not my question, but the hon. Gentleman's. He sought information. By common consent, the question was not adequately answered. It is awkward when a money resolution is found to be inadequate for a range of purposes. There have been occasions when that has happened. I fondly recall one instance when the Minister had to return to the House three times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Local Government (Sports and Leisure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moynihan", "preceding_text": "When the contract goes out to competitive tendering, we will see whether the hon. Gentleman's statement is correct. I am confident that the management in the sports and leisure facilities of many local authorities is of outstanding quality and will take considerable beating when contracts are put out to competitive tender. However, it is in the interest of the users for that to be put to the test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Local Government (Sports and Leisure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "No, I have already made it clear that I am not giving way. All those costs have been for the sake of savings that are much lower than forecast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.421.7", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Local Government (Sports and Leisure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I will not give way, because I want to give my hon. Friends a chance to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.421.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.428.5", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Local Government (Sports and Leisure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "s that that will bring a new professional approach to leisure and sports facilities. Opposition Members must understand—and in their heart of hearts they must agree—that that does not exist in the majority of sports centres today. Of course there are the exceptions which my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) mentioned in the rather Mad Hatter style that he brings to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Local Government (Sports and Leisure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield and myself are the closest personal friends; we have a deep affection for each other and I know that when he reads the Official Report in the morning", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-06", "file": "debates1989-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "66d01f9d3db9160e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.433.6", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Local Government (Sports and Leisure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members should listen to this, because any accidents would be on their consciences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-06a.433.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ire County Council Bill [Lords] 2. London Local Authorities Bill [Lords] 3. South Yorkshire Light Rail Transit Bill [Lords] 4. United Medical and Dental Schools Bill [Lords] 5. Nottingham Park Estate Bill [Lords] 6. Medway Tunnel Bill [Lords] 7. Vale of Glamorgan (Barry Harbour) Bill [Lords] 8. Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (No. 3) Bill [Lords] — [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows only too well that, thank goodness, in this free society it is not for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows only too well that, thank goodness, in this free society it is not for me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question in precisely the form in which it was put to me. It was put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman the assurance that we have taken the steps that I have described. We have the situation very much in mind and have every reason Ito believe that the performance of the passport department will be excellent next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.464.6", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n has been pressing very hard to secure cheaper air fares in Europe: we were paying far more per mile to go there than we have ever paid to go to the United States. The agreement is indeed a triumph for British diplomacy, and also a triumph for our kind of Europe. We believe in a much freer and more open Europe, which will break down trade barriers and be of great benefit to the people of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.464.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Now that Chancellor Kohl has provided a welcome respite from the headlong rush into European union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.466.5", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ritain now to organise a serious study of the constitutional and economic consequences of economic and monetary union—a study not confined to the governors of the European central banks—and at the same time to ensure that placed at the very top of the European agenda is the future relationship between the European Communities and the emerging independent and democratic countries of eastern Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.482.5", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that it is disgraceful that he should have allocated only three hours for discussion of a war crimes motion? Is his political judgment so poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ies. In the midlands, Rugby reports that next year looks particularly grim. In the south, East Hertfordshire reports that the short-term outlook is extremely bleak. And Barnet district health authority, covering the constituency of the Prime Minister, reports that it is closing 10 paediatric beds and 14 gynaecological beds. That is the state of the Health Service after 10 years of her stewardship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "re choice, it will at least result in value for money. He will apply the magic potion of competition, as a result of which we will apparently achieve more output for the same input. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has certainly mastered the language of competition. I read with fascination last night the circular that his Department has issued to health authorities on the pricing of contracts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman declined to give way before. He is speaking about competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "lth care from private sources—may be the Government's implicit objective. Their explicit objective is to defend the NHS, but that objective may not be achieved through the existing provisions of the White Paper, which are encapsulated in the Bill. The likely outcome of these proposals is greater inequality in access to health care, provision of health care of inadequate quality and cost-inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-07", "file": "debates1989-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d34aa6fd516d32e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "preceding_text": "l needs and the planning of comprehensive services to meet those needs. Central to our approach is the need to devolve responsibility for the day-to-day provision of services to local unit level, thereby freeing district health authorities to concentrate on their principal task of assessing the needs of those for whom they are responsible and ensuring that those needs are met by service providers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-07a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-08", "file": "debates1989-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "85c986f8294a4580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-08a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Drugs Missuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "e of our debate in June on the subject. They are important matters and all hon. Members should be prepared to take an interest in them and speak in our debates. As the previous Home Secretary said, we are facing an epidemic of drugs. The Government must be prepared to take urgent action. There is no more important threat to our society than that posed by drugs. As I said during our debate in June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-08a.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Hong Kong (Chinese People)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.) Surely that is something which we know our people in their good sense do not want. We must listen to them.— [Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "xtent to which our multicultural experiment has succeeded before deciding whether it is prudent to extend it? There may be little blood flowing in the Tiber yet, but all the most likely scenarios are filled with great foreboding. Ulster could be but a skirmish compared with the holocaust that could follow. Surely it would be a massive error further to aggravate the delicate balance of our society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "t must alarm some of his hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench. He stated, \"This should be done\", and claimed that it is done already under the current structure. The hon. Member for Kirkcaldy then went on to say what a Labour Government would do. This should he of particular interest to the House, because he said that a future Labour Government would issue hospitals with their own budgets. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "rs then develop, that number will increase if the system is seen to be successful by those who have not so far volunteered. What better way could there be of moving towards a more decentralised system, which the hon. Gentleman claims in his document to support? On the hon. Gentleman's second point, he must appreciate that what he says may sound fine in theory, but will not be realised in practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "practice fund will have to be increased significantly above the cost of living figure. We will have to wait for an answer to that as well as to many other questions. I shall make on diversion, and I make no apology to the House for that. I came down to London on the overnight sleeper from Glasgow, and found myself in conversation with two members of the ambulance service from the west of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "No doubt the Secretary of State will have time to discuss that on other occasions. We are discussing the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " wishes to send a patient not to the Western infirmary but to the Victoria infirmary or Southern General hospital, I am confident that he will be able to do so. However, if the patient needs a form of treatment for which the health board has drawn up a contract with a specific hospital, under the new market arrangements, clearly the patient will have to go to that hospital whether it is Ross Hall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ith a specific hospital, under the new market arrangements, clearly the patient will have to go to that hospital whether it is Ross Hall— [Interruption.] I have taken the trouble to talk to the people involved and they believe that that will be the case. If the Secretary of State is saying that we have misunderstood, that is an appalling comment on the quality of explanation that has been offered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Yes. The patient will be no more obliged to go to the hospital of the doctor's choice than he is now. Presumably a doctor will not enter into a contract with a hospital unless he believes that it gives a high quality of service. He may wish to recommend it to the patient, but it will be for the patient to decide whether he wishes to accept that advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.696.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "nment's decision to make county councils responsible for assessing and supervising the provision of community care, but I should have been much happier if they had made local authorities the major providers of services. Care for our elderly, mentally handicapped and sick people should be provided publicly. The massive growth in private homes and in the profit being made from old people is obscene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "preceding_text": " it deprived my constituents of a service that they regarded as extremely important. The hon. Member for Burnley referred to the interaction of community care and the Bill. I take it as axiomatic—I assume that Ministers will confirm this—that there will be no question of closing down old geriatric hospitals until community care supportive welfare is in place. We simply cannot allow that to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "that hon. Members on both sides were none the wiser having heard his speech because if the hon. Gentleman puts his hand on his heart he must admit that he has not read the White Paper or the working documents or the Bill; if he had, he would not have said what he did. We are not talking about hospitals opting out of the Health Service; we are talking about self-governing National Health hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "ask the patients, doctors, nurses and cleaners. How can we do that? We do not even do that under the present system when there is a proposal to close a hospital. In those circumstances, we consult the people in a proper and statutory fashion through the community health council involved. I believe that a ballot would divide communities and divert valuable resources and attention from patient care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": "n many people needing to be convinced that, far from opting out, NHS hospitals will opt in to a new standard of excellence in a service held in such great affection by the British people. I entirely endorse my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's statement that the NHS should be so good that no one will want to go to the private sector. I say that as a practising physician in the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "y the day and more dependent on all of us. The Bill does not deal with the problem of caring for the mentally ill or handicapped, or the problem of those who are languishing in prison and on remand and who would not be so doing had there been proper care in the community. The Bill does not address the problem of the large number of homeless people who have suffered from mental illness in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.5", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "—Ministers never talk about these cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.5", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "—Ministers never talk about these cases. [Interruption.] Perhaps they do not even read the reports of such tribunals. Conservative Members do not care, because these homes are private.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.8", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way—", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "The Bill will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.9", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "The Bill will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.12", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In the circumstances, is it right that the hon. Lady should cast a slur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.755.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "o one has to follow the contract? GPs, who at present advise their patients which hospital to go to, will find that they are locked in the straitjacket of the National Health Service contract and that they will no longer have the choice of where to refer their patients. That choice will have been made by managers and a patient who has a hernia will have to go where the block booking is for hernia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-11", "file": "debates1989-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e44a94181187f09c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryder", "preceding_text": "It is just as well that someone explained them to me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall not go into all of them because as I have proceeded through my speech after each term or acronym I have said what it stands for or means. In fact, the IAA is the IIA, which stands for the inter-institutional agreement. The Council begins with the preliminary draft budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-11a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.831.7", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I very much agree with my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.831.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is to help clear the camps where conditions are not good, where fighting sometimes breaks out and where there is disease. Those who are refugees will not be returned home. I must remind the hon. Gentleman that we have to put back about 30,000 Chinese immigrants over the border each year. He cannot go on inflicting his anger on the people of Hong Kong and expect them to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "European Council (Strasbourg)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hope that everyone who is listening will remember that the right hon. Gentleman was not there and does not really know much about it. As for the most important issue on which advances were made—the single market, something which makes everyone else in the world realise that Europe really is integrating into one market—Britain is in the lead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "War Crimes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that does not affect people at the time of their actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "War Crimes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that does not affect people at the time of their actions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"] That is what the motion deals with, and why I am so strongly opposed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "War Crimes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "te criminals, but because the British instinct is and always has been to let the dead bury their dead and after the passage of time to forgive and even to try to forget such things, knowing with the wisdom that we have acquired in our long history that it is better for everyone that we should do so. Rabbi Blue said recently in a BBC radio programme that there is something of the Nazi in all of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Private Bills (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "t at risk by the difficulties experienced and so well described by the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, the hon. Member for Honiton (Sir P. Emery). I hope that what I have said will make hon. Members pause before they pursue their ends or betray their exasperation, which can be well known, understood and shared, but which must not be expressed at the expense of their colleagues and neighbours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.920.7", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Private Bills (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "That is a debating point. While the hon. Gentleman was making money in whatever business he makes money in now—he used to make it out of diving companies—I was in Committee this morning at 10.30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.920.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Private Bills (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "o turn up now and again and usually vote Tory. The hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) is not sitting in his usual place. I do not know why he is trying to cuddle up to the Government's deputy Chief Whip. Normally he does not and sticks out for his pure, undiluted monetarism. Perhaps he has thrown the towel in because he voted with the Prime Minister on the motion on war crimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Private Bills (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I hope to be able to reach conclusions and to bring them forward this Session, in whatever may be the appropriate place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Private Bills (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I hope to be able to reach conclusions and to bring them forward this Session, in whatever may be the appropriate place— [Interruption.] That is a matter for consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Ministerial and Other Salaries", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1989, which was laid before this House on 1st December, be approved. I hope that, as previously this evening, I need not detain the House for long on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Ministerial and Other Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is expressing some interesting variations in points of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Ministerial and Other Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We hear them every day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "lthough they may be well earned, below the rate of inflation. If everybody has wage increases up to the rate of inflation, next year inflation will be higher, so the ratchet principle operates and the spiral of inflation is never broken. I applaud the Government on their decision. I have never heard such flawed, silly arguments as we heard tonight from the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Grocott).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-12", "file": "debates1989-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "af2226f4d6de5088", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Ministerial and Other Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "e should establish a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs so that Members representing Scotland have the opportunity to question Scottish Ministers. We cannot ask English Ministers about Scottish matters as that would be ruled out of order. The Leader of the House should earn his money by doing right by Scotland. Members representing Scotland should have the right to scrutinise the Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-12a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.978.6", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "We do not regard as unfair the fact that we have increased the total spending for local authorities next year by 11 per cent. above the current figure and the amount of external finance by 8·5 per cent. Obviously, we are now in a consultation process and I would not want to comment further, except to say how delighted I am that in Tameside more than 100 per cent. of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.978.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that if the Government allow the demolition of any part of county hall it will be seen as an act of vandalism motivated by political spite, and as an attempt by the Government to prevent the next Labour Government from re-establishing Londonwide regional government based at county hall? We shall not be deterred. County hall is as much a part of our heritage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.981.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is it then?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "nment allow the demolition of any part of county hall it will be seen as an act of vandalism motivated by political spite, and as an attempt by the Government to prevent the next Labour Government from re-establishing Londonwide regional government based at county hall? We shall not be deterred. County hall is as much a part of our heritage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"] I am asking a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's argument was that matters are getting worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's argument was that matters are getting worse. [Interruption.] I challenge him to produce one piece of evidence in support of his assertion that matters are getting worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's argument was that matters are getting worse. [Interruption.] I challenge him to produce one piece of evidence in support of his assertion that matters are getting worse. [Interruption.] He cannot do so. His silence speaks volumes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " argument was that matters are getting worse. [Interruption.] I challenge him to produce one piece of evidence in support of his assertion that matters are getting worse. [Interruption.] He cannot do so. His silence speaks volumes. [Interruption.] We suggest that more should be done to improve things. Unlike the Opposition we make no apology for concentrating assistance on people in greatest need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " worse. [Interruption.] I challenge him to produce one piece of evidence in support of his assertion that matters are getting worse. [Interruption.] He cannot do so. His silence speaks volumes. [Interruption.] We suggest that more should be done to improve things. Unlike the Opposition we make no apology for concentrating assistance on people in greatest need. [Interruption.] We have acted․", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1007.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have his opportunity to make his speech in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugo Summerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugo Summerson", "preceding_text": "k? I am sure that the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) would be only too keen to assure his constituents that Ravenscourt park will not be built on, and that we do not want to build in Hyde park or in the green belt. I hope that Opposition Members would not advocate a return to the building of tower blocks, which to my mind represent one of the most horrendous forms of housing ever devised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "In the policy review process, there was never intended to be any detailed statement of that policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Christopher Chope)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Christopher Chope)", "preceding_text": "What a disgraceful display of synthetic indignation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Christopher Chope)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Christopher Chope)", "preceding_text": "What a disgraceful display of synthetic indignation— [Interruption.] This three-and-a-half hour debate has been the Opposition's chance to tell us about their housing policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1042.5", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I shall give way a number of times, but first I wish to stress the positive side. The Government believe that this has been a successful decade of sustained success in housing. We have won the argument today, as we have throughout the decade. We have increased the quantity and quality of the nation's housing stock. There are now 2 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1042.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "rket. I hope that his advice will be carefully heeded. The proposal to extend lodgings and encourage more people to take in lodgers has also been mentioned. I find it amazing that Opposition Members do not think it a good idea to make the best use of the nation's housing stock by encouraging and facilitating the taking in of lodgers by those who wish to do so. There are many people who would like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Education Reform (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": " his or her school does not offer an educationally balanced programme, or allows its pupils to opt out of essential areas of the curriculum. The continuation of a selective system of secondary education will not present a barrier to achievement for those outside the grammar school sector. I firmly believe that, in the long run, secondary intermediate schools will benefit most from these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-13", "file": "debates1989-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f3e5db01d7c194a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Education Reform (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "will be disadvantaged if they cannot do so. Rather we are seeking to encourage them fully to achieve their potential, and I hope that at least on that point we are in agreement. Enrolment will be a matter of choice for parents. Schools will not be in a position to make selection unless they are oversubscribed. That is a crucial point. Children will be able to go to schools chosen by their parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-13a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They go both ways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman shares my confidence in the commissioner of the Garda and the efforts of the Garda to follow up the dastardly crimes that were committed yesterday. I appreciate the frustration, particularly of people in the border areas, about the ability of terrorists to cross the border and return to the Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1152.7", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member well knows, and the House knows, that if a matter requires the immediate intervention of the Chair I must take the point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1152.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1157.10", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister seen The Guardian today—it may not be her favourite read—which shows that one of her advisers is again in trouble for secretly financing an extreme Right-wing secret newsletter, run by a former MI5 agent, which claims that Labour Members are Communist sympathisers? As I am one of those Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1157.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1158.6", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I reject the premise behind the hon. Gentleman's question. I believe that his constituents and all those who work for Rover had a very good deal when it was sold to British Aerospace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1158.6", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I reject the premise behind the hon. Gentleman's question. I believe that his constituents and all those who work for Rover had a very good deal when it was sold to British Aerospace— [Interruption.] It was a good deal for the taxpayer, who had already had to spend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1158.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1159.2", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " underfunded and understaffed and on which there is increasing concern about safety? What words of comfort has she for users and workers when she is cutting the revenue by some 25 per cent. and when there is every reason to expect further reductions in passenger safety and security? Does the right hon. Lady agree that that is not only no way to run a rail network, but also no way to run a country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1168.4", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House knows that we have another important statement this afternoon. There will be an opportunity to ask questions on the Christmas Adjournment, so I shall allow business questions to continue for a further five minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Traffic (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "And Croydon, South, of course. I thank my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for acting so decisively on behalf of all the Croydon constituencies. Can I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1191.7", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Arising out of the information that we have received from the hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Holt), one thing is certain, and that is that yesterday he was down in the political gutter, but we did not know that he came out covered in sludge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1191.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I did not say it was not. Obviously some people like it. I cannot say that I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "European Community (Fisheries)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "fects upon what we do tomorrow. One cannot distinguish between the demand for conservation at sea and the demand for terrestrial conservation. I should find it extremely difficult to demand that the Brazilians are restrained in their treatment of their rain forests, while insisting that our fishermen should have the right to fish as many fish as they like, irrespective of the effect on the stock —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "European Community (Fisheries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is absurd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I promised not to give way again because it was necessary to use up as little time as possible. I have given way once to the Government side, once to the official Opposition and once to the non-official Opposition. I shall not be driven to divide blue whiting from whiting. There is a grey problem in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "European Community (Fisheries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I ask the Minister to take on board the fact that observance of TACs has not protected the status of the fishing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1230.4", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "European Community (Fisheries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has been up and down like the proverbial yo-yo and he spoke for almost 20 minutes, so he has had his quota. His TAC has been well and truly exceeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Supply of Beer (Tied Estates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what this is all about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "he industry's work force achieved only if several other measures are taken. Further concentration of the big brewers must be stopped. Companies such as Anheuser-Busch and Heineken should not be allowed to plunder the United Kingdom market and would not be allowed to do so under a Labour Government. They would be subject to strict regulations which would be reinforced by the Office of Fair Trading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Supply of Beer (Tied Estates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "as telling us about his public houses. I have the great good fortune to live bang opposite one of them. It is appropriately called the Constitution, and it is a very attractive and popular-looking pub. A few yards further down the road there is another pub called the St. George's Conservative Club, so I am well served, although I am ashamed to tell the House that I have not been in either of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-14", "file": "debates1989-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e200c9de3fcf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Supply of Beer (Tied Estates)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " Tyne, North (Mr. Henderson) said that he was disappointed that I had been so brief. I was simply trying to give my hon. Friends adequate time to make their points and myself adequate time to reply to them. I was disappointed in his speech because I came expecting a major parliamentary occasion. I had read \"What's Brewing\". It said that the Labour party planned to force a new major brewing debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-14a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1296.6", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Mr. Speaker, the physical size of the petition and its visual impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1296.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1296.8", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "I do not challenge your ruling, Mr. Speaker, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1296.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1299.2", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": " attempted to give me—and, through me, all Back Benchers whose day for debate this is—against what is evidently an organised attempt by Opposition Members to frustrate the order of business. It is extraordinary that Opposition Members should apparently be far more interested in debating whether a few dozen cardboard boxes should be brought into the Chamber than in debating the future of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Who said that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "t have chosen many candidates for that august position. The hon. Member for Hamilton, who no doubt wandered in out of curiosity to see what would happen today, found himself unwittingly in the position of having to give us the Labour party's views on the future of Socialism. Perhaps it is only a coincidence, although it may not be, that he is the Member of Parliament for the Hamilton constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "do its bidding, but the Labour party that is ordered by the international banks to return to sensible economic policies. Mr. Johannes Witteveen, who I believe is well known to my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne, was obliged to rescue the British people from the depredations of the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), who I am sorry to say will leave the House at the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "but the Labour party that is ordered by the international banks to return to sensible economic policies. Mr. Johannes Witteveen, who I believe is well known to my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne, was obliged to rescue the British people from the depredations of the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), who I am sorry to say will leave the House at the next election. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1329.7", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "They called themselves National Socialists, but they were not Socialists. They were protecting capitalism. There was no Socialism in Franco's Spain. Instead, there was dictatorship, centralisation and administration from above.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1329.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "re Socialist Governments have been elected, advances have been made. Let us consider what happened in this country between 1945 and 1950. Conservative Members say that this country gained nothing from Socialist Governments, but a Socialist Government introduced the National Health Service. When I came out of the forces after the war, that was one of the first things I wanted, so we set up the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "yn (Mr. Kinnock) does as leader of the British Labour party. In eastern Europe, only a selected few can join the official party, whereas in Britain any old Trotskyist can join the Labour party. In eastern Europe, only a small minority of party hacks can elect the leadership, whereas in the Labour party all members can vote in elections, which are rendered meaningless by the trade union block vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " political heroes, such as Imre Nagy, Dubcek and Lech Walesa. I remember hearing, when I was a student at Oxford in 1956, that most tragic and moving radio broadcast by Imre Nagy, saying that the tanks were moving to Budapest and begging for help from anyone in the world. Help did not come, so, in effect, Hungary lost 30 years, just as Czechoslovakia lost 20 years when the tanks moved into Prague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1340.2", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "No. Is it not ironic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-15", "file": "debates1989-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "3f9f2dc884a64820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Future of Socialism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is which?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "on. Quite frankly, the wording of his motion is about as useful a contribution to the great events in eastern Europe as the Beano would be to a discussion about Aristotelian logic. Comparing the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), who comes hurriedly to his place, with the speech of the hon. Member for Tatton is rather like comparing Demosthenes with Alf Garnett—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-15a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "If there is one city in the United Kingdom that should be pleased about going over to the community charge, it is Cardiff, where it is likely to result in a 22 per cent. cut in domestic contribution. That is the largest reduction in Wales and no safety provison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The manner in which the Labour party is trying to urge local authorities in Wales to go in for extravagant expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "My understanding is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "e DBS channels have been allowed as a result of international agreement. I now understand what the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook was talking about. I was talking about something entirely different. I pointed out that satellite broadcasters other than DBS broadcasters cannot have more than the 20 per cent. investment in DBS or any other broadcast channels. Now that we have that absolutely plain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Where does the Bill say that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "It is almost inconceivable that a person would pass the diversity and catering for a wider range of tastes and interests requirements if he put nothing in his schedules in the way of children's programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "teletext. It requires the ITC, among other things, to issue codes on how the due impartiality requirement is to be applied, on programme standards more generally and on advertising and sponsorship. Part I also includes requirements for schools programmes and subtitling for the deaf. Part II deals with local delivery services—local multi-channel franchises using cable and/or microwave transmission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Conservative Members are trying to listen to the excellent exposition by my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary. We cannot hear because of the bunch of yobboes on the Opposition Benches below the Gangway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.48.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On television.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "We are all in favour of better value for money. Will the right hon. Gentleman tell me, on behalf of my constituents, where in the great Labour plan for quality we shall find the soap operas, game shows and murder mysteries which I and many British people thoroughly enjoy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friends say, we shall find them on television. I hope that the hon. Lady accepts that I would not be party to any Bill that put \"Coronation Street\" in jeopardy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Critchley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Critchley", "preceding_text": "She has a lavatory at the bottom of the garden. Last year I was invited by a friend in the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "al diversions of our regions into everyone's home. The Government, however, have shown their weak commitment to such diversity by their treatment of Scotland. There is no provision for a Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish member of the ITC board—and there should be. There are provisions in the Bill to prevent the takeover of all the English regions, but there is no comparable provision for Scotland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "On the contrary: the kind of programmes I am talking about are the product of mass marketing media. They are designed to attract millions of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": "On the contrary: the kind of programmes I am talking about are the product of mass marketing media. They are designed to attract millions of people— [Interruption.] They, like the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Mellor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Mellor)", "preceding_text": "rticularly sorry that my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Walden) did not catch your eye, Mr. Speaker. Apart from a few minutes, I sat through the debate and regret that I will be unable to deal with all the points made. I shall try to deal with as many as I can. It is appropriate to recollect the excellent speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Sir G. Shaw). He began by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that George Russell has also refused to deal with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-18", "file": "debates1989-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "cc648e8f4016ed01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "l has also refused to deal with that— [Interruption.] The reason is simple; he does not want to bind his hands in advance of seeing the bids as they come in. The right hon. Gentleman asked me the question and, having answered for George Russell, I shall answer for me. If it were possible to define what we meant by \"exceptional circumstances\" we would not need an exceptional circumstance provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-18a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "n the CTCs, they would obtain a very different view. They would see just how well the colleges are performing in inner-urban areas containing a considerable ethnic mix. I suspect that, just as they have changed their attitude to the closed shop, taxation and so many other matters, Labour Members will gradually come to recognise that we are right, and will cease their opposition to this innovation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.191.6", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "On this, her last Question Time of the 1980s, will my right hon. Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the past 10 years in the well-being of our country and in the new competitive spirit of all our industries? Furthermore, will she reflect on the dramatic and helpful changes that are being made in the rest of the world? Will she look forward and seek to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.191.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows very well, as she has known for the past 15 weeks, that ambulance staff are not on strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The policies that have done so consistently well during the 1980s will continue throughout the 1990s, adding to wider opportunity, wider ownership, better training and all the things that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "onstituents of the right hon. Gentleman—informing them of my statement today. They will receive detailed forms in the middle of January and it will be for them to claim the compensation that I have announced. If they fill in that claim form rapidly, they should receive the compensation early. I cannot guarantee that they will receive the compensation if they do not return their claim forms early —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Barlow Clowes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One month.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "led forms in the middle of January and it will be for them to claim the compensation that I have announced. If they fill in that claim form rapidly, they should receive the compensation early. I cannot guarantee that they will receive the compensation if they do not return their claim forms early — [Interruption.] I have said already that they will receive the claim forms in the middle of January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "British Rail (Objectives)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "freight on to the roads? Has the right hon. Gentleman discussed that with the Secretary of State for the Environment? The right hon. Gentleman assured the House that finance would not stand in the way of the implementation of the Hidden report following the Clapham disaster, but what does that mean in practice? Will the right hon. Gentleman expand on the statement to give an assurance that safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "British Rail (Objectives)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": " the course of his remarks—is that the subsidy is lower than it used to be. We have explained that we plan gradually to phase out the subsidy for Network SouthEast, to reduce it by £55 million from£400 million in the next three years on the Provincial network, and that that reduction, coupled with the growth in business, should not give rise to any substantial increases in fares. It is absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "British Rail (Objectives)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "ond year of the plan provides for substantial increases in the fares of long-distance commuters. We have made that announcement and there is no secret about that fact. The long-distance commuter is paying on average only a tiny proportion of the standard fare, yet travels at peak times. The long-term season ticket is too good a bargain, and that is why there will be increases in various sections —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "British Rail (Objectives)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to take up the time of the House repeating myself, but last year we invested more money in British Rail than for 25 years. In the next three years, that will increase by 75 per cent. I know that that is very disappointing for the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "British Rail (Objectives)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "There have been problems in Manchester and I understand that one of the reasons has been the failure of new rolling stock. Some people, including the hon. Gentleman, always insist on our buying British. British has not always been best for the rail system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "British Rail (Objectives)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No—too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "that will be the impact of his proposals? Does he agree that bulk freight's rate of return on assets is to be raised from 2·7 to 8 per cent.? Will that not reduce even further rail's share of the freight market, and lead to more heavy goods vehicles on Britain's already congested roads? May I ask the Secretary of State about passenger transport executives, which he has not so far mentioned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "We on the Opposition Benches welcome this debate, which is taking place not before time. We have been calling for a debate on this urgent matter for many months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I will not take anything from that racist hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.7", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I have withdrawn it, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman's statement stands as testimony. The Government have not explained why that moonlight flit was done at 3 o'clock in the morning, if not to try to dodge the attention of the media, or why, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Gorton said, nearly 200 riot police with riot helmets, shields and batons were needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.7", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ing, if not to try to dodge the attention of the media, or why, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Gorton said, nearly 200 riot police with riot helmets, shields and batons were needed— [Interruption] The facts appeared in every newspaper, including The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Financial Times. That was done to remove 51 people, 43 of them women and children. Why was violence needed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.7", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "the Member for Gorton said, nearly 200 riot police with riot helmets, shields and batons were needed— [Interruption] The facts appeared in every newspaper, including The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Financial Times. That was done to remove 51 people, 43 of them women and children. Why was violence needed? [Interruption] The Conservative lackeys of the Foreign Office might read what was said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.242.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"It will take years \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I am coming to that alternative. Only a programme of assistance for Vietnam to help to improve the lives of people there will help to encourage them to stay, and encourage those who have already left to return. Those who return will go back to an increasingly more tolerable life, and will send messages to those who remain, thus reinforcing the trend towards voluntary return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I do not have to tell the House immediately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the right hon. Gentleman was delineating various suggestions as absurd —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " has asked an important question and I shall seek to answer it. If I do not, I shall be happy to accept another intervention from him. I listened with interest to the right hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell). I realise that this is an extremely difficult problem to tackle. I accept that it is no good Opposition Members simply standing on the high peak of their self-righteousness, and mouthing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "We need no clearer example of the Government's shameful policy than that it had to be carried out in the dead of night and under the blanket of secrecy, so ashamed were they of what they did. The House continues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Young", "preceding_text": "use until comparatively recently all those who came were accepted as refugees. In Hong Kong we have built up a large camp society. Tonight I shall consider how that problem has been dealt with and, most of all, condemn the means of forcible repatriation which, to say the least, is unBritish. I doubt if anybody would have accepted that solution if the people being deported were white, not coloured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "ther camp and we had one minute to collect our things. Is that what this country is now about—threatening men and women in the middle of the night? Do we use truncheons and searchlights to bully people? This newspaper is not Labour Weekly, Tribune or The Times. I am quoting from the front page of the Evening Standard, a well-known supporter of the Government. Britain faces international revulsion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": " Members that it is all to no avail. Despite all its sins during the Vietnamese war, America has told the Prime Minister to get stuffed. It will do nothing. It says, \"Leave the refugees to languish in the mud. You deal with the problem.\" That is abominable, and it is equally abominable that the Government still claim to have a special relationship with America. I shall end with a number of points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Vietnamese Boat People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. These matters were not dealt with in the debate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the fourth floor!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "ich runs through my constituency. On 26 December 1979, a major flood almost caught a large audience of children at Chipperfield's circus in my constituency. They narrowly escaped with their lives into the offices of the Transport and General Workers' Union in Cathedral road in which both my hon. Friend and the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Michael) and I have our constituency offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my hon. Friend might allow me some sort of intermission so that I can continue my speech. If he contests the principle that they are pre-eminent academics, he must say why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I said that three quarters of the housing would be high-quality housing, so on that basis presumably one quarter will be low quality. About 25 per cent. of the housing will be for the low-quality end of the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Well, \"low cost\" and \"low quality\" sometimes go together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "preceding_text": "There will be transport grant funding for the Bute link; the rest will come out of the general Welsh Office block Vote, which is in the hands of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-19", "file": "debates1989-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "da4a5362d470ed2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.315.7", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Smiling in the Gallery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "No. I am more concerned about Conservative Members and what they are about, because they want different things from us. In answer to Paul Foot, Lord Crickhowell, who is now chairman of the National Rivers Authority", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-19a.315.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that Opposition Members believe that such an outmoded form of debt collection should be abolished? They will be introducing a Bill to that effect later today. Is the Secretary of State aware that the Scottish National party finance convenor for Grampian regional council preferred to lose his post rather than condone the continuation of the warrant sales system?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.350.4", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I am obliged for your protection, Mr. Speaker. On matters of dress I take my orders from the Prince of Wales and give my orders to you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.351.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong one!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Unemployment in Glasgow has fallen by 32 per cent. over the past three years and by over 14,000 in the last year alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "ay on student grants. Increasing the grant by only 5 per cent. was a further imposition of a cut in living standards for students in Scotland. That means that there has been a cut of nearly 25 per cent. in the value of the grant since 1979. If it had been maintained at its 1979 level, it would have been worth £1,600 more over a four-year degree course. We are particularly worried about the length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Panama", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "canal will continue to operate smoothly? Under what provision of the United Nations charter have the United States forces intervened? If the United States is citing section 51 of the charter, has it reported its action to the Security Council as a section 51 action? If the death of a United States service man triggered off the action, does the intervention qualify as self-defence under section 51?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.357.5", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Panama", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "If so, does the Foreign Secretary believe that the deaths of 50 people, including nine American service men, justified the action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Panama", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "nversation with my right hon. Friend, the President expounded the action that is being taken on the same lines as he then made it public when speaking to the American people. The right hon. Gentleman is on the wrong side in this matter—he is on the wrong footing. It is not a question of the United States intervening to impose a Government. A Government were elected but that election was set aside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.363.6", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The problem of confidence is shown by increasing emigration from the territory, and increasing numbers of people who contemplate leaving—42,000 people have left Hong Kong this year, and 55,000 are expected to leave next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.363.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "l, and how will others feel? Far from improving confidence, as the Foreign Secretary claims that he wishes the system to do, it will arouse doubt and uncertainty because no one will be sure whether he or she qualifies until the laborious process has been completed. If the scheme is embodied in an Act, a Labour Government, on coming to office, will examine how far it has gone and how it has worked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "perience, it was right that, for the sake of good relations between communities in this country, immigration control should be strict as well as fair. If, however, because of political difficulties, we fail to make the necessary decisions about Hong Kong, now and in the years ahead—and I warn the House that they will be several and difficult—we shall ultimately have a refugee problem on our hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "West Midlands (Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "preceding_text": " Fulfilled a co-ordinating function. At its demise—\"destruction\" would be more appropriate—a vacuum was left which has not been filled. I want to recreate in our region not public sector hostility to the private sector and the private sector hostility to the public sector, or Government hostility to the public sector, but partnership. I have long abandoned the view held by many of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "West Midlands (Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "riend will reflect on it and return later with details, such as how small the business would have to be, at what point the scheme would be triggered, whether there would be limitations on it, where the money for it would come from, what the rules for it would be, and so on. I must tell my hon. Friend, with as much generosity and friendship as I can muster at this time of night, that such a scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-20", "file": "debates1989-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "e86ec639449e2c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "d off our registers if, as we hope, we win the final ruling on quota hopping. We are in contact with Brussels about the implications of our decisions. We firmly hope that Brussels will understand our approach. We believe that the answer lies in much better management. As I have said in my meetings around the country, if I had absolute truth at my disposal, I would be an archbishop, not a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-20a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-21", "file": "debates1989-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "fee4cb89b1dc8df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-21a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": " it has been made absolutely clear that the Government—that is, the taxpayer—will fund the loans and the administration of the scheme. The Government were to fund the whole cost of student loans and were to pay an extra fee to the banks for the convenience of using their branch networks. That has not changed. There is no change in the funding, so it is ludicrous to describe this as a major change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-21a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-21", "file": "debates1989-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "fee4cb89b1dc8df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-21a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the House that we have a series of debates on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today. I will allow questions to continue for another five minutes which will include both Front-Bench Members and then we must move back to the main debates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-21a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1989-12-21", "file": "debates1989-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "fee4cb89b1dc8df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-21a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "n Committee. The crucial comparison is between the overall costs, by the end of the decade, of the Government's combination of grants and loans and the Opposition's approach to tackle it through grants alone. As the hon. Gentleman knows, that would be much more expensive to the taxpayer and would be paid for by people whose incomes will often be lower than those of the students when they get jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1989-12-21a.627.1"}